US: Global Health and Human Rights Champions in House Introduce Support UNFPA Funding Act (Press release) Planned Parenthood Federation of America - June 16, 2021 Today, Reps. Houlahan (D-PA-6), Meeks (D-NY-5), Speier (D-CA-14), DeGette (D-CO-1), Frankel (D-FL-21), Maloney (D-NY-12) - along with … [Read more...]

US: Together In Pride: LGBTQ+ Options For Family Planning And Adoption Have Grown (Includes video) WLNY - June 16, 2021 As we celebrate Pride Month, we're taking a look at how families are coming together in the LGBTQ+ community. There have been lots of positive changes in the last few years. … [Read more...]

US: The Pulitzer winner who understands child welfare (Opinion) NCCPR Child Welfare Blog - June 15, 2021 Ten years ago we said Robert Greene's LA Times editorials should be required reading in every child welfare office. Now that he's won a Pulitzer Prize, it seemed like a good time for a … [Read more...]

Canada: Are the feds really 'fighting Indigenous kids in court'? Here's what we know (Opinion) (Includes video) Global News - June 16, 2021 Two weeks after the remains of 215 Indigenous children were discovered at the site of a former B.C. residential school, the government is back in court to … [Read more...]

NY: No Evidence of Pandemic Child Abuse Surge in New York City, But Some See Other Crises For Child Welfare System Imprint - June 15, 2021 According to state and city data provided to The Imprint by the Administration for Children's Services on Tuesday, after years of increasing recruitment … [Read more...]

US: States should use funds from the American Rescue Plan to aid foster youth (Opinion) (Includes video) Washington Examiner - June 16, 2021 While most attention toward the American Rescue Plan has centered on expenditures for public schools, transportation, vaccine distribution, and even the … [Read more...]

US: Sens. Brown, Blunt, Durbin and Reps. Beatty, Wagner Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Housing Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking (Press release) U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs - June 15, 2021 Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the … [Read more...]

Canada: B.C. ombudsperson labels youth confinement in jail 'disturbing,' calls for changes Canadian Press - June 15, 2021 British Columbia's use of solitary confinement among youth inmates is "disturbing" and the province needs to change its practices to follow international standards, the … [Read more...]

International: Africa: Prioritize Education to Safeguard Children's Rights (Opinion) Human Rights Watch - June 16, 2021 Despite important progress over the past decades to ensure wide ratification and implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, many African … [Read more...]

International: Canadian mass grave prompts investigation into U.S. boarding schools Indian Country Today - June 15, 2021 Researchers say that most of the more than 350 U.S. Indian boarding schools - more than double the 130 or so schools in Canada - have cemeteries associated with them. Unlike … [Read more...]