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...countries like China, Russia, India and Brazil. And providing the right level of support in areas like Afghanistan, Yemen, in the Middle East. So a much more coherent voice, built up from the 27 member countries working together. We are the beginning of that. The treaty gives us the legal basis to do it, but the development will come in the next few years. I'm only into month three. I don't even have a full team yet. But as time goes on, we'll get better...
...seek asylum in the U.S. rather than relocate to nearby Austria or another European country that allows homeschooling? Romeike's wife Hannelore tells TIME the family was contacted by the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which suggested they go to the U.S. and settle in Morristown, Tenn. The nonprofit organization, which defends the rights of the U.S. homeschooling community - with its estimated 2 million children, or about 4% of the total school-age population - is expanding its overseas outreach. And on Jan. 26, the HSLDA helped the Romeikes become the first people granted asylum...
...contrast, homeschooling is legal in all 50 U.S. states, some of which don't require families to notify authorities of their intent to teach their children at home. Tennessee is among the states that require some form of notice as well as periodic assessment tests...
...into household slaves called restaveks or force them into prostitution. One of the more bizarre elements of the saga surrounding the 10 U.S. missionaries who were caught trying to ferry 33 children out of the country without proper documents is that the Dominican man who served as the missionaries' legal adviser, Jorge Puello, is wanted in El Salvador and the U.S. on human-trafficking charges, accusations he denies. (See exclusive pictures from Haiti's devastating earthquake...
This community backing may have factored into the offer Yvolene's temporary caregiver made in late February to let the girl live with her on a permanent basis if UNICEF can't locate a legal relative. That would be good news to any aid worker. But to St. Louis, who herself became homeless after the quake, the relief is all the sweeter, she says, knowing that "I've saved a child from a life on the streets." -With reporting by Jason Tedjasukmana / Jakarta, Indonesia