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(c) Ensure that the child concerned by inter-country adoption enjoys safeguards and standards
equivalent to those existing in the case of national adoption;

(d) Take all appropriate measures to ensure that, in inter-country adoption, the placement does not

result in improper financial gain for those involved in it;

(e) Promote, where appropriate, the objectives of the present article by concluding bilateral or
multilateral arrangements or agreements, and endeavour, within this framework, to ensure that the placement of
the child in another country is carried out by competent authorities or organs.

Article 22

1. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that a child who is seeking refugee status or
who is considered a refugee in accordance with applicable international or domestic law and procedures shall,

whether unaccompanied or accompanied by his or her parents or by any other person, receive appropriate
protection and humanitarian assistance in the enjoyment of applicable rights set forth in the present Convention

and in other international human rights or humanitarian instruments to which the said States are Parties.

2. For this purpose, States Parties shall provide, as they consider appropriate, co-operation in any

efforts by the United Nations and other competent intergovernmental organizations or non-governmental
organizations co-operating with the United Nations to protect and assist such a child and to trace the parents or
other members of the family of any refugee child in order to obtain information necessary for reunification with

his or her family In cases where no parents or other members of the family can be found, the child shall be
accorded the same protection as any other child permanently or temporarily deprived of his or her family

environment for any reason, as set forth in the present Convention.

Article 23

1. States Parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child should enjoy a full and decent

life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child's active participation in the
community.

2. States Parties recognize the right of the disabled child to special care and shall encourage and
ensure the extension, subject to available resources, to the eligible child and those responsible for his or her

care, of assistance for which application is made and which is appropriate to the child's condition and to the
circumstances of the parents or others caring for the child.

3. Recognizing the special needs of a disabled child, assistance extended in accordance with
paragraph 2 of the present article shall be provided free of charge, whenever possible, taking into account the

financial resources of the parents or others caring for the child, and shall be designed to ensure that the disabled