This article is the first installment in a series about adoptions from Haiti to the U.S., offering perspectives on the process from both countries.

In October, the media spotlight shone on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family of seven children during the judicial confirmation process. Among the children, the two adopted from Haiti — Vivian, 16, and John Peter, 13 — received the most scrutiny.

Probes came from news outlets like The New York Times, which reported that the children were adopted in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, however, the Haitian government has adopted stricter laws to comply with Hague Convention protocols, making international adoption more difficult.

“In the past, anybody could come and adopt a child easily,” said Erick Pierre-Val, a Delmas, Port-au-Prince pastor who counsels parents on the adoption process. “Now, because of the Convention, [they] try to control the process because they care about human trafficking.”

International adoptions to the United States from the rest of the world declined sharply after 2008, when the U.S. government first adopted Hague standards. Haiti itself tightened its laws in 2014 to comply with the Hague Convention, and the steepest decline in adoptions from Haiti took place in 2015.

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Thiruvananthapuram: The representatives of the Kerala State Child

Welfare Council are all set to leave for Andhra Pradesh on Saturday to

bring back an infant that was handed over to a couple there for

adoption.

The baby is presumed to be that of former student activist Anupama S

Filmmaker Huibert van Wijk has won the Karen de Bok Talent Prize 2020 with his film plan Kind van de Tijd. He will receive 25,000 euros for the development of the film, in which he, together with his father Lex and his brother Tim, who was adopted from Indonesia, look back on how that adoption went in the 1970s.

“Through the personal story, the documentary maker addresses social issues, such as the makeability of the composite family, illegal adoption and the tension between good intentions and white saviorism,” said the jury. Van Wijk managed to hit all jury members with his plan. “The plan is convincing because form and style as well as expressiveness are well thought out.”

The Karen de Bok Talent Prize was awarded on Thursday for the fourth year in a row to the winning documentary plan of the IDFAcademy & NPO fund workshop. The winner can continue to develop the plan together with a broadcaster, after which an application for a production contribution can be submitted to the NPO fund.

Former winner Marina Meijer won the Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary this year at the Netherlands Film Festival. She won the prize with the film Carrousel, for which she received the Karen de Bok Talent Prize in 2017.

Karen de Bok was a program maker and editor-in-chief of Television at VPRO for many years. She passed away in January 2017.

A TWISTED doctor allegedly snatched a baby boy from his homeless mum and flogged him off to a rich couple for £4,000 in India, says a report.

The medic and his two accomplices reportedly snatched the four-month-old from his traumatised mum after trawling Mumbai slums for victims.

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NEW DELHI: Over 600 child care institutions, run by NGOs and housing 28,000 children, received up to Rs 6 lakh per child in foreign funds in 2018-19, far more than the estimated average expenditure, the apex child rights body NCPCR said as it expressed apprehensions of possible financial irregularities.

In a random analysis of information about 638 NGO-run CCIs in five states, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) found that in 2018-19 the average amount they collected was between Rs 2.12 lakh to Rs 6.60 lakh per child and it is now planning a country-wide exercise to examine the foreign funding and expenditure of such NGOs, according to NCPCR Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo.

As per the Child Protection Scheme, the expenditure per child per annum including all recurring expenses is about Rs 60,000.

"Such a high amount of money collected by the NGOs has raised concerns about possible siphoning of funds. We will be carrying out a country-wide exercise and, accordingly, action would be taken," Kanoongo told PTI.

He said a "country-wide analysis" of the foreign funds received by NGOs run child care institutions will be carried out.

The TV2 documentary "The Danish children from India" can give rise to a number of questions about adoption from the orphanage Shejar Chhaya and a study that the National Board of Appeal launched in 2014. Here you can see our answers.

Briefly about the course

2005 AC Børnehjælp interrupts the collaboration with Shejar Chhaya due to lack of development in the quality of the work.

2014 Media coverage of problems with adoptions by Shejar Chhaya from 2004 to 2008.

2014 The National Board of Appeal launches investigation of Danish adoption cases from the orphanage in the period from 2004-2005

On paper, Carlos Haas is German. But he was born in 1985 in Guatemala, Central America. When he was four months old, he was adopted by a German couple from Lower Franconia. More than 30 years later, he finally wants to know where he comes from and whether his mother gave him away voluntarily. Because some mothers had their children robbed during the civil war in Guatemala. Carlos goes on a search.

Adoption, part 1

The riddle

Carlos Haas was born in Guatemala in 1985 and was adopted by a German couple when he was four months old. More than 30 years later, he finally wants to know where he comes from and whether his mother gave him away voluntarily.

Adoption, part 2

The government has constituted a multi-agency team to investigate allegations of child theft and trafficking in the country.

Labour CS Simon Chelugui on Tuesday reiterated the government’s commitment to ensure safety of children in the country, adding that he will do everything possible to get to the bottom of child trafficking claims.

This comes after a BBC documentary that exposed how babies are being stolen in Kenya to feed a thriving black market.

In its expose titled 'Buying a baby on Nairobi's black market', Africa Eye infiltrated the trafficking rings selling children for as little as Sh300,000.

“We therefore assure Kenyans that our health facilities are secure and safe for mothers and children. We further urge the public to report to government agencies any case involving child loss,” the CS said.