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From: Chamila Seppenwoolde

Date: 2018-05-01 19:34 GMT+02:00

Subject: Open Letter

To: jean-claude.juncker@ec.europa.eu

Cc: frans.timmermans@ec.europa.eu, guenther.oettinger@ec.europa.eu

Onderwerp: Open letter

Datum: 2018-04-30 16:17

Afzender: info@planangel.org

Ontvanger: jean-claude.juncker@ec.europa.eu

Kopie: frans.timmermans@ec.europa.eu,

On paper, Carlos Haas is German. But he was born in 1985 in Guatemala, Central America. When he was four months old, he was adopted in Lower Franconia. More than 30 years later, he is looking for his birth mother - and finds her. He travels to Guatemala.

The red off-road vehicle speeds down the winding road in the highlands of Guatemala.

Carlos Haas sits in the back seat with his wife and two children. Outside the mighty mountains of the Cuchumatanes pass by. But Carlos has no eye for that. He's sick of the corners. And the excitement.

“Cuánto falta ahorita?” Again he wants to know how long it will be. 40 minutes, says Maco.

"There is no protocol, listen to your heart"

On paper, Carlos Haas is German. But he was born in 1985 in Guatemala, Central America. At the age of 32 he went in search of his mother - and found her. But her violent husband stands between the two.

Nine months have passed since Marco Antonio Garavito - the man with the mustache whom everyone just calls "Maco" - found Carlos' mother in the highlands of Guatemala. I'm in the office of his organization in Guatemala City, which helps adoptive children find their birth parents. I want to know from Maco how mother and son became closer.

“It took several months, she spoke to me and I wrote to Carlos until one day I suggested that they speak to each other directly. But Victoriana couldn't make a phone call at home because nobody was allowed to notice. "

The mother secretly telephones her son

Especially not Victoriana's husband. Because she never told him anything about the adoption.

De ervaring leert, kijk maar eens terug in de geschiedenis, dat mensen bepaald niet bedankt worden. En vaak gestrafd worden, ontslagen worden, of salaris moeten inleveren of disciplinaire procedures aan hun broek krijgen in een bedrijf.

Die mensen moeten worden beschermd. De wetgeving moet daar achter staan. Wij moeten er voor zorgen dat iemand die dat doet naar eer en geweten, daarvoor bedankt wordt. En niet gestrafd wordt.

Frans Timmermans

Eerste Vice Voorzitter van de Europese Commissie

23 april 2018

VIDEO

Klokkenluiders moeten in Europa beter worden beschermd. Eurocommissaris Frans Timmermans komt met een voorstel om dit in de hele EU wettelijk af te dwingen.

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NEW DELHI: Nearly 3,000 missing children have been traced in four days, thanks to the facial recognition system (FRS) software that the Delhi Police is using on a trial basis to track down such children.

The identities of the missing children have been established and efforts are on to help them reunite with their families.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), in an affidavit to the high court, said that the Delhi Police, on a trial basis, used the FRS on 45,000 children living in different children's homes. Of them, 2,930 children could be recognised between April 6 and April 10.

Arrest Telangana native for procuring infants and supplying them to accused Habib

Team Herald

VASCO: The case of kidnapping, torture and assault on eight minor girls in which the Vasco police have arrested a 65-year-old woman Venus Habib, a resident of Baina, took an interesting turn as Vasco police now suspect child adoption network. On Friday, police arrested a Telangana native for his involvement in procuring infants and supplying them to main accused Venus Habib.

It may be recalled that following complaint from NGO Childline, the Vasco police recently raided a flat at Baina and rescued eight minor girls, aged between 11 and 12 and arrested Habib on the charges of kidnapping, torture and assault on the girls.

“Since we wanted to know the source from where the accused lady had adopted the minor girls, a police team led by PSI Diago Gracious rushed to Telangana to find out more about the story behind the 8 ‘adopted’ girls who became the alleged abuse victims of Venus Habib. After a detailed inquiry, the police team managed to arrest one Pathlot Thakaria (60), a native of Telangana, and brought him to the Vasco police station on Friday. We later produced him before JMFC Vasco and the court remanded him in police custody for seven days,” Vasco PI Nolasco Raposo said.

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Forty years ago on March 1, 1978, a baby girl barely 1.5 years old was found alone at Victoria Station, today known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway station in Mumbai. She was found by the police and taken to an observation home and later to an orphanage and eventually was adopted in 1979, by a Dutch couple from Netherlands. She was named Mirjam Bina, who grew up to have a good childhood, education, job and is happily married with two kids. Yet, there is a void in Mirjam who is yearning to know her origin and who her biological parents are.

Thanks to the advancement in science, Mirjam underwent a genetic test which revealed that her ancestry is Mangalurean Catholic. With this being the only clue or 'shot in the dark’, as she calls it, she hopes to trace her family.

On March 1, 2018, 40 years after she was found at Victoria Station, Mirjam put up a post on social media. She also contacted Daijiworld on advice from friends.

Mirjam shares her story with Daijiworld and says she is not sure if she was abandoned or lost and has no memories of early childhood as she was very young. However, she has always been interested to know about her roots and her biological family.

In the year 1998, Mirjam visited India for the first time after being adopted and visited Shree Manav Seva Sangh where she had stayed for a year before being adopted. However, the orphanage said they did not maintain any information pertaining to her biological family and Mirjam decided not to continue with the search.