This article from the Guardian shines a light on the harms of orphanage voluntourism.

This blog post from the Gap Year Association encourages "gap year counselors and students to thoroughly vet the organizations they choose to partner with around the world."

An agency in Sussex, UK called Project Abroad has stopped sending volunteers abroad on orphanage placements because of concern about "fake orphans," according to this short video from BBC News.

The government of China has sent approximately one million Uighur Muslims to internment camps, separating families and placing children in state-run orphanages, according to this article from the Atlantic.

This Op-Ed from Kenya's Daily Nation by Simon Njoroge paints a staggering picture of violations of human rights by child institutions.

African Impact, a volunteer company, has issued a statement against the institutionalization of children in orphanages.

The Croatian Ministry of Demography, Family and Youth Affairs, in collaboration with UNICEF and a civil society organization in the country, has launched a foster care campaign under the slogan "Every Child Needs a Family," according to this article from Total Croatia News. 

This article from the Intercept describes the impacts of family separation on children and families who were separated at the US border with Mexico and now remain, reuinited, in immigration detention centers.

Children living at an unauthorised orphanage in Tirumullaivoyal, India have come forward with allegations of sexual and physical assault, naming four people, including the owners of the orphanage, as their abusers, according to this article from the Hindu.

This blog post from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) highlights some of the impacts of the trauma of family separation on children, particularly on children's mental health and wellbeing.