Better Care Network highlights recent news pieces related to the issue of children's care around the world. These pieces include newspaper articles, interviews, audio or video clips, campaign launches, and more.
This article notes how a pan-India study revealed that thousands of children of incarcerated parents (CoIP) are left invisible and vulnerable within India’s criminal justice system despite Supreme Court mandates intended to protect their rights and well-being.
A Balkan Insight investigation highlights that the Czech Republic’s child protection system is struggling to safeguard children at risk due to systemic problems including a culture that has historically tolerated corporal punishment, uneven implementation of protections across regions, gaps in cooperation among social services, police, and schools, and insufficient training and resources for professionals to detect and prevent violence against children.
This article describes how UN human rights experts have expressed serious concern about historic illegal inter-country adoptions in Guatemala in which at least 80 Indigenous children were reportedly taken from an institution called Hogar Temporal Elisa Martínez after being captured or forcibly disappeared between 1968 and 1996, and later adopted abroad without proper consent or legal safeguards.
This article reports on Swedish adults who were adopted from Colombia decades ago and are now searching for their birth mothers after discovering that many international adoptions — involving around 60,000 children including nearly 5,700 from Colombia — were marred by irregularities such as false documentation, coerced consent, and children declared orphans when they were not, leaving adoptees without accurate identity information and grappling with psychological impacts of lost heritage.
This article describes how a new bipartisan U.S. congressional report finds that children with mental health needs are often incarcerated in juvenile detention centers across the country—sometimes without having committed any crime—because community-based mental health care and placement options are severely limited or unavailable.
This article describes how French authorities have issued a rare international appeal for victims and witnesses in the case of 79-year-old former educator Jacques Leveugle, accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 children across five continents over more than five decades while working in roles that brought him into contact with young people — including as an educator in a children’s home in Bogotá, Colombia — highlighting concerns about long-term abuse in settings where children, including those living without family care, can be particularly vulnerable.
This article tells the story of Nigerian missionaries Olusola and Chinwe Stevens, who have spent three decades rescuing babies and young children in central Nigeria from harmful traditional beliefs that label them as “cursed” and sometimes lead to infanticide.
This opinion piece argues that despite global commitments under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the world is failing to safeguard children from violence, exploitation, and neglect, with an estimated one billion girls and boys experiencing
This article notes how in an audience with the organizing committee of “From Crisis to Care: Catholic Action for Children,” Pope Leo XIV renewed the Catholic Church’s call for urgent, coordinated global action to uphold children’s rights and protect them from danger, emphasizing that des
The Government of Malta, through the Ministry for Social Policy and Children's Rights, is close to launching a formal After-Care Policy to support young people leaving residential alternative care, aiming to offer them stability, opportunities, and continued support beyond childhood services.