n order to implement the UN Child Rights Charter, the existing child law has been repealed

Laws aimed at enacting a new law

Since the United Nations has been included in the Bangladesh Child Rights Sanctions; And

Since it is expedient and necessary to formulate a new law to repeal and integrate existing child laws for the implementation of the provisions of that charter;

It is hereby enacted as follows: -

Ai.Bi. authorized to operate in Nigeria. Africa is the new frontier of international adoption

With the most populous country on the continent, the countries of equatorial Africa rise to six, with Ai.Bi.

Good news on the international adoption front. After seven years, new horizons are reopened, in particular towards Africa, the continent towards which, due to a series of factors, not least migration and demographic pressure, global attention is increasingly being concentrated .

In fact, in recent days the news that Ai.Bi. - Amici dei Bambini, has been authorized by CAI - International Adoptions Commission to operate in Nigeria. The African country, which does not participate in the 1993 Hague Convention on the protection of minors and cooperation in the field of international adoption, finds its reference legislation on the subject of extra-national adoptions in the Child's right act of 2003 and in the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child, entered into force November 29, 1990, in addition to a law of 1968 originally drafted for adoptions in the State of Lagos.

This is important news, because, to date, only an Italian association was operating at those latitudes. As a result, the number of adoptions was very low: eight Nigerian children adopted altogether between 2016 and 2017, with an incidence on total international adoptions of approximately 0.25%. For 2018, according to the data currently made available by the CAI, they were allowed to enter Italy from Nigeria for international adoption a minor in January, two in February and two in April.

Trafficking of children: The story of Kristoffer Ohrn, a mapuche baby who was kidnapped in dictatorship

His family called him Eduardo, but a social worker took it and made it available to a court. After living in Sweden, he learned the truth when he had a DNA test. 41 years later he traveled to Chile and managed to reunite with his brothers.

Kidnapping with violence, an imprescriptible crime suffered by a 9-month-old baby in La Araucanía. This is Kristoffer Tobias Ohrn Johansson is a Mapuche who today is reunited with his origins, with his family and with a violent past that separated him from his parents in 1977.

It was only known that La Aurora de Lautaro, headed by Rafael Cerda and Tusnelda Barriga, entered the home. Like hundreds of children, his passport consigned the address of a Monsignor Monsignor Muller 38, a property belonging to social worker Telma Uribe, who is investigated by the courts.

Uribe was the right hand of the representative of the Swedish adoption center, Ana María Elmgren, a housewife who sent thousands of children abroad during the dictatorship and Ohrn was one of them.

The DNA-MATCHING Association

Do you know your roots and do you know where you are from?

Our work and goal

The DNA matching association works to unite families and bring them together through DNA matching.

We have experience with Bangladesh which has been our first starting point for meeting families who have experienced that their child disappeared suddenly in the 1970s and 1980s. Many children in Bangladesh were adopted away to families in Europe at that time, and many adult adopters now miss their roots and biological families and do not know where to look.

Children in the care system could struggle to provide evidence they need to remain in the UK once Britain leaves the EU.

Thousands of EU children living in foster care in the UK should be given automatic British citizenship to avoid becoming the new Windrush generation, say a leading children's charity.

Coram, a legal children's centre specialising in adoption and fostering services, has warned that thousands of children risk being left undocumented when the UK leaves the European Union because they are unaware of the EU settlement scheme or find it too complicated.

The government has launched an online settlement application which all EU nationals must complete in order to remain in the UK and be able to work, access healthcare and education.

But Coram's childcare lawyer, Alexandra Conroy-Harris, told Sky News that many children in the care system will struggle to provide the evidence they need to remain in the UK.

Every parent’s worst nightmare happened to an American couple a week ago in Kenya. Matt and Daisy Mazzoncini became the legal guardians to a three-year-old boy in April 2017 after he and his twin were abandoned in a plastic bag outside of a prayer center in Kiambu, run by a friend of Daisy Mazzoncini. After caring for him and paying for medical treatment, the couple was awarded joint legal guardianship.

On the night of Friday, April 5, eleven alleged DCI officers raided their home in Westlands and took the boy with no explanation or documentation. The couple still does not know where their son has been taken, and Americans are rallying behind them as they work to use habeas corpus to get the child back.

According to The Star, the real trouble began when the Mazzoncinis applied for adoption after they were told it may be possible to “get an exemption from the moratorium on adoption.” They had to do many interviews with the Child Welfare Society, where they were ultimately accused of child trafficking and creating false records to make it look like the child was sick. However, the boy had continuous epileptic seizures in September 2018 and was advised to go abroad for specialized treatment.

Right before they were due in children’s court to apply for permission to take him to the United States, a group of people dressed as government officials came and demanded to take the boy. After the abduction, the DCI sent out a tweet claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and credit for the boy’s “rescue.” The tweet has since been removed.

The couple still does not know where their son has been taken, and Americans are rallying behind them as they work to use habeas corpus to get the child back.

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THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said on Friday (April 12).

Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.

Results of DNA tests conducted on Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen "showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat," the organisation said in a statement.

"The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic," Defence for Children added.

The controversial case became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat's DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.

Column Ina Hut: 'Tackle human trafficking, the moral of the debate!'

The youth movement Exxpose wants to make punishment for sex in the Netherlands punishable. With the petition 'I am priceless' that was offered to the House of Representatives on Wednesday 10 April, they hope to stimulate both the social and political debate about this. 40,000 people have now signed. Exxpose refers to the so-called "nordic model". Then both sex buyers and third parties who earn from prostitution are punishable. People in prostitution are not punishable and help is offered.

According to Exxpose, evaluations of countries where this model has already been introduced show that by tackling the demand for prostitution, fewer people will start buying sex, the country will become less attractive to traffickers and fewer people will be exploited in prostitution.

Although it is commendable that these young people are concerned about the fate of (potential) victims of human trafficking, it strikes me that in the debate about prostitution and human trafficking two things are often confused. Similarly here. On the one hand the abuses in prostitution, prostitution in relation to human trafficking. On the other hand, the moral judgment about prostitution / sex work: Love and sex belong together ... It would only be your daughter ...

Beyond the polarization

Some ask me about the adoption process, some are curious about bonding, and others wonder how to reveal the adoption to their extended family.

Personally what warms my heart is when people discuss special needs adoption or older child adoption with me.

As an adoption counsellor, I have the humble privilege of talking to a wide spectrum of adoptive families both before and after the adoption. Some ask me about the adoption process, some are curious about bonding, and others wonder how to reveal the adoption to their extended family. Personally what warms my heart is when people discuss special needs adoption or older child adoption with me. Not too long ago, a couple who have biological sons talked to me about adopting a daughter with special needs. The line between personal and professional blurred as I counselled them and also shared stories of my own daughters’ adoptions (one with a special need).

A few weeks after the counselling session, the couple went ahead and adopted a five-year old girl who was in the special needs category due to an amputated leg. When this beautiful girl was a baby, the cruel inhumanity that millions of girls face in our country had caused her to lose one of her legs. After that, she was raised in a children’s shelter who took care of her and put her in the legal adoption pool.

This is no small feat.