Meeting the Needs of Children in Haiti:
Child Protection Working Group Guiding Principles: Unaccompanied and Separated Children Following the Haiti Earthquake January 2010 Guiding principles to ensure unaccompanied and separated children are provided with services aimed at reuniting them with their parents or customary care-givers as quickly as possible and ensuring their protection and well-being.
Preventing further trauma in Haiti!: International community calls for use of International Guidelines to ensure maximum protection of children The Joint Statement from member agencies of the NGO Groups on Children without Parental Care stresses that, as stipulated by the Guidelines for Alternative Care, the primary goal in emergencies is to trace and reunify children with their families to the maximum extent possible prior to any other permanent solution being pursued.
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