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While visiting the Tekakwitha Nursing Home to sing for residents, 13-year-old Denise Owen was led away from the rest of her boarding school group by a nun. A special surprise awaited her.

There, in another room in the Sisseton, S.D., facility, was her newborn sister, Rose Anne. Denise got only a glimpse of the infant, lying in a bassinet in a long-sleeve shirt and a diaper, before another nun ordered her to leave. Denise was not supposed to see her sibling, soon to be adopted.

It would be 50 years before they saw each other again.

Rose Anne, who would be raised by a Glenside dentist and his wife, became a child of the country’s American Indian adoption era, a decades-long forced assimilation of Native children first established under the Indian Adoption Project, which started in 1958 and evolved to include 50 private and public placement agencies across the United States and Canada, where the so-called Sixties Scoop was coined to describe the mass removal of children from Native homes. During the next 20 years, almost 13,000 Native children would be adopted.

According to a 1969 report by the Association on American Indian Affairs, between 25% and 35% of all Native children were placed in adoptive homes, foster homes, or institutions; and about 90% of those children were being raised by non-Natives.

Report Launch on "Human Rights Violation in the Past Intercountry Adoption Processes"

Thanks to the courage and dedication of our fellow adoptees, new report on “Human Rights Violation in the Past Intercountry Adoption Processes” has been launched. This report is the result of KoRoot's collaborative project with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and published in Korean for the government officials, members of National Assembly, and stakeholders of adoption system in Korea. You may download the Korean version of the report here. http://www.koroot.org/board/4131/detail

This project has been carried out for the last 7 months(May~December, 2021) with various activities including:

Planning the research(June~November)

Researchers' meetings to categorize human rights violation cases and to form structures of questionnaire. (6 times)

Legal experts' meetings to review the cases' possible legal violations. (6 times)

Looking for a home. The Story of Iresha

Looking for a home. The Story of Iresha

32-year-old Iresha was born in India and adopted as a baby by Dutch adoptive parents. Iresha is 12 years old when she dares to confide in someone and tells about how things really go at her home. At the age of 15 she is removed from home. She spends her teenage years in various youth care institutions.

Years later she has her own life on track. She lives in Antwerp where she is educated at the art academy and works on her artworks with great passion. This is her story.

Where I come from

I grew up in a family with Dutch parents. After my arrival in the Netherlands, my parents adopted my sister from Colombia. My mother got pregnant twice more. She interrupted one pregnancy and when I was 7 years old they had another son. I've always felt different. I looked different from the people around me.

Kiss from India

Rani was adopted when she was very small. In this book, she travels with her adoptive parents to her native village in India to learn more about her biological mother and her family. Her mother is no longer alive, but Rani wants to visit her two brothers, Palin and Sabal, to get an idea of ??who her mother was. Rani is very insecure about these encounters. With Palin it clicks right away. Rani feels good with this warm, friendly man. The meeting with Sabal is more difficult. But in the end, Sabal and Rani appear to have more in common than they dare to suspect at first sight.

During her stay, Rani is constantly confronted with the difference between her homeland and her native country. She worries if she will ever feel at home in her mother's country. When Rani decides to stay alone with her brother for a while, without her parents, this opens many doors.

In this book Rani gets an answer to the question why her mother gave her up for adoption. She discovers that her mother was a temple dancer who was forced into prostitution against her will, just like her sister. Her sister loses her life and her mother eventually dies of grief for not being able to protect her daughter. She wants a different future for Rani and gives her up for adoption.

Rani discovers how hard it is for her family, as Dalits, within the caste system in India. Ultimately, Rani and her family fight against the injustice caused by this system. When she travels back to the west at the end of the story, she feels like a real Dalit, who wants nothing more than to wake up the West for all the injustice that is happening in her homeland.

'Kiss from India' is the sequel to 'Barefoot Dancing'. However, you can read the book separately. The information you have obtained in the first book can sometimes be enriching, but you do not really need it to be completely absorbed in this story.

Danish orphanage children used in a secret investigation supported by the CIA

This is the first time that research experiments with placed children have been documented in Denmark, assesses historians who call experiments "shocking".

Correction: It previously appeared that Fini Schulsinger was a psychologist, but he was not. Fini Schulsinger was a psychiatrist.

He remembers all the investigations. Especially the one where he gets put in a chair while getting electrodes put on his arms, legs and on the chest around the heart. Then he gets some headphones on and has to listen to some loud, shrill sounds.

