The purpose of this commentary is to articulate why focusing on both program and context offers policymakers a more promising pathway for achieving meaningful and sustainable improvements in a child’s well-being and healthy development.

In light of a UN meeting this week to review indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Lumos, along with the Better Care Network and over 170 other organizations, have signed a letter to the UN urging the inclusion of children living outside of households and/or without parental care in UN data collection. 

A woman who was adopted from China to the United States in the early 1990s has authored this moving piece for Foreign Policy, detailing her search for her birth family, and the many birth families she met along the way who miss and long for information on their “lost,” or “abandoned” daughters.

In a joint open letter to the Inter-Agency Expert Group on the SDGs, children’s NGOs and leading disability-rights organizations, have appealed to the UN to ensure that “children living outside of households and/or without parental care” are included in the SDGs monitoring framework.

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor-Research and Learning for Vulnerable Children and Child Protection, 4Children located in Baltimore, MD, USA. Candidates are encouraged to apply by 20 March 2016.

UNICEF, UNFPA and partners are will host: #ENDviolence against Children and Adolescents with Disabilities, a side event for the 60th Session of the CSW and for World Down Syndrome Day

Realizing the importance and need to improve standards of care, service delivery and mental health of institutionalized children, adolescents and young adults, Udayan Care announces its second biennial international conference on the the

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) will host a webinar on "Protecting Vulnerable Children with Wise and Honoring Media." The webinar will take place March 16, 2016 at 2 PM EST.

The 31st World Tourism Network on Child Protection meeting was focused on the role and initiatives of the private sector to fight Child Exploitation in tourism.