This article reviews the current discourse on what is being called a crisis of care for children, as well as literature on out-of-home/family care and its adverse impacts on child development. The article also describes an emerging “AIDS orphan tourism” and highlights its negative impacts.

For this investigation, reporters posed as a minister and a business woman to witness cases of child abuse that have claimed the lives of some children in a children's home in Ghana.

This is the summary report on the research phase of a project looking at the needs of child-carers in four African countries; Nigeria, Uganda, Angola and Zimbabwe. The research consisted of a literature review and participatory child-led research in one site in each of the four countries.

The focus of this thesis is the position of orphans, vulnerable children and orphanages in Ghana in relation to the ‘help’ they receive from western volunteers and NGOs.

Ce rapport fait suite à une mission d’évaluation réalisée en Côte d’Ivoire entre le 8 et le 12 mars 2010, complétée par une compilation des informations disponibles et une analyse du cadre législatif ivoirien relatif à l’adoption. Le choix de la Côte d’Ivoire a été motivé par le fait que ce pays faisait partie des dix premiers pays d’origine des enfants adoptés en France et n’avait a l'epoque pas encore ratifié la Convention du 29 mai 1993.

This mapping and analysis was conducted in late 2009 in Sierra Leone to analyze the existing laws, structures and services for child protection in the country and found these laws and systems to be falling short of reaching their intended impact. 

This report is based on 11 weeks of field research in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau between November 2009 and February 2010.

Human Rights Watch report on the illicit practices of forced child begging and other abuses perpetrated against children in residential Quranic schools. Includes recommendations to government entities on action needed to reverse abuse and neglect of children in these situations.

Regulations and tools designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions for the safe and appropriate administration of alternative care.

Collection of abstracts from conference presentations