During a stay in her country of origin, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Julienne MPEMBA made a dramatic observation. In his neighborhood, many children do not go to school. And when she asks them why they stay at home, the answer is the same "I was expelled because my school fees have not yet been paid" or "this year, I will not go to school because we doesn't know how to pay my school fees".

Watching some children from her neighborhood wandering in the street, at a time when the others are at school, she said to herself that she was very lucky to finish her humanities in Congo and to be able to go to Belgium to undertake university studies.

The unfortunate and alarming observation is there. The lack of schooling in the DRC at the budgetary level obliges parents to finance the studies of their children, among other things by taking charge of the teachers' salaries and the various fees required by the school managers. This system is materialized by the payment a premium that varies according to the public Catholic, official, kimbaguist schools, etc.

If the parents are unable to pay the premium in question, the children are simply sent home, and this dramatic situation most often leads to dropping out of school. This situation particularly affects a large number of orphans who no longer have parents to pay the said premium. And when they are collected within a host family, the children of the host parents often have priority with regard to the payment of the premium.

In recent years, the Congolese state has made considerable efforts. But, despite significant government intervention in the education sector (representing 10% of the national budget for the schooling of 10 million children), the Congolese population is faced with major challenges: many infrastructures are dilapidated, the school materials are seriously lacking, the number of teachers is insufficient.

Hundreds of Chileans adopted abroad have learned that they were trafficked. Investigators believe thousands of children may have been taken from their parents during Chile’s dictatorship.

Growing up in Minnesota, Tyler Graf knew almost nothing about his birth mother. And what little he knew, he said, stung.

His adoption papers listed her name, Hilda del Carmen Quezada; her age, 26; the date, March 2, 1983; and the hospital where she gave birth to him in central Chile. The documents also included a judge’s note saying Ms. Quezada gave him up because she had little money and “other children to support.”

“I never thought that any excuse would be good enough,” said Mr. Graf, who is now a firefighter in Houston. “I carried that animosity, that chip on my shoulder, my whole life.”

The claim that his mother willingly gave him up hurt, Mr. Graf said, until he learned this year that he is one of hundreds — possibly thousands — of Chilean adoptees taken from their parents without their consent during the country’s military dictatorship.

Suddenly he appeared on the screen. Linn's brother, who had been in despair when she had been adopted 35 years earlier. And soon she would also be talking to her biological mother.

Linn spent much of her childhood thinking about where she really came from. She had several siblings who were also adopted, but the desire to seek out her roots she did not share with them.

- I have had a great need to know my background, and my adoptive parents have always supported me in that, says 37-year-old Linn Sjöbäck from Kållered in Sweden.

She was adopted from Sri Lanka in 1985 when she was just 14 months old. Her biological mother was involved in the transfer to the adoptive family.

- There were real documents and case files. When I got the chance to read them, I was relieved that everything had gone right. I was a little uneasy after all the writing about kidnapped children in the 80s.

ARNHEM - The 29-year-old Carlos Wiltink from Arnhem was severely mistreated in his first years of life, in his native Brazil, and was badly burned. After his adoption, he had to undergo about forty operations because of his mutilations. Now he is participating in an international study, in which his skin must be repaired in a more sustainable way. That can make a big difference to him.

Between zero and three years, I was burned and mutilated in Brazil," says Carlos in the Burn Center in Beverwijk, where the investigation is taking place. In files he has read, there are stories about what might have happened there. "That's pretty intense. Not human."

The large scars on his legs are caused by burns, according to research in Beverwijk. One arm is also longer than the other due to stabbings, Carlos points out. "I have injuries to my head, because knives have also come on it. I also suffered brain damage, which can give me epilepsy."

In the end, young Carlos was found by the side of the road by two children. "They sounded the alarm. Then I was in hospital for a year and a half. My life hung by a thread."

My mother gave me away to the wrong people. She herself did not have enough money

