LUDHIANA: The adoptive parents of 10-year-old Pratigya have moved a local court for annulment of adoption

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/adoption), so that the girl can return to her parents. The girl had gone missing last

year and later adopted.

The first hearing would be held on August 14. Her adoptive parents said initially the authorities were not cooperating or guiding

them with the procedure to annul adoption, but they approached them after the TOI highlighted the issue.

It's difficult to imagine the person next door might be a slave, maybe they were trafficked into Australia under false pretenses, maybe they're being exploited.

Human trafficking and slavery are atrocious crimes that happen every day, in every country around the world. Slavery is a $158-billion industry worldwide, with only 1 per cent of victims ever rescued.

In Australia it is believed slavery-like offences have been historically under-reported, but the numbers are increasing with the Australian Federal Police experiencing a rise in human trafficking and slavery referrals in recent years.

In the 2013-14 financial year the AFP received 70 human trafficking-related complaints, that number more than doubled by 2017-18, with 162 referrals received.

An AFP spokeswoman said one reason for the increase was human trafficking and slavery offences were strengthened in 2013 after legislative amendments were made to the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995.

In June 2019, the ‘Angels and Demons’ investigation was made public. The case concerns the unlawful placing of children into foster care by the municipality of Bibbiano, province of Reggio Emilia.

The social services network of Val D’Enza, in the province of Reggio Emilia, is accused of having drawn up, for years, fake reports in order to remove children from their families and place them in paid foster care. The extremely grave abuse and violence allegations include the administration of electrical impulses to children to alter the state of their memory prior to court interviews, in order to induce fake memories of sexual abuse.

Those under investigation include the mayor of the Municipality of Bibbiano, politicians, doctors, social workers, self-employed professionals, psychologists and psychotherapists from a non-profit organisation in Turin.

Foster care is not a system for permanently separating family units, but is a temporary aid measure for children in difficult situations and is supposed to ensure that relations are maintained with their real families. The Italian Government has taken prompt action to shed light on the events which have taken place in Bibbiano.

Can the Commission therefore say:

NGO workers call for consultative meet on August 20 to discuss Nagaland’s adoption policy

Eastern Mirror Desk

Dimapur, Aug. 10: The Central Adoption Resource Authority (Cara), which functions as the nodal body for adoption of children in India and has the mandate to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions, contradicts the special provisions of Article 371 (A) for Nagaland, according to Dr. Hesheto Chishi, the chairman of Nagaland NGOs Forum.

During a press conference in Dimapur on Saturday, Chishi said that in order to address this issue, a consultative meeting among stakeholders on child adoption would be held on August 20 in Dimapur.

He said that the Cara guideline posing a threat to Article 371 (A) concerns ‘legal and customary laws.’

Although the law no longer discriminates against them, the agencies involved sometimes

do.

In January, Disha Parekh, a 31-year-old

single woman from Bengaluru, decided to

take a big baby step — adopt a child. The

Marianne (Mary) Iwanek (nee Kolijn), social reformer and social worker, b November 12, 1943; d April 1, 2019

Becoming an orphan at the age of 15 gave social worker Mary Iwanek a great empathy and understanding of those she went on to help.

As head of adoption services in New Zealand in the 1990s, she was a leading figure in changing the adoption practice and law in this country.

Iwanek, the youngest of Adriana and Leendert Kolijn's 10 children, was born in Vleuten, the Netherlands, in 1943. Her father, a police commander, was in the Dutch underground resistance after refusing to work for Hitler.

After her parents died, and most of her siblings had emigrated, at 15 she became a state ward. Her brother Herman, on holiday from New Zealand, became her guardian. If she had stayed, she would have become a domestic servant. Instead, she became the first state ward to emigrate.

Adopted Bulgarian Children Found in a Horror House in the US

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The two Bulgarian children adopted in the U.S. are in good health and under the protection of the authorities, said the press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following media publications about two Bulgarian children abused by their adoptive parents, U.S. citizens. Bulgaria’s Consulate General in Chicago conducted an immediate inquiry and reported that the children were in a safe place and under the protection of the Shannon County Sheriff's Office, Missouri. They are in a good condition and have undergone a full medical examination that has not found any serious injuries or illnesses.

The parents were arrested by the Somerville Police Department on 8 July 2019, after which the case was referred to the Shannon County Sheriff's Office.

The Consulate General in Chicago is in constant contact with the authorities and provides full administrative assistance on the case.

Karnal, August 8

A three-day-old girl child was found abandoned at the cradle baby centre (palna house), an initiative of the state government for giving shelter to abandoned children, at the entrance of MDD Bal Bhawan — an orphanage — on Thursday.

At 1.10 pm, the security guard of Bal Bhawan spotted the baby in the cradle and informed PR Nath, founder general secretary of the orphanage. The girl was wrapped in a towel.

Nath said that the staff members took care of her and informed Child Welfare Committee chairman Umesh Chanana and president of the orphanage Parminder Pal Singh. They also informed Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh about it.

“With the permission of CWC chairman, the girl was taken to the civil hospital for medical check-up. Doctor told us that she is around three-days-old and her health is good. A complete medical check-up will be done on Friday,” said Nath.

Ayat Ahmed is a healthy toddler, just two months shy of her second birthday and learning her ABC’s with her mother in a small Dubai apartment.

But it hasn’t always been this way. Born premature and battling pneumonia, she weighed only six and a half pounds at three months old when her Canadian adoptive parents, Tauseef Qureshi and Ameera Hanif, travelled to Pakistan to become her legal guardians.

READ MORE: Ontario couple forced to return daughter to Nigerian orphanage because Canada refused to help

Now, 18 months later, the couple is fighting to bring Ayat home, challenging a Canadian ban on adoptions from Pakistan, while also struggling against Qureshi’s recent cancer diagnosis.

“We stand a family divided on two separate continents, living apart, not knowing when we will have the chance to see each other,” Qureshi said from his south Ottawa home.

The adoption support fund is a lifeline for parents like us. At a time of political turmoil, it must not be overlooked

t was the question that brought serious, life-altering consequences for our family. The social worker sipping coffee in our lounge leaned forward and casually asked us whether we could consider adopting this little girl.

Adoption was not on our radar. We had three children by birth and our journey as foster carers had only just begun. Our first foster placement – the baby crawling between us – was healthy and beautiful and, as far as I understood, about to be wrenched away to be adopted. But the social worker wanted what was best for this child, who had already suffered enough early childhood trauma without an additional move to another family.

Foster carers should not be kept in the dark about the children they support

Krish Kandiah