Browsing: Child Welfare

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino has formally enacted a new law establishing a state-regulated foster care system. The legislation, signed…

A legislative commission in Panama has uncovered deep systemic failures within the state’s network of child protection shelters. The findings…

Panama’s Minister of Social Development, Beatriz Carles, has publicly addressed two recent cases of abandoned newborn girls. The incidents occurred…