Nigel Cantwell, founder of DCI, receives a well-deserved Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Strathclyde14 July 2017

FacebooktwitterlinkedinmailOn 28 June 2017 Nigel Cantwell, founder of DCI, received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Strathclyde.Watch Nigel Cantwell’s speechDuring his speech, Mr.Cantwell called for the full recognition of the human rights of children as a vital factor in shaping the way organizations work with and for children.Mr.Cantwell founded Defence for Children International in 1979 and remained with the organization for 15 years. He then took on various roles with UNICEF and has been working as an international consultant on child protection policy since 2003, with a special focus on safeguarding the rights of children in relation to alternative care and inter-country adoption. Currently, he is part of our Advisory Committee.From DCI we take this opportunity to congratulate him for this great achievement and we are very grateful for all the work he has done for our movement!

Ehemaliger Chefarzt des Eupener Krankenhauses verstorben

21.6.2017 - 12:44 Aktualisiert am: 21.6.2017 - 17:35 Eupen, St.-Nikolaus-Hospital

Der ehemalige Chefarzt des Eupener Krankenhauses, Dr. Didier Frippiat, ist tot. Er wurde nur 46 Jahre alt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Namur bestätigte den Sterbefall, machte jedoch keine näheren Angaben zu den Umständen des Todes.

Dr. Didier Frippiat

Dr. Didier Frippiat

Estela looks down at her hands and her eyes easily well up with tears. She has shed so many over the last 31 years regarding the whereabouts of her daughter, it is clear that this is an emotional wound from which she may never recover. Her hardened face gives way.

“All I want to know is that she’s healthy and doing okay,”

We meet in a non-descript social room in a downtown apartment compound in Bogota where 26 other people are here for the same thing. They are here to meet one another, share their experience of giving up a child for adoption either legally or pressured, or as an adoptee to locate their parents or siblings and submit their DNA with the tireless help of a Dutch foundation called Plan Angel and try and locate their families.

“The trauma of being tricked into giving a child up for adoption is for life,” one participant says, gesticulating. “This is worse than having the fetus taken out, it’s emotional damage,” she continues.

The conversation is constant and it jumps rapidly from threats to sue the Colombian state for its complicity in what is referred to by Marcia Engel, director of Plan Angel and herself an adoptee raised in Holland as, “legalized child trafficking,” to real fear that their children may have been sold for their organs or into the sex trade.

Failed adoption devastates family, questions process

June 20, 2017 10:47 AM in News Source: WBRZ By: Brittany Weiss Share:

BATON ROUGE - A couple in Central has been trying for years to have a child. Their story does not have a good ending, but they've chosen to tell their story in the hopes that it doesn't happen to anyone else.

Dylan and Kristin David knew from the start they would have trouble conceiving. Over the years, there have been failed pregnancy tests, multiple rounds of IVF and a hysterectomy. Between that and all the hormones, the David's says it put a strain on their marriage.

"It was more emotionally draining that it was physically," Kristin said.

May 17, 2017. Mouhamed Seif Mahmoud School, Sakhoor neighborhood in the east part of Aleppo. A UNICEF supported-school is an alternative space for learning.

AMMAN/BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, 20 June 2017 - On World Refugee Day, the European Union has renewed its commitment to a generation of children affected by the war in Syria. Through a donation of an additional €90 million, UNICEF will be able to provide critical services and support to vulnerable children and young people in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

Through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (the 'Madad Fund') UNICEF will continue working with host countries and partners to provide hundreds of thousands of children and young people with access to basic services including education and vocational training, as well as psychosocial support and protection against early marriage and child labour.

This latest contribution brings the total funding from the EU Trust Fund for UNICEF’s work on the Syria crisis response to nearly €200 million. The announcement comes on the heels of the appointment of UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador, Syrian Muzoon Almellehan, 19, the first person with official refugee status to become an Ambassador for UNICEF.

With the conflict now in its seventh year, around 2 million children from Syria live as refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, adding pressure on already stretched support systems. A unique feature and added value of the EU Trust Fund is its support for both refugee and host communities affected by this protracted crisis.

Woman returns from Sweden to see ailing mother in India

Wednesday 14 June 2017 12:19 PM IST

by Reuters

Mumbai: It was an emotional moment for Nilakshi Elizabeth Jorendal, the India-born Swedish national, as she met her ailing biological mother in Yavatmal.

Nilakshi (44), who was adopted by a Swedish couple when she was three-year-old, had managed to trace her biological mother through Anjali Pawar of Pune-based NGO - Against Child Trafficking.

Mumbai: It was an emotional moment for Nilakshi Elizabeth Jorendal, the India-born Swedish national,...

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Nilakshi Jorendal was adopted when she was three.

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Nilakshi's biological father, a farm labourer, had committed suicide in 1973.

In a shocking case, Chintadripet police arrested a lawyer on charges of having murdered his own adopted daughter, after realizing that the four year old had speech disorder.
 

CHENNAI: In a shocking case, Chintadripet police arrested a lawyer on charges of having murdered his own adopted daughter, after realizing that the four year old had speech disorder. Though the murder took place in July 2016, police action came only now, pursuant to the new Chennai city police commissioner A K Viswanathan's instruction to subordinate officers to complete all pending cases in their stations.

According to police, the lawyer, X Gerald and his wife Sangeetha, who works as lecturer in Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University here, adopted the child in May 2016 from a private orphanage. On July 7, 2016, she was rushed to the Child Trust Hospital in Nungambakkam with injuries. However, the doctors declared the child dead on arrival and sent the body to the government hospital for autopsy.

Though the hospital authorities indicated to the investigators that there were serious doubts about causes of the child's death, it was not seriously dealt with, police sources said.

On Thursday, Chintadripet police inspector Sahadevan summoned lawyer Gerald, who lives on Sami Naicken Street in Chintadripet, and questioned him about the murder. Gerald was then booked for offences punishable under the Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) IPC and arrested him. He was remanded in prison after being produced before a magistrate court in Egmore.
 

Gerald told police that they had chosen the child and named her as Mirudula, before realizing that she had an articulation problem. He claimed to have treated her by giving her 'shock treatment'. Police said Gerald had beaten the child and that due to the repeated blows, the child suffered injuries and collapsed on July 7, 2016.

After the child's death and a damning medical/forensic report, the then police inspector Sivamani of Chintadripet police station had searched for Gerald but failed to trace him.

A number of witnesses gave evidence in the Court in Glostrup on Thursday in the case of the murder of heavily pregnant Louise Borglit.

On November 4, 2016, a man was called by his nephew.

The nephew sounded desperate and unhappy on the phone. Something he had been doing lately.

The uncle had a hard time understanding what the nephew was saying to him, but he understood so much that the nephew thought it might all be the same now.

Then it was hung up. The uncle tried to call again, but without success. That's why he sounded the alarm.