This news article describes the plight of India's missing children, focusing on efforts to end child trafficking in the country. 

This cross-sectional descriptive study found that poverty is the main reason children stay and work on the street.  

This report presents the findings from a study that aimed to explore the application in practice of the ‘necessity principle’ from the Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children (UN, 2009) by using three quantitative and three qualitative indicators that provide information about whether children and families have received support to the fullest extent possible before a child ends up outside of parental care arrangements in formal or informal care, or living alone. 

Under new project DCPU aims to place 100 children into foster care.

Article from IndiaToday reports West Bengal plans to determine the number of street children living within the state.

This study investigated the psychosocial distress and coping mechanisms of institutionalized children living in New Delhi, India. 

The child adoption rate in Iran has risen 35%.

The aim of this study is to assess the nutritional and cognitive status in institutionalized orphans which might help to formulate effective interventions for improving the nutritional status of vulnerable children in future.

Voice of Asia reports that Indian police arrested heads of an adoption centre said to have trafficked at least 17 children to couples in foreign countries.

Elevate Children Funders Group (ECFG) recommends philanthropists avoid donating to orphanages and instead invest in programs that help to build stronger families.