WEEKLY BULLETIN: 13 FEBRUARY 2015
France baby-swap families win damages (France) As Hugh Schofield reports, the swap was only discovered when one of the girls felt she did not look like her father. The families of two French girls who were accidentally switched at birth 20 years ago have been awarded nearly €2m (£1.5m) in damages. The clinic involved in the mix-up was ordered to compensate both girls - now women - their parents and siblings. Both babies had been treated in the same incubator and were then given to the wrong parents. Although the error was discovered 10 years ago, neither family has wanted to swap the girls back. On Tuesday, the court in Grasse, southern France, ordered the clinic in Cannes to pay €400,000 to each of the girls. Read the full story at : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31350550. Project launched to ensure children of sugarcane factory workers attend school. (India) When the kids are small and both the parents work, the kids are taken along and they lose out on education. Pune division’s Women and Child Development department has recently started a pilot project in Solapur to increase enrollment of children of sugarcane workers in schools. The project includes making school leaving certificates easily available to making local people take responsibility of the kids. The department intends to spread the project to other districts too.“What we are trying to do is create an all-inclusive set-up of Anganwadi sevikas, school headmasters and a special group of people called ‘bal mitra’ (friends of children) aware about the situation of these sugarcane factory workers. Once the community in the area decides to help these people, then there will be better chances of education among the students,” said R S Patil, deputy commissioner, Women and Child Development. Read the full article at http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/projectlaunched-to-ensure-children-of-sugarcane-factory-workers-attend-school/.
Children taken to UK should be returned to Australia, judge rules. (Australia) Man’s former wife, now dead, had specified in will that she did not want her two children to return to live with their father. An English woman who did not want her two children to live with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave. The woman had written a will and said “under no circumstances” did she wish the youngsters – a girl aged eight and a boy aged seven – to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her ex-husband, who is of Aboriginal descent, became embroiled in a British family court fight over the children’s futures after she died late in 2014. A judge ruled in favour of the woman’s ex-husband following a hearing in the family division of the high court in London. Mr Justice Roderic Wood had been told that the pair had married a decade ago and lived in Darwin, Australia. The the full article at http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/11/children-uk-returned-australiajudge#img-1. Australia asylum: Detention 'harms children and violates law' Australia's policy of detaining the children of asylum seekers causes them harm and violates international human rights law, a report says. A third of detained children had developed mental illnesses of such severity that they required psychiatric treatment, the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC) said. It called for all detained children to be released immediately. PM Tony Abbott has called the report a blatant attack on his government. Mr Abbott said the commission "should be ashamed of itself" for being so partisan. Read the full article at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-31432017.
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Children taken to UK should be returned to Australia,<br />
judge rules.<br />
(Australia)<br />
Man’s former wife, now dead, had specified in will that she did not want her two children<br />
to return to live with their father. An English woman who did not want her two children to<br />
live with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave. The woman<br />
had written a will and said “under no circumstances” did she wish the youngsters – a girl<br />
aged eight and a boy aged seven – to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her<br />
ex-husband, who is of Aboriginal descent, became embroiled in a British family court fight<br />
over the children’s futures after she died late in 2014. A judge ruled in favour of the<br />
woman’s ex-husband following a hearing in the family division of the high court in<br />
London. Mr Justice Roderic Wood had been told that the pair had married a decade ago<br />
and lived in Darwin, Australia. The the full article at<br />
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/<strong>2015</strong>/feb/11/children-uk-returned-australiajudge#img-1.<br />
Australia asylum: Detention 'harms children and violates<br />
law'<br />
Australia's policy of detaining the children of asylum seekers causes them harm and<br />
violates international human rights law, a report says. A third of detained children had<br />
developed mental illnesses of such severity that they required psychiatric treatment, the<br />
Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC) said. It called for all detained children to<br />
be released immediately. PM Tony Abbott has called the report a blatant attack on his<br />
government. Mr Abbott said the commission "should be ashamed of itself" for being so<br />
partisan. Read the full article at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-31432017.
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