India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development has proposed a revised set of Guidelines Governing Adoption of Children 2015 effective 1 August 2015.

Government officials of the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB) of Nepal raided an orphanage in Kathmandu that was run by an NGO, according to this article from the Rising Nepal.

Save the Children in Bangladesh, the International Organization for Migration, Plan International- Bangladesh, Winrock, the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) and United Development Initiatives for Programme Actions (UDDIPAN) organised a national convention for reducing the impact of unsafe migration on children in Bangladesh. This article presents a summary of the panel discussions as well as the recommendations and draft declaration that came out of the convention.

De nombreux enfants originaires d’États dévastés par la guerre, qui voyagent souvent seuls, fuient actuellement des abus dans leurs pays d’origine pour chercher refuge au sein de l’Union européenne, a affirmé aujourd’hui Human Rights Watch. Beaucoup d’entre eux tentent d’échapper au recrutement d’enfants soldats, aux mariages de mineurs et aux attaques menées contre des écoles, ou encore à d’autres conséquences de la guerre en Syrie et en Afghanistan. D’autres fuient les discriminations or à l’encontre des réfugiés afghans en Iran.

This article sheds light on the increased threat of child trafficking experienced by families who have been displaced due to the recent earthquakes in Nepal and are residing in temporary camps.

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.

Our Home, Safe Home captures the moving stories of girls who have lived or are still living in the Save the Children supported Safe Home at Daulatdia, Bangladesh. 

On Wednesday 20 May, 2015 three caretakers from an orphanage (Yathimkhana) run by a religious trust at Nettoor in India were apprehended and taken into custody by railway police at the Ernakulam Town Railway station for suspected attempted trafficking of 29 boys ages eight to 17, who said they were residents of the orphanage.

In this article for the World Post (a collaboration of the Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute), UK’s former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, explains the danger of child trafficking that has followed the earthquake in Nepal and calls for the establishment of a humanitarian fund for education in emergencies.

Highlights recent activities of the members of the Better Volunteering, Better Care Global Working Group in response to the earthquake in Nepal, as well as other relevant resources and articles.