Two years after Belgium apologized for what it did to hundreds of metis, it remains silent. Strangely enough, acknowledging and forgetting the horror in Congo go hand in hand from the start, Jeroen Olyslaegers notes.

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New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court (/topic/delhi-high-court) on Thursday asked Centre (/topic/centre)

and others to file a response on a petition by an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder couple, residing in New Delhi for the

last four years, with a grievance that despite having registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) for the

adoption (/topic/adoption) of a child in 2018, have till date not received any referral for a child.

Justice Rekha Palli granted more time to Centre (/topic/centre), and CARA to file a reply on the petition and listed the matter

Thiruvananthapuram: The baby of former SFI leader Anupama S Chandran who was

allegedly taken away by her parents was adopted by a couple from Andhra Pradesh, it is

learnt. The child was adopted temporarily and the court proceedings to make the adoption

process permanent is progressing amid the controversies. Anupama S Chandran, the

Daughter of a Peroorkada CPI-M area committee member Jayachandran, came up with

Raluca Turcan found time, in her busy schedule, to participate on September 22, 2021 in the fast cutting of the inaugural ribbon of a pontoon / itinerant center for treating children with disabilities in the Danube Delta. The pontoon in question was arranged by the SERA Foundation, with money from the sponsor Penny (Rewe Group), about 120,000 euros, and from European funds. The pontoon was also included in the documents of the European-funded project "Always in the family - a project to reduce institutionalization, the risk of separation and to ensure recovery services for children in Tulcea County", a project with a total value of 5,954,979.39 lei.

SERA is one of the oldest associations / foundations operating in post-revolutionary Romania, its founder, François de Combret, being among those first Westerners who saw the potential of international adoptions. In fact, until the moratorium that stopped international adoptions, SERA was one of the main exporters of children in Romania, which was also declared by the former European official Rollie Post and supported by its head at the time, European Commissioner Günter Verheugen.

After cutting the pipeline for international adoptions, SERA struggled for a while with the system to reopen its baby faucet, then reoriented and began to get good money from the Romanian state, the EU, UNICEF, the World Bank and other institutional funders, as well as from private sponsors. This money went to projects related to child protection and social assistance, childcare centers for children with disabilities and the like, as well as many hundreds of hours of seminars and workshops.unnecessary sums, healthy salaries of employees. For example, in 2020, the net salary of the executive director of the SERA Romania Foundation was 200,200 lei per year, to which was added a small sum of 51,870 lei for the management and coordination of projects on European funds. In total, 21,000 lei per month, net. A beautiful amount, which the executive director of SERA practically doubles, with an indemnity of 21,840 lei per month, which he receives as president of the Economic and Social Council.

But who is this benefactor of the children, this good Samaritan who, in exchange for only 42,840 lei per month, takes care of the children, and of the whole council that analyzes the draft laws, decisions and ordinances?

Bogdan Simion is called the charity and has been running the SERA for many years, wandering through the good world of people who do not work for the state, but have very good connections with the state, their organizations being heavily funded with public money. Using the long-standing friendship that binds the SERA foundation to Ludovic Orban and vice versa, Bogdan Simion obtained, on December 30, 2019, the status of public utility association, through the signature of Violeta Alexandru. If he had had a little more luck, Bogdan Simion would probably have signed the granting of the status of public utility association for SERA, in 2015, when he was about to become Minister of Labor in the Ciolo? cabinet. However, he is just a poor director and a poor president of a state body, who barely takes home almost 43,000 lei a month,

Justice Rekha Palli granted more time to Centre, and CARA to file a reply on the petition and listed the matter for further hearing on December 2.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked Centre and others to file a response on a petition by an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder couple, residing in New Delhi for the last four years, with a grievance that despite having registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) for the adoption of a child in 2018, have till date not received any referral for a child.

Justice Rekha Palli granted more time to Centre, and CARA to file a reply on the petition and listed the matter for further hearing on December 2.

Advocate Tara Narula, the counsel appearing for OCI cardholder couple, has filed the petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of a writ in the nature of a mandamus directing Respondents to take the necessary steps as provided under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (the JJ Act) and the Adoption Regulations, 2017, including, inter alia, 'referring' a child legally free for adoption to the petitioners and treating them at par with Non-Resident Indian (NRI) Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs).

The petitioner said that despite having registered with the CARA for the adoption of a child on March 22 2018, wherein their seniority in the wait-list was with effect from March 16 2018, the petitioners have till date not received any referral for a child, whereas applicants who registered subsequently have already received referrals.

