Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. 

An orphanage in Ponnurunni, India has recently come under police investigation for alleged abuse and assault of the children who reside there, according to this article from the Deccan Chronicle. 

Police in Kochi, India have launched an investigation into alleged abuse at an orphanage in Ponnurunni after residents staged a protest outside the institution, according to this article from the Hindu.

The main objective of this Joint Rapid Education and Child Protection Need Assessment (JRNA) was to identify education and child protection needs, priorities and capacities of Rohingya boys and girls in the camps, settlements and host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh to inform and provide the evidence-base for the 2018 Joint Response Plan (JRP). 

Two infants born to separate families within minutes of each other in Assam, India were "switched at birth" and handed over to the wrong parents at the hospital where they were both delivered almost 3 years ago, according to this article from the BBC.

In this webinar, hosted by Rise Learning Network, Deep Savarni, Founder & Director of Praajak Development Society shares his experience in establishing the Child Protection Committees as a means to realize effective participation of children in monitoring care services in government-run child care institutions in India.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist in New Delhi, India.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist is New Delhi. 

UNICEF is seeking a Knowledge Management Consultant for Child Protection, Child Marriage and Disability in Nepal.

UNICEF is seeking a Knowledge Management Consultant for Child Protection, Child Marriage and Disability.