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Les femmes et les enfants cherchant refuge en Europe et transitant par les ex-républiques yougoslaves de Macédoine et Serbie, sont toujours plus nombreux. Le nombre de femmes et d’enfants arrivant dans les centres d’accueil dans les deux pays est probablement deux fois plus élevé que les chiffres officiels, de nombreuses familles n'étant pas officiellement enregistrées.
This article discusses the work of Against Child Trafficking (ACT), a Europe-based NGO that has been involved in child protection and adoption issues, to help adoptees from India to locate their birth families.
This article tells the story of several Guatemalan adoptees and their adoptive parents as they reunite with their birth families in Guatemala.
This article describes the negative impacts of institutionalization on children and highlights the advocacy work of Lumos and other organizations to include children deprived of family care in the upcoming UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This animated video from Lumos, narrated by Lumos founder J.K. Rowling, illustrates the “tragic consequences of orphanage care,” and argues that more can and should be done to support families to care for their children, eliminating the use of institutional care.
Institutions are invited to submit a proposal by 10:00 AM EST, 04 September 2015.
Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, presented on the need for better data on children’s living and care arrangements at the 5th International Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators: “From Welfare to Well-being: Child Indicators in Research, Policy & Practice.”
This report presents findings of a survey designed to document experience and examples of practice in setting up feedback and complaint mechanisms that are accessible to children in the programmes of five international non-governmental organisations: Educo, Plan International, Save the Children UK, War Child UK and World Vision.
In this post, the organization Against Child Trafficking “call upon the Government of Uganda to immediately pass the Children’s Act revisions and allow Uganda and Ugandan laws to dictate local solutions for children, not foreign adoption agencies.”
The 5th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators will be held on 2-4 September 2015 at the University of Cape Town.