- It was very uncomfortable, says DR documentary filmmaker Per Wennick, who as a child participated in the experiments.

The research experiments have come to light in connection with a new one DR documentary series, 'The hunt for myself', which premieres today. Here, director Per Wennick digs into the mysterious tests he participated in as a child without knowing the background to them.

Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Supranational Forbearance in the European Union

Abstract

Why would a supranational law enforcer suddenly refrain from wielding its powers? We theorize the supranational politics of forbearance – the deliberate under-enforcement of the law – and distinguish them from domestic forbearance. We explain why an exemplary supranational enforcer – the European Commission – became reluctant to launch infringements against European Union member states. While the Commission’s legislative role as “engine of integration” has been controversial, its enforcement role as “guardian of the Treaties” has been viewed as less contentious. Yet after 2004, infringements launched by the Commission plummeted. Triangulating between infringement statistics and elite interviews, we trace how the Commission grew alarmed that aggressive enforcement was jeopardizing intergovernmental support for its policy proposals. By embracing dialogue with governments over robust enforcement, the Commission sacrificed its role as guardian of the Treaties to safeguard its role as engine of integration. Our analysis holds broader implications for the study of forbearance in international organizations.

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6 women arrested for running adoption racket in Delhi

New Delhi, Dec 25 (UNI) Six women were arrested for allegedly running an inter-state

adoption racket. They were involved in trafficking over 50 new-born babies, police

said on Saturday. Rajesh Deo, Deputy Commissioner of Police,

Crime Branch, said the gang was involved in trafficking of over 50 new-born babies. Two

infants were rescued and ten babies who were trafficked were identified after arresting the

Couple fight to keep adopted son, 3, ‘ripped from only family’ he’s known

The attorney for an adoptive couple has asked the state Supreme Court for review after an appeals court found their son's birth father's parental rights were wrongly terminated. (MLIve File Photo) Emily Lawler | MLive.com

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – An adoptive couple’s attorney said a state Court of Appeals ruling poses a potential threat to children who are given up at birth under Michigan’s Safe Delivery of Newborns Law.

Her clients have cared for – and eventually adopted - a 3-year-old boy after his birth mother surrendered him at the hospital at birth.

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Child adoption slowly gains ground in Japan, though prospective parents still face obstacles

Kaoru Tachibana’s journey in becoming an adoptive parent has been a race against time involving layers of legal hurdles, stacks of bureaucratic paperwork and considerable soul-searching as she waited for her child with an empty baby bed.

Before she received notice this summer that she should be expecting to welcome a newborn in October, the 40-year-old office worker was on the verge of giving up on the prospect of becoming a mother. A prior match had fallen through earlier this year when the birth mother decided against giving her child away. Tachibana’s husband was also about to turn 52, several years beyond the age limit many private adoption agencies have set for aspiring parents.

“We had rented a baby bed in anticipation of welcoming a child the first time around. It had a six month lease, so we decided to call it quits if we didn’t hear back from our agency before that expired,” says Tachibana, who asked to be referred to by her maiden name to protect her child’s privacy. She currently lives in Okinawa with her husband and adopted baby girl.

“Needless to say, we are grateful to be able to welcome a child into our family,” she says. “I know it didn’t have to be us — she could have been adopted by others — but we’d like to do everything we can so she feels glad she came to us.”

Tachibana belongs to a small but slowly expanding pool of couples adopting children in Japan, a patriarchal society with an emphasis on blood ties where the vast majority of adoptees aren’t kids — in fact, most are men often recruited as heirs to family businesses.

Vacancy Secretary (HR) - FIOM

Introduce…

Fiom is the expertise center in the field of unwanted pregnancy, distance & adoption and kinship questions. Working at Fiom is based on the right to self-determination of unwanted pregnant women and the right of a child to know where he or she comes from and to grow up while retaining his or her own identity. Fiom offers information and help with unwanted pregnancy, aftercare in the field of adoption and guides people in their search for biological family at home and abroad. In addition, we manage the KID-DNA Database, which enables a match between a donor child and an anonymous donor. We do all this with about 80 motivated employees from our offices in 's-Hertogenbosch and Houten.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, cheerful and stress-resistant centipede who knows how to get things done. You know your responsibilities and you support the team secretariat and the HR team to organize the daily ins and outs down to the last detail. You are versatile, from conducting telephone conversations and chatting with people who have questions about unwanted pregnancies, providing support with recruitment and selection, receiving guests and taking care of personnel administration.

SECRETARY (HR)

24 hours a week