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 - written by Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University, editor of globalsl.org and member of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative, Eric Hartman - outlines a few major issues that individuals should consider before committing to an international volunteer program.
This article from the BBC tells the story of one family, and many others like it, in a small town in Burkina Faso where it has become customary for men to migrate to Italy for work, leaving wives and children behind.
Même si la crise des enfants migrants non accompagnés d’Amérique centrale qui tentent de rejoindre les Etats-Unis ne fait plus la une des journaux, elle continue. De concert avec les gouvernements, l’UNICEF s’efforce de remédier aux causes de cette migration et de garantir la protection et les droits des enfants qui décident d'entreprendre ce périlleux périple.
This article describes how thousands of minors have taken risky journeys to escape a political crisis in Burundi and landed in refugee camps in bordering countries.
A 20-year-old woman in South Africa has pleaded guilty to trying sell her child for 5,000 rand ($380) on advertising website Gumtree. The mother faced charges including human trafficking and money laundering, and the 19-month-old boy is now in the care of social workers. The mother will
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Friday ordered a judicial probe into the alleged human rights violations at an unregistered orphanage in Trichy district, India.
The government of Japan is considering extending foster care services to young people up to the age of 20, according to this article from the Japan Times.
In this video from the BBC, Clive Myrie reports from Ethiopia, the first stop for many Eritrean migrants en route to Europe. The video features a few of these child migrants who are waiting in Ethiopia to make their way to Europe in hopes of a better life.
Police in the Masaka District of Uganda have closed down an illegal orphanage for children under the age of 10, according to the article.
This article provides a brief overview of adoption policies in the UK since the 2000s, including the “introduction of the English Adoption and Children Act, passed in 2002, that placed the rights of the child front and centre of the English legal approach to child protection and brought English adoption practices in line with international legislation.”