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.
"JK Rowling has called on students around the world not to volunteer at orphanages, pointing to emerging evidence that 'orphanage tourism' drives family separation and child trafficking," says this article from the Guardian.
This video segment from the PBS Newshour shines a light on efforts underway in Cambodia to reintegrate children from orphanages back into their families or into family-based care.
This video from BBC News shares the stories of Akira, 23, and her younger sister Charntay who were separated for 15 years. Akira was separated from her family by the care system for 15 years. Her younger sister Charntay was adopted abroad, whilst Akira remained in London.
The Lanzarote Committee, the Council of Europe body overseeing the implementation by states of the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (“Lanzarote convention”), has adopted a declaration on ”Protecting children in out-of-home care from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse,” according to this news release.
The Leicestershire County Council in the UK has published a book of short stories written by children in care, according to this article from the BBC.
This article from the Washington Post tells the story of family separation due to the opioid epidemic in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
This article from SBS News highlights some key findings from the recently published Family Matters Report 2019 on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out of home care in Australia.
This article from High Country News explores the history and legacy of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the United States, a school where many Indigenous children who had been forcibly separated from their families by US policy were sent.
This article from the Guardian tells the stories of two families featured in a documentary film about the family separation policy enacted by the US at the border with Mexico.
The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on Violence Against Children, Dr. Maalla M’jid, presented her first annual report “to define concrete and joint actions at the global, regional, and national levels to keep our promise to children to end violence by 2030," according to this press release from the United Nations.