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| Monday, September 07, 2009 |
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Notices for 40 orphanages in Tiruvallur district
By Nireesh @ 12:11 PM :: 142 Views ::
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CHENNAI: Around 40 orphanages in the Tiruvallur district have been identified and issued notices to follow the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, said Tiruvallur district SP M C Sarangan.
The district police had arrested Rev Sadhu Immanuvel (60), the caretaker of Sahityam Charitable Trust, Vellur village for sexually torturing an inmate Revathi (18). Following her complaint, police inspected the orphanage. Inmates including eight women and two young boys were rescued and handed over to the social welfare officer.
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| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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Soon, orphans in state to get ‘home and mother’
By Nireesh @ 1:07 PM :: 108 Views ::
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Vadodara: Hundreds of orphans affected and infected by HIV will soon get a permanent address. The Gujarat State Aids Control Society (GSACS) is in the final stages of getting approval for opening two new orphanages in the state. Not just that, these orphans will also have someone to call their ‘mother’.
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| Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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CHINA/ The beginning of the end of the one-child policy
By Nireesh @ 11:56 AM :: 119 Views ::
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It's been more than 30 years since China instituted its one-child policy - whose enforcement led to charges of forced abortions, the abandonment of vast numbers of girl-babies to orphanages or death, the practice of sex-selective abortion, and, in rural areas, permission to have a second child if the first was a girl. Where politicians in Western democracies support abortion as part of a woman's "right to choose," China's policy made abortion widely available but took away the choice. The program was always defended as a necessary protection against over-population.
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| Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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12 bills await Prez nod to become laws
By Nireesh @ 11:46 AM :: 112 Views ::
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A dozen pieces of state legislation passed by the Maharashtra government are currently awaiting the Presidential nod to be turned into laws. There are bills where all formalities have been completed at state legislature level but are now stuck at the final stage of enactment. The 12 bills include pieces of legal framework to regulate the builder mafia in the state, amendments in criminal law to crack down on blackmailers and a law to fight the depleting levels of groundwater in Maharashtra.
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| Friday, July 31, 2009 |
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Focus on China’s family planning laws
By Nireesh @ 11:19 AM :: 145 Views ::
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Government officials in southern China have been accused of selling up to 80 babies taken from families who violated family planning laws in a scandal that has reignited the debate on China’s family planning policies and their enforcement.
Local government officials in Guizhou province in southwest China illegally seized babies from families who broke family planning rules and sold them to adoption agencies overseas for up to $3,000 for a child, the Southern Metropolis newspaper reported this week. Six government officials were on Saturday “punished” for their role in the scandal, said State-run news agency Xinhua.
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| Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
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Holt International: Adoption challenges in China
By Nireesh @ 10:17 AM :: 124 Views ::
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Loss of funding has put many children currently in foster homes at risk of returning to orphanages. Holt is committed to taking over the funding of these foster care programs in order to keep the children with their foster families until permanent families can be found. But we need donations to provide the food, supplies and program support to make this happen. Jian Chen, Program Director for China is currently in China, and she sent this message about how loving care and support of stable foster families is so important in the lives of vulnerable children
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| Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
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Orphans receive Jesus at camp
By Nireesh @ 10:38 AM :: 114 Views ::
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Many of the kids also come from difficult pasts. Ten days of summer camp, however, can impact even the most hardened lives.
"This first camp that we did, which happened when I was there, was probably the hardest group of kids we've ever had," Dunberg said. "They came from an orphanage in Kiev. They were older kids, and some of them said when they came, ‘We will have nothing to do with your Christ. We worship Satan, and that's what we're going to continue to do.'"
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