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 from All Africa describes the recent investigation by Disability Rights International into the conditions of institutions and child homes in Kenya.
Four people in Bali and East Java, Indonesia have been arrested for allegedly selling babies for adoption on Instagram, according to this article.
This article from GroundUp describes the high prevalance of delays experienced by those seeking foster care grants in South Africa.
The government of Trinidad and Tobago has completed its draft National Child Policy, according to this article from Newsday.
This article from Reuters calls attention to the large numbers of indigenous children growing up in care in Brazil, particularly in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
The UK parliament held a debate on modern slavery and "several British lawmakers said they would call for the legislation to be updated to account for orphanage trafficking," according to this article from Reuters.
According to this segment, "there has been a steady increase in the numbers of Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in out-of-home care over the past decade" and there is an overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the child protection system in Australia.
This article describes the history and current status of the US Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a bill designed to protect indigenous children in the US from being removed unnecessarily from their families of origin.
"An Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America has identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families — without notifying their parents," says this article from the Associate Press.
This article from The Citizen discusses the situation of "unsafe abandonments" of infants in South Africa.