SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found the country’s past military governments responsible for atrocities committed at Brothers Home, a state-funded “vagrants’ facility” where thousands were enslaved and abused from the 1960s to 1980s.

The landmark report on Wednesday came 35 years after a prosecutor first exposed the horrors at the facility in the southern port city of Busan and details an attempted cover-up of incriminating evidence that would have confirmed a state-sponsored crime.

The commission’s chairperson, Jung Geun-sik, urged South Korea’s current government to issue a formal apology to survivors and explore ways to ease their suffering as he announced the initial results of its investigation into Brothers, including extreme cases of forced labor, violence and deaths.

The commission also called for the government to review the conditions at current welfare facilities around the country and swiftly ratify the United Nations convention against enforced disappearances.

The commission “confirmed that the direct and indirect exercise of government authority resulted in the forced confinement of people deemed as vagrants at Brothers Home and caused serious violations of human rights, including forced labor, physical assault, cruel treatment, deaths and disappearances,” Jeung said in a news conference at the commission’s office in Seoul.

They were best friends in an orphanage in India. Until they were both adopted and separated from each other. By an unlikely coincidence, Teena (6) and Wine (5) are now reunited in Zedelgem, West Flanders. They live one kilometer apart and go to the same school. "Teena and Wine are like sisters to each other."

The touching reunion happened about three years ago. The two girls saw each other on the playground of their school in Zedelgem. Immediately the recognition was there, and they fell into each other's arms. According to their adoptive parents, there was "a spark of recognition" between Teena Kyndt and Wine Dierick: the feeling that they had known each other from birth. meetingThe coincidence became even greater when their adoptive parents turned out to be friends. They live a kilometer apart in Zedelgem and got to know each other during the long adoption procedure - both couples wanted a child from India through De Vreugdezaaders. Teena (now 6) came to Belgium in September 2007 and went to live with one couple, Wine (5) followed in March 2008 and got a home with the other couple. No one in Belgium had any idea of ??the special bond between the two girls who were best friends at the orphanage in Calcutta. Until that meeting on their school playground. Hilde, Wine's mother: 'Teena is six months older than Wine, and she remembered very well the name of her best friend.' language problem'The children didn't have to get used to each other at all. They just picked up the thread they had lost a year before," says Bart, Teena's dad. The two girls did have a practical problem. Bart: 'Teena already spoke Dutch and Wine only Bengali. But they understood each other without words. You really saw that there was already a strong bond between those two.' Since the unlikely reunion, the two have been like sisters to each other, Teena's mom Conny says. 'Exactly magnets. Other children can play on the playground, but they belong together. They are always very sweet and caring for each other.' princessesWhy Teena is so important to Wine? "Because she's from my country," says the youngest. "Wine comes to sleep with us every now and then," Teena adds. 'We are friends, forever and ever. We also dance together.' That's right: every week the girls in Zedelgem take dance lessons together. Promptly they show their skills to a tune from K3. According to their parents, the children have a lot in common. For starters, they have energy for four - duracellekes , Papa Bart calls them laughing. "They both love dancing, gymnastics and ballet," he says. "It's two nimble ladies."During the conversation, the girls switch princess costumes a few times. 'That fondling with princesses is of course typical at that age', says Bart, 'but it is still striking how proud they behave. Indian women dress very striking and colorful, wear beautiful bracelets and jewelry. Wine and Teena like nothing better than to walk around dressed up. They weren't even four when they wanted earrings.' Sister NyssaCan Teena and Wine remember anything about the orphanage where their close bond grew? “That Sister Nyssa didn't let us cry,” Teena says. But according to her mother, she heard that. 'After six months, young adopted children have forgotten everything about their former environment. The new experiences here are also so overwhelming. What Teena does know, she has from photographs.' It is certain that the Indian girls will forever remain two hands on one stomach. 'Next year they can choose who they are in the class with, and then they will undoubtedly choose each other', says mom Conny.

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Jail sentence for mom who exposed girl to pedophiles

Author of the article:Sam Pazzano

Publishing date:Feb 07, 2012 • February 7, 2012 • 2 minute read

Convicted pedophile Randolph “Randie” Bartley.

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The Supreme Court said that a woman's right to avail maternity leave cannot be taken away, if she had earlier availed child care leave for her non-biological kids

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that a woman's right to avail maternity leave cannot be taken away, if she had earlier availed child care leave for her non-biological kids.

A bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said the fact that the woman was given child care leave cannot be used to disentitle her rights under Central Civil Services Rules (CCS Rules). The bench, also comprising justice A.S. Bopanna, added the object and intent of the grant of maternity leave would be defeated.

The bench said the provisions of CCS Rules regarding maternity leave have to be interpreted in line with the object and intent of the Maternity Benefit Act. The petitioner's two children were from husband's previous marriage.

The petitioner is working as a nurse at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (PGIMER), and she was denied maternity leave for her biological child. The petitioner was told that she had already availed such leave for two of her elder kids.

The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a petition, saying the year in which the petitioner had sought appointment, then the term “adopted son” was not included under the definition of family.

A single-judge bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Sanjay Kumar Singh.

