The ratings hit 'With open arms', presented by Natasja Froger, has shaken up the discussion about adoption.

It is really time to take a close look at the institute of intercountry adoption and start thinking seriously about alternatives, such as sustainable foster parent care in the country itself.

Foreign adoption is a self-perpetuating phenomenon that must disappear to prevent further suffering for parents and children. There is suffering with the parents of the children who have been put up for adoption. The grief of having to give up your child is indescribable. It becomes even more distressing if, as in some of the cases, this was not done voluntarily.

It is also a laborious process for adoptive parents, as the Flemish writer Benno Barnard explains in great detail. He drew the ire of many on his neck in February of this year with the publication of his piece: 'Don't Adoption'.

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After having lodged a complaint against the former boss of the ANR, Dieu Merci Kitambo, Human Rights Defender and Head of Office in charge of Child Protection at the Network of Human Rights and Civic Education Organizations of Christian Inspiration, RODHECIC in acronym, was visited on March 09, 2020 at his home by strangers.

Obviously, these unidentified bandits were on a suicide mission. They did not find their target, missing from her home for the simple reason that she spent the night at a wake in Yolo in Kalamu Municipality.

Contacted by Objectif Infos CD, the unfortunate man presented a paper on which these thugs left him a message written in red: "GOD THANKS OKO KUFA LOKOLA MBWA PONA COMPLAINT AGAINST KALEV", a message which simply means in French: " Thank God you will die like a dog for a complaint against Kalev ".

In addition to this message, these strangers, after a systematic search, managed to extract from the inside pocket of a bag, the sum of 120 US dollars and the passport.

Recently, Mr. Kitambo posted a video of himself on social networks denouncing the horrors he experienced during his imprisonment in the ANR prison in 2017 while he was investigating a network of child traffickers implicated by Belgium.

It was just a few years after the Liberation War in 1971. Caroline Amena Lauritsen was a child then. She does not remember how old she was back then, but her adoption papers say she was three years old.

With a group of children, all from the same “baby home” as hers, Caroline flew to Denmark on November 13, 1975. The only memories she has from her life back in Bangladesh are a few words—words that she finds hard to pronounce now.

“Amena no ghum” and “paani” are the only words that she remembers, she tells me, as we settle down for a chat in a cosy apartment in Dhaka and I ask her what she remembers of her life in Bangladesh, decades back. She also has one lasting memory of her best friend “Moti”.

“The first thing I named when I arrived at my parent's house in Denmark was their cat. I called it Pilai.”

Caroline Amena Lauritsen is now a woman in her late forties and is visiting Bangladesh in search of her lost family.

AMERICAN YouTuber Myka Stauffer was living the dream: a beautiful home and family.

In 2017, Myka and her husband James, who now have four birth children, adopted two-year-old Huxley from China. Myka’s YouTube figures soared thanks to entertaining footage of him adjusting to life in America and finding his feet in his new family. That is until he no longer appeared in her video diary earlier this year.

When questioned, the Stauffers issued a video explaining that they felt unable to cater to Huxley’s increasingly demanding special needs. So, he now lives with another family.

The backlash was fierce, with the Stauffers accused of discarding Huxley when he became too much for them to handle.

The couple’s lawyers told People magazine that the decision was difficult and but made “to provide Huxley with the best possible treatment and care.

The winner of this year's Anti-Slavery International award has appealed for the governments of Uganda and Sudan to take concrete steps to end child slavery in northern Uganda.

The commanders fight over the BBC radio but the children fight on the ground and die

George Omona

More than 14,000 children are estimated to have been abducted by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) since 1986, mostly from Kitgum and Gulu districts, and taken to southern Sudan to fight or serve as sex slaves.

It is estimated nearly 90% of LRA fighters are enslaved children - nearly 6,000 are still missing and it is not known whether they are dead or alive.

VISAKHAPATNAM: The police probing the child trafficking case against Universal Srushti Fertility and Research Centre, filed a petition in the court seeking custody of the accused, including hospital MD P Namrata, who are in judicial custody. She is undergoing treatment in King George Hospital now.

Meanwhile, the police teams with the help of revenue and police officials, are analysing the records and hard disks seized from the hospital during the raids. The police are investigating into 56 deliveries that were recorded in the hospital to find out whether there are any other illegal child trafficking.

According to sources, the surrogacy fraud committed by the hospital management came to light in Hyderabad, when a couple complained to Gopalapuram police that they were cheated by it. The couple said they visited the fertility centre in Secunderabad on November 11, 2019 with regard to surrogacy.

They stated that they paid Rs 10 lakh to the hospital MD and they are scheduled to give the baby in October. Meanwhile, as cases against the hospital were reported, they lodged a complaint with the police against the management.

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VISAKHAPATNAM: Investigation into the child trafficking case linked to

Universal Srusti Hospital has taken a twist in course of the weekend.

Police now suspect a link between the accused and Padmaja Hospital at

Seethammadhara. Police and medical teams searched the hospital on

Saturday night and seized some documents.

It was created as a refuge for orphans who had suffered starvation, but the idyll was shattered when sex abusers infiltrated the village

Desperate images of starving orphans of the famine led to the founding of the village in 1974. A Swiss charity, Terre des hommes, Lausanne (Tdh), created the village in a valley given to them by the then emperor, Haile Selassie, and provided the children with a home and an education. The orphans were supposed to live as one big family. They slept in bunks in dormitory huts, ate from big trestle tables and looked up to the adults who worked and lived there, seeing them as their substitute parents.

But in the past five years, the idyll has been shattered. The village became the target for paedophiles, men who knew how easy it would be to abuse their positions of power and trust. They changed the nature of the place for ever, and the village is set to close.

Father figure to 300

It was in July 1994 that David Christie, a British expatriate, came to work for Tdh in Ethiopia as its country representative. With a home and head office in Addis Ababa, he spent most of his time at the children's village eight hours drive away in South Wollo.

Four children; 13-year-old Karanbir Singh, 11-year-old Gurpreet Singh, nine-year-old Arshpreet Singh, and seven-year-old Sandeep Singh lost their

parents recently. Now actor Sonu Sood has decided to adopt them and take care of their education.

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Tarn Taran: Actor Sonu Sood who won accolades by helping the needy and the poor during the lockdown has pledged his support to four orphans of Punjab.

These children lost their father in the Punjab hooch tragedy. The mother passed away soon after.

The UT police today constituted an SIT to probe the child trafficking racket busted recently.

The SIT will be headed by the ASP (South) and has two Inspectors (SHOs of police stations in Sector 36 and 31), three Sub-Inspectors and an ASI as the members.

Infant ill, Suspects told his mother

The mother of the two-day-old boy stated that one of the suspects, Sarabjit Kaur, took her son on the pretext of getting him treated.

“The suspect had told the mother that the child was unwell and needed to be treated,” said a source.