{"id":39800,"date":"2019-06-20T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39800"},"modified":"2019-06-20T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:22:24","slug":"new-zealand-told-stop-stealing-maori-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39800","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand told: &#8216;Stop stealing Maori kids&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>New Zealand&#8217;s government watchdog will investigate the practice of authorities seizing newborn babies from their mothers &#8212; including some when they are still in hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Taking infants into state care &#8212; known as &#8220;uplifting&#8221; &#8212; has been making headlines in the country since last week when an investigation by local media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsroom.co.nz\/2019\/06\/11\/629363\/nzs-own-taken-generation#\" target=\"_blank\">Newsroom<\/a> showed authorities attempting to take a seven-day-old baby from its 19-year-old mother &#8212; who was of Maori heritage &#8212; while she was still in the maternity ward in Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hospital, on New Zealand&#8217;s east coast. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Wednesday, New Zealand&#8217;s Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ombudsman.parliament.nz\/newsroom\/item\/chief-ombudsman-to-conduct-wide-ranging-investigation-into-the-removal-of-newborn-babies\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a wide-ranging, independent investigation into<strong> <\/strong>the Ministry for Children&#8217;s uplifting process, making it the third inquiry to be announced since the story hit headlines.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)New Zealand&#8217;s government watchdog will investigate the practice of authorities seizing newborn babies from their mothers &#8212; including some when they are still in hospital.Taking infants into state care &#8212; known as &#8220;uplifting&#8221; &#8212; has been making headlines in the country since last week when an investigation by local media outlet Newsroom showed authorities attempting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}