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An illegally adopted baby girl was entrusted with the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), even as an investigation into the allegations raised by her mother, a minor girl, began here on Thursday. The "foster" parents of the baby girl, reared by them for ...

Minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare Neelam KC Khadka has reiterated Nepal's commitment to end child marriage and to provide equal opportunities to girls through multi-sector engagement and inter-ministerial partnership. Minister KC made ...

Australia's human rights commissioner Gillian Triggs has said she held "grave concerns" for the welfare of the 1,102 asylum-seekers held by Australia on Christmas Island (Reuters Photo/Daniel Munoz). Sydney. Australia's human rights commissioner ...

More on: , , , , , A view of the village of Minto, a federally recognized tribe in . Photo by Tribal court decisions in child welfare matters must be treated with the same respect as state court decisions, the ruled today. Edward Parks was found ...

neka Gandhi on Thursday metPunjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The meeting focussed on the welfare of women in the state and steps that can be taken to help them. "We had a chat about Punjab and what we can do together for women and children in the ...

In a shocking state of affairs, the social welfare department has found that at least 40% of privately-run children's homes in Tamil Nadu are unregistered.

By Jamie Self, The State (Columbia, S.C.) McClatchy-Tribune Information Services July 23 -- COLUMBIA The state needs to hire about 200 new child-welfare workers -- a 25 percent increase -- to reduce caseloads that agency leaders, lawmakers and ...

Pallavi Ghosh CNN-IBN | 22-Jul-2014 11:46 AM New Delhi: Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi has sent the amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad according to sources. Sources say that the Law Minister ...

Women and Child Development minister Umashree on Friday wrote to Social Welfare minister H Anjaneya, seeking stern action against, and immediate suspension of, the principal and security guard of government-run Kittur Rani Chennamma Residential School for ...