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TOKYO (Jiji Press)— The Justice Ministry has presented the Diet with a set of bills to expand the special adoption system to cover children under 15 years old, up from the current basic age limit of under 6.

The first revision of the system since its introduction in 1988 is aimed at helping children lacking proper care due to reasons such as abuse and poverty, according to ministry officials.

The special adoption system terminates legal ties between adopted children and their biological parents. The consent of the children is not required, and the names of their birth parents are erased from their official family registries.

But there are many hurdles to adoption under the special system. For example, the consent of biological parents is required and at least one of the adopting parents must be 25 years or older.

Thousands of children in Cambodia live in orphanages even though their parents are still alive. Some of the institutions exist solely to make money from tourists. Now, efforts are being made to reunite the families, but that is easier said than done.

Every morning at 6:30, the boys and girls of the Little Angels orphanage in Cambodia get to work, sitting at wooden tables set up in front of the entrance to ensure that passing tourists can't miss them.

For hours at a time, they use hammers and small chisels to punch holes in pieces of leather traced with delicate patterns. No one says a word as they work -- one of the boys has earbuds in his ears. The leather creations are traditionally used in Cambodia for shadow puppet shows, but here they serve as souvenirs for tourists. The larger works sell for as much as $700.

At around 11:00 a.m., a small tour bus stops on the dusty road in front of the orphanage. Little Angels is located not far from Angkor Wat, the World Heritage Site in Siem Reap Province, which attracted more than 2.5 million visitors last year.

Colorfully-dressed Chinese tourists pour out of the bus, drop some money into a transparent donation box, buy small heart-shaped leather pendants and give the children bags of candy. To show their gratitude, the youngsters line up and begin to sing songs, ending with the English-language classic: "You Raise Me Up." The tourists take pictures with their smartphones.

n order to implement the UN Child Rights Charter, the existing child law has been repealed

Laws aimed at enacting a new law

Since the United Nations has been included in the Bangladesh Child Rights Sanctions; And

Since it is expedient and necessary to formulate a new law to repeal and integrate existing child laws for the implementation of the provisions of that charter;

It is hereby enacted as follows: -

Ai.Bi. authorized to operate in Nigeria. Africa is the new frontier of international adoption

With the most populous country on the continent, the countries of equatorial Africa rise to six, with Ai.Bi.

Good news on the international adoption front. After seven years, new horizons are reopened, in particular towards Africa, the continent towards which, due to a series of factors, not least migration and demographic pressure, global attention is increasingly being concentrated .

In fact, in recent days the news that Ai.Bi. - Amici dei Bambini, has been authorized by CAI - International Adoptions Commission to operate in Nigeria. The African country, which does not participate in the 1993 Hague Convention on the protection of minors and cooperation in the field of international adoption, finds its reference legislation on the subject of extra-national adoptions in the Child's right act of 2003 and in the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child, entered into force November 29, 1990, in addition to a law of 1968 originally drafted for adoptions in the State of Lagos.

This is important news, because, to date, only an Italian association was operating at those latitudes. As a result, the number of adoptions was very low: eight Nigerian children adopted altogether between 2016 and 2017, with an incidence on total international adoptions of approximately 0.25%. For 2018, according to the data currently made available by the CAI, they were allowed to enter Italy from Nigeria for international adoption a minor in January, two in February and two in April.

Trafficking of children: The story of Kristoffer Ohrn, a mapuche baby who was kidnapped in dictatorship

His family called him Eduardo, but a social worker took it and made it available to a court. After living in Sweden, he learned the truth when he had a DNA test. 41 years later he traveled to Chile and managed to reunite with his brothers.

Kidnapping with violence, an imprescriptible crime suffered by a 9-month-old baby in La Araucanía. This is Kristoffer Tobias Ohrn Johansson is a Mapuche who today is reunited with his origins, with his family and with a violent past that separated him from his parents in 1977.

It was only known that La Aurora de Lautaro, headed by Rafael Cerda and Tusnelda Barriga, entered the home. Like hundreds of children, his passport consigned the address of a Monsignor Monsignor Muller 38, a property belonging to social worker Telma Uribe, who is investigated by the courts.

Uribe was the right hand of the representative of the Swedish adoption center, Ana María Elmgren, a housewife who sent thousands of children abroad during the dictatorship and Ohrn was one of them.

The DNA-MATCHING Association

Do you know your roots and do you know where you are from?

Our work and goal

The DNA matching association works to unite families and bring them together through DNA matching.

We have experience with Bangladesh which has been our first starting point for meeting families who have experienced that their child disappeared suddenly in the 1970s and 1980s. Many children in Bangladesh were adopted away to families in Europe at that time, and many adult adopters now miss their roots and biological families and do not know where to look.

Children in the care system could struggle to provide evidence they need to remain in the UK once Britain leaves the EU.

Thousands of EU children living in foster care in the UK should be given automatic British citizenship to avoid becoming the new Windrush generation, say a leading children's charity.

Coram, a legal children's centre specialising in adoption and fostering services, has warned that thousands of children risk being left undocumented when the UK leaves the European Union because they are unaware of the EU settlement scheme or find it too complicated.

The government has launched an online settlement application which all EU nationals must complete in order to remain in the UK and be able to work, access healthcare and education.

But Coram's childcare lawyer, Alexandra Conroy-Harris, told Sky News that many children in the care system will struggle to provide the evidence they need to remain in the UK.

Every parent’s worst nightmare happened to an American couple a week ago in Kenya. Matt and Daisy Mazzoncini became the legal guardians to a three-year-old boy in April 2017 after he and his twin were abandoned in a plastic bag outside of a prayer center in Kiambu, run by a friend of Daisy Mazzoncini. After caring for him and paying for medical treatment, the couple was awarded joint legal guardianship.

On the night of Friday, April 5, eleven alleged DCI officers raided their home in Westlands and took the boy with no explanation or documentation. The couple still does not know where their son has been taken, and Americans are rallying behind them as they work to use habeas corpus to get the child back.

According to The Star, the real trouble began when the Mazzoncinis applied for adoption after they were told it may be possible to “get an exemption from the moratorium on adoption.” They had to do many interviews with the Child Welfare Society, where they were ultimately accused of child trafficking and creating false records to make it look like the child was sick. However, the boy had continuous epileptic seizures in September 2018 and was advised to go abroad for specialized treatment.

Right before they were due in children’s court to apply for permission to take him to the United States, a group of people dressed as government officials came and demanded to take the boy. After the abduction, the DCI sent out a tweet claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and credit for the boy’s “rescue.” The tweet has since been removed.

The couple still does not know where their son has been taken, and Americans are rallying behind them as they work to use habeas corpus to get the child back.

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THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said on Friday (April 12).

Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.

Results of DNA tests conducted on Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen "showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat," the organisation said in a statement.

"The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic," Defence for Children added.

The controversial case became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat's DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.