The writ petition was filed in 2003 and was dismissed in default on 11.11.2005. A restoration application was filed on 30.08.2007 along with delay condonation application, i.e, after one year and eleven months. Thereafter, the matter remained pending before the Court.

he petitioner claimed to be an adopted son of late Ram Achal Singh through an adoption deed dated 23.10.1990. Ram Achal Singh died in harness on 31.01.1995. The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner was given assurance for compassionate appointment, therefore, he remained silent. However, on 17.08.1999, he submitted an application for compassionate appointment. Meanwhile, a declaratory suit was also filed by petitioner, which was allowed in his favour and he was declared adopted son of late Ram Achal Singh.

The counsel for the petitioner further submitted that application of petitioner for compassionate appointment remained pending before respondents and on 17.10.2001 Respondent-2 sent a communication to petitioner wherein the adoption deed was doubted. In these circumstances, the petitioner again moved an application on 12.11.2001. However, by means of the order dated 15.09.2003, the claim of petitioner was rejected on the ground that adopted son was not included in the definition of ‘family’ under Uttar Pradesh Recruitment of Dependents of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules, 1974. The order is under challenge in writ petition.

Juvenile Justice Committee takes suo moto notice of sale of infant

The Juvenile Justice Committee (JJC) of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday enquired about the alleged child trafficking and surrogacy racket in Eluru district.

The JJC, which took suo moto notice of the alleged sale of an infant in Pedavegi mandal in Eluru district, asked officials about the details of the case.

Principal Secretaries of the concerned departments, Eluru Deputy Superintendent of Police G.V.V.S. Pydeswara Rao and Two Town CI D.V. Ramana appeared before the JJC.

The JJC, while expressing concern over the alleged sale of babies, directed the officers to take steps to prevent recurrence of such incidents.

KANPUR: Two brothers have reportedly been arrested and sent straight to jail for allegedly raping their sixteen-year-old "adopted" sister in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district.

As per reports, during police investigations, it came to notice that the parents of the accused had illegally adopted the victim from the orphanage in 2013 but no documents related to it have been shown. The accused brothers had also reportedly made an obscene video of the minor.

The girl used to receive threats from both of her stepbrothers that they would go viral with the footage. The victim was frequently subjected to rape attempts through extortion.

The victim informed the authorities that she was from the Banda district, that her mother had died in 2013, and that her father had abandoned his three daughters in the care of their mother.

Her maternal relatives placed the child in an orphanage.

The established adoption process should not be bypassed to increase the numbers

Policy intervention without knowledge of the ground realities often ends up as an exercise in self-gratification for those in authority and results in little or no benefit for the intended target group. Wanting to do good must be matched by knowing the right thing to do in the circumstance, and in the case of children, be guided by child-centric policies. Whether the recent recommendation of a parliamentary panel to bring more abandoned children into the adoption process will fulfil these parameters is an issue that warrants further discussion. A recent report, “Review of Guardianship and Adoption Laws”, by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice has pointed to the huge mismatch between the number of people wanting to adopt children and the number of children legally available for adoption, and suggested that the way to remedy that would be to ensure that “orphan and abandoned children found begging on the streets… are made available for adoption at the earliest”. To do so, it has suggested periodic district surveys to identify children who are orphaned/abandoned. The report argued that in a country with millions of orphans, only 2,430 children were available for adoption. It is true that there are always more people wanting to adopt children than the number of children actually available for adoption; it has been so historically, but the increasing chasm, as the report indicates, will undoubtedly have to be addressed. According to the report, there were 27,939 prospective parents registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) as on December 2021, from nearly 18,000 in 2017. There were 6,996 orphaned, abandoned and surrendered children residing in childcare institutions considered adoptable, but only 2,430 were declared legally free for adoption by Child Welfare Committees. It claimed that the waiting time for adoption had increased to three years from one year, in the past five years. The total number of children adopted in 2021-22 was only 3,175.

But the process of adoption in the country was tightened — procedurally and legally — in response to rampant malpractices and inter-country adoption rackets. CARA was installed as the nodal body for in-country and inter-country adoptions, to monitor and regulate the process, ensuring through stringent rules that the adoption is in the best interests of the child, and no illegality is involved. While the parliamentary committee has interpreted that there is automatic happiness when a child in an institution is placed in a home, it is important to exercise caution. No doubt, the country should take care of its children orphaned due to circumstances, but even as it acknowledges that institutionalisation may be detrimental over the long term, it should pay equal attention to the finer aspects of child care, and allow itself to be guided by a child-centric philosophy. There are no shortcuts in ensuring orphaned children come to no harm.

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The illegal and unethical forced adoption practices that commonly occurred in Australia through maternity homes, hospitals, adoption agencies and privately from the 1940s through to 1980s has affected thousands of people.

Research shows forced adoption can have long-term psychological impacts ranging from complex and pathological grief and loss to self-identity and attachment issues, anxiety and attachment disorders, personality disorders, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

In 2012, the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) conducted research into past adoption practices.

More than 1500 people participated in the study, including 823 adopted persons, 505 mothers, 94 adoptive parents, 94 other family members, 12 fathers and 58 service providers.

The study found mothers in labour had been tied to beds or held down while pillows or sheets were held up to obscure any view of their newborn baby.

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