In order to commemorate the two year anniversary of the resolution of the Alternative Care Guidelines, discuss the use and implementation of the Guidelines, and raise the profile of the importance of this international framework, the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations, in partnership with the Better Care Network, UNICEF, SOS and the NGO Committee on UNICEF Working Group on Children without Parental Care, held a side-event during the UN Social, Humanitarian Cultural Affairs Committee of the UN General Assembly.
Speakers at the high-level meeting in New York urged the international community to improve the quality and standard of care for vulnerable children and discussed ways to further ensure the implementation of the Guidelines. This press release covers the October 2011 event.