Uganda

This WHO-UNICEF Global Report on children with developmental disabilities provides principles and approaches  to intentionally include the needs and aspirations of children and young people with developmental disabilities in policy, programming and public health monitoring.

Fifty years after coup that delivered Pinochet power, thousands still grieve the children stolen during his rule.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announces the opening of the IACHR and Both Ends Believing Fellowship Program for 2023. This fellowship provides young professionals with the opportunity to learn about and apply the mechanisms of the IACHR, especially in relation to children's rights, as addressed in the 2013 thematic report "The Rights of Boys and Girls to a Family."

The Centre for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families is hosting a webinar to share new resources and opportunities from national and state Strengthening Families partners and to answer questions about Strengthening Families implementation. 

The study's main themes were establishing the need for residential homes for children (RHCs), RHCs not being an ideal family environment and RHCs as respite. Family marital problems, poor financial situation, stigma attached to some children in care, abusive parents and a lack of suitable alternatives when families have a crisis were identified as key factors that impede DI implementation in Ghana.

The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative study was to examine the responses of 18- to 24-year-olds (n = 83) who had been in out-of-home care, comparing early adolescent versus non-early adolescent placement, placement setting, and sibling accessibility on attachment.

The origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States includes a dependency on slave labor and sales to sustain itself and build its institutions.

During this webinar, participants will explore the role of the Catholic Church in separating children from families during slavery in the United States.

Experiences of risk and trauma within and beyond the family often intersect with stigma, discrimination and social inequalities. The risk of disadvantage may be exacerbated by discrimination linked to poverty, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as well as the stigma of child welfare intervention itself. EuSARF 2023 will address these critical themes through discussions across countries, reflecting together on the role of child welfare services in challenging inequity and enabling social justice for people whose life chances may be jeopardised by risks within and beyond the family

Families search in vain through a maze of foster homes and holiday camps