Source: http://www.thenational.ae Shaikh Azizur Rahman, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: June 28. 2010 Nagarani, with her husband and two children in the background, at their home in Pulianthope slum in Chennai. Their bid for a DNA test to confirm whether a boy adopted by a Dutch family is their son kidnapped 11 years ago was turned… Read more »
Month: June 2010
Vietnam law change may allow adoptions to resume
Source: http://www.sbpost.ie 27 June 2010 By Kieron Wood Adoptions from Vietnam are set to restart from January next year, after Vietnam passed legislation to ensure that its laws comply with the Hague Convention on intercountry adoption. Around 60 per cent of the 400 or so international adoptions in Ireland every year are from Vietnam. However, the… Read more »
Continuation “DNA case” Indian couple
Source: http://www.rechtspraak.nl Zwolle-Lelystad, 23 June 2010 – Today, the three-judge family section of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad proceeded behind closed doors with the hearing of the request filed by the Indian couple in the “DNA case”. For further information about this case please be referred to the press releases issued by the court on… Read more »
Continuation “DNA case” Indian couple
Zwolle-Lelystad, 23 June 2010 – Today, the three-judge family section of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad proceeded behind closed doors with the hearing of the request filed by the Indian couple in the “DNA case”. For further information about this case please be referred to the press releases issued by the court on 11 June… Read more »
Aboriginal stolen children 'were used in leprosy tests'
This article was published on 17.04.2008 in The Independent. The Australian government has launched an investigation into claims that aboriginal children seized from their parents during the 1920s and 1930s were secretly used as guinea pigs for leprosy treatments.
Overseas adoption move welcomed
This article was published on 30.03.2008 in The Age. DEBORRA-LEE Furness was overjoyed yesterday to learn that an advisory body will be formed to make overseas adoptions easier.
Celebrity campaign to reform adoption laws
This is the transcript of a radio show that was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 13.03.2008. KERRY O’BRIEN: The apparent ease with which celebrities adopt children from the developing world has left many prospective parents in Australia wondering why it’s such a difficult process here.
Adoption rate in free fall
This article was published on 21.02.2008, in The Age. Thirty-five years ago there were almost 10,000 adoptions in Australia. Last year there were just 568.
Sorry Day and the Stolen Generations
This article, as well as other reports and documents can be found on Australia’s Culture Portal. The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 – one year after the tabling of the report Bringing them Home, May 1997. The report was the result of an inquiry by the Human Rights and Equal… Read more »
Police ground children in Dili
This article was published on 10.11.2007 in The Sidney Morning Herald. AUTHORITIES have stopped a woman from leaving East Timor with 23 children from an orphanage run by an Australian after a UN agency raised concerns.
