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List of Organisations

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

The Alliance is accepting applicants to join the Training of Facilitators on Engaging Community Volunteers in Case Management in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2024. Deadline to apply is September 22.

Kelly Ng - BBC News,

Malaysian police have rescued 402 children and teenagers that they suspect were physically and sexually abused across 20 care homes.

Amitabh Parashar - BBC News,

Midwife Siro Devi is one of several Indian midwives who were regularly pressured to murder newborn girls in India's district of Katihar during the 1990s. In this story, she is reunited with Monica, a child who was saved by Siro and her fellow midwives after being abandoned as a baby during this same period.

Kim Tong-Hyung - The Associated Press,

A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The Associated Press,

The Chinese government is ending its intercountry adoption program, and the U.S. is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of American families with pending applications.

UNICEF Europe, UNICEF Central Asia,

Каждый ребенок имеет право расти в способствующей развитию семейной среде.

UNICEF Europe, UNICEF Central Asia,

This UNICEF policy brief finds that an estimated 203 children for every 100,000 children live in residential care across Central Asia – almost double the global average of 105 per 100,000. In this brief, UNICEF proposes seven policy recommendations to facilitate the closure of large-scale institutions and transition to family-based alternatives to institutional care in Central Asia.

IACN,

India Alternative Care Network (IACN) is calling for contributions to the 16th edition of IACN Quarterly.

IACN, Changing the Way We Care,

IACN and CTWWC are inviting applications/names of the passionate and dedicated individuals, who are committed to promoting family strengthening and alternative care for children in India. This training is open for those who are committed to promoting alternative care, have been engaged in and promoting deinstitutionalization, non institutional care practices such as foster care, kinship care.

Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the INSPIRE Working Group, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN),

Case studies from Peru, Cambodia and DRC provide lessons on how income support can contribute to keeping children safe.