Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) describes a new research venture to identify and share examples of best practice regarding social work cases that cross international borders.

As the Trump administration promises to deport a broader range of people, undocumented immigrant families with disabled children are seeking help to stay in the U.S. to access proper medical care for their sick children. 

A multitude of complaints against Trinidad's Children's Authority spurs investigation.  

On 19 may 2017, The Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law's Anti-Torture Initiative will host the launch of Protecting Children against Torture in Detention: Global Solutions for a Global Problem.  The event will be held in Conference Room VII in United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA.

The number of refugee children traveling alone has increased fivefold since 2010, UNICEF has said. The UN body warned that the alarming trend has forced many young refugees and migrants into prostitution and slavery.

​Children orphaned by Boko Haram Islamists are overcrowding the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, whose population has doubled to over two million due to those seeking shelter from the conflict. 

Turkey has opened a vast centre, termed "Orphans City," dedicated to housing and educating orphans from war-torn Syria.

The United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD), in partnership with the Department of Public Information Non-Governmental Organizations (DPI NGO), is hosting a briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday 18 May, 2

Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls.

This workshop provides a unique opportunity for regional practitioners to come together and share on adoption practice as well as reflect on current existing capacities in providing other ‘family-based alternatives’ for a child.