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NGO concerned over rise of baby abandonment during lockdown

More than three months into a nationwide lockdown and the month of July has been littered with crime scenes and the memorials of women and children across South Africa. As news of violent crime slowly begins to dominate coronavirus headlines, reports indicate another tragic set of statistics: an increasing number of babies being abandoned. Speaking to VOC’s Breakfast Beat on Monday, chairperson of the National Adoption Coalition of South Africa […]

22 June 2020

News

Lonely journey for single mothers during lockdown

By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert Giving birth is a scary thing to do especially for those who are first-time moms, but the scariest thing is having to go through that experience without the support from family and friends. Thousands of mothers have given birth at various hospitals during the COVID19 pandemic. Mothers who gave birth at Groote Schuur Hospital during the lockdown are feeling lonely and anxious as they are not […]

20 April 2020

International News

‘Breaking point’: Babies dying in freezing cold amid Idlib push

Displaced Syrians fleeing gov't offensive forced to sleep outside in sub-zero temperatures as camps are full, UN says. Out in the open and under the freezing weather, Mustafa Hamadi and his family settled into their makeshift tent in the village of Killi, in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib - their second time being displaced in less than one year. The sub-zero temperatures that night on February 11 kept them […]

18 February 2020

Local

Bodies of 2 babies found in freezer in Cape Town

A 35-year-old woman from Wesbank in Cape Town has been taken in for questioning by Western Cape police after the bodies of two babies were found in a freezer. On Thursday, police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said a resident had notified the police of the bodies at a house in the suburb. Van Wyk added an autopsy would be held to determine the cause of death and ages of […]

3 January 2020

International News

Sri Lankan baby trade: Minister admits illegal adoption trade

Sri Lankan authorities have admitted in a Dutch documentary that thousands of babies born there were fraudulently sold for adoption abroad in the 1980s. Up to 11,000 children may have been sold to European families, with both parties being given fake documents. Some were reportedly born into "baby farms" that sold children to the West. Sri Lanka's health minister told the Dutch current affairs programme Zembla he would set up […]

21 September 2017

babies

NGO concerned over rise of baby abandonment during lockdown

Lonely journey for single mothers during lockdown

‘Breaking point’: Babies dying in freezing cold amid Idlib push

Bodies of 2 babies found in freezer in Cape Town

Sri Lankan baby trade: Minister admits illegal adoption trade

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