On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants  for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, based on their alleged war crimes of unlawful transfer and unlawful deportation of Ukraine’s children.

Russia’s propaganda machine reacted swiftly to the ICC’s decision, with threats of nuclear strikes, false claims about Western “experiments on children ” and anti-Russian “hysteria ,” calls for the arrest of ICC judges, and claims that Ukraine’s children were taken away “for their safety .” Russia’s Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev threatened  The Hague with a hypersonic  missile  and compared  the warrants to toilet paper . Kremlin propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan claimed  that nuclear strikes await any country daring enough to arrest Putin. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused  the “enlightened West” of “criminalizing the rescue of children” while the same Western countries are “experimenting on kids with gender reassignments.” Separately, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin claimed  that “the West is hysterical” and any “invectives” against Putin will be seen as aggression against Russia, adding, “Yankees, hands off Putin!” Similarly, Russia’s Embassy in Washington  called “U.S. validation” of the warrants “reminiscent of sluggish schizophrenia ” and pointed  to “U.S. atrocities” elsewhere. Several Russian senators  proposed issuing arrest warrants  for the ICC judges and “liquidating ” the International Criminal Court. This report examines the context of the ICC charges and Russia’s efforts to manipulate information and deflect blame about the alleged war crimes.

Since February 24, 2022, when the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, attempting to topple the democratically elected government in Kyiv, members of Russia’s forces committed numerous internationally documented war crimes and crimes against humanity  in Ukraine, including against many of Ukraine’s children. On June 5, 2023, the Secretary General of the United Nations added  Russia’s armed forces and affiliated armed groups to the list of parties that have committed “grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict” for reportedly killing and maiming hundreds of Ukraine’s children, using them as human shields, and attacking schools and hospitals.

The Kremlin appears determined to erase Ukraine’s existence as a state by attempting to rob it of its future. Mounting evidence  shows  Russia uses  forcible relocation, re-education, and, in some cases, adoption  of Ukraine’s children as key components  of its systematic efforts  to suppress Ukraine’s identity, history, and culture. The Ukrainian government estimates that Russian authorities have “deported and/or forcibly displaced ” 19,553 children from their homes, including movements into so-called “summer camps” in Russia-occupied areas and sometimes into Russia itself, even to isolated regions in Russia’s Far East. As of August 1, 2023, Ukraine had successfully returned  395 children.

Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, has publicly said  that more than 700,000 children from Ukraine are now in Russia, claiming that the majority were accompanied by guardians and portraying it as a “humanitarian effort.”  The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL), a partner in the State Department-supported Conflict Observatory, reported  that Russia has “systematically relocated at least 6,000 children from Ukraine to a network of re-education and adoption facilities in Russia-occupied Crimea and mainland Russia” since the full-scale invasion began. Yale HRL’s findings  “indicate the majority of camps have engaged in pro-Russia re-education efforts, and some camps have provided military training to children.” The unlawful transfer and deportation  of protected persons is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians and constitutes an internationally recognized war crime .

Over 11 years after a 5-year-old was kidnapped in Bihar’s Siwan district, the Patna High Court recently ordered the State Crime Investigation Department (CID) to re-investigate the case and recover the minor child. [Mansur Alam Versus The State of Bihar]

Justice Anil Kumar Sinha said the local police had not investigated the case scientifically or with the desired sensitivity, forcing the victim’s father to approach the Court in March 2021.

The Court noted that the investigating officers in the case were frequently changed and that the officers appeared to have investigated the case in a piece-meal manner. The judge remarked that even directions issued by the supervising officers were not followed.

Criticising the senior officers for not forming a special team to recover the child, the Court opined that no serious effort were made by the Superintendent of Police and other higher-ranked police officers.

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A former janitor from Castelfranco, she was able to visit the tomb of the woman who gave birth to her and then left her in an orphanage. Thanks to genetic research in the USA she has embraced her relatives

He searches for his real mother all his life and finds her again - when his daughter is 83 years old - on Mother's Day, last May. And all this thanks to a DNA that bounces from Italy, to the USA, to Germany and then lands again in Italy, between Veneto and Friuli.

The story of Dina Zulian, now 85, from Sant'Andrea Oltre Muson , where she is well known, having been the janitor of that school for many years, is nothing short of incredible. But also for her children Marisa, Claudio, Lucia and Raffaella Bellon who managed to fulfill her mother's dream.

Only the human imagination sets limits to what can happen here, says a report written by the Norwegian authorities in 2009. Nevertheless, adoptions continued as before.

• Brazil, 2009: Children tried to be sold for adoption. Mother sells her child for a pair of sandals. 
• Colombia, 2017 : Thousands of children disappear from their parents - and are vulnerable to illegal adoption. Children used for prostitution and human trafficking. 
• Philippines, 2010 : New identity can be obtained on most street corners.

These are alerts Bufdir has received on inspection trips .

In Brazil, a public prosecutor told the children's court about corruption and the buying and selling of children, before saying that only the imagination set limits to what could happen in the country. 

