3 results for month: 05/2012
US Human Rights Violation: Kairi Sheperd
Indian girl Kairi Sheperd was adopted by an American woman 30 years ago, but she is now a homeless and a stateless international orphan.
Even though Kairi was legally adopted 30 years ago when she was 3 months old, the United States wants to dump Kairi on India, claiming that she was never properly adopted.
A quirk in US law denies Kairi the right to become a US citizen even though she was legally adopted under US law.
India's robust press, TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, debates the issue with Dr. Michelle Harrison, founder, Shishur Sevay, Anjali Pawar, founder & Director, SAKEE NGO, Ravi Batra, Senior Advocate and Capt Sushil Bhan.
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Child Pornography in France, Belgium and the Netherlands
Here is a recent documentary on child pornography in France, Belgium and the Netherlands by French journalist Karl Zéro. The report focuses on the Marc Dutroux affair which was widely reported in the international press in 2004.
An excellent in-depth exposé of the European perspective on child pornography and child exploitation with a focus the seeming inability and unwillingness of France to deal with this problem.
In French with English subtitles. Well worth the time and effort to watch the entire program.
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Lessons from Penn State: Training Mandated Reporters
From a special edition of Centerpiece, the official newsletter of the National Child Protection Training Center:
The recent child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, in which multiple, well-educated professionals declined to report clear evidence of maltreatment, is not an
isolated instance. Twenty years of research documents what every child protection professional in America already knows—that most people most of the time won’t report even
clear evidence of maltreatment or otherwise intervene to save a child.
Although less clear, the Penn State scandal also draws attention to an equally disturbing problem—that even ...