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Amendmends to adoption law

23 April 2014 08:24

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Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou is promoting amendments to a bill modernising the adoption law so as to also promote private placement adoptions. This will mean children are placed in families not just by the state.

The new law will also aim to effectively respond to children’s rights and be designed in such a way so that the state will be in a position to implement it.

Countries: Cyprus

Russia - press release Unicef politicizing Ukraine

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Organizations: Unicef New York

Countries: Ukraine, Russia

Vacant beds for children in care cost taxpayer €20m

Private operators charging up to €13,000 per week for beds for children

Gordon Jeyes, chief executive of the Child and Family Agency, said there was now a national approach aimed at ensuring high-quality care and bed occupancy.

Carl O'Brien

Countries: Ireland

Underage girls who were sexually assaulted by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein win the right to see negotiations that saw him jailed

Underage girls who were sexually assaulted by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein win the right to see negotiations that saw him jailed for just 18 months

Jeffrey Epstein was accused of paying underage girls - some as young as 14 - for 'erotic massages' at his Florida home and Caribbean island

In 2007, he struck a secret plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to just 18 months in prison

Epstein was friends with the Clintons, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew

An appeals court has ruled that the victims' attorneys can view the negotiation documents that led to the deal, which they call lenient

Organizations: PEDOS/PERVERTS

Persons: Jeffrey Epstein

Europe leads in freeing children from institutions

Georgette Mulheir, April 2014

Europe leads in freeing children from institutions

J K Rowling, the founder of the children's charity Lumos. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Even the most dedicated followers of European political affairs may be forgiven for not carrying the fine detail of ex-ante conditionalities, introduced in the European Structural and Investment Funds Regulations 2014-2020, at the forefront of their minds. It is not area that generates many headlines.

Organizations: US ACTION PLAN ON CHILDREN IN ADVERSITY, European Commission, Lumos

Persons: Georgette Mulheir