The Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality, Dolors Montserrat, has appeared in the new Commission on the Rights of Children and Adolescents created this legislature in the Congress of Deputies, where she has announced her will to launch "a Pact of State for Children "that addresses, from the political and territorial consensus, the necessary protection of children.

For the minister, this pact should be established based on three lines of action, which could be framed in the three categories of children's rights enshrined in the Convention and known as the "three pes": promotion, protection and participation.

Likewise, to work on this Pact, the minister proposes "to constitute a study subcommittee that addresses the state pact for childhood in the" three pess "and analyzes the needs of the different models and family situations to which we have to respond as shared custody and custody, the delimitation of the concept of a single-parent family and aid for large families.

Promotion and support of the family

Minister Dolors Montserrat has begun her intervention defending the role of the family in the protection and promotion of childhood. "This Government is clear that protecting and supporting families is the main way to protect children and provide them with greater present and future well-being." For this reason, he has underlined the need to support families, which each one forms, so that they can fully assume their responsibilities.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe learns how a Nigerian mother who had been trafficked to Italy nearly had her son taken away - an experience that many African woman in Italy have gone through.

One sultry afternoon in the main city of the Italian island of Sicily, a Nigerian mother is intensely watching her two-year-old son play.

They are in the courtyard of a housing block they share with other African families in a run-down corner of Palermo.

The woman is content sitting on a worn plastic chair enjoying her son having fun in the sunshine while a meat stew cooks in the kitchen with heady aromas of Nigerian food wafting through the air.

But the 25-year-old is haunted by dark memories. Not so long ago, she says she came close to having her son taken away by the authorities in the shelter for migrant women and children where she once stayed.

For filmmaker Sun Hee Engelstoft, who was born in South Korea in 1982 and sent to Denmark for adoption when she was 4 months old, it was shocking to witness the reality facing unmarried mothers in Korea.

“In the West and where I grew up in Denmark, there is this idea that all Korean women just easily give away their children because there are so many adoptees,” Engelstoft said during an interview with The Korea Herald.

Korea has sent more than 200,000 children abroad since the 1950-53 Korean War.

In the process of creating a documentary film, Engelstoft visited the Aesuhwon shelter for single mothers on Jeju Island and came to see that the decision to give a child away is not made solely by the child’s mother.

Her film, “Forget Me Not -- A Letter to My Mother,” shows how Korean single moms are pressured into giving their babies up for adoption even if they don’t want to.

For the first time, in Sibiu County , on the National Adoption Day, on Wednesday, June 2, the Campaign to promote adoption is launched. Sibiu residents are expected on Tuesday, at 13.30, in Tineretului Park to send to the sky the greatest desire of any child, to have a family, by launching helium balloons for every adoptable child in Sibiu County, hoping that soon the dream their will be fulfilled.

"'Saved through adoption' is the message of the campaign which shows that, YES, adoption is for the child but it also saves everyone around it, gives the child the opportunity to enjoy childhood, gives meaning to adoptive parents and gives communities the opportunity to be in solidarity with the most vulnerable of their members. We want to emphasize, thus, the positive impact of adoption on all factors involved in the process: parents, siblings, grandparents, family, school, community ", say the representatives of DGASPC Sibiu.

This campaign aims to make information about adoption accessible to the public, no longer a taboo subject, to dispel myths or preconceived ideas about this subject, emphasizing that all that matters is to raise a happy child, to enjoy the love that you receive it and you can offer it. In it, stories of adoption, love and altruism of wonderful people who gave hope and a family to children who wanted it most will be presented.

"It is a campaign in which we invite the whole community to contribute because everyone can do something. So far, we have been joined by public authorities with responsibilities in the field of child protection, artists, actors, journalists, priests, NGOs, etc. so that together we can find a family for each child ", explains the deputy director of DGASPC Sibiu, Olimpia Indrie?.

The campaign is organized by DGASPC Sibiu together with the Romania Without Orphans Alliance with the support of the National Authority for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Children and Adoptions.

This WOB was wrongly called 'Ketenoverleg', it is about these:

FIOM, Stichting Adoptievoorzieningen

(SAV), Terre des Hommes, Unicef en Zunderdorp Beleidsadvies & Management.

A decision was made on 1 September 2020 on a request under the Government Information (Public Access) Act. The request concerns information about chain consultation on adoptions. The decision and the annexes provided with the decision are now being made available for public access.

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DG Competition

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Melbourne-born man Russell Moore has died in a US prison following a three-decade fight to be returned to Australia.

Moore, also known by his adoptive name James Hudson Savage, died at Apalachee Correctional Institution in Florida on June 2.

Russell Moore died in Florida on June 2.

Russell Moore died in Florida on June 2.CREDIT:DANIELLE SMITH

His US lawyer Richard Bourke, who spent decades working to help return Moore to his birth country, said the 58-year-old had a medical emergency.

The government should as soon as possible investigate how Swedish authorities and adoption organizations have handled international adoptions to Sweden from the middle of the 20th century until today. This is the opinion of the Social Affairs Committee, which proposes that the Riksdag send an announcement, an invitation, to the Government about this. The Social Democrats and the Green Party have reservations about the proposal.

It has been three years since suspected irregularities in connection with adoptions from Chile were first noticed by the news media in Sweden. In Chile, a criminal investigation is underway into the abduction of children and irregularities in adoption.

Clarification of whether the adoption agency is needed

The Social Affairs Committee believes that the government should ensure that the adoption agency has functioned in Sweden. According to the committee, there is a need for an investigation of international adoptions to Sweden from, among other places, Chile since the middle of the 20th century until today. Such an investigation should also have an impact on how the work with international adoptions is conducted in the future.

The government should appoint an inquiry as soon as possible

In Alba County, since the beginning of the year, DGASPC has certified 12 persons / families able to adopt, three families are being evaluated and another 23 are waiting to adopt.

In total, there are 123 children, aged between 3 and 14, in the records of the Adoptions and Post-Adoptions Bureau, for which the competent court has decided that they are adoptable.

Also, by court decision, for 16 children the adoption for adoption was approved, and for another 16 children it was decided to approve the adoption.

On June 2, the National Day for Adoption is celebrated, a moment that brings to attention the fact that every child needs a family, in which to feel loved, protected and accepted, in which to have stability and to develop.

According to the DGASPC, if, for various reasons, a child cannot be cared for by his or her parents or biological relatives, then adoption may be a solution.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The High Court in Sibu, Sarawak has recently decided that the government should remove “bin Abdullah” from the official records of the name of a child adopted in Sarawak, in consideration of the child’s best interests and in line with the adoptive Muslim parents’ wishes and request.

In the April 6 written judgment sighted by Malay Mail, High Court judicial commissioner Christopher Chin Soo Yin ordered that this child “should be named as intended by his parents”.

The judge ordered the Sibu district officer and the National Registration Department to amend the name of the child in the special register (or the official records of adoptions in Sarawak), certificate of adoption, birth certificate, by removing “bin Abdullah” from his name “in accordance to the wishes of his parents”.

In the interests of the child and for privacy reasons, Malay Mail is withholding the names of the adoptive parents as well as the adopted child. For ease of reference, the adoptive father and adoptive mother are referred to as A and B, while the child is referred to as C.

The judge’s order was for the child’s name in official government records to be changed from C A bin Abdullah to just C A without “bin Abdullah”.