This is revealed in the report Bufdir wrote after the trip in 2009. 

Isidore, a Belgian man, was adopted by a South Indian family in Mobdibri, Karnataka, and works at La Poste. He is a caring and caring person who remembers his past as a poor and lonely Mubdibri orphan. Despite significant financial aid to meet the needs of his wife's family, Isidore finds himself in a situation of divorce without consummating their marriage.

In November 2021, Isidore met a young girl named Yasmina, whom he had previously introduced him to on a social network. Yasmina decided to marry Isidore despite their age difference. They got married on February 18, 2022, but Isidore felt something was unclear in his new life. He made all the necessary arrangements for her to come to Belgium and stay with him permanently.

On May 10, 2023, Isidore's wife left for Belgium, but she refused her residence permit valid for 5 years, which allowed her to travel in Europe and return to her country. She returned to India after only 3 weeks.

On June 22, 2023, Isidore collected evidence, messages, documents, and internal inquiries into his couple and the real situation in Ince, Pondicherry. He discovered that the girl had been playing with him for a long time and was interested in taking his money and valuables. He also discovered that the girl was friends with a neighborhood boy whom she had romantic feelings for before their marriage but had played pretend to be interested in him.

In the state cabinet meeting on Friday, five major proposals related to various holidays of the Finance Department were approved.

By Narendra Sethi

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand government will provide 180 days of child adoption leave for the first time to a single male government employee if he adopts only a male child under one-year of age. The state finance department claims Uttarakhand is the first state in the country to take such a decision.

Speaking to this newspaper, Finance Minister Premchand Agarwal said, “Since the right to equality has now come to every field, the government has decided to give 6 months of adoption leave to single male employees as well, taking a more flexible approach to adopting a child and considering the practicality.”

Friday’s decision also includes daily wage women employees, who will also get entitled for the childcare leave. In the state cabinet meeting on Friday, five major proposals related to various holidays of the Finance Department were approved.According to the decision taken in the cabinet, “A single male employee of the state government will also get child adoption leave. For them, this holiday will be for 180 days.”

The Halle-Vilvoorde court has been investigating the murder of a 68-year-old woman from Steenokkerzeel in Flemish Brabant for two months. The facts date from the night of July 11 to 12, but are only now coming to light. The woman, Brigitte Vanaudenraeren, was found lifeless in her home along the Tervuursesteenweg. It soon became apparent that there was more going on. “It is a case of parricide,” prosecutor's office spokesman Gilles Blondeau confirmed on Monday.

Council chamber

The woman's home is directly opposite the police station. Just after the events last summer, we hear from a good source, Thalia D., the 35-year-old adoptive daughter, was arrested. This after indications that she had done “something” to her adoptive mother.

“In the interest of the investigation, no further communication about the case can be made at this time,” it said. The suspect, according to our information from El Salvador, appeared last week before the council chamber in Brussels, which decided to extend her detention for at least a month. Thalia D.'s lawyer declined to comment on Monday. There appears to be no discussion in investigative circles about the perpetrator. In the meantime, the investigation into the facts continues. The motive for the parricide remains a mystery for now. (cds/cvh/phu)

Two Danes from Thy thought they knew who they were, but some words on an old cassette tape changed everything.

The cassette tape was hidden for decades in a box in Thy.

It's a Sony tape with space for 45 minutes on each side, and on the B-side someone has written in pen on the yellowed sticker.

- Sophie, Sep. 77, it says.

She is 49 years old, and it is her bright child's voice that is heard singing and talking on the tape recordings.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that a person below the age of 18 cannot be in a live-in relationship and this would be an act not only immoral but also illegal.

A bench of Justices Vivek Kumar Birla and Justice Rajendra Kumar made the observation in a recent judgment dismissing a petition filed by Ali Abbas, a 17-year-old boy, and his live-in partner Saloni Yadav, 19.

Bench observation

"There are several conditions for a live-in relation to be treated as a relation in nature of marriage and in any case, a person has to be major (above the age of 18 years), although he may not be of marriageable age (21 years). Hence, a child cannot have a live-in relationship and this would be an act not only immoral but also illegal," the bench observed.

"An accused who is below 18 years of age cannot seek protection on the ground of having a live-in relationship with a major girl and thus, he cannot seek quashing of the criminal prosecution against him as his/her activity is not permissible in law and is thus illegal," the bench added.

MEA’s statement came as opposition MPs stepped up campaign for return of child to India, who has been taken from parents due to allegations of abuse 

Amidst calls by the opposition for the government to take up the case of Baby Ariha Shah, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that it had summoned the German Ambassador over the 2-year-old child’s situation in foster care in Germany.

The disclosure came a day after Ariha’s mother Dhara Shah met with Members of Parliament to appeal for help, and at the very least for India to press for Ariha to be transferred to a foster home in India, where she can be raised as an Indian and amidst her own Jain community.

‘Cultural rights infringed’

“At a minimum we believe this child’s cultural rights and rights as an Indian are being infringed upon by her being placed in German foster care,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told reporters, adding that the 2021 case was being accorded “high priority”.