5. Promote, where appropriate, the objectives of this 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. 6. Establish a machinery to monitor the well-being of the adopted child. Article 25 SEPARATION FROM PARENTS 1. Any child who is permanently or temporarily deprived of his family environment for any reason shall be entitled to special protection and assistance; 2. States Parties to the present Charter: (a) shall ensure that a child who is parentless, or who is temporarily or permanently deprived of his or her family environment, or who in his or her best interest cannot be brought up or allowed to remain in that environment shall be provided with alternative family care, which could include, among others, foster placement, or placement in suitable institutions for the care of children; (b) shall take all necessary measures to trace and re-unite children with parents or relatives where separation is caused by internal and external displacement arising from armed conflicts or natural disasters. 3. When considering alternative family care of the child and the best interests of the child, due regard shall be paid to the desirability of continuity in a child’s up-bringing and to the child’s ethnic, religious or linguistic background. Article 26 PROTECTION AGAINST APARTHEID AND DISCRIMINATION 1. States Parties to the present Charter shall individually and collectively undertake to accord the highest priority to the special needs of children living under Apartheid and in States subject to AFRICAN CHARTER on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 21