Today, the EU is meeting with the Government of Ukraine to discuss the human rights situation in the country. We are urgently asking the EU to push the Ukrainian government to take action to protect the rights and future of Ukraine’s hidden children in institutions. Ukraine has one of highest institutionalisation rates At least 1.3% […]
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Hope and Homes for Children’s founder, Mark Cook, and orphanage survivor, Alexandra Smart, have appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion programme to discuss their experiences inside the abusive network of orphanages discovered in Romania in 1990.
Here Alexandra talks about her remarkable journey, and why she won’t rest until every orphanage on Earth is shut.
Brussels, 8 April 2021: Today, on International Romani Day, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Hope and Homes for Children, and Eurochild call on European states to commit to closing down institutions for children, and providing appropriate child and family support services for Romani children who are overrepresented in state care
The EU has unveiled a new Child Rights Strategy. What difference could it make for children and families?
Justine Cowan, American author and laywer, describes how London’s ‘Foundling Hospital’ affected the lives of herself and her family.
Best-selling author, Catherine Isaac, recommends six novels about orphans that have captured the imagination of readers worldwide.
Ukraine’s U-turn on shutting the world’s biggest network of state-run orphanages flies in the face of international law and leaves 100,000 children at risk of torture, sexual violence and trafficking.
