According to this article from Channel News Asia, China has recently updated its rules regarding the adoption of abandoned or trafficked children, allowing a child to be adopted if authorities do not find parents or guardians during a year-long se

This article discusses the work of Against Child Trafficking (ACT), a Europe-based NGO that has been involved in child protection and adoption issues, to help adoptees from India to locate their birth families. 

Institutions are invited to submit a proposal by 10:00 AM EST, 04 September 2015.

This report uses 80 surveys conducted by The Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS) and 55 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), between 2000 and 2014 in 70 different countries, to estimate the prevalence of the components and combinations of vulnerability.

Visionaries, a documentary series on public television in the United States, aired two episodes featuring the work of Disability Rights International (DRI) in uncovering the egregious abuses suffered by children and adults with disabilities living in institutions around the world. 

UNICEF Cambodia invites eligible firm to submit a proposal for Development of a theory (or theories) of change on violence against children in Cambodia.

This article from the Sunday Times reports on the child-trafficking scandal in Nepal in light of the recent earthquake.

This article explains the ways in which orphanages in Cambodia have become a money-making business which continue to recruit more “orphans” in order to profit from foreign volunteer donations.

This article reviews the human trafficking crisis in Nepal, an issue brought to light recently by the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal in April and May 2015, but which has been a problem in Nepal for many years.

Officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation in India have reached Palakkad and started collecting evidence on the alleged trafficking of children to orphanages in Kerala from West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand, according to the article.