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Japan's institutionalised children

By Danielle Demetriou

Tokyo

Botswana gov’t embroiled in child adoption row

Posted by: APA Posted date : September 3, 2014 at 8:50 am UTC 65 views In: Politics

The Botswana Network on the Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) said Wednesday it is taking the Botswana government to court over the adoption of a six-year-old child by a South African woman, Deborah Kirstern Mey.Briefing the media, a BONELA spokesperson accused the Botswana government of abating child trafficking and questioned the circumstances under which the child was adopted and taken out of the country on August 29.

The biological parents, Joshua July of Tsamaya and Annah Kopo, alleged that the child was removed from their care by members of the police service and some social welfare officers under direct instructions of a senior government official.

The parents are not happy because the adoptive mother and the child have now relocated to Qatar in the United Arab Emirates.

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A Ugandan woman makes paper beads with the help of her children on March 1, 2008, at their home in the Namuwungo slum in Kampala

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THEY RESORT TO HIGHER LEVELS

The Ethiopian court overturns adoption at two Spanish couples

MADRID, Aug 28 (EUROPA PRESS). -

The Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia has overturned the rulings favorable to the adoption of two children with whom had two Spanish couples and has stated that children are not adoptable , that this decision comes after a long judicial process and that both couples resort to higher levels .

As reported affected, Sonia Alonso and Ruben Fernandez and Silvia Pons and Jerome Molto, the decision "was not a surprise." "Our lawyers have been evaluating and will resort to bodies" Molto explains in a video sent to the Spanish media.

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Ecuador accuses Italy: the children of immigrants are unfairly removed unemployed parents

Ecuador warned Italy in relation to immigrant children separated from their families and put in educational facilities of our country. To criticize the work of Italians was done by the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa , who spoke in Genoa in a meeting with thousands of immigrants from South America. Correa announced at that occasion that he will ask the Italian authorities to reconsider the mode of action on the withdrawal of custody of the children of unemployed Ecuadorians who live in Italy.

While confirming the respect for the institutions and the sovereignty Italian, Correa showed all his doubts about what is happening in our country to the detriment, according to him, the Ecuadorian families residing in the peninsula.

Mater Matuta eist onderzoek van oude adoptiepraktijken

Honderden slachtoffers van gedwongen of illegale adoptie blijven op zoek naar hun ouders of soms gaan de ouders ook op zoek naar hun kinderen. Een nieuwe vereniging Mater Matuta wil moeders en kinderen helpen en eist dat er werk gemaakt wordt van een commissie om de adoptiepraktijken uit het verleden te onderzoeken.

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Mater Matuta requests investigation of old adoption practices

Hundreds of victims of illegal adoption remain looking for their parents or sometimes parents are looking for their children. A new association Mater Matuta wants to help mothers and children and requests that a commission will be established to investigate old adoption practices from the past.

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Almost fifteen years ago the plight of Romania's abandoned children shocked the world. The crazed schemes of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu had doomed hundreds of thousands of children to a life in orphanages which were little more than warehouses. Spurred by televised images of caged children, and tales of AIDS spread among children in state care through forced blood transfusions, the world rallied to help these smallest victims of totalitarian excess. Financial aid and personal volunteers flowed into the country. Thousands of children were given permanent families by people who saw them as citizens of the world in need of nurturing homes, not as property of a sovereign state.

Time passed, and the world's attention turned to new, more immediate crises. With the spotlight removed, the children once again became pawns in a political process.