Sharing picture and messages to collect funds, sponsorship and invite people for adoption of kids who lost one or both their parents due to Covid-19 will be a cognizable offence in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Friday. Those found to be involved in such activities will be booked for selling and buying of kids under the Juvenile Justice Act 2016, said an officer of the Women and child development department.

Child rights expert and lawyer Anant Kumar said, “Good intention is immaterial in these circumstances. Adopting children illegally and selling or purchasing them are serious crimes and are punishable with jail terms from 3 to 7 years. There should be a system to check the fake information and or any information which promotes illegal adoption and buying and selling of kids. Registering case against wrongdoers is a right step to stop such illegal activities”

The department decided to take this step after messages, video appeals and photos of kids and bodies of their parents were shared by people to raise funds for the kids. When the officers of the department verified the authenticity of messages, many were found fake, said the officer quoted above.

To prevent online fraud in name of adopting children, the Madhya Pradesh government will issue an order to all districts to book such persons under section 81 of the Juvenile Justice Act which has a provision of rigorous imprisonment of five years and a fine up to ?1 lakh, said Suresh Tomar, joint director, women and child development department.

Three days ago, a woman died of Covid-19 in Shivpuri district leaving behind her three kids. Different organisations started posting a video of the body of the woman to raise funds for her kids with a message that the kids lost their father two years ago and now they have lost their mother as well. A social media post claimed that the children are starving and locked inside their house.

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Minister Fearne underlines the importance of adhering to the mass vaccination programme timeline

47-year-old Ivan Barbara who died of coronavirus in India, wanted to get the jab ahead of leaving the island with his wife to adopt their daughter, Newsbook.com.mt has learnt.

Sources have told this newsroom that Barbara told them that he had begged the authorities to get vaccinated ahead of the trip.

When Barbara had asked to be given the vaccine, he was informed that he could not have it because the age group he belonged to would only receive the jab later.

During a special edition of Newsbook Q&A Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne said that unfortunately such situations cannot be allowed and the authorities had their plan and timeline for the mass vaccination programme which need to be followed.

An international charity said Thursday that it is investigating allegations of child abuse and fund mismanagement in Africa and Asia, pledging an “uncompromising” probe.

SOS Children’s Villages International supports1.2 million people — mostly children — through more than 550 centres and other programmes around the world, helping orphans and others in need, according to a spokeswoman.

It has found “cases of serious child protection violations and mismanagement”, a manager of the organisation’s founding Austrian branch, Elisabeth Hauser, said in a statement.

Allegations of child mistreatment, including sexual abuse, and fund mismanagement have cropped up in about 20 of the 137 countries where the charity operates, the group’s spokeswoman told AFP.

More than 40,000 people work for the organisation, which was founded more than 70 years ago.

En Croatie, les couples homosexuels peuvent désormais adopter des enfants

Les faits Mercredi 5 mai, une association croate de défense des droits LGBT a publié un récent verdict du tribunal administratif de Zagreb. Pour la première fois, les juges se sont exprimés en faveur du droit à l’adoption pour les couples du même sexe.

Giovanni Vale, le 07/05/2021 à 16:06 Modifié le 07/05/2021 à 16:36

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En Croatie, les couples homosexuels peuvent désormais adopter des enfants

En Croatie, les couples homosexuels peuvent désormais adopter des enfants

Les faits Mercredi 5 mai, une association croate de défense des droits LGBT a publié un récent verdict du tribunal administratif de Zagreb. Pour la première fois, les juges se sont exprimés en faveur du droit à l’adoption pour les couples du même sexe.

Giovanni Vale, le 07/05/2021 à 16:06 Modifié le 07/05/2021 à 16:36

Lecture en 2 min.

En Croatie, les couples homosexuels peuvent désormais adopter des enfants

Rani (39) from Maarheeze was just 2 years old when she was adopted from her native India by a Flemish couple. She soon had numerous problems with her adoptive parents. She recently learned that her biological mother is probably still alive and started a search. “My adoptive parents hid this from me for years.”

Rani was picked up in India by her adoptive father. “I had tapeworms in my intestines when I entered Belgium. In all likelihood, I was ill and that is why my biological mother had to give me up,” says Rani.

She initially had a good relationship with her adoptive father, which she never had with her adoptive mother. “We tried to bond by going on trips together, but she never felt like my 'real' mother,” says Rani. As a four-year-old she already realized that these were not her biological parents. “My skin color was different and I was forced to say mom and dad.”

"I was locked in a garden shed."

Soon her relationship with her father also changed and a tense atmosphere arose within the family. Rani says she grew up in a loveless family. “I was abused on several fronts: beaten, locked in a garden shed and several times I had to sleep in my father's bath or garage. Sometimes my father wouldn't talk to me for days. He said I couldn't do anything and was unmanageable,” says Rani.

Bengaluru’s child helpline 1098 has been receiving at least 10 calls a day over the past week,

mostly from parents offering to adopt children orphaned by the pandemic.

Fake messages calling for adoptive parents and giving out numbers are also doing the rounds.

Most calls are from childless couples who have already registered on the Central Adoption Resource

Authority (CARA) website.

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the backdrop of reports regarding children orphaned due to

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A Bulgarian couple is in custody in Germany on suspicion of involvement in a human trafficking ring that allegedly brought pregnant women to Greece, where the babies were born and then sold to traffickers.

The 58-year-old man and his 51-year-old wife are suspected of having recruited at least nine poor pregnant women from Bulgaria to go to Greece as part of the trafficking operation, according to authorities in Germany. They were detained last week in Neunkirchen, a town near Germany's border with France.

Bulgarian authorities had issued a European arrest warrant for the couple, who are now in custody awaiting extradition.

They were indicted in February along with their son for "participation in an organized crime group for trade in newborn babies on the territory of Greece," Bulgarian prosecutors said in a statement on May 5. Their son is already under arrest in Bulgaria.

The three were accused of recruiting pregnant women from across Bulgaria to travel to neighboring Greece to give birth and sell their newborn babies to intermediaries for the equivalent of between $3,000 and $4,300. Mothers usually received only a fraction of the amount, with the larger portion pocketed by the traffickers.