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.
A State-level consultation covering legal, ethical and social aspects of children’s care, organised by the Rajasthan High Court’s Juvenile Justice Committee in collaboration with UNICEF, featured a discussion among experts on "strengthening kinship care, foster care and sponsorship which could protect the interests of orphans and ensure their upbringing in a family environment," according to this article from the Hindu.
This article from Time reviews the status of the separation of migrant families at the US border with Mexico, including a class action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) representing the children separated during the implementation of the US Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy.
This article from the Los Angeles Times shines a light on some of the stories of parents in China whose babies were taken from them to be placed for intercountry adoption.
According to BBC News, "children as young as 11 years old are illegally being placed in unregulated homes in England."
In this piece for the Conversation, Kyllie Cripps and Daphne Habibis write about an overlooked root cause of the overrepresentation of Indigenous children placed in state care in Western Australia: "the difficulty Indigenous women escaping family violence face in finding safe housing."
This video from PBS News Hour features an interview with Dr. Alan Shapiro, a clinical professor in pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-founder of Terra Firma, who discusses the emotional and physical harms of detention on migrant children in the US.
This article and accompanying video from Human Rights Watch outlines some of the flaws uncovered in the procedures of age assessment of unaccompanied minors in France’s Alpine region.
This video from BBC News tells the stories of mixed-race children in Africa who were separated from their mothers, taken from their countries of origin, and brought to live with "host families" in Belgium during the Belgian colonial period.
This article from BBC News shines a light on the stories of some of the people who suffered abuse and mistreatment as children in Ireland's Catholic institutions and "industrial schools."
This article from CNN describes findings from new report outlining the impacts of family separation on migrant children in the US.