US citizens have adopted the second largest number of children from India during the pandemic year 2020, according the data released by the US State Department.

A total of 103 children between the age group of 1-17 years have been adopted from India by US citizens in 2020, and out of this, 76 are female children and 27 are male.

Last year was the lowest in terms of adoption of Indian children by the US. Before this, the lowest number of adoptions of Indian children by the US was in 2013, when only 119 children were adopted.

China tops all countries in terms of adoption by US citizens, and in 2020, a total of 202 children were adopted from China. Data further says that the maximum number of children who are adopted are in the age group of 1-2 years. In 2020, a total of 58 children, who were in the age group of 1-2 years, were adopted.

“Did you know? India is the second largest origin country for children adopted by U.S. families,” the US Embassy in India said in a tweet.

Jayachandran, a local committee member of the Peroorkada Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), has allegedly given up his grandson for 'adoption' as he was opposed to his daughter Anupama's relationship with Ajith, a resident of Thiruvananthapuram.

Anupama fell in love with Ajith and became pregnant last year. She gave birth to a baby boy on 19 October 2020. However, just three days after she delivered the baby, Anupama's father Jayachandran gave him for adoption, reported The News Minute.

The couple now allege that the 'adoption' was illegal and are trying to get back their child.

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Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2022 State and Foreign Operations (SFOPs) and Labor Health and Human Services (Labor HHS) Appropriations Bills

The Senate Appropriations Committee released its FY 2022 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) (links to bill and report) and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS) (links to bill and report) appropriations bills and accompanying reports on October 18, 2021. The SFOPs bill includes funding for U.S. global health programs at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while the Labor HHS bill includes funding for global health programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[i] Key highlights are as follows (see table for additional detail):

State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs):

Funding provided to the State Department and USAID under the SFOPs bill and through the Global Health Programs (GHP) account, which represents the bulk of global health assistance, totals $10.4 billion in the bill, $1.2 billion above the FY21 enacted level, $303 million above the President’s FY22 request, but $288 million below the FY22 House level. Funding for all global health programs at State and USAID either increased or remained flat compared to the FY21 enacted level (the largest increase is for global health security). Several program areas in the Senate bill are below House levels, including bilateral HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and family planning and reproductive health. Details on specific programs are as follows (unless otherwise specified, totals represent funding through the Global Health Programs account):

Funding for global health security totals $1 billion in the bill, which is $810 million (426%) above the FY21 enacted level ($190 million), $87 million (10%) above the FY22 Request ($913 million[ii]), and matches the FY22 House level.

Tahiti, October 20, 2021 – After the acquittal at first instance and then on appeal of a man prosecuted for having falsified an acknowledgment of paternity with a view to adopting a little girl, the family affairs judge of Papeete canceled this recognition on September 13 on the grounds that the person concerned had wanted to "escape the usual procedures for adoption" . His lawyer appealed this decision. The child remains placed in the nursery.

New twist in the case of attempted adoption outside of any legal framework which had hit the headlines in 2020 before leading, last March, to the release of two couples before the Papeete Court of Appeal. The former was then accused of having adopted the granddaughter of the latter, through a false acknowledgment of paternity. If the criminal court and then the court of appeal had considered that no offense had been committed by the defendants, the family affairs judge of Papeete nevertheless canceled on September 13 the recognition of paternity made by one of the two "adoptive" fathers.

Taking care to recall in its decision that the Papeete Court of Appeal had confirmed the acquittal of the proceedings for "forgery and use of forgery" - because the fraudulent recognition of a child did not exactly constitute a "forgery" in terms of criminal – the family affairs judge believes that it is different on the civil level. In the judgment, she affirms that the adoptive father who had recognized the child at birth "wanted to escape the usual procedures in matters of adoption or more locally of delegation of parental authority, which in addition to the search for the persistence of the agreement of the two biological parents, is also subject to the control of the family affairs judge who must The magistrate therefore notes that "paternal recognition of the child necessarily defeated this control and also deprived the biological parents of retracting in the aftermath of the birth" of the little girl and that, therefore, this recognition had indeed been "made in fraud of law".

The "adoptive" father appeals

In support of this analysis, the family court judge therefore canceled the recognition of paternity made by one of the adoptive fathers. But the case is not yet over, since the latter's lawyer has appealed the decision of the family court judge and a hearing will be held in November before the Court of Appeal. On the criminal level, the public prosecutor's office appealed to the Court of Cassation to challenge the acquittal, but the Parisian court has not yet rendered its decision. The little girl, who has just turned one, remains placed in the nursery.