The election campaigns are in full swing again. Posters, flyers, advertisements – we are inundated with them. But one topic is often missing: children's rights. Unbelievable, right? Political decisions in Brussels affect children directly. Climate policy determines their future. Migration affects children fleeing war. And security of existence? Children in poverty start their lives at a disadvantage.

The biggest social problems also affect children. Why then are their rights ignored in debates? European policy has a major influence on our youngest inhabitants. That is why we must protect their rights and well-being. And politicians must pay attention to this. That is missing. The Children's Rights Collective therefore took matters into its own hands and organized the only debate on children's rights in the European election campaign in De Balie in Amsterdam.

Marc Dullaert, chairman of the Children's Rights Collective, opened the evening with a plea to put the interests of the child first. This does not happen enough and it has major consequences: despite prosperity, millions of children in Europe grow up in poverty, two images of child abuse are posted online every second, and the EU Migration Pact allows children to be locked up. “Unacceptable,” said Marc Dullaert.

Six candidate European Parliamentarians debated poverty, online security and migration: Gerrie Elfrink (SP), Ufuk Kâhya (GL-PvdA), Judith Koop (CU), Laura de Vries (D66), Sacha Muller (Volt) and Gerben Horst (CDA). ). The Children's Rights Collective would not be the Children's Rights Collective if the voice of the child itself was not central to the debate. That is why each theme was introduced by an expert who immediately asked the candidate parliamentarians a question.

Poverty

KARACHI:

Zia Ahmed Awan, a human rights activist and founder of Madadgaar National Helpline 1098 and Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA), have highlighted the issues surrounding child adoption in Pakistan.

While addressing a news conference on Thursday, Awan, who is also a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, underlined the state’s failure due to the lack of legislation, insufficient rules, and procedures, and the absence of proper monitoring mechanisms, which create opportunities for child traffickers under the guise of false adoptions.

Awan said that NGOs play a crucial role in filling the gaps left by the government in caring for street and orphan children. He pointed to the alarming linkage between adoption and child trafficking and called for necessary reforms to address these issues effectively.

Awan said that without comprehensive laws and specialised adoption and post-adoption child welfare agencies, many children are denied the chance for a positive adoption experience, making the process challenging in Pakistan.

A father who murdered his baby just weeks after adopting her may have slipped under the radar as he was seen as a "positive parent", a review has found.

Elsie Scully-Hicks died in May 2016 when she was 18 months old.

She was subjected to a catalogue of injuries by killer Matthew Scully-Hicks in the eight months he had care of her.

A child practice review said these were never considered anything other than "childhood accidents".

Cardiff and Vale's Regional Safeguarding Children Board agreed that while Elsie's death could not have been predicted it could potentially have been prevented.

The Madras High Court has observed that a woman's marital status should not be a determining factor while considering her child's adoption. Justice GR Swaminathan observed the proviso to Section 9(2) of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act 1956 which mandates consent of the other parent would not apply when the mother/father of the child to be given in adoption is absent....

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L’écrivain Gabriel Matzneff, ici en 1990, était un proche du père adoptif d’Inès Chatin. © Crédit photo : PIERRE GUILLAUD

Par sudouest.fr

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E. den Hartog for adoption association of the geref. denomination

GOUDA - The Adoption Association of the Reformed Congregation holds the autumn meeting on Saturday 22 November in the auditorium of De Driestar in Gouda. The meeting is also open to non-members and interested parties.

The afternoon program starts at half past two with the opening address of President Rev. A. Bac from Bodegraven. This afternoon's speaker is the well-known (former) major of the Salvation Army Eva den Hartog. She has worked in many disaster areas around the world and has been involved in a children's home and adoption in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. She will show slides and tell about her work, after which discussion with her is possible.

Dutch:

GOUDA — De Adoptie-vereniging der gereformeerde gezindte houdt op zaterdag 22 november de najaarsvergadering in de aula van De Driestar te Gouda. De bijeenkomst is ook voor niet-leden en belangstellenden toegankelijk.

Financial adoption also requires the right philosophical choice

DOORN - One of the possibilities to somewhat alleviate the needs of children in the most miserable circumstances of the third world is the so-called financial adoption, a somewhat less compulsory form of support than international adoption. Although, for various reasons, we believe that intercountry adoption should have been preferred wherever possible, of course every drop on this glowing plate is to be welcomed.

Now, on a large scale, also through advertisements, radio and TV, propaganda has been made for a large-scale "foster parent plan", the Foster Parents plan. wanted cries like "a thousand adoptive parents asked for."

Confusing

It seems to me that there is confusion among possible "real" adoptive-adoptive parents through these campaigns, which present it as if one could easily "adopt" children from, for example, Indonesia and Columbia. That is not right now - even though intercountry adoptive children from those countries place them in Dutch adoptive families, but rather drop by drop than on a large scale.

The arrival of adoptive children from Bangladesh. A report from Harmen Siezen from the News of 9 April 1975.

Dutch:

De aankomst van adoptiekinderen uit Bangladesh. Een verslag van Harmen Siezen uit het Journaal van 9 april 1975.

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