The National Court for Federal Administrative Litigation No. 10, headed by Dr. Walter Lara Correa, Secretariat No. 19, headed by Dr. Scatularo Marta, located at Calle Paraguay 923/25, 7th floor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in files entitled "SEARCHING TRUTHS INFINITE CIVIL ASSOCIATION C / EN S / AMPARO LAW 16.986" File. 1209/2021, pending before this Court, has ordered the publication of this document in order to guarantee adequate notification of all those who may have an interest in the result of the litigation and to inform them that this action has been formally followed. collective filed by before the mentioned Court; that the class involves all human persons who were victims of identity substitution, 548 and (B) that the National Executive Branch carry out the implementation of a management plan, so that the substitution victims find their biological identity, as well as for anyone who has suffered an impairment being affected by human trafficking . The order that orders this reads: Buenos Aires, November 12, 2021: Therefore, I RESOLVE: 1º) Declare formally admissible that the present case is processed as a collective action, in the terms of article 3 of the Public Registry Regulation of Collective Processes (Agreed CSJN 32/2014) and Annex of Agreed No. 12/2016 and, consequently, order - conf. Point V subsection 4 of the aforementioned regulation - its registration in the Public Registry of Collective Proceedings of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, if this had not yet occurred; 2 °) In order to guarantee the adequate notification of all those persons who may have an interest in the result of the litigation, it is provided that they be annotated by means of publication of edicts for one day in the Official Gazette and in the newspapers "Page 12" and " Chronicle"; whose preparation and subscription is the responsibility of the plaintiff. In them, the interested parties will be informed that the present collective action was formalized before this Court; that the class involves all human persons who were victims of identity substitution, persons in search of their biological identity and / or their relatives interested in the search, and all those who have been impaired by human trafficking and that its object consists of in which: A) Law No. 26,548, in its articles 2, 5, 6, is declared unconstitutional 14 and 23, subsection d), insofar as it is limited to guaranteeing the obtaining, storage and analysis of genetic information regarding crimes against humanity whose execution has begun within the scope of the National State until December 10, 1983, considering that there are victims of identity substitution before, during and after said process, therefore the universality of access to the Genetic Database is proposed, without the restrictions of Law No. 26,548 and (B) that the National Executive Power carry out the implementation of a management plan, so that replacement victims find their biological identity, as well as for anyone who has suffered an impairment being affected by human trafficking. Register, notify the parties, contact the Public Registry of Collective Proceedings and release the previously ordered edicts. Signed by: Edgardo Walter Lara Correa, federal judge. Edgardo Walter Lara Correa Judge - Edgardo Walter Lara Correa Federal Judge

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J&KARA Constituted After Media Reports Claimed Covid Orphans ‘On Sale’

Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir administration has constituted a new adoption resource agency for the erstwhile state to ensure “Care, Welfare & Protection” of the children who were orphaned by the ongoing pandemic, amidst the sensational media reports alleging that “Covid orphans” were being put up for sale by traffickers.

The agency has been set up in order to deal with the process of adopting orphans legally—especially those who lost their parents during Covid—under the guidance of the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) that was constituted in terms of the Juvenile Justice which deals with the 2015’s Care and Protection of Children Act.

Mission Director, ICPS (Integrated Child Protection Scheme) Shabnam Kamili told Kashmir Observer that formation of the new adoption resource agency will fortify the steps taken by the government for protection of orphan children especially those rendered by ongoing pandemic.

“Earlier, J&K wasn’t registered under CARA as there was no State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA) for J&K which would have ensured a better protection of orphans in the Valley.” Shabnam said.

Whatever industries have been adversely affected by the pandemic, the fertility industry does not appear to be one of them. Of particular note is the number of children being commissioned through IVF or surrogacy on behalf of single parents who, perhaps in response to uncertainty created by the pandemic, have decided to tackle the task of parenthood on their own. In the rush to approve the personal choices of adults, the media does not seem to consider the situation of the children being commissioned in these arrangements and being intentionally deprived of at least one parent in the process.

Last weekend, for example, the Brisbane Times carried an upbeat story about “How surrogacy allowed a single man to keep hold of his fatherhood dream”. Shaun Resnik, who found himself single at 40 “with a lot of love to give” and still not having met ‘Mr Right’ decided to “embark on fatherhood alone”. Lynn Burmeister, the director of Number 1 Fertility, commented that she believes this case may be a significant landmark.

“It will open people’s eyes to the possibility that you can start a family as a single dad,” she said.

Sarah Jefford, a Melbourne surrogacy lawyer, has noticed an increase in the number of single men seeking legal advice on surrogacy in the last two years. Jefford believes an increasing social acceptance of single parenthood is one of the factors driving the interest of single men investigating surrogacy.

Logistically speaking, it has always been far easier for women to become single parents by intention, but experts have observed a striking upward trend in young single women using donor sperm for fertility treatment as well. Last year, the number rose to 866 in Victoria alone. This represents a 48 per cent increase over a four-year period and now far outstrips the number of same-sex female couples in the state using donor sperm to concieve a child (we have already written at length about our concerns regarding IVF and sperm donation).

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Growing up, Angela Tucker felt like a racial impostor. She may have looked Black, but she didn’t feel that way.

Well-educated, resourceful family of children, who got involved locally, have got a discriminating fuckfinger and give up.

Stevns : Imagine this thought experiment:

Scenario 1: You walk down Algade in the town hall town of Store Heddinge, with a stroller and minor children, and out of the blue a man comes by and gives you a fuckfinger.

Scenario 2: You have picked up your children in the day care institution, are on their way home, and a man on a bicycle is passing by, while he shouts something about the Ku Klux Klan probably taking care of you.

Fantasy? No, rather a nightmare for a young child who moved to Stevns in September 2020, but who has now put his home and wish house up for sale, and is fleeing racist abuse.

The Calcutta High Court has recently refused to grant custody of a four and a half years

old girl child to her biological father and instead permitted the child to be in the care and

protection of a family friend of her deceased mother.

However, the Court has granted visitation rights to the biological father after observing

that the bond between the child and her natural father ought to be encouraged from a