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WEEKLY BULLETIN: 13 FEBRUARY 2015

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inclusive set-up of Anganwadi sevikas, school headmasters and a special group of<br />

people called ‘bal mitra’ (friends of children) aware about the situation of these<br />

sugarcane factory workers. Once the community in the area decides to help these<br />

people, then there will be better chances of education among the students,” said R S<br />

Patil, deputy commissioner, Women and Child Development.<br />

Read the full article at http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/project-launched-toensure-children-of-sugarcane-factory-workers-attend-school/.<br />

Children taken to UK should be returned to<br />

Australia, judge rules.<br />

(Australia)<br />

Man’s former wife, now dead, had specified in will that she did not want her two children to<br />

return to live with their father. An English woman who did not want her two children to live<br />

with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave. The woman had written<br />

a will and said “under no circumstances” did she wish the youngsters – a girl aged eight and a<br />

boy aged seven – to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her ex-husband, who is<br />

of Aboriginal descent, became embroiled in a British family court fight over the children’s<br />

futures after she died late in 2014. A judge ruled in favour of the woman’s ex-husband<br />

following a hearing in the family division of the high court in London. Mr Justice Roderic<br />

Wood had been told that the pair had married a decade ago and lived in Darwin, Australia. The<br />

the full article at http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/<strong>2015</strong>/feb/11/children-ukreturned-australia-judge#img-1.<br />

Australia asylum: Detention 'harms children and violates law'<br />

Australia's policy of detaining the children of asylum seekers causes them harm and violates<br />

international human rights law, a report says. A third of detained children had developed<br />

mental illnesses of such severity that they required psychiatric treatment, the Australian<br />

Human Rights Commission (HRC) said. It called for all detained children to be released<br />

immediately. PM Tony Abbott has called the report a blatant attack on his government. Mr<br />

Abbott said the commission "should be ashamed of itself" for being so partisan. Read the full<br />

article at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-31432017.

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