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May 19, 2008

Burma's Lost Children

by Katy Barnett, New Statesman, UK - We rattled through the child protection landscape at speed, pausing to consider the dilemmas. How can we best coordinate our family tracing efforts, so that a separated child identified by an agency in one area can be reunited with their parents in a different area, where another agency is working? Should we use photos of the separated children as a way of tracing their parents? If the photos are displayed in public areas, children might be spotted by their parents who are looking for them. But do we have the right battery powered printers to do this without any power?

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