Nigeria

In advance of the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress, an international consultation on the elimination of violence against children in alternative care was convened. This position statement from the consultation was presented at the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress.

This article, from NBC News, speaks to the experiences of those who were adopted from Vietnam to the United States and the history of Vietnamese adoption in the United States.

This reportive piece from NPR covers the reunification of 18 children with their families in Liberia after being quarantined at an Ebola care center, or “shelter” in Monrovia.

This report documents the involuntary admission and arbitrary detention of women and girls with mental health disabilities in mental hospitals and residential care institutions across India.

Chemy “Samuel” Watulingas, owner of an orphanage in the Gading Serpong housing complex in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, was found guilty of sexually abusing several children in the orphanage and has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The Star Tribune, a newspaper based in Minnesota, USA, reports on a program designed to match older “orphans” from Colombia to adoptive families in Minnesota through a week-long camp which allows for in-person introductions and interactions.

A court in Nepal has recently found two men guilty of repeatedly raping three girls with autism who were in the men’s care at an orphanage in Kathmandu.

This study is purposely looking at issues around institutionalization and the experiences of resettled youth resulting from the social and economic challenges that affect them in independent living, tackling how they are negotiating and overcoming them.

This paper reports the results of an international review of academic literature on sexual abuse in residential child and youth care, 1945–2011. 

This article outlines findings from research on current and former street children in Burundi, that assesses the extent to which violence can affect children’s mental well-being and psychological functioning, and thus limit their reintegration.