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This article from NPR describes some of the ways in which international volunteering has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and calls attention to the criticisms the industry has received, including in regards to orphanage volunteering.
"A two-day old baby born to daily wage workers in India's western state of Gujarat was kidnapped not once but twice," says this article from BBC News which investigates how and why.
"California lawmakers have approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the US, which will see $35m used for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care, in a move that could spur other states to follow its lead," says this article from the Guardian.
Save the Children US is seeking a Senior Specialist, OVC and Child Protection.
The primary aim of this consultancy is to undertake a participatory impact assessment of selected emergency seed interventions to address the question of how these interventions may have impacted the livelihoods of the male and female smallholder farmers and male and female seed suppliers involved.
This study consists of an analysis of government digital policies focused on children in Uruguay between 2009 and 2019. To facilitate this, the CRC was used as a framework to categorise key features of the principal strategies that have been implemented. It argues that while great advances have been made in terms of digital access, this has not been sufficiently accompanied with comprehensive and child-centred solutions that encompass regulations and children and adult digital education.
Better Care Network (BCN) is seeking a new Knowledge and Communication Specialist.
In this episode of Full Story, a podcast from the Guardian, Rachel Humphreys speaks to Barry Kennedy, a survivor of the Marieval residential school where 751 bodies were found.
"The revelations that there are hundreds of indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools have shaken Canadians," says this article from BBC News. "They have also increased calls for changes to the country's foster care system, where indigenous children are vastly overrepresented"
These presentations from UNICEF and Alternative Care Thailand were delivered during the July 9, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was on care measurement initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa and Thailand.