The European Commission is to investigate allegations about the Irish State’s treatment of women in mother and baby homes.

It is also to investigate allegations about the way the State has treated survivors of those homes.

Earlier this year, the Coalition of Mother and Baby Homes Survivors in Ireland petitioned the commission for an investigation.

It called for an investigation into “breaches of human rights” that occurred in the homes and for an examination of “the wider official system” that “facilitated” forced adoptions of children from those homes.

"The past is not finished with us"

I am fortunate to have grown up in a home with two loving parents. They gave me the care, stability, and training I needed to succeed. But not every child is so fortunate. Across our country, and especially abroad, there are countless children who have no mom, no dad, no family, and no relatives to take them in and care for them. These children often reside in deplorable conditions, in orphanages, and as wards of the state.

Americans have always had a heart for these children. For decades, Americans have led the world in welcoming orphans from abroad into a forever family. As a result, there are more than 150,000 children adopted from foreign countries growing up in America today. These children and their adoptive families are examples of America at its best. Some of them are now part of my extended family; others go to church with Gayle and me.

Unfortunately, this great legacy of compassion is at risk. U.S. adoptions from foreign countries have sharply declined in recent years. In 2004, Americans adopted 23,000 children from foreign countries. Last year, that number fell below 3,000 – an 87 percent drop over 15 years. One reason for the decline is that some countries, like Russia, have shut their doors to adoptive parents. But the most troubling cause of the decline comes from within our own government.

State Department Is Biased Against Adoption

For years, the U.S. State Department and its adoption accrediting entity have been hostile to intercountry adoption. They have obstructed the adoption process with fees and red tape. And they have put crushing regulations on adoption-providing agencies, making it almost impossible to stay in business. The result has been devastating. Over the last year and a half, more than 30 adoption agencies have stopped providing intercountry adoptions, and some have had to shut down completely. Tragically, this means more orphans each year will remain in institutions rather than with a loving family.

ARNHEM - A pregnancy of 10 and a half months, a groom who cannot remember his wedding party and an adoptive mother who does not remember when and where she first saw her children. The adoption of 'twins' Naila and Bryan from Tiel is rattling.

Naila and Bryan are doing fine. The twins are in group 8, like to exercise and their friends are walking down the door. Naila and Bryan's parents are not their biological parents. The children have known this since 2016. Then their parents Jakob and Ika had to confess this fact under heavy pressure from a radical and international police investigation: We are not your real mom and dad.

Adoption is barred, human trafficking is not

Jakob and his wife Ika from Tiel stood before the court in Arnhem yesterday. They heard the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demand a four-year prison sentence for the illegal adoption of their two children from Indonesia. The illegal adoption, which took place in 2010, has now expired, but this does not apply to the other criminal offenses: forgery of documents, human trafficking and 'embezzlement of state'. The latter means: leaving children insecure about their parentage and origin.

Jakob insists that in 2010 he knew no better than: these are my biological children. They were born in Indonesia in October 2009. Their biological mother, Novia, is said to have died ten days after the twins were born. The fact that a DNA test in the Netherlands shows that they are not Jacob's children and that they are not brother and sister of each other, has 'just as surprised' him.

On 7 September 2020, the Parliament’s Social and Home Affairs Committee has stated the following question no. 711 (general part) to the Minister of Social Affairs and the Interior, which is hereby answered. The question was asked at the request of Pernille Skipper (EL).

Question 711:

“Will the Minister state what the Minister knows about the adoptions from Chile to Denmark that took place between 1976 – 1991, including on what basis the adoptions took place and knowledge of any errors in the cases?”

Reply:

I can state that, on the basis of my inquiries to the National Board of Appeal, I have been continuously informed about the problem and its handling, since I became aware at the beginning of the year of the suspicion that has arisen in relation to adoptions from Chile in the 1970s and -80s. The Agency is the supervisory authority in the area of ??adoption and also processes specific inquiries from adoptees with suspected illegal conditions in connection with the adoption.

Police questioning suspects, checking CCTV footage

The abduction of a beggar’s three-year-old daughter in Nanjangud earlier this week, about four years after her elder son was similarly kidnapped from the pavement near the Srikanteshwara Temple, has set the police on the path of a fresh investigation into a possible case of child trafficking.

The investigation into the abduction of Parvathi’s eight-month-old son in April 2016 had helped the police uncover a well-organised child trafficking racket, which also involved sale of new-borns from two private maternity hospitals in Mysuru to childless couples.

