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Sita Bridgemohan - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday,

According to this article from Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, the Children Authority in Tobago plans to regularize foster care and promote kinship care in the country.

Jack DeWaard, Jenna Nobles, Katharine M. Donato - Population, Space and Place,

This study from Population, Space and Place provides the first estimates of the prevalence of parental absence via migration that are comparable across populations in contemporary Latin America.

Lindsay Stark, Matthew MacFarlane, Beth L Rubenstein, Gary Yu, Celina Jensen, Katharine Williamson - BMJ Global Health,

This study explores findings of a population-based approach to measure the prevalence of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) during the Hurricane Matthew aftermath in Haiti.

Celina Jensen, Beth L. Rubenstein, Matthew MacFarlane, Lindsay Stark - Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of evaluating movement of children into residential care following an emergency.

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 

University of Curaçao Dr. Moises Da Costa Gomez, Universiteit Leiden, UNICEF,

The Frontiers of Children's Rights in the Caribbean Region Spring School is a special edition of the Leiden-based Frontiers of Children's Rights Summer School, organised in close cooperation with the University of Curaçao Dr. Moises Da Costa Gomez.

Jude Mary Cénat, Daniel Derivois, Martine Hébert, Laetitia Mélissande Amédée, Amira Karray - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This article aimed to investigate traumas experienced by street children and their coping and resilience strategies used to deal with adversities in a logic of survival, relying on a mixed method approach.

Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children,

Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. 

Ben Fox, Associated Press - ABC News,

According to this article from ABC News and the Associated Press, ten senators from the United States have called on the government of Haiti to shut down an orphanage where a number of children being adopted by US families were allegedly sexually abused.

Jacqueline Charles - Miami Herald,

This article from the Miami Herald describes the vulnerability of children in Haiti, particularly along the Haitian-Dominican border, to trafficking, abandonment, and family separation and efforts made to combat child trafficking in the country.