Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) meets with former child migrant Mary Johnston at Portcullis House in London February 24, 2010. Brown apologised on Wednesday for past British policies of shipping thousands of poor children abroad, mostly without their parents' knowledge, to former colonies where many suffered abuse. Thousands were sent from orphanages and institutions in Britain to Commonwealth countries, mainly Australia and Canada, under the Child Migrants Programme which ended 40 years ago. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid/Pool (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)