International adoptions

Authorized bodies

Authorized adoption bodies have the task of following the path of the couple who want to start an international adoption. They are bodies called, after agreement with the Commission for International Adoptions, to act as intermediaries with foreign authorities and with the Italian court. They have a central role because they are the ones who guide the couple in the adoption procedures, in the organization of the trip to meet the child in the foreign country and in the management of the whole adoption process.

GVS is authorized to carry out adoptions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in agreement with the Ministry of Grace and Justice with the Decree of 29 September 1994.

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MUMBAI: Granting bail to a Worli businesswoman accused of running a child trafficking racket, a sessions court said the charge of "trafficking for exploitation" does not appear to be applicable as the child was sold for adoption. Instead, a case can be made out for the child's sale.

The FIR says there is trafficking of a newborn child and its purpose is mentioned as "giving in adoption". Section 370(4) of IPC is about trafficking of a person for exploitation. "Therefore, prima facie offence under Section 370(4)... does not appear to have been committed," said the court in its detailed order granting bail to 35-year-old Julia Fernandes and her aide, Shabana Shaikh, 40.

Section 370(4) prescribes rigorous imprisonment for a minimum of 10 years up to a life term. However, the court pointed out that another charge under the juvenile justice Act, punishable with up to five years imprisonment, is applicable.

"If Section 81 of the Juvenile Justice Act is seen, it is about sale and procurement of a child for any purpose. In view of the allegations, applicants along with other accused sold the child for adoption... I am of the opinion that if the case of prosecution is taken into consideration, it is about sale for the purpose of adoption," said the court.

Since the child was in safe custody and the money involved had been seized, further custodial interrogation of the two women was not required. "Taking into consideration the previous crime registered against applicants, they may be released on heavy bail by imposing conditions," said the court.

President Joseph R. Biden 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Anna Belle Illien, An “Angel in Adoption” Congressional Award Recipient in 2012

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United States President Joseph R. Biden 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, along with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award, is being presented to Anna Belle Illien, Founder and Director of Illien Adoptions International, Inc. and the Founder and Director of Foundation for Our Children, Inc. both 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable children worldwide, at a ceremony at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, August 26th, 2022.

“I am very grateful to President Biden for conferring this prestigious award upon me. I am also grateful to President Biden for standing with Ukraine and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in defense of the children and people of Ukraine”

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Anna Belle Illien received the Angel in Adoption Award in 2012 from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute in Washington. DC. She received the Global Achievement Award in 2021 from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Alumni Association.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday emphasised that the child adoption process in India needs to be streamlined as there are three-to-four years waiting period under the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) to adopt a single child while there are "lakhs and lakhs of orphan children waiting to be adopted".

The top court had earlier also termed the process as "very tedious" and said that there is an urgent need for the procedures to be "streamlined".

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, AS Bopanna, and JB Pardiwala told Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, appearing for the Centre, "There are a lot of young couples waiting to adopt the child but the process is so tedious that it takes three to four years to get a single child to be adopted through the CARA. Can you imagine a three to four years period to adopt a child in India? It should be made simpler. There are lakhs and lakhs of orphan children waiting to be adopted".

Nataraj said that the government is seized of the issue and sought six weeks to come up with a reply to a plea filed by an NGO seeking to simplify the process of child adoption in the country.

The bench asked Nataraj to ask someone responsible from the Ministry of Child Development to hold a meeting and look into the suggestions of the NGO 'The Temple of Healing' and prepare a report to be filed in the top court.

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A management member at the Children’s Authority is urging people to consider adoption as an option.

Her appeal comes as the country has seen two incidents recently in which children suffered as a result of the circumstances in which their parents found themselves.

In the last week, little McKenzie Hope Rechier was strangled to death while a days-old baby was abandoned in a garbage bag at the San Fernando General Hospital.

Despite this, acting Adoption Manager at the Children’s Authority, Renee Neptune, said as of yesterday, there were no children waiting to be adopted.

A spokesman for Canada's foreign affairs minister says new sanctions against a Russian official will make her a "global pariah."

Adrien Blanchard says the economic penalties against Maria Lvova-Belova are meant to "isolate her and hold her accountable for her crimes."

Lvova-Belova is Russia's children's rights commissioner.

But Global Affairs alleges she is also the architect of a scheme to abduct Ukrainian children and facilitate their adoption into Russian homes.

Thousands of kids have been transported to Russia from the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in the months since the war began.

Senior Resident Magistrate Wanangwa Nyirenda has reserved his ruling to 1 September 2022 on the application to discharge Dutch national Wim Akster on charges of being found in possession of firearms.

Akster was arrested in November 2021 after police found that the firearms did not have any legal documentation.

State Prosecutor Levison Mangani told the court that Akster’s discharge application is baselessly aimed at delaying the case.

However, the defence lawyer, Gimeon Nyanda, insisted the case dates back to 2020, hence applying for discharge.

Meanwhile Child Rights Activist, Memory Chisenga, asked the court to deport Akster arguing he is a total threat to children and national security.

A lawyer, Igwe Ifeoma, has been arraigned before Chief Magistrate P.E Nwaka sitting at the Magistrate’s Court, Yaba, Lagos State, on Wednesday, on charges bordering on child trafficking, assault of an 11-year-old girl, Esther Onwa.

Ifeoma is facing six counts of conspiracy to traffic a child, child trafficking, inhuman treatment, unlawful assault, and inflicting bodily injuries.

The charges read in part, “That you, Barrister Igwe Ifeoma, on the said date, time and place, in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did take away one Esther Onwa, 11, in order that she would be held or treated as a slave or servitude under your custody.

“That you, Barrister Igwe Ifeoma, on the said date, time and place, in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did unlawfully assault one Esther Onwa, 11, by repeatedly inflicting various degrees of bodily harm on her ears, left eyes, her back, neck, laps, buttocks, and other parts of her body.

“That you, Barrister Barrister Igwe Ifeoma, on the said date, time and place, in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did grievous harm to one Esther Onwa, 11, by injuring her in her eyes with a wire capable of rendering her permanently blind.”

Activist Petitions Nigerian Attorney-General Malami From Prison, Seeks Investigation Into Child Trafficking Case Allegedly Involving Retired Judge, Policemen, Others

In a petition signed by Aghogho and obtained by SaharaReporters, the activist alleged that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), State Security Service (SSS), Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficked-In Person (NAPTIP) had the facts of the case but kept mute by “promoting injustice

Ahuman rights activist, Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho, has petitioned the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami over an alleged child trafficking investigation involving Delta State Government officials, police officers, and a retired chief judge among others.

In a petition signed by Aghogho and obtained by SaharaReporters, the activist alleged that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), State Security Service (SSS), Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficked-In Person (NAPTIP) had the facts of the case but kept mute by “promoting injustice against children in Delta State.”

He added that the Delta State Commissioner for Justice and Director of Public Prosecution had similar facts but decided to shield the culprits and prosecute him on trump-up charges instead.

If you were separated at birth through forced adoptions between 1950 and 1980, you may be eligible for compensation under a new redress scheme.

Background

For more than a year, Shine Lawyers has been lobbying for the removal of the statute of limitations for mothers whose newborn children were forcefully taken from them by the State between the 1950s and 1980s.

Unwed mothers were made to feel like they weren’t fit to be parents, and it was their fault this was happening to them. It has taken decades for many to find the courage to seek legal advice only to be told it's too late to sue.

The Victorian government has now responded to the?new recommendations by the Forced Adoption Inquiry?supporting ‘in principle’ the majority of the 56 recommendations. These recommendations included the removal of the significant injury threshold, statute of limitations, and the creation of redress for mothers and children affected.