“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.
• 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؛