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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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The Texas Tribune & Reveal

This podcast episode of Reveal explores the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children involved in Texas's foster care system. 

Naomi Larsson - The Guardian

The Guardian discusses the repercussions of funding and volunteering in Haitian orphanages, based on the findings from Funding Haitian Orphanages at the Cost of Children’s Rights, a recent Lumos report. 

Libya Herald

Libyan municipalities have now begun banning militias from using children under the age of 18. 

Maricel Cruz - Manila Standard

Rep. Gloria Macapagal has filed a bill entitled "Act Codifying the Alternative Child Care Laws of the Philippines" to address the worsening problem of neglected and “overage children,” who are often labeled unfit for adoption.

You Soo-sun - The Korea Times

The recent death of a deported Korean adoptee ignites adoptee-led organizations to call on the Korean government to end the "industrialized international adoption" system in South Korea. 

Diane Taylor - The Guardian

Refugee Youth Service 8-week mapping project monitors 22 unaccompanied migrant children on the move in Europe.

Kok Xing Hui - Straits Times

Four new group homes with smaller staff to child ratios are being set up in Singapore for children with greater needs and especially challenging behaviors. Staff will be trained using new 'Training Framework for Residential Care,' in which Malaysian government has invested $7 million over four years.

Kate Lyons - The Guardian

Tens of thousands of children in Senegal are being forced to beg for food by abusive teachers in Qur'anic schools just one year after government crackdown on the issue. 

Sean Callahan, Georgette Mulheir, and Philip Goldman - The CRUX

Directors of Catholic Relief ServicesMaestral International, and Lumos discuss the negative implications of institutionalizing children and how their proposed project "Changing the Way We Care" will make an impact for the millions of children living outside family care worldwide. 

Halya Postliuk - Hope and Homes for Children

This article provides a summary of the findings from the first comprehensive audit of Ukraine’s child protection system, conducted by Hope and Homes for Children.