The cradles and homes that housed abandoned children have moved from communism to democracy without the transition meaning a change in institutionalization practices. Long after 1989, the protection system continued to function as a camp. The current child protection framework was built on its ruins. We set out, in the Journal of the Decree, to understand this founding heritage. | Photo: Mike Abrahams

"In the village, they call me the one from the hospital ," says ZI, a teenager institutionalized in a home-hospital in Romania, in an interview conducted twenty years ago.

His testimony and the testimonies of other young people with destinies broken by the child protection system inherited from communism are recorded in a 2002 study, "Child Abuse in Social Protection Institutions in Romania", conducted by the Institute for the Protection of Mother and Child (IOMC ). The Jurnalul Decretului team is in possession of this document

ZI's life, reported dryly in several papers included in his medical record, began with his abandonment in the dystrophic ward of a hospital in the summer of 1983. And continued with a series of random transfers to communist state "protection" institutions. .

Romania was going through the Golden Age - but it was going through, especially, the era of Decree 770 which had banned in 1966, almost completely, abortions on demand. Against the background of the decree, an entire system of child protection had been developed. But protection was just a joke. Ceausescuism needed the abandoned to live at birth and that's it - otherwise, their lives didn't matter to anyone.

CAPE TOWN - The reopening of the country’s borders in the early 1990s has exposed South Africa and its population to way too many things.

Some of the phenomena are known and people talk about them daily.

These include the influx of migrants, coronavirus and currency fluctuations.

On the other hand, there are many positives like readmission to international sports and freedom of movement that have come with the opened borders.

Hidden to public knowledge are crimes gruesome acts that, when narrated, one can hardly imagine that humans are capable of performing.

.

Gandhinagar (Kottayam): The four little North Indian girls who were rescued and adopted

by Malayali couple Thomas and Neena are all set to go to school. On Kerala Piravi day,

they will officially start learning Malayalam.

It was in the middle of a train journey, Puthupally native Thomas and his wife Neena met

the four girl children at Pune railway station. The abandoned kids were named Eyra Elsa

Thiruvananthapuram: On the missing of her child, Anupama S

Chandran has moved the High Court of Kerala with a habeas corpus plea.

The former SFI member has accused her parents of illegally detaining

her newborn that was separated from her at birth.

Earlier, a local family court favoured a DNA test, if needed, to resolve

"I think that at different stages of life, we need to continually adjust our commitments to find a balance that is aligned with our values and priorities."

Mia Dambach, Co-Founder and Executive Director for Child Identity Protection, on her work as a children’s solicitor in Australia, why ensuring children’s identity protection worldwide is important and the role of her many backgrounds in her daily life.

Dear Mia, you have studied at University of Sydney were you did a Bachelor in Law and a Bachelor in Commerce with a triple major in accounting, marketing and economics before doing your Master of Laws (LL.M.). How did you end up volunteering at a local children’s court during your studies?

?

While I was studying law at the University of Sydney, I wanted to gain some work experience to confirm my desire to work with children. I contacted the local children's court closest to the University to see if they needed any administrative help, which would give me the opportunity to watch the closed proceedings. They offered me work, archiving and writing letters to the children following a decision by the children's court magistrate. This allowed me to get a first-hand look at the cases and types of sentences children were given for different offences. Eventually, they allowed me to be a children's court monitor/officer, which is the person who runs the court in terms of saying "silence, please, all stand" when the children's magistrate enters and leaves the court and also records the different proceedings. After a few months, one of the paid staff went on maternity leave and the Children's Court offered me a part time paid position that I could carry out whilst finishing my law degree. This experience confirmed my desire to work as a children's lawyer as well as to learn the different ways that children could be defended well in court.

FutureLife Medical Group, one of the world’s leading providers of assisted reproduction, has acquired the Nij Group, a Dutch market leader in this field. This was noted by Hospodá?ské noviny (HN). The FutureLife Clinic is owned by the Hartenberg Holding investment fund, which is part of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s (ANO) trust fund. The price of the deal has not been disclosed, but it will be in the hundreds of millions, according to HN.

The Nij Group is the largest private assisted reproduction provider in the Netherlands, where it has a 10% market share, HN wrote. “It consists of three clinics: Geertgen, Linge and Barrahus,” said Jozef Janov, managing partner of Hartenberg Capital, which manages the holding’s holdings.

The FutureLife Group becomes part of a large European health group. In addition to clinics, Hartenberg Capital will also acquire Serpha’s online pharmacy for infertility drugs and Legropharma, a wholesaler.

“For us, this is the largest acquisition FutureLife has made,” added Genoa. According to him, Dutch clinics will generate sales of over half a billion kronor and EBITDA, i.e. earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, will be 70 million kroner. The entire FutureLife group will then have a turnover of around 200 million euros, i.e. over five billion crowns. After the Spanish group IVI, FutureLife is number two on the European market.

After investing in the Netherlands, the FutureLife Group is already active in eight European countries. Own clinics in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Finland and Estonia. There are a total of 42 clinics in these countries that perform 39,000 artificial insemination cycles each year. “Thanks to us, ten thousand children are born in Europe every year. After the acquisition of Dutch clinics, it will be almost twelve thousand, ”said Janov.

Mia Dambach, Co-Founder and Executive Director for Child Identity Protection, on her work as a children’s solicitor in Australia, why ensuring children’s identity protection worldwide is important and the role of her many backgrounds in her daily life.

Dear Mia, you have studied at University of Sydney were you did a Bachelor in Law and a Bachelor in Commerce with a triple major in accounting, marketing and economics before doing your Master of Laws (LL.M.). How did you end up volunteering at a local children’s court during your studies?

​

While I was studying law at the University of Sydney, I wanted to gain some work experience to confirm my desire to work with children. I contacted the local children's court closest to the University to see if they needed any administrative help, which would give me the opportunity to watch the closed proceedings. They offered me work, archiving and writing letters to the children following a decision by the children's court magistrate. This allowed me to get a first-hand look at the cases and types of sentences children were given for different offences. Eventually, they allowed me to be a children's court monitor/officer, which is the person who runs the court in terms of saying "silence, please, all stand" when the children's magistrate enters and leaves the court and also records the different proceedings. After a few months, one of the paid staff went on maternity leave and the Children's Court offered me a part time paid position that I could carry out whilst finishing my law degree. This experience confirmed my desire to work as a children's lawyer as well as to learn the different ways that children could be defended well in court.

​

The group, which includes NRIs, had written to Minister Smriti Irani on October 7. On October 21, some met officials of CARA — nodal agency that facilitates adoptions in India — seeking a faster adoption process.

A GROUP of over 300 “prospective parents” has complained to the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) about “the increasing delay in the adoption process”.

Responding to their concerns, the ministry said on Friday that their “suggestions… have been noted and actionable points are being addressed.’’

The group, which includes NRIs, had written to Minister Smriti Irani on October 7. On October 21, some of them met officials of CARA — the nodal agency that facilitates adoptions in India — seeking a faster and more transparent adoption process.

The group had raised issues of delay and uncertainty of referrals (each prospective parent receives three referrals or profiles of children they match); lack of information and transparency from CARA; lack of clarity on the new processes post-pandemic; rising number of children in institutional care; increased

Canada says it will appeal against a court order to pay billions of dollars to compensate indigenous children who went through the child welfare system.

Last month, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children.

It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350; £23,340) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006.

The case has been a source of tension between campaigners and the government.

The government has said it is not opposed to compensation, but that it had issues over the order's jurisdiction and how the money was to be divided.