Guatemala has been home to great writers whose works have left an immemorial mark on Literature.

From poetry to novels, these women have demonstrated their talent and commitment in the history of writing, according to Editorial Piedrasanta.

The writers selected by the editorial are part of the " Women's Day " campaign , which aims to commemorate Guatemalan women writers and their great contribution to literature.

These are just some of the most outstanding Guatemalan writers selected by Editorial Piedrasanta:

Mariela SR Coline Fanon

BAREILLY: The Supreme Court has upheld Delhi high court's decision to give the custody of 'miracle baby' (the court addressed her only as 'S') to her new parents based in Malta, who had adopted her through the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

The judgment, delivered on Friday, which finally paved the way for Baby 'S' to be with her parents after months of legal rigmarole, said: "They (adoptive parents) were aware that child 'S' had a medical condition (epilepsy) and were still willing to adopt her. We do not find any reason to interfere with the impugned (HC) judgment."

In 2019, the baby was found abandoned in an earthen pot and got the moniker "miracle baby" since she survived despite all odds.

Later, in December 2022, right-wing activists filed an FIR against the orphanage in Bareilly and the adoptive parents, charging them with "wrongful conversion" alleging that the orphanage had changed the baby's faith and got an Aadhaar with a "new Christian name." As reported by TOI, the HC directed the UP government "not to harass the orphanage staff and create hurdles in the baby's adoption process or her journey to Malta with her adoptive parents".

The nephew of former MLA Pappu Bhartaul aka Rajesh Mishra, Amit, then approached the SC seeking "cancellation of her adoption" alleging "discrepancies in the process".

With provisions already made possible under the amended law, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security is aiming to commence the process of other countries being able to adopt children here by June this year.

“We are hopeful that international adoption will commence by mid-year and we are working feverishly towards that date,” Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr Vindhya Persaud told the News Room in a recent interview.

In August 2021, the National Assembly passed amendments to the Adoption of Children Act to align Guyana’s law for international adoption with the Hague Convention.

This convention aims to ensure that inter-country adoption takes place in the best interest of the child and with respect to the child’s fundamental rights. In accordance with this convention, Guyana’s revision allows for greater international cooperation to protect children from challenges such as abduction and trafficking.

The new section of the Act, 35 (F), provides for automatic recognition of adoptions certified by another central authority.

Dir: Margo Harkin. Ireland. 2023. 103 mins

The horrors of the Irish Mother and Baby Homes have been vividly conveyed in both drama (2013’s Philomena) and documentary (The Missing Children in 2021, and more). Familiarity does nothing to blunt the power and emotional charge of Stolen. Previously entitled Limbo, Margo Harkin’s heartbreaker of a documentary gives a voice to those silenced for far too long. An elegant layering of chapter and verse testimony underpins a wide-ranging portrait balancing individual suffering with an understanding of the bigger societal issues. Essential viewing in Ireland, Stolen should provoke outrage in audiences far and wide.

The homes and their horrors were the product of an Ireland determined to punish the transgressive

Harkin sets the scene by asserting her love for Ireland but also recognising it as a country with “dark secrets” buried beneath its “waterlogged surfaces”. Mournful shots of bleak rural settings punctuate the narrative, adding to the melancholy air. The first individual we encounter is Michael O’Donovan, a gardener at Sean Ross Abbey Mother and Baby Home in Tipperary from 1988 to 1991. He recalls the discovery of lots of small bones and a policy of planting trees that felt like a deliberate act of concealment. His many unanswered questions lay out the themes of a film which confronts shame, guilt , collusion and cover-up.

We move on to the site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home that operated at Tuam between 1925 and 1961. Subsidence exposed a children’s graveyard on a site that is now a playground, adding to the sense that the horrors of the past are seeping to the surface. Historian Catherine Corliss is interviewed about her tireless, ground-breaking research into Tuam and the 796 babies and children who died there.

Adopted Malaysian Girl Is Looking For Her Biological Mother

An adopted girl in Malaysia is seeking her biological mother as she has been deemed a non-citizen due to issues with her citizenship application.

Amanda Lim Kai Xin, 17, holds three birth certificates but has no identity card.

She has struggled to obtain her citizenship as the government does not have information about her biological parents.

Because of this, she pays international student fees and faces several other hurdles as a non-citizen of Malaysia.

