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Registration, family relations and adoption or other forms of alternative care
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Also reaffirms paragraphs 12 to 16 of its resolution 63/241, and urges all
States parties to intensify their efforts to comply with their obligations under the
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;
Welcomes the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, contained
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in the annex to its resolution 64/142 of 18 December 2009, as a set of orientations to
help to inform policy and practice, and encourages States to take them into account;
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 living with or 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, and measures to promote human rights education,
in accordance with the evolving capacities of the child, 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 these crises, 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. 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 of the Secretary-General
on Violence against Children and to 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
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