“Dân số Việt Nam đã vượt mốc 100 triệu người vào năm 2025, tuy vậy sự sụt giảm mức sinh đi kèm với tuổi thọ tăng đang đẩy nhanh quá trình già hóa” (Trích).
Trước lo ngại về vấn đề già hóa dân số và thiếu hụt lực lượng lao động trong tương lai, VN đang đề ra biện pháp hỗ trợ tài chính và tăng nghỉ thai sản nhằm khuyến khích người dân sinh con. Tuy nhiên, chính sách khuyến sinh sẽ khó đạt hiệu quả khi đang vô tình tạo thêm áp lực sinh con cho phụ nữ và làm tăng định kiến xã hội với những cặp vợ chồng hiếm muộn.Tiếp tục đọc “Chính sách khuyến sinh bằng tiền thưởng vẫn khó làm người dân muốn sinh con”→
Một hệ thống y tế chẳng biết Chúa Phật là gì mới khiến mẹ phải lựa chọn “bỏ hay giữ thai nhi khiếm khuyết”. Một Chính phủ không giải quyết vấn đề kỳ thị (và tiêu diệt) thai nhi dị tật, có nghĩa là Chính phủ hỗ trợ một vấn đề phi đạo đức rất lớn trong trái tim con người.
Việt Nam, please, hãy là một dân tộc đạo đức và trưởng thành. Hãy tạo văn hóa không phân biệt đối xử với các em khiếm khuyết. Hãy tạo nền “giáo dục không rào cản” cho những em khiếm khuyết, “để có những trẻ mắc hội chứng Down vẫn hoàn thành chương trình đại học, rồi có thể đi làm kiếm tiền” (trích bài dưới đây).
Trẻ khiếm khuyết là ân điển Trời cho – khi Trời cho ta một em dị tật để nuôi, đó là Trời cho ta cơ hội để kiên nhẫn, yêu người, và gần gũi với Trời.
Sau ca mổ thành công tách cặp song sinh dính nhau ở Bệnh viện Nhi đồng TPHCM ngày 15/7, một số người hỏi tôi rằng, liệu đã đến lúc cần thiết phải đẩy mạnh sàng lọc dị tật thai nhi trước sinh, để ngăn chặn sự ra đời của những “đứa trẻ khuyết tật”?
Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving homes. Others to tragic ends. Raised in places where they looked like nobody else, many were told to forget their past and be grateful.
But the innate desire to understand where you came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots. In the process, they discover lies in their past and families they never knew existed. In this documentary, correspondent Wei Du travels around the world to meet Korean adoptees and accompany a few on their journey to reclaim who they are. Together, they reveal how an “orphan rescue” mission separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands.
00:00 Meet the adoptees 01:44 The lie of Korea’s “orphans” 03:04 A song I no longer recognise 05:15 Why 10,000 Korean children were sent to Sweden 07:11 How Sweden became a hub for Korean adoptions 10:29 Why the US took in so many Korean children 15:06 GI babies: Korea’s children of US soldiers 19:54 Cult leader’s adopted Korean children 24:13 “Saved from prostitution”? The truth of my adoption 27:55 Why this US couple adopted in 2005 32:03 Lies in our adoption stories 38:22 How Sweden pressured Korea to give up more children 42:49 Chase’s biological sister visits for his 20th birthday 46:15 Anna’s life in Sweden: Always different 48:54 Phil’s search for his birth family 52:46 Rebuilding siblinghood: Mary & Chase’s struggle 58:17 Catherine’s complex relationship with her adoptive mother 1:00:47 Catherine and Anna reunite after 50 years 1:06:58 Phil returns to Korea after 50 years 1:08:58 Koroot: NGO supporting Korean adoptees 1:10:15 Were adoption agencies in it for the money? 1:11:53 “A child supply market”: Moses Farrow 1:17:24 Korea investigates human rights violations in adoption 1:19:26 Confronting the orphanage manager who sent him abroad 1:23:41 Adoptees find comfort in each other 1:26:25 Han Tae-soon’s hunt for her kidnapped daughter 1:29:28 The fight for truth continues
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She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN
9 minute read
Published 5:27 PM EDT, Sat August 3, 2024
Forced marriage is considered a form of gender-based violence that predominantly affects young women, whose control over their lives is passed without consent from their parents to their partners. It can lead to decades of physical and psychological abuse, and in some cases suicide or murder.
This box represents a real photo of a 9-year-old girl in a golden bikini lounging on a towel. The photo was posted on her Instagram account, which is run by adults.
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men – The New York Times
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.
For this investigation, the reporters analyzed 2.1 million Instagram posts, monitored months of online chats of professed pedophiles and interviewed over 100 people, including parents and children.
