• وتوفير حماية ومساعدة خاصتين للأطفال المحرومين على الدوام من أسرهم والعمل على أن توفر الرعاية البديلة الاستمرارية في تنشئة الأطفال وخلفيتهم الإثنية والدينية والثقافية واللغوية؛
“ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development” of children; provide special protection and assistance for children permanently deprived of their family and that alternative care provide continuity with the children's upbringing and their ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background; assist others responsible for children without parents to ensure a standard of living adequate for their physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development; preserve the children's family relations; “promote the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of a child victim…in an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child; give due weight to the views of the children in accordance with their age and maturity; provide information and materials from a diversity of sources to promote children's social, spiritual, and moral well-being and physical and mental health; “protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse”; and promote children's right to education to develop their full potentials and prepare them for a “responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples.