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Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Geeta Pandey, BBC News,

Elisabet Purve-Jorendal was born in India and given away for adoption in 1973 when she was less than six months old. A Swedish couple adopted her when she was two-and-a-half years old. Forty-two years later, she tracked down her biological mother.

Elizabeth Donger and Jacqueline Bhabha - FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University,

This report provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the Indian government’s efforts to rescue and reintegrate children trafficked for their labor.

New Internationalist Magazine,

This article describes how fraudsters in Nepal persuade vulnerable families to hand over their children to the "orphanage industry."

Overseas Development Institute,

This report and summary explores the current childcare policy failures across a range of case-study countries, including Viet Nam, Gaza, Mexico, India and Ethiopia, and highlights examples of progress in countries which are successfully responding to these challenges.

Manijeh Nourian PhD; Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi, PhD; Kian Nourozi Tabrizi, PhD; Maryam Rassouli, PhD; Akbar Biglarrian, PhD,

This article primarily discusses a study that was conducted to determine resilience and contributing factors in high-risk adolescents living in residential care facilities affiliated to Tehran Welfare Organization.

The International Child and Youth Care Network,

The First International Conference on "Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World – Caring to Notice!" will take place 23-25 February 2016 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The International Institute of Knowledge Management & The International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC Net),

The 1st International Conference on Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World: Caring to Notice! will be held on 23rd, 24th and 25th of February 2016 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Cuong Viet Nguyen - Social Science & Medicine,

This study examines whether parental migration can affect health and cognitive ability of left-behind children aged at 5-8 years old in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam.

Aakanksha Sinha & Margaret Lombe & Leia Y. Saltzman & Kathryn Whetten & Rachel Whetten & Positive Outcomes for Orphans Research Team - Global Social Welfare,

This study explores the association of caregiver and child characteristics with educational outcomes for orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) in India.