Stop pointing fingers at the government and take joint responsibility for the success of youth care. Tom van Yperen makes this call to the youth field. On Thursday, November 16, the educationalist and expert on the quality of the youth system will deliver the twelfth edition of the annual Mulock Houwer lecture at the Netherlands Youth Institute.

Innovation in youth care has been necessary for decades. At the end of the last century, Mulock Houwer made proposals that are still relevant today. Such as his plea to work more on an outpatient basis with families and to phase out residential care. Why is it that we are still struggling with the same problems more than 50 years later? According to Van Yperen, things often go wrong as soon as a good idea is converted into legislation. The parties involved tinker with the content so much that in the end there is little left of it.

Critical, but hopeful

Can youth care actually change? Van Yperen is looking for an answer to that question. He is critical, but hopeful. Van Yperen draws hope from the unique collaboration for the Reform Agenda. Let this be the starting point for shared responsibility, he argues.

His criticism is aimed at the policy focus in the sector. Not the reform itself, but the major social youth issues should be central. Such as the increasing use of youth care and the decline in the mental well-being of young people. These require broad, social solutions.

Under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chilean children were adopted abroad without the consent of their biological families. A sprawling affair, which has occupied Chilean justice since 2018.

SantiagoSantiago(Chile).– It is a long tremor that is shaking Chile, a country that has been accustomed to earthquakes for almost ten years. The first shock dates back to April 19, 2014, when the independent media Ciper revealed the illicit adoptions of several children born in the 1980s. The facts reported in the article occurred in Santiago. In several hospitals in the capital, doctors declared dead around ten newborns, in reality given up for adoption, through a priest.

Abstract

Background

Illegal adoption, which mainly includes child trafficking and informal adoption, has long been a prevalent social issue in China. However, the processes and patterns of illegal adoption are not well understood due to the scarcity of data.

Objective

The findings are expected to provide insightful clues for the government and the public to better understand the two categories of illegal adoption.

Joint statement on illegal intercountry adoptions

Between the 1960s and the 1990s, more than twenty thousand Chilean children were adopted and taken abroad by French, Italian, American, Belgian and even Canadian families. Adoption encouraged by the dictatorship of General Pinochet. But years later, voices began to be raised in Chile: several thousand biological mothers had in fact never agreed to have their babies given up for adoption. RFI went to meet these women in Chile, but also children adopted in France, who are looking for their origins.

From our correspondent in Chile,

1,200 kilometers south of Santiago, on the island of Chiloé, Ruth Huisca puts wood in the stove which warms the main room, in the middle of the southern winter. This domestic worker, aged around fifty, welcomes us in a red house with the typical architecture of the island, with its facade covered in wooden shingles.

In the mid-1980s, Ruth lived and worked in Osorno, in the south of the country. She became pregnant by her boyfriend when she was 17, and he was 16. He moved to another town, and Ruth gave birth to a baby girl alone at the Osorno hospital. But she doesn't dare return to her home in the countryside. “  At the time, I couldn't have come back to my grandparents with a baby. They would have thrown me out, they would have given me a beating. So I was afraid to tell them I was pregnant. And I looked for a pension for my daughter, I entrusted her to a lady I trusted.  »

Although the commission’s chairperson acknowledged the probability of the incident and the state’s responsibility, he noted it should be resolved through diplomatic measures

“There does appear to have been some likelihood of harm in the Hà My village incident. It does appear that the state bears some responsibility in connection with that issue. But there is also the potential for restitution for that harm to be received through the courts rather than the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We will move to dismiss [this matter] as not corresponding to the scope of our commission’s investigation subjects.”

As soon as the final statement had been made by Kim Kwang-dong, chairperson of South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a member nominated by the Democratic Party raised an objection.

Application for initiation of investigation concerning human rights violations and incidents of historical significance in the field of international adoption 1.0 Introduction On behalf of the organization Danish Korea Rights Group (DKRG), we hereby submit an application to initiate an investigation concerning human rights violations and incidents of historical significance in the field of international adoption during the authoritarian rule in South Korea. DKRG is an organization for Danish adoptees from South Korea adopted to Denmark. At the time of writing, we represent more than 160 adoptees. DKRG is a non-profit interest organization that works for the rights of Danish adoptees from South Korea and for their rights to their own identity and personhood as adoptees and free individuals with their own ability and power to act as independent and free human beings. DKRG's inquiry to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Korea is based on the fact that many adoptees in Denmark were adopted during the time of authoritarian rule in South Korea. We are adoptees who seek our Korean origins and wishes to examine our backgrounds as adoptees. Access to background information and historical facts for the adoptees are therefore of crucial importance and significance, and for some adoptees it is also important to be able to search for their origin. Both the access to background information for adoptees and the access to search for biological family are today hampered by the practice of adoption agencies, which dates back to the time of authoritarian rule, which is still de facto unregulated when it comes to post-adoption services and is important to ensure the human rights of adoptees.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected Thursday, September 7 the request of two people born from PMA who asked France for access to their origins and in particular to medical data on their parent.

In its judgment, the Court considers that the “refusal to disclose data relating to gamete donors to applicants born from an MAP does not breach Article 8 of the Convention”on the right to respect for private and family life.

The case opposed, since 2018, Audrey Gauvin-Fournis and Clément Silliau, born in the 1980s with a third-party donor, to the French State for a refusal of access to information on their respective parents.

“Legislative choice”

According to the Court, “the situation denounced by the applicant and the applicant stems from the choices of the
legislator ». Indeed, the lifting of anonymity for donors only dates back to September 2022, when the bioethics law came into force, with a new mechanism for access to origins, subject however to the donors’ consent.

NEW DELHI: Some of India's distinguished retired judges, including four former Supreme Court judges and two former HC chief justices, have written to the G20 members urging them to initiate a discussion in the forum for the repatriation of Indian children in foreign countries who have been removed from their parents by child protection agencies, reports Ambika Pandit.
In their letter, the judges ask for a compassionate solution in the form of repatriation of Indian children removed from their parents in western Europe, UK, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The signatories include Justice Ruma Pal, Justice Vikramajit Sen, Justice A K Sikri and Justice Deepak Gupta, formerly of the Supreme Court of India; Justice AP Shah, who was chief justice of the Delhi HC and Justice S Muralidhar who was chief justice of the Odisha HC. The letter includes a discussion of the international conventions under which children have a right of return to their country of origin, and a right to preservation of their nationality, identity, religion.

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Jimmy Lippert Thyden says he always knew he was adopted. He also knew that he had been born not in the United States, but in Chile. Raised in Virginia by very loving and committed adoptive parents, he says he never lacked anything. The 42-year-old who served in the US Marines is now an attorney who is married and has two young daughters.

“I was told that I was given up for adoption out of love,” Thyden said. “Given by a mother who loved me and wanted the best for me: a life full of opportunity, education and meaning.”