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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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The Times

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.

Julius Barigaba - The East African

As Somali forces navigate a delicate transition to assume the country’s security responsibilities from African Union peacekeepers who have secured civilians and personnel of international agencies for the past 17 years, experts say that four million children in Somalia have been affected by confl

UNICEF

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

Camille Corcoran, Rajeev Syal

Charities say FoI disclosure that 369 such children were held over 21-month period is ‘hugely concerning’.

Noel Titheradge, Annabel Deas - BBC News

Staff were filmed hitting, kicking and leaving special school pupils in their own urine, the BBC has found.

Naomi Larsson Piñeda - The Guardian

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

Al Jazeera

As an Israeli ground assault on Gaza’s last ‘safe zone’ looms, two children in Rafah brace for it.

Rob Schmitz, Anas Baba, Greg Dixon - NPR

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.

Vivian Yee, Bilal Shbair - The New York Times

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.

UN

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.