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 highlights recent research exploring the negative effects parental deportation has on children in the US.
According to this article from Channel News Asia, China has recently updated its rules regarding the adoption of abandoned or trafficked children, allowing a child to be adopted if authorities do not find parents or guardians during a year-long search.
This article discusses the work of Against Child Trafficking (ACT), a Europe-based NGO that has been involved in child protection and adoption issues, to help adoptees from India to locate their birth families.
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.