This article explores the use of baby boxes in Germany and the Netherlands.

This essay examines institutional care not as a structure or facility, but as a model of care and protection for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya.

India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has circulated to the state governments, for the first time, guidelines on foster care following a national consultation on June 3 2015.

This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the US child welfare system who have lost their parental rights.

In this speech delivered at the 9th European Forum on the Rights of the Child in Brussels, Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality highlights the current dangers faced by many of Europe’s children today, including poverty and institutionalization.

On June 2, 2015, the USAID Center on Children in Adversity/Displaced Children and Orphans Fund hosted a panel discussion event with the CPC Learning Network to mark the tenth anniversary of the Network.

In this article, the author, Gilles Virgili, calls for the inclusion of unaccompanied migrant children in the UN Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted by governments across the world in September.

In her article for Huffington Post’s “The Blog,” Laurie Ahern, President of Disability Rights International, writes about the increased risk of child trafficking experienced by children, particularly those with disabilities, in Ukraine’s orphanages.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has published a report concluding that the removal of aboriginal Canadian children from their families, to be placed in residential schools, amounts to cultural genocide.

According to this article from the Phnom Penh Post, the government of Cambodia has announced that 11 orphanages in Cambodia have been closed since the year 2011.