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NEWS....
20th May 2013
Adoption group may seek UN assistance in extending rights
The Adoption Rights Alliance is considering going to the United Nations in order to force the State to grant adopted people the same rights as every other Irish citizen.
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24th March 2013
Calls for probe into forced adoptions
Groups representing birth mothers and adopted people have called for an investigation into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions in Ireland.
It comes following a national apology by Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, to thousands of unmarried mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their children for adoption over several decades.
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SF queries issue of falsified adoption records
Concerns about falsified adoption records in Irish State institutions were raised in the Dáil, following the apology by the Australia n prime minister to single mothers forced to give up their children for adoption.
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Australia’s Gillard makes historic apology for forced adoptions
Australia n prime minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in parliament to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.
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Julia Gillard's adoption apology comes after an abyss of trauma
Gillard shines when touched by emotion, and her standing ovation from mothers wronged by the state was well deserved
Hundreds of mothers and their families gathered yesterday to hear a historic national apology from Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard. Forced to give up their babies, these women were among the thousands of young mothers who endured a cruel and often illegal approach by governments, churches, hospitals and charities towards pregnancy out of wedlock in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s, whereby unmarried mothers were coerced or deceived into giving up their babies to adoption by married couples.
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Julia Gillard apologises to Australian mothers for forced adoptions
Thousands of unwed women were made to give up their children so that they could be adopted by married couples
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in parliament on Thursday to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.
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