Bosnians have taken to the streets to protest against the government after photos were published of special needs children chained to beds and radiators in an official facility.

Over 1,000 people called for action outside a government building in the capital Sarajevo after images from inside the Pazaric care home were released by opposition politician Sabina Cudic.

Parents of disabled children joined the protest, describing the care system as dysfunctional, one that had seen their offspring excluded from society.

Ms Cudic demanded a parliamentary debate on the matter but the government has rejected the request.

The current boss of the home has defended staff and says the claims of abuse are untrue.

Video INTERVIEW - Ambassador Susan Jacobs: It would be reasonable

opening in Romania of international adoption for children with

special needs - PHOTO, VIDEO

It would be reasonable for Romania to reopen international adoption for children who do not find a home, those with special needs, older people

or with several siblings, says US Ambassador Susan Jacobs, a special adviser on child issues, in an interview with MEDIAFAX.

End of adoption from abroad: Danish adoption agency in major financial problems

The country's only international adoption agency has so far stopped bringing in new adopters.

The adoption agency DIA no longer takes in adopters from year-end. (© (c) DR)

BY EMIL SØNDERGÅRD INGVORSEN

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Olivier Rousteing looked for his biological mother: "To know where we are going, we need to know our roots"

"I do not know if we are really ready one day, to face this reality there," says Olivier Rousteing, stylist, artistic director of the haute couture house Balmain since 2011, guest of France Inter, Thursday. Born under X, he is at the heart of a documentary that tells the story of his biological mother.

Olivier Rousteing, fashion icon, artistic director of the brand Balmain, evokes his "hidden face" in a documentary film, Wonderboy. Born under X and now 33 years old, we see in this film by Anissa Bonnefont, her career, for a year and a half, in search of her biological mother. "I did not expect someone to offer me a biopic about my life at 30 years old. Normally, it's when we die or at the end of our career and I was not sure I could handle all the emotions of this quest, "he says.

"She convinced me, I felt a lot of goodwill from him," says Olivier Rousteing about Anissa Bonnefont. "The camera forced me not to give in, not to let go, not to leave. It was like a pact made with myself, to go to the end. For all the children born under X. Nothing was censored, the pact it was the authenticity, "he continues.

If he had already made inquiries at the age of 16, Olivier Rousteing explains that he was not ready at the time. "I do not know if we are really ready for a day, to face this reality, but I felt much more ready today," he continues. "To know where we are going, we need to know our roots (...) like a flower that needs to have roots and water to open. I have always been looking for recognition because I did not really know where I came from, "adds Olivier Rousteing.

Adoption: yes or no?

Is it good or bad to adopt a child? And should intercountry adoption continue to exist or not? Extraordinary professor Femmie Juffer and emeritus special professor René Hoksbergen, both specialized in adoption, discuss these issues. But they don't agree.

In the series 'I can't come from Sri Lanka', we follow Dinja Pannebakker, a young woman of 32 who has been adopted from Sri Lanka. She herself feels completely Dutch and has no need for connection to her birthplace.

Pannebakker is one of more than 3,400 Sri Lankan children who have been adopted by Dutch parents since the 1970s. Adoption from Sri Lanka was definitively stopped in 2018. Adoption from a dozen other countries, or 'intercountry adoption', still exists, although the number of adopted people is decreasing every year. In 2018 a total of 156 children were brought to the Netherlands from abroad. Most of them are from China (28), Hungary (24) or the United States (23). In the Netherlands, 21 children were adopted last year and placed with other Dutch families.

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HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - They wondered about each other over the decades, the Vietnamese mother constantly and more acutely than the 3-year-old daughter she gave up in April 1975, just before Saigon fell to Communist North Vietnam.

As U.S. troops exited Vietnam after twenty years of conflict, thousands of South Vietnamese who had fought alongside them or otherwise opposed the North were terrified of what lay ahead. As some fled, more than 3,000 children were flown to new families overseas in what became known as ‘Operation Babylift’.

Among those infants was Leigh Mai Boughton Small - the daughter of a Vietnamese maid and a G.I. - who was airlifted out of the humid chaos of Vietnam for a new life and adopted middle-class family in New England.

Leigh Mai and her birth mother may have spent the rest of their lives wondering about each other - except for the mother’s persistence, the daughter’s decision to try a DNA website, and help from a Vietnamese Good Samaritan.

After years of trying to find each other, Leigh Mai, now 47, met her birth mother Nguyen thi Dep on Nov. 17 in Ho Chi Minh City, a reunion exclusively filmed by Reuters TV.

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Two French citizens were shot dead in Port-au-Prince at the weekend shortly after flying into the Haitian capital to adopt a child, diplomatic and other sources told AFP Monday.

An official at the French embassy confirmed that a French couple had been killed, without giving further details of the exact circumstances of their deaths.

According to two other sources, however, the couple were from the Ardeche region of southeastern France and had arrived in the Caribbean country to adopt a child.

One of the sources said they were killed in an armed robbery that turned deadly.

A spokeswoman for the Ardeche department confirmed to AFP that the couple, from the town of Saint-Martin-d'Ardeche, had been given a green light last year to adopt their first child.

Questions from members Van Nispen (SP) and Van Toorenburg (CDA) to the Minister for Legal Protection about abuses in adoptions and the involvement and science of the Dutch government (submitted 15 November 2019).

Question 1

Have you taken note of the broadcast of Nieuwsuur which shows that there is probably a lot wrong with adoptions from countries such as India and China and that the Dutch government was aware of these abuses? 1

Question 2

Do you also see that the cases that have since been investigated by the Joustra Commission and that are cited in the broadcast of Nieuwsuur are almost impossible to stand on their own and that it appears that the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Justice and Have safety failed to protect children against illegal adoption? If not, why not?

The annual event is meant to draw attention to thousands of foster kids awaiting forever families.

At 13, Nicole Avellaneda stood before Judge David Kurtz with her family. Friday was National Adoption Day in Snohomish County, and Nicole was there as three little girls in tutus and T-shirts officially became her sisters.

Yet before the Superior Court judge presided over Jen and Cid Avellaneda’s adoption of a trio of sisters — Mayah, 6, Alayna, 2, and 1-year-old Malaya — there was a special moment just for Nicole.

Everett attorney Deane Minor, who was handling the adoption case Friday, asked the judge if he remembered something: “On Nov. 14, 2008, the young lady with the big smile was adopted” in Kurtz’s courtroom, Minor said.

“Great to see you again,” said Kurtz, greeting Nicole — who like the rest of her multiracial clan wore a gray T-shirt with the slogan “Families Don’t Have to Match.”

An infant, abandoned by his parents on a street in Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch district, has been adopted by a couple from Malta.

An infant, abandoned by his parents on a street in Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch district, has been adopted by a couple from Malta.

A senior official of the city-based orphanage who took care of Kush, who is now one-and-a-half years old, expressed happiness that the boy finally got a family and hoped his fortunes will now change for good.

His adoptive parents - Glenn George Grimon and Katia Grimon - were also overjoyed to have a son after being childless for last 14 years.

Kush was just a day old when the police rescued him from a city street where his parents left him one-and-a-half years back.