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Rights of the child
cases, and in this regard to consider accession to or ratification of the Hague
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction29 and to facilitate,
inter alia, the return of the child to the country in which he or she resided
immediately before the removal or retention, while taking into consideration the
principle of the best interests of the child;
Economic and social well-being of children
12. Reaffirms paragraphs 20 to 29 of its resolution 68/147, paragraphs 42
to 52 of its resolution 61/146 of 19 December 2006 on children and poverty and
paragraphs 37 to 42 of its resolution 60/231 of 23 December 2005 on children living
with and affected by HIV and AIDS, and calls upon all States and the international
community to create an environment in which the well-being of the child is ensured,
including by strengthening international cooperation in this field and by
implementing their previous commitments relating to poverty eradication, including
the Millennium Development Goals, the right to education, including equal access
to quality education, and measures to promote human rights education, including the
safe and beneficial use of the Internet as a tool for the advancement of the child’s
social and educational well-being, the right to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health, including efforts to address the
interlinked root causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5
years of age and to address the situation of children living with or affected by HIV
and AIDS and to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and, through the
provision of adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking water and sanitation, the
right to food for all and the right to an adequate standard of living, including
housing and clothing;
13. Calls upon all States and the international community to cooperate,
support and participate in the global efforts towards poverty eradication and to
mobilize all necessary resources and support in that regard, according to national
plans and strategies, including through an integrated and multifaceted approach
based on the rights and well-being of children;
14. Strongly underlines the importance of giving due consideration to the
inclusion of the promotion and protection of the rights and well-being of children in
the post-2015 development agenda, including by ending extreme poverty, reducing
inequalities and eliminating all forms of violence against children, including
harmful practices;
Child labour
15. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment
to the progressive and effective eradication of child labour that is likely to be
hazardous, to interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to the child’s
health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, to eliminate
immediately the worst forms of child labour and to promote education as a key
strategy in this regard;
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