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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - children's rights]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The court grants legal documents to a minor expelled from a foster care center due to his age: "I knew I hadn't lied"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/the-court-grants-legal-documents-to-minor-expelled-from-foster-care-center-due-to-his-age-knew-hadn-t-lied_1_5654150.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/00405f4c-384b-495c-9d13-9a8f9e5152df_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>It took three years for the courts to recognize that Gambian Saynei Kanteh was indeed a minor, after the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office ruled that he was over eighteen and therefore no longer entitled to public protection. He was immediately removed from the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child Welfare (DGAIA, now the DGPPIA) and expelled from the center where he lived. "I knew he wasn't lying, that I was seventeen, and I trusted that sooner or later..." <a href="https://www.ara.cat/societat/jutge-barcelona-ordena-donar-papers-menor-tutelat-complir-18-anys_1_4691672.html" >I would have the papers</a>"," he states.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marta Rodríguez Carrera]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:01:29 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Saynei Kanteh, sitting in the cloister of the monastery of San Jerónimo de la Murtra in Badalona.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The TSJC criticizes the fact that he was considered to be of legal age, despite having a valid passport that stated that he was not.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Punishment or justice?]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/opinion/punishment-or-justice_129_5575534.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/32455452-7574-4bfa-a060-2efc5a339756_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>A couple—she Australian, he English—decided to make a radical life change and settled in Italy, in a house in the woods where they lived with the bare necessities and raised their children in a way that was unconventional for most. Now, the Italian courts have decided to remove their custody of the children, alleging that the children—six-year-old twins and an eight-year-old girl—are not in school, lack basic services, and live in isolation. The children are in a foster care center while they await a judge's final decision on what is best for them. <strong>family </strong>It has been shown, with data from the Italian Ministry of Education, that a teacher continues her education at home and that her children play with other boys and girls in the area. They use solar panels for energy and draw drinking water from a well. The children show no signs of abuse. They don't have cell phones or television. They are not vaccinated. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but what exactly is being judged?</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Natza Farré]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:01:06 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A Carabinieri van in an archive image]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[What could the file of the case of the minor forced into marriage in Mollerussa be hiding?]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/what-could-the-file-of-the-case-of-the-minor-forced-into-marriage-in-mollerussa-be-hiding_1_5557558.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/8faf9751-2f04-4e12-a0f5-5452e74cbbb3_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The decision of a <a href="https://en.ara.cat/society/the-case-of-the-alleged-forced-marriage-of-14-year-old-girl-has-been-dismissed-and-the-accused-have-been-released_1_5556068.html" >Judge in Navarre to dismiss case concerning the alleged sale of a 14-year-old girl</a> The case of a girl being forced to marry a 21-year-old man from Mollerussa has shocked child protection organizations. They warn that child marriage is more common than it might seem at first glance, but that it often remains behind closed doors, leaving the child completely unprotected. Victims are often faced with the dilemma of reporting their parents and taking matters into their own hands, or accepting the arrangement to avoid further problems.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marta Rodríguez Carrera]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:27:59 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Demonstration by university and secondary school students on the occasion of March 8th, in Barcelona (March 8, 2023)]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Entities and police forces warn of the difficulties in detecting and investigating cases like that of this young woman.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[More than 30,000 minors live without papers in Catalonia.]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/more-than-30-000-minors-live-without-papers-in-catalonia_130_5404618.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/29bab1d7-da90-41bc-8f73-084d6f56e6b1_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x1593y852.jpg" /></p><p>As she enters adolescence, Amina S. dreams of being able to enter the academy and earn a place in the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) or the Local Police. Before that, however, she will have to obtain her papers and even acquire Spanish nationality. For now, at 17, after four years in Catalonia, she is waiting for her case to be resolved, once her father has regularized his status and can begin the process of obtaining family roots for his two children, while her mother must follow a separate procedure. "Not having papers makes you feel different, because you so often feel like there's an invasion of illegal immigrants!" says this young woman, who only thinks "about the future" and has never been able to return to her country of origin, not even when a grandmother died. "We wouldn't have been able to go back," she notes.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marta Rodríguez Carrera]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:00:44 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Sofía with her mother Carolina Urbano, in a square in L'Hospitalet.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Even those born in the State may be unable to regularize their administrative status for years.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA["Knowing my biological mother's name has given me peace."]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/knowing-my-biological-mother-s-name-has-given-peace_130_5353435.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/0b2c5c92-babb-414f-9fb3-c7fe388ad62b_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>With motherhood, Maia felt a "restlessness" about filling the biographical void that spans from conception to birth. Once in this world, her personal story was told by the family who, 46 years ago, came to the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital as a newborn and officially adopted her. From the very beginning, her adoptive mother explained to her—without prejudice—that <a href="https://criatures.ara.cat/familia/mare-juguem-a-neixer-infants-adoptats_1_1275426.html" >another woman had taken him to her belly</a> but for some reason he didn't keep her.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marta Rodríguez Carrera]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:01:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Know your own origins.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Catalan Institute for Foster Care and Adoption has helped search for the biological origins of 262 adopted people.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Daycare centers and camps are twice as expensive for children with disabilities.]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/daycare-centers-and-camps-are-twice-as-expensive-for-children-with-disabilities_1_5350693.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/cf7ced73-18a7-4c4d-a14e-4cea68b8cb12_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x2314y977.jpg" /></p><p>These days, families are searching and considering offers from administrations and organizations to fill part of their little ones' summer vacation with activities and leisure activities. Prices vary widely, depending on the days and hours of attendance, whether the child spends the night away, and the type of activity. Prices range from approximately €100 for a week of eight-hour summer camps to €300 or €400 for five or six days of summer camps. However, these are the prices for activities for children who don't need any specialized support. In contrast, for children with significant disabilities, the rates soar, even multiplying by two. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marta Rodríguez Carrera]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:44:49 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A boy with a disability playing on a basketball court, in a file image.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Support professionals raise prices and families demand more offers and scholarships.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aragon declares itself rebellious in accepting unaccompanied foreign minors]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/aragon-declares-itself-rebellious-in-accepting-unaccompanied-foreign-minors_1_5334592.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/cfa76c54-2da2-4c93-8739-605deab37e6e_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Spanish government is giving itself more days for the autonomous communities to refine the data they have submitted on the available places for migrant minors without family members. The deadline for the regional governments to submit their data for redistribution of the 6,000 children currently in overcrowded centers in the Canary Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla passed at midnight this evening. They must be relocated throughout the Peninsula based, for example, on each territory's prior reception efforts. Only Aragon has refused to provide its data, while the Community of Madrid has provided the central government with the total number of minors cared for by the system during the past year, instead of providing the data that would provide a snapshot of the current situation. According to the agreement between Junts and the PSOE, <a href="https://en.ara.cat/politics/new-junts-psoe-agreement-the-distribution-of-unaccompanied-migrant-minors-arriving-in-the-canary-islands_1_5319240.html" >Catalonia will have to take in between 20 and 30 of these minors.</a> Because it is one of the regions that serves the most, specifically 2,242, according to the data that the Ministry of Social Rights has submitted to the ministry.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:58:29 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Migrant minors rescued from a boat in the Canary Islands.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Spanish government is giving communities more days to provide details on how many of these children they care for.]]></subtitle>
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