Court orders El Salvador to investigate children’s disappearances

October 10, 2011 | 4:22pm
REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY — Human rights advocates are hailing an international court decision ordering the government of El Salvador to fully investigate the cases of hundreds of children who disappeared during the nation’s civil war three decades ago.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San Jose, Costa Rica, found rights violations in the cases of six youngsters who vanished after being taken away by soldiers in 1981 and 1982.

One of the six children, Gregoria Contreras, 4 years old when she disappeared, was reunited with her family many years later after being tracked down by a Salvadoran group, the Assn. for the Search for Missing Children, also known as Pro-Busqueda. The group’s enduring search for children who went missing during the conflict was chronicled earlier this year by The Times here. (more…)

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China’s Missing Children

Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com

As many as 70,000 Chinese kids may get kidnapped each year. Parents, who often have nowhere to turn to for help, are taking matters into their own hands.

BY CHARLES CUSTER | OCTOBER 10, 2011

BEIJING—On April 10, 2010, the Liu family was living the Chinese dream. The couple had moved to the city, rented an apartment, and were blessed with two beautiful children. They weren’t rich, but they were getting by. Like many Chinese people, they felt their lives were getting better.

The next morning, strange men came to their house, grabbed their son Liu Jingjun, dragged him into a white van, and drove off. Since then, the Lius have been looking for him. They haven’t found him, but they have discovered that there are an awful lot of people just like themselves. (more…)

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Daughter of ‘Dirty War,’ Raised by Man Who Killed Her Parents

Claimants Rummage through Samaritan’s Purse

Published On  Sep 11,  2011

Charities board continues to settle, transfer property of NGOs with revoked licences

Close to 53 individuals have claimed, last week, that they have shares in properties belonging to Samaritan Purse, found in Addis Abeba, which the board of Charities and Civil Societies Agency (CCSA) had decided to confiscate. (more…)

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Child trafficking

By Letter
Published: August 7, 2011

LAHORE: Millions of children throughout the world are targets of child trafficking. They are victims of pornography, trafficking and child prostitution. Common reasons cited for this disgusting category of child exploitation is poverty, low status of girls and women, rapid urbanisation, break-up of traditional families, consumerist values and sensational mass-media. (more…)

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Families hold out hope for the return of stolen babies

Source:http://www.smh.com.au/world/families-hold-out-hope-for-the-return-of-stolen-babies-20110805-1ifgk.html

Sharon Lafraniere
August 6, 2011Returned … Xiong Chao, 6, with his grandmother, Dai Yulin. Chao was dropped from a balcony three metres high in a struggle between his mother and officials who wanted to take him. Photo: The New York Times
LONGHUI COUNTY, China: Parents and grandparents have long known to grab their babies and hide whenever family-planning officials show up at the mountainous Longhui region of terraced rice and sweet potato fields. Too many infants have been snatched by officials, never to be seen again, they say. (more…)

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Libya: 105 Children Kidnapped in Misrata Orphanage

Source: http://www.mathaba.net
Posted: 2011/07/13

From: Mathaba

World silent as Libyan children abducted and disappear abroad to unknown fate

TRIPOLI (mathaba)—“Libya´s Social Welfare minister Ibrahim Sharif has denounced that 53 young girls and 52 boys were kidnapped from the Misrata Orphanage,” said Telesur TV special envoy to the Northern African nation, Rolando Segura. (more…)

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Live-ins are not eligible to adopt kids

Jul 12, 2011, 06.47am IST TNN[ Swati Deshpande ] MUMBAI:

Live-in couples desirous of adopting children have no hope on this front any more. The existing adoption guidelines, which were silent on the issue, have been amended to specifically bar them from adoption. (more…)

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Adoption is back in business at home

Sunday, July 10, 2011, 13:11

Rashi Aditi Ghosh/ Zee Research Group

Adoption is back in business in India. The adoption levels within the country more than doubled in the last four years. In contrast, adoption of kids born in India abroad has registered a sharp fall. But nobody is losing sleep over that. (more…)

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18-mth-old kidnapped & sold for Rs 50,000, rescued

A Selvaraj, TNN | Jun 30, 2011, 01.55am IST
CHENNAI: The police on Wednesday rescued in Porur an 18-month-old boy from an autorickshaw driver, who allegedly bought the child from a woman for Rs 50,000. The boy, Maniraj, went missing from his house in West Saidapet on June 16. Police believe that a woman, identified as Ilakkiyah, kidnapped the boy from his house. “We have narrowed down on Ilakkiyah,who kidnapped the child, and hope to nab her soon,” a senior police officer said. (more…)
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