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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.

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MEASURE Evaluation

International actors and representatives from Armenia, Ghana, Moldova, and Uganda convened in London September 11-15 2017 to learn and share experiences to inform the alternative care reform process in the four countries. 

Kalinda Brenda - KT Press

At convening of the Global First Ladies Alliance in New York, Rwanda's First Lady Jeannette Kagame shared the successes of Rwanda's care reform. 

Diane Mushimiyimana - The New Times

Inter-country adoption has been reinstated in Rwanda after government updated structures and mechanisms required under the Hague Convention. 

Dawn Foster - The Guardian

Negative headlines about children in foster care and those who care for them are only further victimizing already vulnerable children. 

ReThink Orphanages

This video from ReThink Orphanages illustrates how orphanage tourism perpetuates the continued institutionalization and exploitation of children. 

Karen McVeigh - The Guardian

The Government of Sri Lanka has announced an inquiry into adoption fraud following claims that thousands of babies were taken from their mothers and sold to foreign nationals in the 1980s. 

Save the Children Australia

Save the Children offers six tips on how to volunteer ethically overseas. 

Kazeem Ugbodaga - PM News

Lagos government has announced its concerns about institutionalization and the state's consideration of a review of adoption processes to address current practice gaps. 

Anna Patty - The Sydney Morning Herald

This Australia-based company made parental leave more flexible for mothers, fathers, and foster and kinship carers. 

Ikuko Higuchi and Ayano Kume - The Yomiuri Shimbun

17.5% of children who need care in Japan live in foster placements, while most of them are living in institutions; an expert panel of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, however, has announced a new goal which prioritizes foster care.