What you need to know:

The couple; Mr Nicholas Spencer and Ms Mackenzie Leing Mathias Spencer that is facing charges of aggravated trafficking and aggravated torture of a 10-year-old, has listed eight grounds for consideration for their release.

An American couple that has been on remand at Luzira prison since late last year, is seeking the intervention of the High Court to release them on bail.

The couple; Mr Nicholas Spencer and Ms Mackenzie Leing Mathias Spencer that is facing charges of aggravated trafficking and aggravated torture of a 10-year-old, has listed eight grounds for consideration for their release.

The couple states that they are responsible citizens of the United States of America with good character who until their arrest resided at Apartment 304 Plot 29 Ntinda View Crescent in Kampala District.

FRA’s Management Board elected Rick Lawson as its new Vice-Chair on 24 September. He will take office on 11 October.

Rick Lawson joined FRA’s Management Board as the Dutch member in October 2020. He is Professor of European Human Rights Law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His work covers fundamental rights in the European Union, as well as the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

Elise Barbé, a French Supreme Court of Appeal judge, continues as Chair of FRA’s Management Board.

The Management Board is FRA’s independent oversight body. It is responsible for adopting the agency’s multiannual Programming Document, and its annual Fundamental Rights Report. It monitors the Agency’s operations and adopts its budget. It also appoints FRA’s Director, as well as the members of its Scientific Committee.

The Management Board consists of one independent member per Member State, nominated for five years. Members have high-level responsibilities in national human rights institutions or other public or private sector organisations.

Do you also want to be broke, have so much dough that writing a super badass check to save Notre-Dame de Paris sounds like a small gift (almost 4 times the amount of the Telethon on its own )? To achieve this degree of excellence, Bernard Arnault's luck did not happen by itself, nor in a day. Back to the cascade of events where Bernard Arnault using trickery was able to ransack the Boussac group.

To go back to the origins of Bernard Arnault's fortune, we have to go much further back. One name: Marcel Boussac (1889-1980). Fallen into oblivion in history, he was the richest man in Europe 1 , like B. Arnault today. Big boss of French textiles, nicknamed the " king of cotton “, supplier of the French army during the war, collaborator when necessary, but also an ally of circumstance with the Resistance. Marcel Boussac is a boss as his time knew how to produce. Top hat, owning castles, stud farms and racehorses. The Boussac empire had at its peak up to 21,000 employees throughout France after the Second World War, including a small nugget named Christian Dior, who caused a stir in haute couture circles in 1947...

Reactionary, nationalist, fierce opponent of decolonization, owner of several media ( l'Aurore , Paris-Turf ), proud paternalist, autocratic, Boussac did not see the upheavals of the sixties coming and persisted in old-fashioned management. of his group. In 1962, Crédit Lyonnais asked Boussac for his personal guarantee. In short, his personal assets are at stake for any credit application or to cover losses. Over time, the losses increased: 50 million in 1976, 100 in 1977 and 160 announced for 1978.

Ruined, cornered by debt, Boussac was forced to sell his empire in 1978 to the Willot brothers. He dies two years later.

Here Come the Daltons [1978-1981]

Recent reports that adoptees were taken without the consent of the parents have jumpstarted an effort by the Northern European nation to look into the history of overseas adoption

Silje Hjemdal, a Norwegian lawmaker, speaks with the Hankyoreh in Seoul on March 1. (Kang Chang-kwang/The Hankyoreh)

The Norwegian government has recently taken action to set up an independent body to look into illegal adoptions that have taken place in the past.

Over the past three years, Norwegian society has been stunned by local news reports about children adopted from Korea, Ecuador, Colombia and other countries. According to the reports, some children were shipped off without the consent of their birth parents and others were fraudulently depicted as orphans despite their parents being alive.

The discussion about setting up an investigative body in Norway has picked up speed since the South Korean government moved ahead with an investigation of its own this past December.

A lack of formal Government apology to unmarried mothers who faced “appalling treatment” in decades past, including unwanted adoptions, has been labelled “disappointing”.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) had called on the Government to issue an apology to women who had their babies taken from them for adoption between 1949 and 1976.

The committee, in a report published in July, argued that the Government “bears ultimate responsibility for the pain and suffering caused by public institutions and state employees that railroaded mothers into unwanted adoptions”.

It said an apology by the Government “and an official recognition that what happened to these mothers was dreadful and wrong… would go some way to mitigate the pain and suffering of to those affected”.

It gave examples of other formal apologies by the UK Government, where statements were made to the House of Commons.