The Global Alliance for Children (GAC) is seeking to hire a vibrant Senior Coordinator to lead GAC’s work with the Technical Working Group Implementation. 

In this talk, Emily Delap from Family for Every Child puts the use of orphanages in Nepal into a global context and explores the international evidence on the harm caused by allowing children to grow up away from families, and on the problems of orphanage voluntourism.

Next Generation Nepal Country Director Martin Punaks talks about orphanage trafficking in Nepal, why orphanage volunteers may inadvertently be part of the problem and how you can be part of the solution through ethical volunteering and other ways of "giving back."

Human Rights Watch has extensively documented human rights violations relating to attacks on education, women and girls’ rights, the situation of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, child labor, and the judicial execution and ill-treatment of child offenders. This submission proposes issues and questions that Committee members may wish to raise with the government.

A blog article discussing how  Nepali families are routinely tricked into sending their children to badly run orphanages.

This article examines and discusses the designation of unaccompanied Chinese children as "Unaccompanied Alien Children" and the processes experienced in obtaining such designations.

This article describes a study in which researchers explored the emotional and psychological health of China's left-behind children (LBC) by identifiying the differences in levels of happiness, self-esteem and anxiety between LBC and non-LBC. 

After being separated from his parents in a Turkish forest, Mahdi Azizi reunited with his family in Sweden after his father spotted him at an open air concert.

Next Generation Nepal is hiring for the position of in-country Country Director in Nepal. This is NGN’s most senior representative and administrator in Nepal. The post of Country Director is a diverse, exciting and challenging role for a highly skilled and dedicated candidate who can lead NGN in its current phase, as well as into a new phase of its development.

This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years.