<Bielefeld, 28.02.2022> Dr. Oetker condemns the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine as an act that violates international law and cannot be justified. This war is contemptuous of human life, it brings hardship and misery to people who want to live peacefully with their neighbors. A war will never be a solution - neither to deal with different views on future issues nor to overcome political or social conflicts.

All Dr. Oetker employees are members of a large family that is active in over 40 countries. Guided by our Purpose "Creating a Taste of Home", we work ever more closely together internationally. We know and appreciate each other, diversity is one of our great strengths and characterizes our cohesion. Our thoughts are therefore with our colleagues and their families in the regions affected by the war, whose safety is our top priority. We are in close daily contact with the management teams of our Ukrainian and Russian country organizations and are jointly examining all options for providing support.

Together with the company's owners, we have decided to make a specific donation of €500,000: Two SOS Children's Villages were evacuated from Kiev and from eastern Ukraine to Poland – with traumatized and starving children. We support this project out of our deepest conviction. In addition, 140 Ukrainian employees work in our Polish plants. We provide accommodation for their family members in particular, but also for others who have fled from Ukraine to Poland, to offer them a first port of call. In addition, we support the people with everything they need to live, primarily food and clothing.

We will continue to closely monitor this extraordinarily difficult situation and take all the necessary measures and decisions. Above all, it is incontrovertible that Dr. Oetker stands for family values – in Ukraine and everywhere!

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An apology to the experimental children has been followed by compensation from the Danish state.

In 2020, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen gave an official apology on behalf of Denmark to the so-called "experimental children" for the first time.

And now the apology is being followed up with 250,000 kroner to each of the six living Greenlanders.

This is stated by the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Elderly in Denmark.

The compensation comes after the six people filed a lawsuit against the Danish state, as they believed that the move to Denmark in 1951 was a violation of, among other things, their right to private and family life.

The first time Elspeth Ross knew she was going away was when she returned home from her work sewing shirts in Glasgow city centre to find a case in the hall.

“I had never seen the case before. I never even knew there was a case in the house,” Elspeth, now 76, says.

Elspeth also did not know she was pregnant, her condition worked out by a family friend and, she believes, possibly a back street abortionist who examined her. Elspeth’s mother and sisters never talked about sex. She had grown up with a boy in the neighbourhood, Ian, and got pregnant aged 15 without knowing what had happened.

In Scotland in 1962, pregnancy outwith marriage was seldom talked about, and often covered up. Later, it emerged, there had been some chat that Ian’s parents did not want the couple to wed as they needed their son’s wages. Certainly, nobody talked to Elspeth as their baby grew within her.

She was instead ushered away that night with a suitcase she had never seen before, to a place she had never been before.

"The transition of CCIs to FBC helps promote the NGO sector. There are some great ideas coming from the workshop which will strengthen family services access"

Vikas Sawant, UNICEF

On Thursday 27 February 2020, a unique event took place in Pune: an immersive simulation lab that allowed child protection allies in Maharashtra a hands-on look at transitioning from a system relying on child care institutions (CCIs; orphanages) to a system based on a range of family-based care (FBC) and family strengthening services. This was the first pilot of this conference model in South Asia and our report below shows it to have been a huge success!

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Snehalaya's credibility allowed us to approach the Maharashtra Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) and secure Chair, Pravin Ghuge’s support. Another important party in this venture was Children’s Emergency Relief International (CERI)’s Global Director of Advocacy, Ian Forber-Pratt, who is one of the people involved in drafting the guidelines for FBC at the national and state level. Mr Forber-Pratt has been providing Snehalaya with guidance on the move towards family-based care over the preceding 18 months.

At a time when most Irish people chose to ignore the thousands of girls and women locked up in Magdalene Laundries, one Galway family went to extraordinary lengths to break 15 young women free from one such ‘prison’.

It was a feat that could have come straight from a heist movie involving an insider, a getaway van and a heroic family in the west of Ireland in the early 1960s.

