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.
For an episode of Africa Investigates, Ghana's undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and investigative reporter Rosemary Nwaebuni teamed up to investigate Nigeria's so-called "baby farms."
This article from the Guardian tells the stories of Muslim foster parents in the UK.
In this video from Matter of Fact, Correspondent Jessica Gomez meets with lawyers from the Safe Passage Project who say they can help unaccompanied migrant children in the US.
In this piece for the Huffington Post, Dr. Shannon Senefeld, Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations at Catholic Relief Services, makes a case explaining why donors (particularly those from the U.S.) should not donate their money to orphanages.
This column briefly explains child abandonment and the use of childcare homes for abandoned children in the Zambian context. The author notes that formal foster care is not a popular mode of alternative care in Zambia and that awareness-raising would help to increase its use in the country.
The Government of Yukon, Canada is introducing a new three-year pilot project to reunite families.
This opinion piece from Inquire explains how voluntourism in orphanages does more harm than good.
In this article and accompanying radio piece, NPR sheds light on the issues facing children who have lost one or both parents as a result of an ISIS attack in Mosul, Iraq.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on behalf of the government of Canada, has offered a formal apology for the use of residential schools for indigenous children in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to this article from the BBC.
This article from CNN exposes the exploitation that many children experience in Haitian orphanages.