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Monday, September 07, 2009

Notices for 40 orphanages in Tiruvallur district
By Nireesh @ 12:11 PM :: 142 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

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.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Soon, orphans in state to get ‘home and mother’
By Nireesh @ 1:07 PM :: 108 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

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’.

Friday, July 31, 2009

CHINA/ The beginning of the end of the one-child policy
By Nireesh @ 11:56 AM :: 119 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

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.

Friday, July 31, 2009

12 bills await Prez nod to become laws
By Nireesh @ 11:46 AM :: 112 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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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.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Focus on China’s family planning laws
By Nireesh @ 11:19 AM :: 145 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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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.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Holt International: Adoption challenges in China
By Nireesh @ 10:17 AM :: 124 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

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

Monday, July 13, 2009

China babies 'sold for adoption'
By Nireesh @ 10:04 AM :: 68 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.

Friday, July 03, 2009

Orphanage scandal officials punished
By Nireesh @ 9:51 AM :: 72 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

SIX government officials in southwest China have been punished over an orphanage scandal when three children were taken away from their families who could not afford fines for violating family planning regulations.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Probe into child trafficking
By Nireesh @ 12:41 PM :: 81 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

Imphal, June 18: Senapati police today ordered an inquiry into the alleged trafficking of children after 25 of them were rescued by a team of Calcutta police from a train at Howrah station yesterday while they were being taken to Andhra Pradesh.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Experience the joy of sharing
By Nireesh @ 10:24 AM :: 66 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

When you see the children picking rags, sleeping on the streets, working instead of studying, newborn girl being abandoned by her parents and poor infrastructure as well as low educational standard in government schools, you must have felt “I wish I could do something?” There are some youth who wish to do something for these deprived people. But most of them do not involve in volunteering work because of three major reasons—not knowing where to start, the fear that it may be too much of responsibility and concern that it cannot be done with their limited time availability.

Youth for Seva” (YFS) is a platform that provides answer to all these questions.

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