Uganda

The 7th Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Meeting - hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) at its Executive Boardroom in Geneva, Switzerland - will focus on child maltreatment and youth violence, among other topics. 

This article highlights recent research exploring the negative effects parental deportation has on children in the US.

This article explores the experiences of children who live in orphanages in Egypt, and the managers of those orphanages, as well as the public perceptions of those children, their situations, and the challenges they face.

Strengthening Uganda’s National Response for Implementation of Services for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (SUNRISE-OVC) is a five-year project, which began June 2010, to deliver and monitor high quality, comprehensive and scaled-up services for OVC in 80 out of 112 districts in Uganda. The project was funded by USAID, working in partnership with the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) for oversight.

According to this article from Channel News Asia, China has recently updated its rules regarding the adoption of abandoned or trafficked children, allowing a child to be adopted if authorities do not find parents or guardians during a year-long se

War Child UK in collaboration with Educo, Plan International, Save the Children UK and World Vision International are hosting a launch event for their recently published report, ‘Interagency Study on Child-Friendly Feedback and Complaint Mechanisms within NGO programmes.’

This article is an attempt to analyse and describe the process of change in child substitute care that has taken place since the re-independence of Estonia in 1991.

In this report, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined (1) the reasons adoptive families consider unregulated child custody transfers, and services that exist to support these families before they take such an action; (2) what is known about the prevalence of these transfers; and (3) actions selected states and federal agencies have taken to address such transfers. 

This interdisciplinary symposium aims to explore family relations, care and ‘troubles’ in diverse contexts. 

This country brief provides an overview of data on children’s living arrangements in Zambia, extracted from the 2013-14 DHS survey.