Nepal Children's Organization -- former head of NCO/Bal Mandir adoptions arrested for child rape.

Kathmandu Post:

Two held on rape charge

KATHMANDU: Two suspects have been arrested behind alleged rape of three young girls living in a public orphanage, Nepal Children’s Organisation, popularly known as Balmandir. Police arrested Rabin Shrestha, a former employee of Balmandir, and Rabin Chalise, the current president of Balmandir Club, following the complaints of rape and sexual abuse at the orphanage lodged by Action for Child Rights International-Nepal. (PR)

Posted on: 2014-06-21 08:54

Government U-turn over privatising child protection services

Outcry by social work experts leads ministers to say no to private companies but to consider charities and social enterprises

Patrick Butler, social policy editor

The Guardian, Friday 20 June 2014 18.45 BST

Edward Timpson, children's minister, said the aim was to offer local authorities 'freedom to deliver services differently in order to achieve better outcomes'. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

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News from Ethiopia

Special consultant Mette Garnæs visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 16-20th June 2014.

purpose was previously to follow up on our work in Addis with the possibility of direct dialogue and meetings with various Ethiopian partners and other stakeholders.

French couple take adopted sons home

June 19 2014 at 12:21pm

By Ilse Fredericks

A picture taken on Tuesday of French couple Vincent and David who battled to get passports for the two children they have adopted. The paperwork was finally sorted out and the family left for France on Thursday.

Cape Town - A French couple who were in limbo in South Africa while they waited for the Department of Home Affairs to issue their children’s post-adoption papers are to spend their first night at home in France with their sons on Thursday night.

Former Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock apologises over inappropriate conduct

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MP for Portsmouth South issued apology as part of settlement in which he admitted making constituent feel degraded

Former Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock faces standards hearing

Mike Hancock resigned the party whip in June to fight a court civil action by a constituent. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

Civil society representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova will participate in a study visit in Romania

Posted on June 16, 2014

Photography credits: Silviu Ghetie

The project “Together for Children: Stronger NGO Coalitions in the Black Sea Region” is continuing its mission to support cooperation among civil society networks in order to enhance their capacity to advocate for child protection reforms at the national, regional and international level.

As part of this initiative, NGO coalition representatives and state officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova will be in Bucharest between 23-27 June on a study visit. They will have the occasion to get acquainted with Romania’s experience with child protection reforms, meeting representatives of local and international NGOs as well as government officials engaged in child care.

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI

ADOPTION CAUSE NO. 47 OF 2014

IN THE MATTER OF THE CHILDREN ACT, 2001

AND

ADOPTIONENS PRIS — THE PRICE OF ADOPTION

“It’s almost five years ago that I began following the story of Masho and Roba. This was at a time when I believed adoption was a noble act for children in need of parents, and for parents in need of children. But what I witnessed was not the tale of joy and hope that I had imagined.”
“Det er nu snart fem år siden at jeg startede med at følge Masho og Robas historie. Det var den gang jeg troede at adoption udelukkende var en god gerning for børn der behøvede foreldre, og foreldre der behøvede børn. Men det jeg blev vidne til var ikke den historie full av glede og håb som jeg havde forestillet mig.”
— Katrine W. Kjær

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |Part 6

Full episode (Danish, no subtitles)

End titles (not included in the subtitles)
“77 children were adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark the same year as Masho and Roba.”
“Of those, only 2 were classified as orphans.”
“Every year, about 30,000 children are adopted internationally.”

Groups Seek Resumption of US Adoptions From Nepal

June 4, 2014 (AP)

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer

Associated Press

Prominent advocates of international adoption are assailing the State Department for its four-year suspension of adoptions from Nepal and have asked Congress to help reverse the policy.

Police Arrest Suspected Child Traffickers in Kumasi

3 June 2014 , By Ernest Best Anane, Source: Ghanaian Chronicle

The Ashanti Regional Police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit has arrested a 44-year-old woman, Cecilia Annor, at Ayefro, and two of her accomplices in connection with a baby boy suspected to have been stolen. Briefing the media, ASP Regina Eleanor Mintah, in-charge of Anti-Human Traffic Unit, explained that the police gathered intelligence to the effect that Ms. Cecilia Annor had a baby in her custody, but was not the mother.

The suspect resides at Abuakwa and sells at the Kumasi Polytechnic. According to her, the suspect confessed to the police as having collected the baby from one Comfort Adjei-Kyem, 54, at the Kumasi Children's Home. She said Cecilia Annor mentioned a maternity home at new Suame as where the baby was collected from, and when the police followed up to new Suame, Madam

Grace Osei Afriyie, 59, owner of the Ayiwaah maternity home, who was also mentioned by the suspect, were arrested together with Comfort Adjei-Kyem, and have been cautioned to that effect. ASP Regina Mintah disclosed that Cecilia Annor went to the Kumasi Children's Home for adoption, and met suspect Comfort Adjei-Kyem, who is a typist at the home, and collected an amount of GH¢500 for the adoption forms.