Feb. 22, 2024
The ominous messages began arriving in Elissa’s inbox early last year.
“You sell pics of your underage daughter to pedophiles,” read one. “You’re such a naughty sick mom, you’re just as sick as us pedophiles,” read another. “I will make your life hell for you and your daughter.”
By age 18 years, Lalitbai was a married mother of three children. She became a child bride when she was 13 years old. At age 32 years, Lalitbai was a widow and cast out of her extended family. With no money or education, she worked tirelessly as a day labourer, eventually starting her own small bakery. She now speaks openly, with neighbours and in local gatherings, about stopping child marriage. Lalitbai lives in India, the country with the largest number of child brides worldwide.
Yet India is also making progress in reducing child marriage. According to UNICEF’s Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach? Latest Trends and Future Prospects, 2023 Update, released on May 3, 2023, since 2012, the percentage of young women aged 20–24 years who were married as children worldwide has fallen from 23% to 19%, and a substantial portion of this progress is driven by reductions in India.
In the past decade the prevalence of child marriage in this country has declined from 38% to 23%.
Gaza is a virtual prison with hardly any way in or out. And it has been so since ten years ago when Al Jazeera entered Gaza to talk to the grandchildren of Fatima al Najar, who had recently achieved a strange kind of fame as the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber.
These children, whose lives had been shaped by the oppressive conditions imposed on the territory by Israel, spoke frankly about the hopes, and fear, for their future. Tehal was just ten at the time, and wanted to be the first female president of Palestine.
She said she had three priorities; to clean up the mess left behind by the Israeli bulldozers, to give children their rights, and “to build a new Gaza”. In contrast, another young girl – Rana – hoped to become a journalist, “So I can tell the people how we suffer here. I am a child, I know what death means, I know what war means, I know what blood means.”
These and other children opened their hearts in a moving show of optimism in the face of the dire conditions in which they lived.
Now, a decade on, Rewind returns to Gaza in search of the children featured in Children of Conflict, now young adults.Once again they speak to Al Jazeera’s cameras contrasting their aspirations of ten years ago with the reality of today.
UNICEF OCTOBER 26, 2023 by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
The true cost of the violence in Gaza and Israel will be measured in children’s lives—those lost to the violence and those forever changed by it.
Less than three weeks on from the horrific attack inside Israel and the start of daily bombings of the Gaza Strip, the devastating tally in Israel and Gaza is quickly adding up. More than 2,700 Palestinian children have been killed and nearly 6,000 injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, for a shocking average of more than 480 child casualties per day.
More than 30 Israeli children have reportedly been killed, while at least 20 remain hostage in the Gaza Strip, their fates unknown.
Sadly, more suffering and death is on the horizon.
Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on Earth—home to more than 2 million people, nearly half of whom are children. More than 1 million people in the north have been warned to move south, ahead of what is expected to be a wide-scale military operation. But with near-constant shelling, closed borders, and little room for movement, they have nowhere truly safe to go.
Meanwhile, what clean water remains is quickly running out, leaving many Gazans with little choice but to rely on polluted wells. This dramatically increases the risk of waterborne-disease outbreaks. Unless access to safe drinking water is restored, people will die from severe dehydration and illness, with children the most vulnerable.
HÀ NỘI – Sắp phải đi làm sau 6 tháng nghỉ thai sản, Nhung, 31 tuổi, tìm chỗ gửi con, nhưng với đồng lương phụ bếp eo hẹp, gửi tư không thể, trường công không nhận.
Giữa những cánh cửa im lìm trong một dãy trọ cấp bốn ở thôn Nhuế, Kim Chung, huyện Đông Anh, Hà Nội trưa 8/3, duy nhất cửa phòng của Vũ Thị Nhung mở, nơi cô đang cho con ăn bột. Bé Bơ, hơn 5 tháng tuổi, ăn loáng hết đĩa bột. Nết ăn, nết ngủ của con khiến Nhung bớt phần nào nỗi lo đi gửi trẻ những ngày sắp tới. Nhưng người mẹ quê Ba Vì, Hà Nội còn nhiều trăn trở khác.
Nhung là phụ bếp trong khu công nghiệp, lương 4,2 triệu đồng một tháng. Chồng cô là đầu bếp chính, tổng lương cả hai vợ chồng được hơn chục triệu. “Đi gửi trường tư có mà hết lương nhỉ?”, Nhung nhắc không dưới ba lần trong cuộc nói chuyện với phóng viên.
Nhung, 31 tuổi đang tập cho con gái 5 tháng tuổi ăn dặm, ti sữa ngoài để sắp tới đi làm, trong căn phòng trọ ở thôn Nhuế, Đông Anh, hôm 8/3. Ảnh: Phan Dương
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