HYDERABAD: In what would appear to be a script of a popular Bollywood potboiler of the 1970s, three siblings who got lost four years ago in Hyderabad were reunited this week, thanks to a chance selfie and a DNA test.

Daughters of a knife sharpener of Kukatpaly, Aishwarya (12) Akhila (11) and Asha (7) suddenly found themselves all alone during the summer of 2017 when their father died of a heart attack and their heartbroken mother, a daily wager, disappeared.

A few locals chanced upon Aishwarya and Akhila and took them to an orphanage at Ameenpur, while Asha was rescued by her grandmother from the streets

“She used to take Asha to a shrine at Kukatpally for begging and in 2020, she also died. Asha was handed over to local police and they in turn shifted her to the child care institution (CCI) at Yousufguda,” said district welfare officer, Hyderabad, P Akkeshwar Rao.

Meanwhile, both Aishwarya and Akhila were shifted to an orphanage run by an NGO called ‘Helping Hands Humanity’ (HHH) at

This is the 13th article in an adoption series. Some adoptees have echoed the previous article's question, "What is the real reason this country cannot protect its own children?" To elaborate on this inquiry requires that the series broach another question: Is this country incapable of offering such protection, or is it resisting efforts to do so and refusing to take responsibility? Shifting away from the individual experiences of adoptees and beginning to address the state's accountability is an important step in moving forward to rectify the "right of origin" for adoptees. ? ED.

By Lee Kyung-eun

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If, as the dominant narrative claims, transnational adoption is about rescuing war orphans, then the surge in inter-country adoption in the 1960s unravels such assertions. So let us drop the pretext of war orphans as an impetus. What about "economic" or "social" orphans? Then we must ask how poor is poor enough to warrant casting children from their own country on a massive scale with such persistence.

As this series explored earlier, the immigration laws of the receiving countries spurred the trend of adopting foreign babies by employing an array of weak regulations that facilitated inter-country adoptions. Concurrently, Korea (later followed by other sending countries) responded by initiating corresponding measures to move children abroad.

This year, the legislation on child adoption has undergone a number of changes, including changes to the extension of the validity of the adopter certificate and the introduction of more debureaucratization measures in the adoption procedure. Then, in order to reflect all the changes that have taken place this year, the authorities on Wednesday published the new models of documents used in the procedure for adopting children, including the certificate of person or family fit to adopt, the application for assessment and the application of international adoption.

Order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection no. 1,430 / 2021, published on Wednesday in the Official Gazette no. 774, contains new models of documents used in the adoption procedure .

Specifically, the normative act contains the new model of:

the certificate of a person or family fit to adopt;

the request for evaluation in order to issue the certificate of person / family able to adopt;

From: Arun Dohle

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 11:26

Subject: Reminder: Fwd: Reminder: FW: Unicef Netherlands position in Intercountry Adoption ?

To: Cornelius Williams

Dear Mr. Williams,

When Cierra Simon looks back on her life, she has many questions and very few answers.

“There was a complete alienation … because of their actions,” she said.

Simon was taken into foster care in Ontario when she was six and a Saskatchewan family adopted her when she was nine. While she acknowledges she needed to be separated from her parents, she said the choices made for her resulted in her becoming homeless and unaware of her First Nations heritage.

She believes the system needs to change and told Global News the effects of adoption will always be a part of her.

Simon was born in Kingston 28 years ago. She lived with her parents, who she said struggled with addictions, and then with her grandparents. She recalls that her grandparents were overwhelmed with raising the then-six-year-old Simon and her two younger sisters, so the girls were transferred to the care of Dave and Deb Carter, a foster family in Bracebridge, Ont.

Despite an earlier agreement, taxi drivers who operate through Uber in Amsterdam have again refused drag queens. 

Johan Hol is one of the drag queens who was not allowed to get into a taxi. "When the Uber driver saw that I was in drag, he said he would not give me a ride because I was not human." 

It also happened to drag queen Sletlana, who points out that Uber's website is all rainbow-themed. "Your route is colored in rainbow colors. They say they offer safety for everyone. But it seems like pink-washing ."

 

"They say they provide safety for everyone. But it seems like pink-washing"

drag queen Sletlana

In 2019, a declaration of intent for a 'discrimination-free taxi market' was signed by Uber, all Amsterdam Authorized Taxi Organizations (TTOs) and the municipality, among others. But Richard Keldoulis, also known as drag queen Jennifer Hopelezz , does not think it has helped.

For "The Land of Promises", the Belgian photographer (27) returned to her native country and gives her personal view on the one-child policy in China.

