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There's a three week-long march happening in India now to protest against child trafficking. All this to try an get the Indian Government to take the oh-so-very radical step of passing laws that would prosecute those who supply children for forced labor or sex.

Hey! There's a good idea!

The marchers, including many children who have been trafficked, will also stop in Bangladesh and Nepal, en route. The march has been organised by the Save the Childhood Movement, and Global March Against Child Labor in India, and is supported by several UN agencies.

And here's someone who got marching orders for considering adoption.

Yep, a woman in England was fired for taking vacation time to attend pre-adoption courses. Thankfully, a tribunal found her employer guilty of wrongful dismissal and sex discrimination and she's been awarded compensation.

The company that gave her the boot after deciding, ³she¹ll be no bloody use to me then², was Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Nottingham ... must in case anyone is thinking of not renting a car from them any time soon.

And speaking of marching, here's a story of one that actually did some good. It's from the winter of 1944 and tells of George Hogg, a young Englishman, "took 60 orphans on a journey of hundreds of miles to safety across war-ravaged China" during WWll.

Finally, it appears, he'll be getting some recognition:

In the town of Shandan, in Gansu province on the Mongolian border, Hogg and his friend and mentor, the New Zealand philanthropist Rewi Alley, are remembered with a statue and affection, but Hogg is little known outside China. This is all set to change with a new film called The Children of Huang Shi currently being made by the Canadian-born director Roger Spottiswoode. With Japanese forces snapping at their heels as they made their western advance across China in 1944, and with the help of Mao Zedong's Communist guerrillas, Hogg escorted the boys across 688 miles of treacherous mountainous terrain in north-western China to a temple town in Shandan. Just one year later, Hogg contracted tetanus after he injured his toe playing basketball with the students. With no medicines to stop lockjaw, he died aged 29.

I can't wait to see this! Read the story to get more of a feeling for this amazing young man and the tale that is to be told about him.

And a bit more movie news, you've probably heard that "The Blood of Yingzhou District" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, but it deserves all the hat-tips it can get. The story of a Chinese AIDS orphan, his relatives, and fear had some stiff competition ... one of which was also focused on orphans, although from Guatemala ... and the makes should be very, very proud.

Congratulations to Thomas Lennon and Ruby Yang!