The upcoming International Foster Care Organisation (IFCO) Conference “Pathways: A lifelong understanding of education, trauma, intervention and success" will take place on 1-4 September 2016 in Sheffield, UK.

This article discusses the legal residency advocacy campaign that occurred in the late 2000s in the Netherlands and the United States on behalf of immigrant youths with precarious legal status.

This is an article from the U.S. Army touting Lithuanian and American service members who worked together to build a new fence, gate, and sign for an orphanage in Siauliai, Lithunia. 

This news article from the BBC is about a small orphan village south of Moscow, which has been experimenting with what the founders think may be a novel solution to support both foster children and the families who take them in.

In this article from the Guardian, David Akinsanya discusses his experience in boarding school where he and his classmates were forced to take anti-convulsant medication.

This article from the Guardian sets forth the challanges EU countries face in providing social services for asylum seeking children.

After being separated from his parents in a Turkish forest, Mahdi Azizi reunited with his family in Sweden after his father spotted him at an open air concert.

This story from the UK discusses how gangs recruit children as young as 8 years old to serve as weapons support for older gang members.  These children are recruited to hold knives for gang members, and they are often asked to attack others on members’ behalf. 

This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years. 

The European Union and UNICEF have broadened an important regional partnership that aims to protect children from violence and better include children with disabilities into society. Since 2011, the EU and UNICEF have been working together with countries currently in the process of joining the EU, such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey.