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 tells the story of several Guatemalan adoptees and their adoptive parents as they reunite with their birth families in Guatemala.
This article describes the negative impacts of institutionalization on children and highlights the advocacy work of Lumos and other organizations to include children deprived of family care in the upcoming UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In this post, the organization Against Child Trafficking “call upon the Government of Uganda to immediately pass the Children’s Act revisions and allow Uganda and Ugandan laws to dictate local solutions for children, not foreign adoption agencies.”
A child trafficking scheme in Mexico has recently been uncovered, according to the article.
This article from the Sunday Times reports on the child-trafficking scandal in Nepal in light of the recent earthquake.
The UK has recently introduced new rules requiring councils to provide support to children who stay in foster families beyond the age of 18.
This article highlights the need for potential international volunteers to do research before volunteering, meet minimum requirements of age and skill, and to avoid volunteering in residential child care centers.
This article reports on the need for local adoption solutions for the children who have been orphaned by Ebola in Sierra Leone.
This articles asks the questions “If you are interested in volunteering internationally, what are the ethical considerations you should be aware of? Which questions can you ask to better ensure that your actions and any financial contribution are aligned with your values and expectations?”
This article explains the ways in which orphanages in Cambodia have become a money-making business which continue to recruit more “orphans” in order to profit from foreign volunteer donations.