Uganda

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

This study examines the causal role that the source of income plays in reunification. 

This article from ABC discusses how the child protection system in the northern territory of Australia is more focused on punishing parents than protecting children.  

ISS-USA's 6th Annual Fall Conference, co-hosted by the University of Maryland School of Social Work, will focus on the legal and human rights of children separated from their biological families across international borders.