The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) of the Philippines has issued a warning regarding the use of false social media accounts to advertise illegal adoptions in the country, according to this article from the Manila Bulletin. 

According to this article from the Guardian, a group of former employees at an orphanage in Bali, Indonesia have issued a detailed complaint about the exploitative activities of the orphanage to Save the Children, who have passed it on to Indonesian authorities.

This article announces Friends International's launch of the ChildSafe Movement in Bali, Indonesia in collaboration with a tour operator, Buffalo Tours.

According to this article from Cambodia's Khmer Times, "about 30 percent of the children living in orphanages around the country will be moved to live in communities with their mothers or fathers, a minister said last week after his ministry had investigated the situation."

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Officer in Lao-PDR. 

This opinion piece from Inquire explains how voluntourism in orphanages does more harm than good. 

UNICEF is seeking a consultant to conduct a mapping and review of the situation of children in residential care centers in the Philippines.

This article shines light on the vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation of children in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Nearly a million people of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh since August - and are now living in refugee camps in the port town of Cox's Bazar - to escape what the UN has deemed 'ethnic cleansing' in the Rakhine

This article from the Phnom Penh Post discusses recent government reforms of orphanages in Cambodia in response to the rising incidence of families sending children to these institutions for educational opportunities that are not available in some communities.