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 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.
The European Commission has issued a statement on the occasion of Universal Children's Day, 20 November.
This dispatch from Human Rights Watch describes the abuses and mistreatment of aboriginal children held in detention centers in northern Australia, highlighting the findings of a royal commission released on Friday.
Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation has launched an online interactive game simulating the experience of child trafficking in India to raise awareness around the issue, according to the article.
This article from Reuters shines light on the vulnerability of children in foster care in the UK to child trafficking.