Today, the Council appointed Eamon Gilmore as EU Special Representative for Human Rights. Mr Gilmore will replace Stavros Lambrinidis, who was appointed in 2012 the first EU Special Representative. Mr Gilmore will take up his duties on 1 March 2019 and has been appointed initially for two years.

The tasks of the Special Representative for Human Rights are to enhance the effectiveness and visibility of EU human rights policy. The Special Representative has a broad, flexible mandate, which provides the possibility of adapting to evolving geopolitical circumstances. The Special Representative will work closely with the European External Action Service, which will provide full support to his work.

As former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, Eamon Gilmore had government responsibility for the implemention of the Good Friday Agreement, including its core human rights provisions. Since October 2015, he has been the High Representative's Special Envoy for the Colombian Peace Process. His work and contribution to the peace process were greatly appreciated by all sides.

EU Special Representatives promote the EU's policies and interests in certain regions and countries as well as issues of particular concern or interest for the EU. They play an active role in efforts to consolidate peace, stability and the rule of law. The first EU Special Representatives were appointed in 1996. Currently, eight EUSRs support the work of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini.

The decision was adopted by written procedure on 28 February.

Four new names for 'Bargoens'

Earlier we knew that Eric Goens ex-professional Stig Broeckx and Annelies Frans (the partner of actor Eric Kerremans) would follow in the new season of 'Bargoens'. Now he also adds the remaining names.

The story of Coline and Sophie speaks to the imagination. "They were born in Guatemala, but grew up after their adoption in Belgium," says Goens. "When they went looking for their biological parents, they discovered that they had been kidnapped as a baby and then sold. This degrading story will cause a stir, because it brings out the biggest adoption scandal of the past decades. "

Goens also visits Jef Dupain. "The fascinating biologist fought in Cameroon and Congo for the survival chances of bonobos." He brought a lot to the light, but as often with whistleblowers, he was put on the street by his employer.

Furthermore, 'Bargoens' brings the story of Stefaan, a divorced father whose ex with the children fled to Poland. "He is desperate, because he has not seen his children for four years, despite a dozen court rulings in his favor. The Polish government shields the mother. And the Belgian government is looking the other way. "

'African orphanages are gold mines for Western operators'

For years there has been a lot of criticism of African children's homes full of young Western youths who work there with good intentions. Nevertheless, there is only a slow change in the doctrine tourism. Charlotte Simons fights for the closure of the children's home where she worked, and with her story on Twitter, she is stirring up the dust again.

The 'orphans' in question turn out to have parents in 80 percent of the cases (worldwide). There are no qualified people in the homes, the children do not receive the care they need, and many children suffer from attachment problems because of the many faces that have passed over the years. And in the meantime it is golden business for Western organizations. Because every child and every volunteer delivers money.

Also journalist and African expert Charlotte Simons (27), living in Nairobi, worked as a young student in various children's homes in Africa. In 2013 and 2015 she worked for several months in a home in Uganda. The abuses she saw there made her think. ,, I was naïve when I started doing that job, you think you're going to improve the world on your own. I was totally unqualified. But it took time to understand what goes systematically wrong in children's homes. It is simply a profitable industry, which continues to exist through Western volunteers and Western money. ''

For each child, the organizations receive money from (Western) private individuals, companies and agencies. Volunteers also put a lot of money in the drawer. Often a couple of weeks of volunteering takes thousands of euros. And the lion's share of the money that comes in, does not go to the children, but is stolen by the (Western) owners of the organizations. Patricia Nieuwenhuizen, president of Better Care Network (BCN) Netherlands: "Children in orphanages are a lucrative business model. The money goes into the pockets of the organizations over the back of the children. ''

Verein is planning new projects for Romania

The Romania working group is planning new projects in Transylvania for 2019 - the construction of five family houses for orphans will now be followed by circus performances and the refurbishment of the afternoon school.

