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.
A recent report by Ulster University Professor Patricia Lundy (in consultation with an expert panel on redress) advised that payments should be awarded to any former child residents of Northern Ireland institutions, irrespective of whether they suffered harm from sexual, physical or emotional violence.
The 31st World Tourism Network on Child Protection meeting was focused on the role and initiatives of the private sector to fight Child Exploitation in tourism.
Elisabet Purve-Jorendal was born in India and given away for adoption in 1973 when she was less than six months old. A Swedish couple adopted her when she was two-and-a-half years old. Forty-two years later, she tracked down her biological mother.
Zanzibar’s Department of Social Welfare has announced a series of policies that it will implement in order to enhance the protection of children in alternative care in Zanzibar, particularly for residential care facilities.
A U.S. federal court has sentenced a former missionary from Oklahoma to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children at a Kenyan orphanage. His arrest and conviction—one case among several recent instances of overseas abuse—highlights the need for more vetting procedures in international volunteering, experts say.
Through this new "The African Child Information Hub" Facebook page, InfoHub aims to amplify advocacy efforts and awareness raising by engaging more people on social media.
A woman flew from Istanbul to Paris with an infant girl hidden inside her hand luggage, Air France has said.
This column advocates for greater investment and intervention for families at-risk to prevent adverse experiences in childhood.
This week, the UN Statistical Commission is meeting in New York to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals Indicators.
Lawmakers passed a bill this week that requires foreigners seeking to adopt Ugandan children to live in the country continuously for at least one year before applying, thus ending the quicker route of claiming legal guardianship.