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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.

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PBS News Hour

In the last two years, Canada and several U.S. states have begun to recognize their histories with Native American boarding schools, institutions that set out to “assimilate” Native American children into westernized U.S. ways of life by stripping them of Indigenous tradition and culture.

Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Tens of thousands of displaced children in Ukraine — as well as refugee children in surrounding nations — need financial and medical assistance from overseas and not adoption bids, experts in the field said this week.

Danielle Da Silva - The Free Press

A major shift in the delivery of foster care could result in hundreds of children repatriated to their Manitoba communities as more Indigenous governments are expected to take jurisdiction over child welfare from the province.

Kevin McGill

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a two-week halt in the phasing out of pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum and raised doubts about the Biden administration’s plan to fully lift those restrictions on May 23.

Laura Hampson - The Independent

People in England and Wales must now be aged 18 and over to get married.

Agence France-Presse

A heartbreaking human drama is playing out along Ukraine's borders -- fleeing refugees pass the homesick going back, while others who left and then returned flee for their lives for a second time.

Michelle Theriault Boots - Anchorage Daily News

A new set of Alaska court rules will give youths in foster care more opportunities to have a lawyer represent what they want to happen with their cases — and their lives.

George McMillan - GBN

A record number of children and young people in England have sought mental health support, according to new analysis.

Victoria Amunga - All Africa

An April 7 court ruling by Justice Joel Ngugi of the Nakuru law courts said fathers can be granted custody of young children.

Stephanie Richards - InDaily

South Australia has the highest rate of separating brothers and sisters in care in the country, research shows, prompting child protection advocates and the minister in charge to call for sweeping reform to keep families together.