International
Most of this site reads the United States federal record. The premise does not stop at the border: the World Health Organization estimates that more than half of the world's children, about one billion ages 2 to 17, experience physical, sexual, or emotional violence in a given year. Nowhere is that figure produced by a system that measures itself honestly, and the countries that publish the least are not the countries with the least to report.
Uganda: the Cavendish University collaboration
In November 2025, a research team of sixteen students at Cavendish University Uganda completed a study with KARA on how Wikipedia can carry accurate, well-organized child protection information to the public: what the platform currently says about child abuse statistics, real cases, policy reform, and how child protective services actually function, and where that coverage falls short. The collaboration ran through the Riipen experiential learning program and was facilitated by Martha Kibuka-Musoke and Mike Tikkanen, KARA's founder and a longtime CASA volunteer guardian ad litem.
The premise of the project is the premise of this site applied abroad: information about child protection exists, is scattered, and mostly goes unread, and the correction is to organize it where people already look. The full write-up, with every contributor credited, is in the archive:
Enhancing Child Protection Awareness on Wikipedia: Cavendish University Uganda →
The international reporting
KARA's international coverage is volunteer-built. Eshanee Singh leads the international child abuse hub, working with student interns from colleges in several countries, and the archive holds a monthly international child protection news series that ran from 2016 through 2020 alongside newer reporting. The through line of that coverage is state inaction: governments that fail to prevent, or intervene in, documented child welfare violations, on every continent.
- Growing KARA's International Child Abuse Hub
The hub's charter, with the WHO, IHME, and PAHO data it draws on.
- International Rights of the Child Treaty
The United States is the only United Nations member that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- All international reporting in the archive →