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Convention on the Rights of the Child1 to protect children in matters relating to
registration, family relations and adoption or other forms of alternative care, and, in
cases of international parental or familial child abduction, encourages States to
facilitate, inter alia, the return of the child to the country in which he or she resided
immediately before the removal or retention;
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Welcomes the accomplishment of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care
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of Children 19 and the decision of the Human Rights Council, by its resolution 11/7
of 17 June 2009, 20 to submit them to the General Assembly for action;
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Economic and social well-being of children, eradication of poverty, right
to education, right to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health and right to food
10. Reaffirms paragraphs 17 to 26 of its resolution 63/241, paragraphs 42 to
52 of its resolution 61/146 of 19 December 2006, on the theme of children and
poverty, and paragraphs 37 to 42 of its resolution 60/231 of 23 December 2005, on
the theme of children infected with and affected by HIV/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, the right to education, the right to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including efforts to
address the situation of children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and to
eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the right to food for all and the right
to an adequate standard of living, including housing and clothing;
11. Recognizes the threat to the achievement of the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, posed by the
global financial and economic crisis, which is connected to multiple, interrelated
global crises and challenges, such as the food crisis and continuing food insecurity,
volatile energy and commodity prices and climate change, and calls upon States to
address, in their response to this crisis, any impact on the full enjoyment of the
rights of children;
Elimination of violence against children
12. Reaffirms paragraphs 27 to 32 of its resolution 63/241 and paragraphs 47
to 62 of its resolution 62/141 of 18 December 2007, on the theme of elimination of
violence against children, condemns all forms of violence against children, and
urges all States to implement the measures set out in paragraph 27 of its resolution
63/241;
13. Welcomes the appointment of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on violence against children, and encourages all States, requests
United Nations entities and agencies and invites regional organizations and civil
society, including non-governmental organizations, to cooperate with the Special
Representative and provide support, including financial support, to her for the
effective and independent performance of her mandate, as set out in resolution
62/141, and in promoting the further implementation of the recommendations of the
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Resolution 64/142, annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/64/53),
chap. I.
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