16. Encourages States to adopt and enforce laws and improve the implementation of policies and programmes to protect children growing up without parents or caregivers, recognizing that, where alternative care is necessary, family-and community-based care should be promoted over placement in institutions, and in this context welcomes the ongoing process aimed at elaborating a set of United Nations guidelines for the appropriate use and conditions of alternative care for children, which are aimed at enhancing the implementation of the Convention and of other relevant legal international human rights instruments, regarding the protection and well-being of children who are in need of alternative care or who are at risk of becoming so;
16. 鼓励各国制定和执行法律并改进政策和方案的实施工作，保护没有父母抚养或没人照顾的儿童，同时确认，如有必要作出其他照顾安排，应首先推行家庭和社区照顾，其次才考虑机构安置，在这方面欣见目前正在着手拟订一套关于儿童照顾其他安排的适当利用和条件的联合国导则，以便加大力度执行《公约》和关于需要其他照顾安排或可能有此需要的儿童的保护和福祉问题的其他相关国际人权法律文书；