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.
Human Rights Watch has extensively documented human rights violations relating to attacks on education, women and girls’ rights, the situation of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, child labor, and the judicial execution and ill-treatment of child offenders. This submission proposes issues and questions that Committee members may wish to raise with the government.
A blog article discussing how Nepali families are routinely tricked into sending their children to badly run orphanages.
Former NHL Speaker Sheldon Kennedy gave the Keynote speech at this year's International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect conference in Calgary (ISPCAN).
The Early Intervention Family Drug Court (EIFDC) provides drug-addicted parents the opportunity to get clean while keeping their families intact.
This is an article from the U.S. Army touting Lithuanian and American service members who worked together to build a new fence, gate, and sign for an orphanage in Siauliai, Lithunia.
Following up on a mid-August story that a child bomber was used in recent attacks Turkey, this article from The Washington Post investigates how children are used by military actors.
Experts warn of a growing divide between women who were captured and children born to Boko Haram militants and the rest of the population.
In this article from the Guardian, David Akinsanya discusses his experience in boarding school where he and his classmates were forced to take anti-convulsant medication.
After being separated from his parents in a Turkish forest, Mahdi Azizi reunited with his family in Sweden after his father spotted him at an open air concert.
This story from the Guardian describes the shock and loss children experience in Aleppo.