Lumos is an international organisation working to end the institutionalisation of children globally.

Lumos is seeking an experienced programmes, advocacy and policy professional, confident in advocating for children’s rights at the highest level of policy makers in the LAC region and implementing change on the ground.

Lumos requiere un profesional con experiencia en programas, en incidencia y en trabajo relacionado con diseño de políticas confiado en su capacidad de abogar por los derechos del niño ante los responsables de formular políticas al más alto nivel en la región de ALC y de efectuar cambios sobre el terreno.

This article from Human Rights First highlights the harmful impact that the detention of asylum-seeking families in the US has on children.

According to this article from Color Lines, health officials in the state of Texas in the US “have been refusing to issue birth certificates to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants” and a district judge has just ruled that officials can continue to withhold these documents from children. A group of immigrant families have filed a lawsuit and the case will now proceed to trial.

Join USG and the OVC Task Force for an event that will discuss OVC programmming in the PEPFAR 3.0 landscape.

Gerald Dean Campbell, a man from Texas, in the U.S., who served as a missionary in Malawi was arrested for “engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places” and has admitted to sexually abusing 11 children at a children’s home in Malawi where he served as general manager from 1997-2009. 

A dedicated Program Specialist is needed to provide technical and administrative support to the 4Children project in the coming year.

The purpose of this conference is to showcase recent biological advancements related to child maltreatment and other forms of trauma and chronic stress.

This study employed a cluster analysis to identify subpopulations in a large, national sample of 17-year-old youth in the USA based on the following indicators: educational attainment, connection to a supportive adult, adolescent parenthood, homelessness, substance abuse referral and incarceration.

Family Connections, a local non-profit organization in Essex county, New Jersey in the United States, has developed a program called Reunity House, which is designed to help permanently reunify children in foster care with their parents.