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.
Government institutions and civil society representatives in Jordan have launched a three-year national strategy and action plan aimed at reducing physical violence against children in Jordan at a meeting convened by the National Council for Family Affairs and UNICEF.
A group of Maori — Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand — have arrived in Manitoba, Canada to meet with Indigenous leaders there and share their best practices in reducing the number of Indigenous children in foster care, according to this article from CBC News.
New York City government officials have released a plan to increase kinship care placements in the city, according to this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.
Ahead of a second summit of global leaders and Nobel laureates on children’s rights in Jordan, Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi stated that children are more vulnerable now than ever to trafficking "due to conflicts and natural disasters with millions without homes or families," according to this article from Reuters.
This article from NITV examines Australia's history of forcibly removing indigenous children from their families, and criminalizing them for it.
A foster care group home in Kansas, USA housing 10 teenage girls in care, Carla's Youth Residential Center, has been closed due to suspected physical and sexual abuse and the facility, according to this article from U.S. News & World Report.
This article from Daiji World shines light on the number of unregistered children's homes in India and the importance of registering these institutions to curb the vulnerability to child trafficking.
This article from the Washington Post tells the story of a family, and others like them, who migrated from El Salvador to the United States and were separated upon crossing into the US.
Act 4 of this episode of 'This American Life' describes the way that US immigration policy has separated families by parental deportation, with a particular focus on parents originally from Latin America.
This article from the Epoch Times describes the continued risk of child trafficking in intercountry adoption procedures, and the recent trends of some countries to ban foreign adoptions.