Kenya

According to this press release from Save the Children, thousands of families are fleeing to dirty overcrowded refugee camps in Syria.  

The quarterly dashboard summarizes the progress made by partners involved in the Lebanon Crisis Response and highlights trends a!ecting people in need.

Kenya launches its first police unit dedicated to the fight against child sexual exploitation and abuse.

This article from Citifmonline reports that persons seeking to adopt children in Ghana will soon be required resort to the High Courts for clearance.

Fudan University and the University of Eastern Finland will open a joint Sino-Finnish Centre for Child Protection Research, SFCPR, in Shanghai. 

This article from the PIA notes that the Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Committee-10 (RJJWC) is set to present a resolution on forging commitments from local government units to support children at risk and children in conflict with the law.

According to this study, mothers who abuse substances are more likely to have impaired parenting and lose custody of their young children. 

The abstract submission deadline for the 6^th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators has been extended to October 15, 2016.

Within the context of kinship care, the main objectives of this work are to study the characteristics of contact between foster children and their birth parents, and their relationship with key variables of fostering, the children and their kinship caregivers.

Building the evidence base on effective models of community-led child protection and bottom-up child protection systems strengthening – developing case studies of effective practice in Uganda and Tanzania