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 article from the Telegraph discusses potential problems that can occur with student volunteers.
Maria David Zaya discusses the search to find her daughter who was kidnapped by Boko Haram close to two years ago.
This article from Haaretz discusses the increasing problem of child labor in Israel. According to the article, children are taken from their homes through an agreement with their parents and forced to beg at highway intersections for up to 12 hours a day.
This story from the UK discusses how gangs recruit children as young as 8 years old to serve as weapons support for older gang members. These children are recruited to hold knives for gang members, and they are often asked to attack others on members’ behalf.
This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years.
Can children forced to fight be reintegrated back into their families and communities?
In this special feature from ABCNews on orphanage volunteerism in Nepal, ABC News claims that Kathmandu is a major hub for voluntourists who are attracted to Nepal’s many orphanages and children’s homes. However, as the story points out, only 85% of children who live in Nepal’s orphanages are actually orphans. These children are housed in horrible conditions and are often abused.
The European Union and UNICEF have broadened an important regional partnership that aims to protect children from violence and better include children with disabilities into society. Since 2011, the EU and UNICEF have been working together with countries currently in the process of joining the EU, such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey.
This article discusses how children in Minneapolis are placed in juvenile detention facilities for lack of a better place to put them. According to the article, children who are not charged with any crime account for one-fifth of juvenile detention center population.
This article from Debbie Wolf of World Vision in Huffington Post discusses the perilous life unaccompanied minors lead after disasters.