Why This Campaign

We are failing to protect the most vulnerable children in India. The number of abandoned and orphaned children range from 25 Million to 30 Million. Yet the number of children in child care institutions (aka shelters) range from 0.25 to 0.5 Million. Out of these, the number of children available for adoption at any point is fewer than 2000.

Why is there no reconciliation for the wide chasm between 30,000,000 and 2000?

Are the children being trafficked for inhumane and illicit purposes? Are they languishing in shelters that are not even registered or not linked to adoption agencies? Why are the millions of children who we see on streets, labouring in restaurants, carrying out chores in unorganised sector not on the rolls of child care institutions or adoption agencies?

Depending on who you ask, people will give you complex answers. But here is the thing — there are clear, concrete, fixable issues that can be addressed and have been brought to light several times by the media, Supreme Court, and even the central government. Yet there is no difference made to the horrific statistics on vulnerable children.

Children died,Unhygienic condition,Adoption homes

UP government authorities said that poor health of children lodged in state adoption homes was responsible for this figure.(Representative image)

Over the past five years, UP witnessed death of 170 children in the state-run adoption centres. This figure, revealed as part of data furnished by the union ministry of women and child development in the ongoing Parliament session, is only marginally lower than Maharashtra’s 172 over the same period.

UP government authorities said that poor health of children lodged in state adoption homes was responsible for this figure. Commissioner for protection of child rights, Uttar Pradesh, Vishesh Gupta, said, “Sometimes, children lodged in adoption centres have been rescued by stake holding agencies in peculiar situations. Sometime, children are rescued from the roadside and are already suffering from infections. In such a situation, it becomes difficult to save their life despite earnest attempts.”

He also admitted that the state lacked trained manpower in its adoption homes. “Lack of manpower is also an issue. We don’t have the training mechanism and the infrastructure that is needed. It has been observed that the staff is not adequately trained to take care of such children,” said Gupta.

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“One Child Nation,” Reviewed: A Powerful Investigation of a Chinese Policy’s Personal Toll

By Richard BrodyAugust 9, 2019

One of the crucial revelations of “One Child Nation” is the power of propaganda, by sheer force of its ubiquity—and its uncontested hegemony.Photograph Courtesy Amazon Studios

Any investigative journalist could have pursued the story told in “One Child Nation,” a new documentary directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, about China’s former policy (in force from 1979 to 2015) of limiting families to a single child each. Indeed, they include one such daring and persistent journalist in the film. But for Wang, who was born in China in 1985 (and immigrated to the United States in 2011, at the age of twenty-six), the one-child policy is also the story of her own childhood, and in her bold, probingly investigative, painfully intimate film, she approaches her subject with regard to its most personal implications. In so doing, she locates the political network in which lives like hers were caught, and traces the one-child policy’s consequences, as well as the attitudes underlying it, into the present day and into her own life, the lives of others, and the world at large.

Wang is present onscreen as she pursues and conducts interviews, including with members of her family; she frames and analyzes the movie from within by way of her voice-over narration, and her investigation is an integral on-camera element of the action. To watch that investigation, both public and private, is to confront an overwhelming, colossal network of atrocities and their official justifications—a vast system of control and coercion, deceit and corruption, that’s fostered and managed from the highest levels of government and leaves its mark throughout Chinese society. She addresses the ingrained failures of much conventional, arm’s-length journalism and its unchallenged conventions—exemplified, near the start of the film, in a clip of a TV-news report featuring Tom Brokaw, who parrots the Chinese government’s rationale for the one-child policy (prosperity) and says that it is pursued through a combination of “fines, economic incentives, and propaganda.” Wang shows, in the course of the film, how that policy was actually pursued—not merely with fines but with cruelly punitive force and horrific violence.

Book: Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?

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A new law on the protection of minors in Kenya, " Children Bill ", is awaiting approval by the government before being examined by Parliament.

It is a period of great ferment for Kenyan legislation on the rights of the child and, in particular, for the protection of minors without families.

Pending approval of the new "Children Bill"

The approval of the new law, "Children Bill" , represents a fundamental step towards the resumption of adoptions in the country and a relaunch of the system for protecting the rights of children in a state of adoptability who are waiting to meet a family that will welcome them, who whether in Kenya or abroad. An important reform of the current system of foreign entities authorized for international adoption which will introduce clearer procedures, both in terms of the requisites required and their fulfillment.

The current law undergoing reform was approved by Kenya in 2001 to comply with the obligations deriving from the African Charter. In 2010, the country also approved major constitutional reforms to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international child protection standards.

Why was there no equality in the law of parentage with marriage for all?

The "marriage for all" has not changed the right of parentage. To this day, stepchild adoption is the only way for two-mother families to achieve common legal parenthood. However, same-sex couples were given equal status in terms of joint adoption law through the opening of marriage.

Opening of marriage and right of parentage

The "Law on the Introduction of the Right to Marriage for Persons of the Same Sex", which came into force on October 1st, 2017, has not changed the rules of parentage.

The mother of a child is still only the woman who gave birth to the child ( § 1591 Mutterschaft BGB ). For children who are born into a marriage, § 1592 No. 1 BGB determines that the husband is the second legal parent of the child, regardless of whether he is actually the biological father of the child or not. But this regulation has not been extended to include the “mother's wife”. To this day, stepchild adoption is the only way for two-mother families to achieve mutual legal parenthood and the associated security.

Travel restrictions lifted

Alberto and Dossi Sinalda, who had been speaking to Mahendra over video calls for months, finally got to hug him and take him back home

He had only seen and spoken to them over video calls. But when Alberto and Dossi Sinalda walked through the doors, joy lent wings to Mahendra's feet and he ran to hug his parents.

The Sinaldas, who are in their mid-thirties, had adopted the almost six-year-old boy in March but lockdown kept them apart for so long. As restrictions eased, the couple finally flew in from Italy and arrived at the

orphanage on Tuesday to take their son home.

Fiom stands for freedom of choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy and the right to parentage information. The current Fiom organization originated from many predecessors and has existed since 1930.

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Due to the substantial cutbacks and the transition in healthcare, Fiom is developing as a specialist on unwanted pregnancy and parentage questions. Fiom is committed to the right of freedom of choice for pregnant women and the right to parentage information.

Online support, such as on unwanted pregnancy and abortion processing, is becoming more important because the offline help has decreased. External funding is being sought to continue to provide offline help. The amendment by Voortman below was adopted in December 2013 with broad support from the Lower House.

“ This amendment serves as an additional impetus to provide information to teens about pregnancy and to support the decision on whether to continue the pregnancy through neutral decision-making discussions. This amendment therefore regulates a targeted increase of EUR 1,000,000 for this target group and this task, without linking it to one specific institution. In consultation with the institutions that carry out the aforementioned tasks, further criteria will be drawn up for the use of these resources in such a way that more parties can make use of these resources. "

This page contains more information about our rates for domestic and foreign searches.

Costs for a search in the Netherlands

A domestic search costs € 85.

This amount is a personal contribution for the search. For Fiom, the total cost of a search is much higher. The rest of the costs are paid from government subsidies. Fiom is a non-profit organization and we do not earn anything from conducting searches.

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