A/RES/64/146 I Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto 1. Commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 16 which provided a foundation for the Convention, and takes this opportunity to call for the effective implementation of the Convention by all States parties to ensure that all children may fully enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms; 0H 15F Reaffirms paragraphs 1 to 8 of its resolution 63/241, and urges States that 2. have not yet done so to become parties to the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto2 as a matter of priority and to implement them fully; 1H 3. Calls upon States parties to withdraw reservations that are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention or the Optional Protocols thereto and to consider reviewing regularly other reservations with a view to withdrawing them in accordance with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;3 2H 4. Encourages States parties, in implementing the provisions of the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto, to take duly into account the recommendations, observations and general comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, including, inter alia, general comment No. 12 (2009) entitled “The right of the child to be heard”; 17 16F 5. Welcomes actions of the Committee to monitor the implementation by State parties of the Convention, and notes with appreciation its actions to follow up on its concluding observations and recommendations, and in this regard underlines in particular the regional workshops and the participation of the Committee in national-level initiatives; Recalls Human Rights Council resolution 10/14 of 26 March 2009 6. entitled “Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto”; 18 17F II Promotion and protection of the rights of the child and non-discrimination against children Non-discrimination 7. Reaffirms paragraphs 9 to 11 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon States to ensure the enjoyment by children of all their civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights without discrimination of any kind; Registration, family relations and adoption or other forms of alternative care 8. 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 _______________ 16 See resolution 1386 (XIV). CRC/C/GC/12. 18 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/64/53), chap. II, sect. A. 17 3