A new two-part RTÉ series, Ireland’s Dirty Laundry, details the desperate escape attempts by young girls incarcerated in the laundries, which often ended up heartbreakingly in failure, with gardaí returning them to the religious orders.

Along with new identities, the documentary reveals that female inmates, some just young girls, were assigned a number prefixed by the letter PEN, which stood for penitent, meaning someone who is repenting.

Labelled the “Maggies”, the women were sent to the laundries where they worked for nothing, some for their entire life, simply for being unmarried mothers or regarded as morally wayward or for transgressions such as going to the cinema twice in a week.

HANCOCK COUNTY, In. (WXIX) - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is personal for a Tri-State family in the final stages of adopting two orphans from Ukraine.

The Hansome family is already one strong with a Ukrainian-born son, 15-year-old Andrey whom they adopted in 2020. Now Joe and NaTosha Hansome are trying to adopt brother orphans Misha, 16, and Andrii, 17.

The brothers were best friends with Andrey in Ukraine before Andrey moved stateside.

But now the adoption process is in limbo.

“If you can just imagine what it’s like to have your kids in another country when a war is going on. It’s really difficult, and then not knowing if they will ever get to be with us again,” said NaTosha.

HB22-1153

Affirm Parentage Adoption In Assisted Reproduction

Concerning affirming parentage by adoption for a person who did not give birth when the child is conceived as a result of assisted reproduction.

SESSION: 2022 Regular Session

SUBJECT: Children & Domestic Matters

Minor Allegedly Forced To Convert Religion In Child Care Institution, Mother Challenges Provisions Of JJ Act, Seeks ?5Cr Compensation, Delhi HC Issues Notice

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice on a petition challenging various provisions

of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and the Juvenile

Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Model Rules, 2016, pertaining to power,

functions and composition of Child Welfare Committees.The plea has been filed by the

In this weekly column, people talk about something they 'never want to' experience again, never want to do or never want to do again. This week: Sam van den Haak (40) was born in Sri Lanka and adopted as a toddler by a Dutch couple. She later found out that her adoption had been fraudulently committed. For example, the date of birth on her passport appears to be incorrect, something she is often confronted with.

"In my adoption file there is not a single signature for approval. Not from my biological mother, and not from the Dutch or Sri Lankan government. I often wondered to what extent there was permission to take me with me. And yet I was picked up my adoptive parents in Colombo and took them to their home in Hoorn.

According to my passport I was three years old then, but in fact I was six months younger. I only remember fragments of that time. I remember having to learn to eat with cutlery. In Sri Lanka I was used to making a ball of the food with my hand and then eating it. The Netherlands must have been a big culture shock for me."

"My adoption was never a secret at home. That makes sense, because of course I had a different skin color than my parents and three brothers. It was a complex family, because two of my brothers were disabled and needed a lot of care. A lot of attention was paid to my background I didn't know anything about Sri Lanka, it wasn't talked about much and we never went there as a family again.

It wasn't warm or cozy at home, and I didn't feel like I belonged in the family. I was different, even at school. Because although we lived in a big house and there was a lot of money, I wore old clothes of my brothers. I was bullied for that, I was met by other children and beaten up. I was not safe anywhere: not at school, but also not at home. That's because I was abused by my adoptive father from a young age. As a child I sought safety by crawling into bed with my parents. As soon as my adoptive mother got out of bed, my adoptive father sat on me. The secret of that abuse weighed more heavily on me then than my adoption. I was trying to survive."

HIAWATHA, Iowa (WOI) - A Hiawatha family’s plan to adopt a 15-year-old from Ukraine has been put on hold after Russia attacked the country.

Jenna and Scott Breckenridge adopted three sons from Ukraine, who arrived just months ago, and they’re in the process of adopting a 15-year-old boy named Artem.

They were in the middle of the adoption process when Russia’s invasion began.

Artem had been living in an orphanage in Ukraine. He and the other kids at the orphanage have moved to a bomb shelter.

“At 5 a.m., he saw and heard rockets. Said the windows were shaking and there was a big flash. He said in Berdyansk, the airport was bombed,” Jenna said. “So that’s the city he’s in right now.”