India Alternative Care Network (IACN) is calling for contributions to the 17th edition of IACN Quarterly. If you are a practitioner, academician, researcher, civil society organization, or a funder and wish to share learning, information, interventions, case studies, perspectives, and knowledge resources on children without parental care or at risk of separation, email your submission to iacnsecretariat@iacn.in on or before January 10, 2025.

Panama, Uganda, Sri Lanka and Czech Republic among those newly committing to totally prohibit violence against under-18s.

This document produced by CERI presents the outcomes of an informative assessment and stakeholder interviews focused on the rights of children with disabilities (CWD) within Sri Lanka’s child protection system. The primary objective is to provide evidence-based recommendations to align the child protection system with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Case studies from the Global South provide insights on how to effectively support children who have experienced violence.

The Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC) Life of the Award Report highlights the initiative’s global efforts to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. Since 2018, CTWWC has been driving care reform in countries like Guatemala, Kenya, and Moldova, while supporting smaller projects in Haiti and India.

India Alternative Care Network (IACN) invites you to learn more about the mental health issues of children transitioning from institutional care to family-based care on 10 October 2024 at 3:00 - 4:30 pm on Zoom. 

This research aimed to explore the lived experiences of young care leavers in Iran and their perceptions and views of their transitioning to the world outside of home care.

Midwife Siro Devi is one of several Indian midwives who were regularly pressured to murder newborn girls in India's district of Katihar during the 1990s. In this story, she is reunited with Monica, a child who was saved by Siro and her fellow midwives after being abandoned as a baby during this same period.

India Alternative Care Network (IACN) is calling for contributions to the 16th edition of IACN Quarterly.

IACN and CTWWC are inviting applications/names of the passionate and dedicated individuals, who are committed to promoting family strengthening and alternative care for children in India. This training is open for those who are committed to promoting alternative care, have been engaged in and promoting deinstitutionalization, non institutional care practices such as foster care, kinship care.