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.
From June 8-12, 2015, Buckner Guatemala, with support from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) and the Guatemalan Court System, provided a series of two-day training sessions to multi-disciplinary teams from the court system. The two sessions of the two-day training included more than 80 professionals, and provided an opportunity to highlight the important role of multi-disciplinary teams (i.e., social workers, psychologists and pedagogues) within the Guatemalan child protection system in general and the court system specifically.
This article describes the large numbers of unaccompanied children who have fled Burundi in the wake of political violence, and the efforts by aid agencies in bordering countries such as Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania to support them.
This article describes the experiences of Inuit children from Greenland who were removed from their families and taken to Denmark in the 1950s in an effort by the Danish government to re-educate them as “Little Danes” and to “modernize” Greenland.
The Georgian Coalition for Children and Youth Welfare presented the report ‘Georgia: The Child Protection Index: Measuring the Fulfillment of a Child’s Rights’ at a public event on June 5.
India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has circulated to the state governments, for the first time, guidelines on foster care following a national consultation on June 3 2015.
In this speech delivered at the 9th European Forum on the Rights of the Child in Brussels, Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality highlights the current dangers faced by many of Europe’s children today, including poverty and institutionalization.
According to this article from the Phnom Penh Post, the government of Cambodia has announced that 11 orphanages in Cambodia have been closed since the year 2011.
In her article for Huffington Post’s “The Blog,” Laurie Ahern, President of Disability Rights International, writes about the increased risk of child trafficking experienced by children, particularly those with disabilities, in Ukraine’s orphanages.
In this article, the author, Gilles Virgili, calls for the inclusion of unaccompanied migrant children in the UN Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted by governments across the world in September.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has published a report concluding that the removal of aboriginal Canadian children from their families, to be placed in residential schools, amounts to cultural genocide.