A new video describes a Mailman School-led study to assess the size of the problem. Interspersed with footage of children in informal settlements and orphanages, researchers and officials describe the growth of residential care facilities in Cambodia, many which are operated or funded by foreign charities, including religious groups. 

An estimated 61 million children are "left behind" by their migrant parents in China. The Chinese government has recently issued new guidelines to protect children in rural areas whose parents have moved to cities to work.

This study explores the association of caregiver and child characteristics with educational outcomes for orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) in India.

The first Global Forum for a World Without Orphans will be held on February 11-14, 2016 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

This blog post by UNICEF describes how the Disability Rights Initiative-Cambodia, a joint Australian Government-United Nations program to improve quality of life for children with disability and their families, is having an impact for one family in Cambodia. 

Australian politician Lunda Reynolds, a Senator for Western Australia, issued a press release warning parents and schools contemplating helping Cambodian orphanages to proceed with caution to ensure they are not unwittingly taking part in “orphanage tourism." The Senator recently visited Cambodia to look at Australian aid projects.

This report provides an evaluation of the Keeping and Finding Families Project, a pilot foster care project in Tajikistan. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

This article describes growing skepticism around the value of "voluntourists" for local communities around the work, and many NGOs are questioning the unregulated industry that brings many young, unqualified westerners to developing countries. Often, volunteers are ineffective in providing help to communities, and sometimes can even pose danger to the community members or themselves.

This report is a case study of alternative child care in Indonesia. Research was conducted that found that with an estimate of 8,000 institutional facilities servicing 500,000 children, Indonesia was overly reliant on institutional care.