➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: ABA opposes legislation that could endanger unaccompanied immigrant children (Opinion) ABA Journal - September 01, 2017 The ABA is opposing federal legislation that it maintains would strip critical legal and other protections from unaccompanied … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway India: SC directs disaster management body to constitute child protection cell Business Standard - September 05, 2017 The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to constitute a 'child protection cell' for the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Canada: More supports for women needed to combat human trafficking Regina Leader-Post - August 31, 2017 The consensus reached at this month's Board of Police Commissioners' meeting is that more resources are needed to help women and underage girls who … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Australia: Editorial: Adoption ban on overweight parents discriminatory Courier-Mail - September 02, 2017 Our story today on how some Australians are being denied the opportunity to adopt children because they are too fat is not only disturbing but … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Australia: Survey finds adults are unaware of child abuse signs or how to report it Bendigo Advertiser - September 03, 2017 A study has found one third of Australians surveyed would not immediately tell someone if they thought a child was being abused or … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Australia: 'How can this happen?': Kids living in squalor despite supervision of SA child protection ABC News Australia - September 04, 2017 An Adelaide magistrate has questioned how children under the supervision of South Australia's Department for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Afghanistan: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Violence and Harmful Practices Against Children in Afghanistan: A baseline study Save the Children (SCI) - September 01, 2017 Since 2012, Save the Children (SCI) has been working with the Swedish … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Trump's MS-13 crackdown: Going after suspected gang members for immigration violations Washington Post - August 31, 2017 Over the past four years, more than 170,000 of these children have been detained at the border and reunited with family members in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Adoption through foster care on the rise: 'Every child deserves a childhood' Yahoo News - September 01, 2017 As of 2015, about 450,000 children were living in foster care in the United States, and more than 110,000 others were waiting to be placed in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: This Is What The Foster Care System Is Like For Muslims BuzzFeed News - September 02, 2017 His grandmother had been a practicing Muslim, although his mother hadn't, but none of the three foster families that he was placed with were Muslim, so he had … [Read more...]