Americas

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UNICEF,

UNICEF is seeking a Senior Child Protection Specialist for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC).

Maria Polletta - The Republic | azcentral.com,

This report describes the disproportionality of children from racial and ethnic minorities in the foster care system in Arizona and how the overwhelmingly white, Anglo-American makeup of the Foster Care Review Boards leads to cultural bias in ths sytem and can perpetuate this problem.

Jasmine Spearing Bowen - Tucson Weekly,

This article explores the many obstables and legal challenges that unaccompanied minors are experiencing in the judicial system in the state of Arizona in the US in their efforts to obtain legal status and be granted asylum.

CPC Learning Network,

As debates about immigration roil the national political dialogue in the United States, the CPC Learning Network will host a webinar to discuss the mass exodus of

Rachael Myrow - KQED Arts,

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, invited a team of former foster youth and advocates to help put together an exhibit on foster care in California, called 'Lost Childhoods.'

Cristina Flores, KUTV,

This article from KUTV draws connections between what is called the "opioid crisis" in the state of Utah, and all over the United States, and the growing incidence of child abuse in the state.

BBC News,

In this video from the BBC two women from the US, tell their stories of being married as children. 

Laura Viviano - The Guardian ,

An American couple adopted their baby by posting an advertisement on Craigslist. 

BBC News,

The Canadian government has reached a major settlement with indigenous victims forcibly removed from their homes and placed in state care as children. 

Reuters in Ottowa - The Guardian,

Canada will pay up to C$750m ($598m) in compensation to thousands of aboriginals who were forcibly removed as children from their families decades ago, promising to end “a terrible legacy”.