A young Swedish woman, whose biological mother is Vietnamese, has returned to Vietnam twice in search of the woman who gave birth to her 34 years ago before she was adopted and moved abroad.

Driven by an unwavering desire for a reunion, she holds onto the hope that one day, her efforts will lead to a miracle.

With tears in her eyes, Hoa, as she is called, recently shared her story with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, expressing her heartfelt wish to meet her birth mother.

Adoption et trafic d'enfants en Roumanie: «Jamais je n’ai remis en question la légalité de l’adoption», confie une maman adoptive

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Didier Reynders : ce que l’on sait de l’enquête en cinq questions

Perquisitionné le 3 décembre, l’ex-commissaire européen doit s’expliquer sur la provenance d’un million d’euros environ, dont une partie a été engloutie dans l’achat suspect de billets de la Loterie nationale. Par la voix de son avocat, il rejette les soupçons de blanchiment. Le point sur ce que l’on sait de l’enquête. Article réservé aux abonnés

Par Louis Colart, Joël MatrichePublié le 7/12/2024 à 07:00 Temps de lecture: 2 min

Hello, I’m attorney Kim Sun-hugh. I would like to share some insights and experiences from working with overseas adoptees during their visits to their agencies, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), and the police. I cannot say that having an attorney present during these visits will dramatically affect the outcome, nor can I say whether having such legal assistance is always necessary. 

A Quebecer sets out in search of her true identity

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Source : www.journaldemontreal.com

Publication date : December 6, 2024

The Journal followed her to her country of origin where she met her biological family

Cambodia jails 13 pregnant Filipino surrogates

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy.

They were sentenced to four years in prison, but with two years suspended, the Kandal Provincial Court said.

The court said it had strong evidence showing that the women intended on having the babies "to sell to a third person in exchange for money, which is an act of human trafficking".

The women are not expected to serve any jail time until giving birth, and the court did not say what will happen to the babies when they are born.

Belgian police gave von der Leyen no warning about Reynders probe

The EU has not launched its own investigation into money laundering allegations against the former justice commissioner.

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Didier Reynders was questioned as part of a money laundering probe. | Kenzo Trbouillard/AFP via Getty Images

By Anthony Deutsch

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families, according to a report by Yale's School of Public Health.

The U.S. State Department-backed research, published on Tuesday, identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to "Russify" them.

Reuters was unable to confirm the report's findings independently.

In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his child rights' commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the alleged war crime of deportation of Ukrainian children.

Berhampur: A 13-year-old orphaned girl from Gajapati district has found a new family in Tamil Nadu, two years after being rescued from Rayagada block following the death of her parents.In a ceremony held on Monday evening, Gajapati collector Bijay Kumar Das officially handed over the Class VIII student to her adoptive parents from Tamil Nadu, following the completion of procedures under Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) guidelines."From today, she is our daughter," said the adoptive mother, who didn't wish to disclose her name. The couple had waited for nearly a year after applying through CARA.The teenager had been residing at a child care institute near Paralakhemundi since her rescue, where she continued her education. District child protection officer (DCPO) Arun Kumar Tripathy, Dr Millan Adhikari, and officials from the child care home were present during the ceremony.According to Tripathy, this was the 62nd successful adoption from Gajapati district since the establishment of a specialised agency in 2018. These adoptions included those within India and internationally.CARA, which oversees the adoption process, is an autonomous and statutory body under the ministry of women and child development.Collector Das expressed his best wishes for the girl's future with her new family.

Tamuna Museridze, a 40-year-old journalist in Georgia, discovered her biological father was her Facebook friend for three years during a search for her birth parents.

A 40-year-old woman in Georgia, who had been adopted at a young age, discovered her biological father had been her Facebook friend for three years. According to a report with BBC, Tamuna Museridze, in 2016, was cleaning the house of the woman who had raised her, after her passing away. It was then that she found a birth certificate with her name but an incorrect date of birth, and doubted she was adopted.

Curious to find out about her biological parents, Museridze, a journalist by profession, set up a group on Facebook, hoping to find them.

Some days later, Museridze received a message from a woman who claimed she knew another woman in Georgia who had secretly given birth to a child around September 1984.

The woman believed she might be Museridze’s mother and provided her name to the latter, the report stated.