Ehlershausen / Hemmingen

Right now is a quarter of a century of intensive work for the project "A House for Tomorrow" behind Wolfgang Gerth from Ehlershausen and Günther Heinken from Hemmingen - as the assets of the Association Romania Working Group Hemmingen (RAGH) are already planning new projects. "We have already achieved a lot, but there is still a lot of work to do", Heinken summarizes the experience of the past 25 years.

The initiative for the project around the town Christuru Seculesc (Keresztur) was given at the beginning of the nineties by a visit of Wolfgang Gerts and his second wife Martina, who wanted to give a new home to Romanian orphans with an adoption. "The conditions in the home that we visited had shaken us," recalls the Ehlershausener. He tells of up to 30 children, some of whom had to sleep in triple beds in a hall, from darkened rooms, where boys and girls between the ages of three and 18 spent their days in bed, from lack of perspective.

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Labour MP Simon Danczuck said the newly unearthed documents prove 'the full weight of the British establishment, including MI5, colluded in a cover-up'

The head of MI5 warned Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet Secretary that an unnamed MP, understood to be a senior Tory, had “a penchant for small boys”, Government child abuse papers have revealed.

The newly unearthed documents link Mrs Thatcher’s former parliamentary secretary Sir Peter Morrison, former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, former diplomat Sir Peter Hayman and ex-minister Sir William van Straubenzee to the establishment paedophilia scandal.

All four men are now deceased.

In the bombshell letter written in 1986, MI5 boss Sir Antony Duff revealed two sources had accused an MP of child abuse.

Prosecution trial: Gunther and Oana Krichbaum fight back

For four hours, a clutter of e-mails, printouts, newspaper articles, names, quotes, and more than 800 online posts on Wednesday left the judiciary busy. At the district court Pforzheim a 46-year-old German with Romanian roots had to answer for allegations of libel and slander against public figures. The CDU Bundestag member Gunther Krichbaum and his wife, lawyer Oana Krichbaum, had filed a complaint.

According to the indictment, the woman from the Enzkreis has since 2012 referred to Oana Krichbaum publicly on Facebook as a "children's graphic artist". According to the posts, she was involved in illegal child trafficking in the 1990s, and her husband prevented the clarification by his political weight, summarized prosecutor Marius Walz. A thicket of missing connections and sources that do not exist, tried to penetrate Judge Patrick Stemler. Four Facebook posts were scrutinized.

It caused a sensation that the defendant had submitted fake documents in support of their statement. She himself attacked Walz as well as interjections and questions several times the threat of regulatory fees. "Now there are no more questions, otherwise I'll leave the room," eventually even her own defender Florian Bähr made air, who had his hands full to keep his client in check.

The same morning, a ruling in civil proceedings in the same case should have fallen in the second instance at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe. Until it is present, those responsible did not want to make a decision. The process will continue on Friday, March 15, at 9 o'clock.

In 2011, Soros Foundation has entered in its 21st year of activity in Romania.

In its first 20 years of activity, the Foundation has developed programs dedicated to education – scholarships, access to technology and internet, alternative manuals – but also to public health issues, culture, civil society and NGO development.

The Soros Foundation was the first Romanian organization to have developed a long term and exhaustive program of monitoring social changes in Romania – the Public Opinion Barometer.

The support for the development of Romania as an open society dates from 1990, when the Soros Foundation for an Open Society Association was established. Continuing to focus on critical issues for the development of the Romanian society, the Foundation currently streams its financial and human efforts towards advocacy activities, also gaining and providing substantial expertise in fields such as migration and inclusion of vulnerable and marginalized minorities, and going further with monitoring the decision-making process at both central and local levels, the fair allocation of EU funds etc.

The Foundation role in Romania is to act as a change agent for the society, sizing its most pressing problems and proposing practical solutions by combining innovation, resources and opportunity. Through our entrepreneurial approach we propose solutions to social problems and then, if worthy, scale them up on our own or through others by mobilizing outside resources. Our mission is to fuel the society with new ideas for wide-scale change.

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