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This article describes the negative impacts of institutionalization on children and highlights the advocacy work of Lumos and other organizations to include children deprived of family care in the upcoming UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This animated video from Lumos, narrated by Lumos founder J.K. Rowling, illustrates the “tragic consequences of orphanage care,” and argues that more can and should be done to support families to care for their children, eliminating the use of institutional care. 

Institutions are invited to submit a proposal by 10:00 AM EST, 04 September 2015.

Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, presented on the need for better data on children’s living and care arrangements at the 5th International Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators: “From Welfare to Well-being: Child Indicators in Research, Policy & Practice.”

This report presents findings of a survey designed to document experience and examples of practice in setting up feedback and complaint mechanisms that are accessible to children in the programmes of five international non-governmental organisations: Educo, Plan International, Save the Children UK, War Child UK and World Vision.

In this post, the organization Against Child Trafficking “call upon the Government of Uganda to immediately pass the Children’s Act revisions and allow Uganda and Ugandan laws to dictate local solutions for children, not foreign adoption agencies.”

The 5th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators will be held on 2-4 September 2015 at the University of Cape Town. 

Pour la plupart des Burundais qui ont fui la violence qui règne chez eux, le camp de Mahama au Rwanda sera leur domicile provisoire. Comme dans n'importe quel conflit, les gens se trouvent non seulement arrachés de leurs foyers, mais aussi, souvent, de leurs familles.

This strategy explains how The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children plans to prevent and respond to violence against children over the next five years. It will provide a platform to accelerate efforts to make girls and boys safe in the future, with the aim of delivering targets to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. 

The CPC Learning Network and UNHCR are collaborating to develop and test a Child Protection Index (CPI), a measure of strength of the child protection system in refugee settings, based on UNHCR’s Framework for the Protection of Children. This report details the results of the baseline study conducted from December 2014-February 2015 in Kiryandongo and Adjumani refugee settlements, Uganda.