In her complaint to the Nanjangud police, Parvathi said she was approached by an unidentified man on Thursday asking her to give away her daughter to a childless couple. Minutes after she reproached the stranger and threw away the currency note he handed to her, Parvathi found her daughter missing. She lodged a complaint after she was unable to locate her.

Refusing to rule out the involvement of child traffickers in the abduction, the Nanjangud police’s investigation also involves looking for the whereabouts of the accused involved in the 2016 case in which a chargesheet had been filed and trial is under way.

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Au centre de détention de Caen, la première époque de la publication “Quand ?” (1999-2003)

PAR MARC RENNEVILLE · PUBLIÉ 24 OCTOBRE 2010 · MIS À JOUR 15 OCTOBRE 2020

Quand ? février 2003 n°22

C’est en mai 1999 que trois détenus du Centre pénitentiaire de Caen persuadent la direction de l’établissement de tenter une nouvelle fois une expérience de presse au sein de la détention. Les éphémères expériences antérieures s’étaient limitées à la publication de quelques numéros de Drôle d’immeuble, d’Oxygène, du Grillon. ils parviennent à persuader le directeur de l’époque Jean-Louis Daumas, un ancien éducateur entré dans l’Administration pénitentiaire en 1985, ancien directeur du centre de jeunes détenus de Fleury-Mérogis sur lequel il a publié La zonzon de Fleury, et reçoivent le soutien du Juge d’application des peines qui avait alors en charge les 420 prisonniers du centre, parmi lesquels 45 condamnés à perpétuité. A cette époque, la moyenne d’âge est élevée, 46ans, et ce vieillissement de la population carcérale, composée principalement d’auteurs de crime sexuels, ne sera pas sans influencer la tenue d’une chronique médicale régulière et la publication de notices sur les difficultés de la libération conditionnelle.

Nous avons choisi d’étudier une première période de cette publication, de 1999 à 2003, car l’actualité pénitentiaire est fort riche et est commentée par le périodique. Des lacunes dans les collections disponibles de Quand ? en 2003-2004, un changement de maquette et d’équipe à partir de juillet 2004 ( de la couleur dans le bandeau de couverture) incitent, par prudence, à isoler ce premier moment d’une publication qui continue son bonhomme de chemin en 2010. La régularité et la durée de cette publication doivent être soulignées, car elles tranchent avec des essais de presse plus éphémères, notamment dans les maisons d’arrêt. La longue durée des peines explique probablement la stabilité des comités de rédaction, des noyaux de 4 à 6 détenus.

Introduction

For the Ministry of Justice and Security we are looking for a Senior Communication Advisor for 8 hours a week for the Distance and Adoption project. Are you strong in strategic communication advice? Do you have experience with / within the (national) government and with communication to vulnerable groups of citizens? Then we would like to get in touch with you.

Organization

Prevent crime. Protect victims and vulnerable people. Punishing perpetrators and offering them perspective. And in doing so, collaborate with partners such as municipalities, healthcare, the social domain, probation organizations, companies and various others. That is what the Directorate-General for Punishment and Protection (DGSenB) stands for. DGSenB is collaborative and innovative. The social task is central to them; they focus on sanction implementation and assistance to victims. In this way, DGSenB and its partners contribute to a safe and liveable Netherlands by means of compensation and reintegration. Victim policy, high impact crimes, prison system, probation, youth, integrity policy, games of chance, philanthropy, international child abduction, intercountry adoption and international child protection: these are a few of DGSenB's areas of activity that are diverse. Every employee has their own role, responsibility and expertise. What do they have in common? They are inspired by the outside world, work together and are open to the development of themselves, colleagues and the team. They do this in an open and transparent manner.

Position

COLOMBO - A boy who went missing when a deadly tsunami hit Sri Lanka in 2004 has been tracked down by his mother after years of searching the eastern part of the country, police reported Tuesday.

The boy, identified as Akram Rizkhan, was 5 years old when the tsunami devastated his village of Karativu, 367 km east of the capital, on December 26.

The child was initially admitted to a hospital in the area and then adopted by a family, the boy's mother said.

“I searched for my son for years, but could not find him. I appealed to the president and sought help from the police, ”she told reporters after the reunification.

DNA test

Pune: State woman and child development (WCD) minister Yashomati Thakur has said that all care and precautions had been

taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus at the 362 childcare protection homes in the state.

With the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the state, a detailed plan had been drawn up by the WCD department for taking

care of children at these homes.

There are currently 10,000 children at shelter homes across the state. Before the pandemic, there were 21,000 children. The