S Africans urged to adopt and foster children to ensure the protection of youngsters

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

With the Child Protection Week campaign in full swing, the Department of Social Development (DSD) has encouraged South Africans to seek alternative care for their children if they are unable to care for them.

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu launched Child Protection Week on Sunday in Kimberley, Northern Cape. 

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MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Thursday allowed a couple from Hyderabad to meet their 7-month-old adoptive child, who was allegedly trafficked, at a children’s home in Mahalaxmi three hours daily for six days a week. 

Vacation bench of Justices Sandeep Marne and Neela Gokhale modified their order, passed on Tuesday, that had allowed them visitation rights for 12 hours daily. 

“Accordingly it is directed that petitioners shall have the right to visit the child between 3 pm and 6 pm every day from Mon to Sat,” they added. 

The couple had filed a habeas corpus petition to direct the Child Welfare Committee to produce the child and hand over her custody to them. Their petition said that since their marriage in 2015, the wife had three miscarriages. Her aunt introduced them to a couple from Visakhapatnam who wanted to give the fifth child up for adoption. 

On Sept 23, both parties executed a deed of adoption and the seven-day-old baby was brought home. Since then the couple has taken care of her. On April 29 a team from Mumbai Crime Branch–Unit II “forcibly” took the baby away. They informed that the aunt was arrested in an FIR registered at Vikhroli police station for trafficking. 

When Christina and Maria were small, their mother was hospitalized and the police found two starving girls. Against advice, an officer nursed both girls to life and they were adopted to Denmark. But a feeling of emptiness came with it.

- They said I shouldn't breastfeed you. But I feared you would die if I didn't.

Maria and Christina are in Bolivia, where they face the woman who found them as children. She was a police officer. The two sisters have traveled to their country of birth in an attempt to find their biological mother and get answers to what happened back then. What it was that led to them being adopted.

The officer says that she had just returned from maternity leave when she was called to a house where she found two malnourished girls. Those girls were Christina and Maria.

Tears well up in the twins as they listen to the story of themselves as children. Because it quickly becomes clear to them that the woman in front of them is one of the reasons they are alive.

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The project to trace origins is being extended by a year. But the federal government and the cantons cannot reach an agreement.

For decades, Swiss couples adopted babies from abroad  - often under questionable and illegal circumstances. Now the Back to the Roots association can  temporarily continue to support those affected in their search for their origins in Sri Lanka.

Ina (H.R.) HutIna (H.R.) Hut• 1st• 1stInvestor social impact initiatives, strategic advisor, member supervisory board Offlimits. Member SER Topvrouwen.Investor social impact initiatives, strategic advisor, member supervisory board Offlimits. Member SER Topvrouwen.

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Een Koninklijke Onderscheiding.
Ongelooflijk vereerd en verrast dat ik vrijdag 26 april 2024 door Zijne Majesteit benoemd ben tot ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.

Een lintje krijg je nooit alleen! Graag wil ik mijn dank uitspreken aan allen die mij enorm gesteund hebben bij mijn werkzaamheden, waaronder collega’s van CoMensha | Coördinatiecentrum tegen Mensenhandel, ervaringsdeskundigen #mensenhandel, professionals uit het werkveld en vele geadopteerden. En last but not least mijn gezin: Aart Zandbergen en Florian Zandbergen.

Veel dank aan de aanvrager Aart Zandbergen én allen die de aanvraag hebben ondersteund: Conny Rijken Nationaal Rapporteur Mensenhandel en Seksueel Geweld tegen Kinderen, Peter Oskam, Edith-Bernadette Poot, Leen Diepenhorst, RvT van CoMensha | Coördinatiecentrum tegen Mensenhandel, Brian Oedayrajsingh Varma, Mirjam Elisabeth Blaak Defence for Children Nederland, Tamme de Leur en Asha Dijkstra.
En natuurlijk ook veel dank aan Nana Bies en @AnkBijleveld en burgemeester @fritsnaafs.


En aan de fotografen die top kwaliteit hebben geleverd:
Martijn Hut www.hutspotfotografie.nl
Etienne Oldeman 📷
www.etienneoldeman.nl

European Council President Charles Michel’s Chief Diplomatic Adviser, Simon Mordue has been selected as Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and will take up his duties on 1 July. Prior to that he will complete a short term assignment on Ukraine for the Commission.  

Magdalena Grono, Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to President Michel will take up the role and duties as Chief Diplomatic Advisor. 

President Michel would like to personally thank Simon for his professionalism, dedication and commitment. His contribution has made an impact on EU foreign policy successes and has been highly valued at home and abroad. 

President Michel wishes Simon all the best in his new endeavour while confident of the great added value he will bring to the EEAS.

Regulatory void complicates child adoption process in Nepal

While international adoptions have been banned over child trafficking and abuse concerns, domestic adoptions are also not easy. Post Illustration

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By Jim Slotek

Rosedale restaurateur Sash Simpson got a flood of memories on a visit to the Indian city of Chennai, where he’d been rescued from the streets as a barely school-age child and sent to Canada.

Only one thing was missing: his first language.

“The smells, the colour, the complete chaos, it gave me a flashback. It’s almost like a movie in my head,” says Simpson. He is in fact, the central figure of a movie, the Hot Docs feature Born Hungry, which debuts at the festival today (April 26).

April 26, 2024 Adopted Indian street kids, Hot Docs 24, Sash Simpson, Born Hungry, Upscale Toronto restaurants, Barry Avrich, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Foster parents, Sandra and Lloyd Simpson, North 44’s Mark McEwan, Lion, Shipra Khanna

By Jim Slotek

Rosedale restaurateur Sash Simpson got a flood of memories on a visit to the Indian city of Chennai, where he’d been rescued from the streets as a barely school-age child and sent to Canada.

Only one thing was missing: his first language.

“The smells, the colour, the complete chaos, it gave me a flashback. It’s almost like a movie in my head,” says Simpson. He is in fact, the central figure of a movie, the Hot Docs feature Born Hungry, which debuts at the festival today (April 26).