Rights of the child A/RES/74/133 Expressing concern that millions of children worldwide continue to grow up deprived of parental care, separated from their families for many reasons, including but not limited to poverty, discrimination, violence, abuse, neglect, trafficking in persons, humanitarian emergencies, armed conflict, natural disaster, climate change, migration, death or illness of a parent and lack of access to education, health and other family-support services, Recalling its resolution 64/142 of 18 December 2009, which contained the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in its annex, which serve as a set of orientations to help to inform policy and practice for the protection and well-being of children deprived of parental care or who are at risk of being so, and acknowledging the progress that has been achieved since its adoption, 1. Welcomes the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 the human rights treaty with the largest number of ratifications, and acknowledges that the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto 2 contain a comprehensive set of international legal standards for the protection and well-being of children; 2. Recognizes that, while progress has been made, many challenges remain, and that, in this regard, both the high-level commemorative event on 25 September 2019 and the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on 20 November 2019 were occasions for States to reflect on implementation gaps and to take additional measures to ensure that the rights of children are fully realized; 3. Calls upon States parties to increase their efforts for the full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; 4. Reaffirms paragraphs 1 to 5 of its resolution 71/177 of 19 December 2016 and that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children; 5. Urges States that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto as a matter of priority and to implement them effectively, and encourages further efforts by the Secretary-General in this regard; 6. Urges 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; 15 7. Notes the work of the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children and for Children and Armed Conflict, the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other sexual abuse material, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and, in this regard, their contribution to the progress achieved in the promotion and protection of the rights of children; 8. Reaffirms section II of its resolution 73/155, on the promotion and protection of the rights of the child and non-discrimination against children, in which it addressed non-discrimination; registration, family relations, adoption and alternative care; economic and social well-being of children; eradication of poverty; right to education; right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health; right to food; child labour; prevention and elimination of and response to violence against children; promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in particularly difficult situations; migrant children; children and the administration 19-22229 5/15