A child should not be lost in its search for paternity, said the court, directing family courts adjudicating between warring parents to order DNA tests only as a last resort

The Supreme Court has held in a judgment that children cannot be mechanically subjected to DNA tests in each and every case between warring parents as a short-cut to establish proof of infidelity.

“Genetic information is personal and intimate,” a Bench of Justices V. Ramasubramanian and B.V. Nagarathna observed in a judgment. “It sheds light on a person’s very essence... The information goes to the very heart of who she or he is,” the judgment added, emphasising that “a child’s genetic information is part of his fundamental right to privacy.”

“Children have the right not to have their legitimacy questioned frivolously before a court of law. This is an essential attribute of the right to privacy. Courts are therefore required to acknowledge that children are not to be regarded like material objects, and be subjected to forensic/DNA testing, particularly when they are not parties to the divorce proceeding. It is imperative that children do not become the focal point of the battle between spouses,” Justice Nagarathna, who authored the judgment, underscored.

‘Psychological trauma’

It must remain possible to adopt children from the United States. Some 400 adoptive parents plead for this in a letter to the House of Representatives. After a damning report from the Joustra committee about abuses in the adoption system, all international adoptions were suspended. Last November, the government came up with the plan to make adoption from 6 selected countries possible again, but the US was not among them.

Adoptive parents to Parliament: It must remain possible to adopt children from the US

"The abuses that occurred in the years before 1998, to which I add that the US was not yet an adoption country at that time, have led to a call for: there must be more transparency, the process must be easy to follow, there must be no drugs The United States as an adoption country meets all these conditions," says adoptive parent and one of the initiators Reinout van Haperen in the NOS Radio 1 Journaal.

Cabinet

According to the government, there is enough suitable care available for children in the United States and it therefore does not want children to be brought to the Netherlands for adoption. Van Haperen sees it differently. "What the cabinet does not say is that there are approximately 120,000 children in America that are adoptable, of which no more than half are adopted domestically each year. Those other children always remain in changing foster care."

Openly gay Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana bucks coalition position, votes for legislation sponsored by MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, who slams government as most LGBTQ-phobic ever

The Knesset rejected on Wednesday an opposition lawmaker’s bill that sought to officially enable same-sex couples and single people to adopt children.

The bill, proposed by Yesh Atid MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, was defeated in a preliminary reading by 45 votes against, and 37 in favor.

Current law, dating back to 1981, states that only a “man and his wife” are permitted to adopt children in Israel. However, the courts have the power to enable singles (including a single person in a same-sex relationship) to adopt in exceptional situations. According to the Aguda-The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel, adoption agencies give priority to heterosexual couples so that even those singles who are able to apply are pushed down the list to receive a child to the point where their chances of success dwindle to almost nothing. In addition, the partner of a single person who adopts a child is not recognized as also being a parent.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, an openly gay lawmaker for the coalition Likud party, broke ranks from the government’s stance of opposing the bill and voted in favor.

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They announce from DR Congo for the primary time: ‘A pair from Croatia can not legally undertake these youngsters’

17 February 2023 by fatihf

Congolese authorities have spoken out for the primary time since eight Croats have been arrested on the airport in Ndola in December on suspicion of illegally making an attempt to undertake 4 youngsters from DR Congo. Their youngsters have been taken away, and on the first trial, the Croats have been acquitted in self-defence, after which they have been arrested once more on the similar place.

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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

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

signed 5/12/2013

Intercountry adoption

As of 1 April 2014, the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption applies in the Republic of Croatia

The Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy is the Central Authority of the Republic of Croatia for the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption (The Hague, 1993).

The process of intercountry adoption from a state signatory to the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption.

The adoptive parents are suffering and explain that they waited in vain for years to have a Croatian child before they decided to go abroad. "There is an unacceptable hunting of people," said the 44-year-old.

Due to the complex bureaucracy and the small number of children for adoption in their country, some Croats turn abroad. But the recent arrest of four couples in Zambia reveals the inconveniences that can be encountered in complicated countries, writes French AFP about the case that raised a storm in Croatia.

Eight Croats were arrested in December when they were trying to leave Zambia with four children from DR Congo. In the meantime, they were accused of human trafficking .

An official of the Congolese Ministry for Gender Equality, Family and Children told AFP that people smugglers may have "stole" the children, who were then taken to Croatian adoptive parents.

Croatian adoptive parents believe, on the other hand, that they have proper Congolese documents.

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NEWS Author:Hina24.01.2023 17:33

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Supreme Court President Radovan Dobronic has examined the proceedings by Croatian courts concerning adoptions of children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and found that 16 municipal courts dealt with such cases and none of the applications were denied, Croatia's highest court said on Tuesday.