A man is about to leave for China for the first time . In the hall of Zaventem airport he meets the eight other Belgians with whom he will spend the next two weeks. In total six families flew to Beijing at the end of July 1994.

After a day's layover, they leave again, this time to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in the south of the country. From Changsha, the group traveled by bus to the countryside. Since his departure in Brussels, the man has filmed everything, including the endless fields and the kilometers of journeys through desolate landscapes.

After dropping off their belongings at the hotel and completing some administrative formalities at the notary, the families finally arrive at the Yueyang orphanage. The place is faded, the paint is peeling off the walls. From the bus, the man films the arrival in the courtyard of the building, as well as the waiting that follows. Youqine, then eight months old, is finally introduced to him and she crawls into his arms for the first time. The nannies from the orphanage then bring the other children. Six girls were adopted that day. Youqine's father was one of the first Belgians to adopt a child from China.

In 2017, nearly a quarter of a century later, time and memory erased many things, but the records of these adoptive families have remained completely intact. For Youqine, the period of rejection from her country of origin has come to an end, and a time of questions seems to have come: "For years I had a conflicted relationship with China, I did not want to return at all. I was terrified of it, but when I 23, I instinctively felt I was ready. I think it's something grown up, wanting to know where you are in your life."

A man is about to leave for China for the first time . In the hall of Zaventem airport he meets the eight other Belgians with whom he will spend the next two weeks. In total six families flew to Beijing at the end of July 1994.

After a day's layover, they leave again, this time to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in the south of the country. From Changsha, the group traveled by bus to the countryside. Since his departure from Brussels, the man has filmed everything, including the endless fields and the kilometers of journeys through desolate landscapes.

After dropping off their belongings at the hotel and completing some administrative formalities at the notary, the families finally arrive at the Yueyang orphanage. The place has faded, the paint is peeling off the walls. From the bus, the man films the arrival in the courtyard of the building, as well as the waiting that follows. Youqine, then eight months old, is finally introduced to him and she crawls into his arms for the first time. The nannies from the orphanage then bring the other children. Six girls were adopted that day. Youqine's father was one of the first Belgians to adopt a child from China.

In 2017, nearly a quarter of a century later, time and memory erased many things, but the records of these adoptive families have remained completely intact. For Youqine, the period of rejection towards her country of origin has come to an end, and a time of questions seems to have come: "For years I had a conflicted relationship with China, I did not want to return at all. I was terrified of it, but when I 23, I instinctively felt I was ready, I think it's something mature, wanting to know where you are in your life."

Youqine Lefèvre had just graduated from the École Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland. She studied photography there - after obtaining a bachelor's degree at the École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels. It has also been a while since she " Far from home", a series about children placed in a home in the Swiss mountains and separated from their parents for various reasons. After her first major project, Youqine feels ready to embark on a new, more personal project. The images that her father made the basis of this project in 1994. It is the end of October 2017, and now it is her turn to leave for China for the first time.As she gets on the plane, Youqine realizes that with this future photo project she mainly looking for meaning.

HEUSDEN - Tineke Couwenberg and Bieni Beekhuizen from Heusden have it all done; foster daughter Ilse (24) is now also their daughter on paper. Under Dutch law, adoption of adult (foster) children is not possible at all. In order to get it done, the Heusdens had to invoke the European Convention on Human Rights.

"It was the most beautiful day of her life for her," says Tineke Couwenberg (70) about Ilse. She can legally call her her daughter since Wednesday 14 July. Of course, the same also applies to her wife Bieni Beekhuizen (74). That day, the multiple chamber of the Bossche court ruled that they - and no one else - are Ilse's parents.

There is also the feeling. And that's miles behind

But what a struggle it has been. In fact, they have become too accustomed to fighting against the intractability, opposition and injustice of institutions in the field of youth care and foster care. Tineke and Bieni know very well that they have won their last fight. That it's over. But that's the mind. There is also such a thing as feeling ... and it is still miles behind.

For now we don't do anything anymore. For now it's always Sunday with us

However, judge reprimands the U.S. citizens for trying to adopt the child under a wrong law

The Delhi High Court has declared a Christian couple, both U.S. citizens, as ‘adoptive parents’ to a minor girl born out of Hindu parents while reprimanding them for trying to adopt the child under a wrong law.

The High Court reiterated that Christian and Muslim couples could not adopt a Hindu child under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA), as was sought to be done in this case.

“The Adoption Deed drawn up under the HAMA is invalid as the parties are Christians and not Hindus,” Justice Asha Menon said, taking note of the fact that the child, now more than 6-years-old, had been under the custody of the adoptive parents since her birth.

Justice Menon said the child was being well taken care of by the foster parents and their family and hence “there is no cause to remove the child from their charge and custody.”