Six children were rescued by police in July from six couples, who had allegedly bought the children from the accused.

A sessions court in Mumbai has granted bail to the key accused in an interstate child trafficking racket. Pawan Kumar Sharma (42) was arrested from Delhi on August 22 by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, which claims him to be at the centre of the racket, connecting other accused, including surrogate mothers, nurses, biological parents who allegedly sold their children and couples who allegedly purchased them.

Claiming innocence, Sharma, in his bail plea, said he was never involved in the alleged trafficking. He also claimed that the children were given in adoption as per the rules. It was also argued that the children rescued by the police were being ‘properly maintained’ and the persons who ‘adopted’ them were also granted bail by the court. “After adoption, the adoptive parents were taking proper care of the children. The children have been admitted in the school. As the children are rescued and now they are in proper custody…the further detention of the applicant in the case is not required,” the sessions court said earlier this month. The court added that the apprehension raised by the police regarding tampering of evidence by Sharma can be dealt with by imposing stringent conditions.

Opposing Sharma’s bail, police had claimed that Sharma, who ran two fertility clinics, had sold newborn babies with the help of colleagues, who are still absconding. The police also claimed that biological parents of some of the children were yet to be traced. Other co-accused, including the adoptive parents, were granted bail earlier by the sessions court.

Six children were rescued by police in July from six couples, who had allegedly bought the children from the accused. The children, aged between 18 months and seven years, are in the custody of an adoption centre in Mankhurd. The Child Welfare Committee had refused to grant custody to the adoptive parents, stating such instances of trafficking are ‘rampantly increasing’. A writ petition filed by adoptive parents seeking custody of the children is currently pending before the Bombay High Court.

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) also ordered Saintala police to inquire into the matter and submit a report.

BALANGIR: The newborn baby girl, who was rescued after being allegedly sold in Phapsi area of Titlagarh, was sent to the specialised adoption agency on Monday.

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) also ordered Saintala police to inquire into the matter and submit a report.One Sarojini Mahakud of Balangir town had delivered the baby girl in Balangir and went to Phapsi to hand over infant to an unknown person. However, on a tip off, Saintala police and Childline officials rushed to the village and rescued the infant before producing her before the CWC.

In her defense, Sarojini said she wanted to hand over her baby daughter to one of her relatives due to her poor economic condition. “I have no family member and a home. My husband, who hails from Delhi, is not staying with me. I am too poor to take care of the baby,” she said. CWC chairperson J Mohanty said the baby has been sent to the adoption agency and the related formalities will start soon.

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International Social Service (ISS) continues to refine the draft principles throughout 2019; this work will continue next years. The preparation of these Principles was recommended by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children in 2018 (UN Doc. A/HRC/37/60), in her recommendation: [At the international level]:

78. The Special Rapporteur invites the international community to:

[...] (d) Support the work of the International Social Service in developing international principles and standards governing surrogacy arrangements that are in accordance with human rights norms and standards and particularly with the rights of the child. [...]

A core group of experts including Claire Achmad, Nigel Cantwell, Patricia Fronek, Olga Khazova, John Pascoe, David Smolin, Katarina Trimmings and Michael Wells-Greco with International Social Service has been responsible for drafting these principles. A wider group of experts and observers including CRC Committee, Governments, HCCH, UNICEF, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children, academics and practitioners from multi-disciplinary backgrounds representing all regions in the world have contributed to development of the principles.

As part of the consultations, meetings with experts were held in Cape town, London and Geneva in August and September. See below for further information

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Unser Team

Der Vorstand

Carolin Sorg

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New Delhi, India, Sep 30, 2019 / 02:05 pm (CNA).- A religious sister with the Missionaries of Charity has been released on bail 15 months after her arrest. She is accused of cooperating with the sale of a child from a home for unwed mothers, although her supporter argue that she was coerced into confessing.

Sister Concelia Baxla, 62, was arrested in July 2018, along with Anima Indwar, an employee at the Nirmal Hriday home in Ranchi.

Sr. Concelia was released Sept. 27 on a 10,000 rupee bail, the equivalent of $150, and two sureties of the same amount, ucanews reports. The sister was also instructed to leave her passport at the court.

The religious sister, who suffers from diabetes, had been denied bail twice previously – once last October on the grounds that her release could interfere with the investigation into her congregation, and again in January because charges had not yet been pressed, according to ucanews.

Her lawyer argued that Sr. Concelia should be granted bail because she is not facing direct charges, and noted that Indwar was granted bail shortly after her initial arrest.

Over 11,000 intercountry adoptions have taken place across Australia. With the help of non-government organisations some adoptees are finding their overseas biological families - but these organisations are in decline.

Rohan Samara came to Australia in a box on a plane with 330 other kids, he was an orphan evacuated in Operation Babylift after the fall of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in April 1975.

Forty-two years later in 2017 Rohan decided he’d try to find his biological mum.

“I don’t want this poor old little Vietnamese woman going to her grave not knowing about her kid,” Rohan said.

“That thought just breaks my heart."

Adoption: yes or no?

Is it good or bad to adopt a child? And should intercountry adoption continue to exist or not? Extraordinary professor Femmie Juffer and emeritus special professor René Hoksbergen, both specialized in adoption, discuss these issues. But they don't agree.

In the series 'I can't come from Sri Lanka', we follow Dinja Pannebakker, a young woman of 32 who has been adopted from Sri Lanka. She herself feels completely Dutch and has no need for connection to her birthplace.

Pannebakker is one of more than 3,400 Sri Lankan children who have been adopted by Dutch parents since the 1970s. Adoption from Sri Lanka was definitively stopped in 2018. Adoption from a dozen other countries, or 'intercountry adoption', still exists, although the number of adopted people is decreasing every year. In 2018 a total of 156 children were brought to the Netherlands from abroad. Most of them are from China (28), Hungary (24) or the United States (23). In the Netherlands, 21 children were adopted last year and placed with other Dutch families.

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Adoptie: wel of niet?

30 september 2019, Josse Wiering

2019

Is het goed of slecht om een kind te adopteren? En moet interlandelijke adoptie blijven bestaan of niet? Bijzonder hoogleraar Femmie Juffer en emeritus bijzonder hoogleraar René Hoksbergen, beide gespecialiseerd in adoptie, bespreken deze kwesties. Maar eens zijn ze het niet.

In de serie 'Ik kóm niet uit Sri Lanka', volgen we Dinja Pannebakker, een jonge vrouw van 32 jaar die geadopteerd is uit Sri Lanka. Zelf voelt zij zich helemaal Nederlands en heeft geen behoefte aan verbinding met haar geboortegrond.

Spilfiguur in Congolese adoptiefraude Julienne Mpemba (42) doorbreekt stilte en haalt zwaar uit naar ambtenaren Franse Gemeenschap

“In België wist men dat er per ongeluk verkeerde kindjes op het vliegtuig zaten. Maar niemand deed iets”

30/09/2019 om 03:04

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Pieter Huyberechts