This policy report from Kids Count outlines the impacts that parental incarceration has on children, and on communities as a whole, particularly in the context of mass incarceration in the United States. The report concludes with recommendations for investing in families to mediate the detrimental effects of parental incarceration, which disproportionately affects people of color in the United States.

Human Rights Watch llevaba a cabo investigación en México y Honduras en 2015 para examinar cómo México está aplicando la ley nacional e internacional en el tratamiento de migrantes centroamericanos, particularmente los niños. 

Human Rights Watch conducted research throughout Mexico and Honduras in 2015 to examine how Mexico is applying national and international law in its treatment of Central American migrants, particularly children. 

A woman who was adopted from China to the United States in the early 1990s has authored this moving piece for Foreign Policy, detailing her search for her birth family, and the many birth families she met along the way who miss and long for information on their “lost,” or “abandoned” daughters.

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor-Research and Learning for Vulnerable Children and Child Protection, 4Children located in Baltimore, MD, USA. Candidates are encouraged to apply by 20 March 2016.

UNICEF, UNFPA and partners are will host: #ENDviolence against Children and Adolescents with Disabilities, a side event for the 60th Session of the CSW and for World Down Syndrome Day

Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. The primary role of the Technical Advisor (TA) II for Vulnerable Children and Social Service Systems Strengthe

A U.S. federal court has sentenced a former missionary from Oklahoma to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children at a Kenyan orphanage. His arrest and conviction—one case among several recent instances of overseas abuse—highlights the need for more vetting procedures in international volunteering, experts say. 

This column advocates for greater investment and intervention for families at-risk to prevent adverse experiences in childhood.

The World Bank Group and the Know Violence in Childhood Initiative, in collaboration with The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children and UNICEF, will be hosting a session entitled Childhood Violence, Fragile Societies: The Case for Investing in Violence Prevention at the World Bank Group Fragility, Conflict and Violence Forum on Thursday morning, March 3 from 10:30am to 11:30am.