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% […]
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.
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.
Hope and Homes for Children’s social workers are remarkable people. They are the ones who carry out the hard and complicated task of finding safe and loving families for children.
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.
Galina was desperate to escape her abusive marriage. But she knew that if she left with nowhere to go, her son Ivan would be at risk of being sent to an orphanage.
We join the call for the Government of Ukraine and the EU to build a right-based child protection system in Ukraine, free from institutions.
At an event in Brussels, collaborators mark the end of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign and celebrate its achievements.
