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Some ran away or were thrown out of orphanages or abusive homes, and were often seen begging, inhaling 'aurolac' from sniffing bags, and roaming around the Bucharest Metro. This situation was presented in a 2001 documentary called Children Underground, which depicted the life of Romanian street children.
After receiving distressed text messages from a young man worried about the conditions his friend was living in at a social care home in central Romania, Georgiana Pascu arranged an impromptu ...
In 1966, the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu decreed a ban on contraception and abortion with the aim of increasing Romania's population. At the age of three years the children were medically examined. Disabled and orphaned children were in huge numbers brought into homes like Cighid or psychiatric hospitals, where they lived under inhumane ...
The main charge of this corruption scandal is related to the sale of 224 hectares of land belonging to the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UASVM) at an undervalued price. Gabriel Popoviciu (a.k.a. Puiu Popoviciu) was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment, Ioan Niculae Alecu (the former rector of the UASVM) - to 6 years ...
Over the years, other diocesan Caritas organisations were established in the Greek Catholic eparchies and subsequently affiliated with the Caritas Romania Confederation. One of the first important activities launched in 1994 was the home care programme, supported both financially and methodologically by Caritas Germany. Its goal was to provide ...
Romanian nationals Laurentiu Baceanu and Alexandru Vasile are accused of posing as law enforcement during a series of robberies in Orange County, including in Anaheim, Tustin and Westminster.
Collective (Romanian: Colectiv, also known as Collective: Unravelling a Scandal) is a 2019 documentary film directed, written, produced, shot, and edited by Alexander Nanau. It centers on the 2016 public health scandal in Romania following the Colectiv nightclub fire .
More than 100 health care facilities in Romania are offline after hackers launched a ransomware attack on at least 25 hospitals.