Parliament’s President Antonio Tajani has found himself facing the music for the second time in less than a week.

This time, the Italian member is under fire for reportedly accepting an invitation to attend the World Congress of Families conference in Italy.

Campaigners and MEPs say the event is organised by the International Organisation for the Family (IOF), saying this is an “umbrella organisation known for its anti-LGBTI agenda.”

A letter sent by a group of MEPs from the assembly’s Intergroup on LGBTI Rights asks Tajani not to attend the event or to support it.

The letter, seen by this website, says, “Until 13 February, Antonio Tajani was listed as one of the main speakers at the World Congress of Families in Verona (29-31 March).”

Related: 30 years later, this Korean adoptee finds ‘home’ again

This isn't unique to me. The US has used children to advance dominant racial, religious and political ideals at the expense of the oppressed and the poor for a long time. And it continues today. The heartwrenching family separation policy at the border that made headlines last year is just one example that has put children at risk for ending up in foster care or adoption, rather than reunification with their families.

Here is what I know: I am culturally American. I am racially Asian. I identify as a Korean adoptee. And while my ethnicity is Korean, I grapple with how Korean I actually feel. I came to the US when I was just over six months old, and a couple years later I was naturalized as an American citizen. I have no physical memory of this, only a faded and tattered photograph of me waving the American flag outside my house on the day of my naturalization ceremony.

While my identity has always been a complex personal journey, I became interested in the history of Korean adoption as a doctoral student. I fell in love with archival research and being transported back in time through historical documents. My personal and professional identities came together, and I wanted to know more about my own history as a Korean adoptee.

On 18 February, the EU announced the launch of a new initiative in Georgia aimed at reinforcing child welfare reform in the country and ensuring the provision of quality alternative care for children.

This support will be provided within a new three-year EU-funded project entitled “Reinforcing the Child Welfare and Protection System in Georgia”. It will bring together the expertise, best practices and aspirations of World Vision Georgia, which implements the project, and the Government of Georgia to address the needs of vulnerable children deprived of parental care, or at risk of being so, by ensuring appropriate and quality alternative care.

“This project follows up on this reform, with a focus on ensuring vulnerable children deprived of parental care receive appropriate and quality alternative care,” said Carl Hartzell, EU Ambassador to Georgia. “To obtain an effective and strong child-oriented system that can provide immediate and adequate responses to children in need all across the country, will only be possible if all key state and non-state actors, experts and professionals are involved. In this context, I very much welcome the interest displayed on the side of the Georgian Orthodox Church to actively participate in his project.”

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Madras High Court

Julia Rollings vs The Union Of India on 18 February, 2019

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 18.02.2019

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Page 73: The Leysin 1960 fundamental principles on adoption

Published: 1991

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'Judge should have withdrawn from case because of private contact with Joris Demmink'

A judge from the Hague is under fire because of his role in an alleged abuse case in which former top official of justice Joris Demmink is also mentioned. A photo shows that the judge Jan Wolter Wabeke had a private contact with Demmink. According to professor Theo de Roos, the judge should therefore have withdrawn from the case.

Wabeke said to the radio program that he did not know Demmink at all. Later he changed that statement, when it turned out that Argos owns a private photo from the nineties in which Demmink can be seen at Wabeke's home.

In a reaction, Demmink's lawyer Harro Knijff confirms that Wabeke and Demmink met "a number of times, also privately, in the nineties."

According to professor of criminal and procedural law Theo de Roos, Wabeke had to change due to private contact. De Roos, himself a former counselor, says in Argos: "I would not worry about dealing with such a case. Absolutely not."

Dear government, make adoption simpler, says short film 'Guzaarish'

The short film received applause from NGOs, viewers and gusets of the day.

parents, child, adoption, children, family, representational image for representational purpose only.By Anirudh YadavExpress News Service

HYDERABAD: Dear government, why do parents who want to adopt a child and children who need a home have to wait for three years to find each other? That is the pertinent question that Guzaarish: A Significant Appeal, the 20-minute short film based on child adoption screened on Thursday at Prasad Laboratories, Banjara Hills, all about. “The film is based on a true incident,” says Abdur Rehman, Founder of Helping 2 Hands AR Foundation, the NGO which was instrumental in making the film for the cause of child adoption.

“It’s about a woman who has been suffering from depression and anxiety because she is unable to conceive. The couple wants to adopt a child, but the process is tedious and involves a lot of red tapes, thus pushing the wait time to a few years. The couple does get to adopt a child but they sit down to appeal to the Indian government to make the child adoption process faster and better,” Rehman adds about the short film directed by Rakesh Gondle.

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'Lisa' was fifteen years old when she reported rape by her father and other men in the New Scheveningen groves in The Hague. She mentioned the names of lawyers, a CEO of a large company and a senior official of the Ministry of Justice. In December, Argos revealed that the Public Prosecution Service ignored important support certificates and dismissed the case. Hoffmann's corporate investigation found child pornography on computers in use by father. Gynecologists who had studied Lisa medically discovered that she had been pregnant and gave birth to a baby. After the broadcast, Argos received a photo that sheds new light on the role of a counselor of the court in The Hague. He was the chairman in the Article 12 case that Lisa and her mother called for to enforce prosecution. Also in Argos:

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Document-BOMB! Are they taking us out of the EU? Krichbaum asks Timmermans to trigger the "NUCLEAR OPTION" against Romania because of the Kovesi File!

Document-BOMB! Are they taking us out of the EU? Gunther Krichbaum asks Frans Timmermans to trigger the "NUCLEAR OPTION" against Romania because of the Kovesi File! Gunther Krichbaum, chairman of the committee for European Affairs

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the first international convention on child rights was signed in 1989 and has led to great progress in safeguarding human rights of the children.

It has resulted in major changes in laws to ensure better protection for children and has even altered the manner in which international organizations see their work for children. The convention has also resulted in better protection of children in situations of armed conflict.

To mark the 30th year of CRC, NALSAR’s Centre for Child and Youth Justice, in collaboration with UNICEF, is organizing this competition to encourage students to deliberate on the intersection of International Humanitarian Law and Child Rights.

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