This report documents the involuntary admission and arbitrary detention of women and girls with mental health disabilities in mental hospitals and residential care institutions across India.

A court in Nepal has recently found two men guilty of repeatedly raping three girls with autism who were in the men’s care at an orphanage in Kathmandu.

Collected viewpoints on international volunteering in residential care centres Country focus: Nepal is a document devloped by the Better Volunteering Better Care Intiative

This Excutive Summary is developed by the Better Volunteering Better Care

Globalsl.org shares two hour-long presentations by an individual who works directly with the issue of orphanage tourism in Nepal, and another individual who has coordinated a global, child-protection-focused, inter-agency initiative directly tied to orphanage tourism.

This report presents the findings from the Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group’s review of data-collection activities in primarily low and middle-income countries.

This article depicts the situation of rescued children who were working on the streets in India. A different approach towards is needed, according to the article.

This report from Family for Every Child and partners summarises research on children’s reintegration that took place in Mexico, Moldova and Nepal from 2011 to 2014.

This article argues that orphanage voluntourism fuels the displacement and trafficking of children from their families in Nepal and their unnecessary institutionalisation.

Foster Care India - an NGO operating in Rajasthan, India aimed at helping the children in need of care and protection in the area through advocacy across Rajasthan and collaborations at local, state, national and global levels - has launched its newest website.