United Nations
A/RES/64/142*
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 February 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 64
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/434)]
64/142. Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, 2 and celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the
Convention in 2009,
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Reaffirming also all previous resolutions on the rights of the child of the
Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the General
Assembly, the most recent being Council resolutions 7/29 of 28 March 2008, 3 9/13
of 24 September 2008 4 and 10/8 of 26 March 2009 5 and Assembly resolution 63/241
of 24 December 2008,
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Considering that the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, the text
of which is annexed to the present resolution, set out desirable orientations for
policy and practice with the intention of enhancing the implementation of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child and of relevant provisions of other
international instruments regarding the protection and well-being of children
deprived of parental care or who are at risk of being so,
Welcomes the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, as
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contained in the annex to the present resolution, as a set of orientations to help to
inform policy and practice;
Encourages States to take the Guidelines into account and to bring them
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to the attention of the relevant executive, legislative and judiciary bodies of
government, human rights defenders and lawyers, the media and the public in
general;
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 13 April 2010.
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. II.
4
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I.
5
Ibid., Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/64/53), chap. II, sect. A.
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