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.
In a secret meeting as Victoria’s budget was being announced, the full scale of the historical abuse of children in state care – and its impact on the government’s finances – was being laid bare.
A nun and care worker who abused vulnerable children at a Scottish orphanage have had their three-year prison sentences quashed. Sister Eileen Igoe, 79, and Margaret Hughes, 77, mistreated children at Smyllum Park in Lanark from 1969 until 1981 when it closed.
Since the coordinated attacks operated by armed groups in late February, UNICEF and its partners have rapidly scaled up their efforts, reaching over 50,000 displaced children and families impacted by the resurgence of violence in various parts of the city through integrated mobile clinic interven
Charities say FoI disclosure that 369 such children were held over 21-month period is ‘hugely concerning’.
Staff were filmed hitting, kicking and leaving special school pupils in their own urine, the BBC has found.
Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other decades later. They describe the emotional moment they met – and how they pieced together the lives they had spent apart
As an Israeli ground assault on Gaza’s last ‘safe zone’ looms, two children in Rafah brace for it.
As Israel's war against Hamas continues, children in Gaza are suffering. According to the United Nations, more than 25,000 children have been killed or injured since October. That's one child every ten minutes. We hear about one of those children, a twelve year-old boy injured in Gaza.
The United Nations says famine is likely to set in by May. For those living under Israel’s attacks and a crippling blockade, every day is a race against time.
Human trafficking and migrant smuggling are multi-billion-dollar businesses that have changed dramatically in recent years, driven by global challenges such as war, large migration and refugee flows, cybercrime, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.