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Than Than Ei was just nine years old when she was sent to work for a family in Yangon, where she suffered years of physical and emotional abuse.
The Planning Committee for the 2017 International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) is pleased to invite abstract proposals for oral presentations, interactive poster presentations, and panels relating to the process and findings of child indicators research.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the sixteenth session (15 Aug 2016 – 2 Sep 2016) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This statistical release provides information about looked after children in England for the year ending 31 March 2016, including where they are placed, their legal status, the numbers starting and ceasing to be looked after, and the numbers who go missing or are away from their placement without authorisation.
This article from the Guardian notes that UNICEF warns of voluntourism potentially moving into Myanmar.
This is an article from the Free Press Journal stating that the Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government to carry out a census of street children so that they can be provided with basic facilities.
Australian children are removed from their families more often than anywhere in the Western world, nearly twice as often as in the US and almost three times the rate in New Zealand, a parliamentary inquiry into child welfare has heard," according to this article from the Australian.
This chapter of Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care reviews the state of South African youth, particularly regarding poverty, employment and education, providing the social context within which to consider those leaving care.
Drawing on research from Romania, this chapter discusses the role of informal support for young people leaving care, in particular, support from other care leavers
This article examines the adjustments for policy, research and intervention in non-Western developing contexts. Particular attention is focused on the country of Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country, with a communist government and a rapidly developing economy.