This study attempts to understand the feelings and bonds of the often complex life situations of being an internationally adopted child.

This article from the Daily Times reports that Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) during its "anti-begging crackdown," raided several areas in Lahore and took approximately 25 children into custody.

This is an article from the Free Press Journal stating that the Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government to carry out a census of street children so that they can be provided with basic facilities.

In this article from Pakistan, The Nation reports on children living on the streets.  The article states that the Society for Empowering Human Resources reports that there are 15,000 children living on the streets in Quetta.

In this article from NEWSok, Zaidoon Khalaf shares his experiences while attempting to reunify with his family Germany.

This article aims to assess the relevance of Western youth development models to adolescents in institutional care in India.  The authors review three frameworks for positive youth development.

Wer Waisenkindern in Nepal hilft, kann nichts falsch machen? Stimmt nicht. Viele Spender unterstützen ungewollt die Ausbeuter der Kinder.

In this talk, Emily Delap from Family for Every Child puts the use of orphanages in Nepal into a global context and explores the international evidence on the harm caused by allowing children to grow up away from families, and on the problems of orphanage voluntourism.

Next Generation Nepal Country Director Martin Punaks talks about orphanage trafficking in Nepal, why orphanage volunteers may inadvertently be part of the problem and how you can be part of the solution through ethical volunteering and other ways of "giving back."

Human Rights Watch has extensively documented human rights violations relating to attacks on education, women and girls’ rights, the situation of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, child labor, and the judicial execution and ill-treatment of child offenders. This submission proposes issues and questions that Committee members may wish to raise with the government.