PUNE: The state has reported 32 deaths from 32 adoption agencies, data for three years from 2016-19 submitted by the

Women and Child Development Department show. As many as 776 deaths were reported in the country. The highest, 124 deaths, were from Uttar Pradesh. The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has sought detailed explanations on the cause of deaths. Last month, responding to a question in Lok Sabha (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lok-Sabha), women and child development (WCD) minister Smriti Irani put out the data which said the highest number of deaths of children have been in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bihar), Maharashtra (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/maharashtra) and Telengana.

The cause of death, facilities provided at these agencies and the various issues plaguing these agencies will be taken up after the agencies provide a detailed report, officials from CARA said. Action has been initiated in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Telangana (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Telangana) where they have got the state machinery to shut down these agencies and even fine some for poor maintenance. A detailed report will be sought for Maharashtra. The state has 63 adoption agencies, the highest in the country. “We have had to close down two agencies in Uttar Pradesh and in Telengana we had to fine them for non-maintenance. Action against others will follow,’’ officials said. CARA officials said the state agencies must monitor the agencies in their jurisdiction and report to them. The government has made registration of all agencies compulsory. Over 8,000 adoption agencies are registered with the respective authorities for monitoring.

Senior officials from the WCD department said the government was all set to bring in amendments in the Juvenile Justice Act in the last Lok Sabha session. When amended it will make the district magistrate the competent officer for approving adoptions instead of the civil courts. The ministry says it will prevent long delays in courts and expedite adoption. “We will be reintroducing the amendment in the upcoming session and plan to bring in an amendment to the JJ Act for making the district magistrate and collector as the competent officer for approving adoptions, instead of courts,’’ they said. With the civil courts already burdened with huge number of pending cases, matters such as adoption keep getting delayed. On the other hand, district magistrates or district collectors have access to all departments will find it easier to seek documents or verify facts on the ground faster.

Ouders van minstens vijf Congolese “weeskinderen” blijken nog in leven

Geadopteerd weeskindje of ontvoerd bij ouders? Congolese adoptiekinderen moeten DNA afstaan

Het gerechtelijk onderzoek naar adoptiefraude bij Congolese kinderen en een vijftiental Belgische ouderparen zit in een eindfase. Dat schrijven de kranten van Mediahuis vandaag. “De onderzoeksrechter hoopt het gerechtelijke onderzoek in ­augustus af te ronden. We hebben aanwijzingen dat er in vijf gevallen sprake is van frauduleuze adoptie”, zegt parketwoordvoerster Wenke Roggen.

Concreet zijn dus vijf kinderen ontvoerd en als “weeskind” aangeboden aan Belgische ouders. Minstens drie van die vijf kinderen - de meisjes Samira, Zakiatu en Jaëlle (allemaal nu 7 of 8 jaar oud) - kregen na hun ontvoering een andere naam en geboortedatum. Een DNA-onderzoek in België bij vijftien andere vermoedelijk ontvoerde kinderen levert voorlopig niets op. “Dit pijnlijke verhaal heeft onze levens, die van de biologische ouders en die van de kinderen compleet overhoop gehaald”, reageren drie van de vijf Belgische ouderparen.

De vermoedelijke spilfiguur van de hele carrousel, leert het ­onderzoek, is Julienne Mpemba (41), een Belgisch-Congolese vrouw uit Namen met contacten tot in de hoogste Congolese politieke kringen én de Franse ­Gemeenschap. In oude interviews zegt ze dat ze zo’n vijftig Congolese kindjes ‘een nieuwe toekomst’ ­bezorgd heeft. Het federale parket verdenkt haar van mensenhandel met minder­jarige slachtoffers. Ze zat maandenlang vast en is nu, in afwachting van haar proces, vrij met een enkelband.

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Author: Mircea Dan Opri?

On the night of July 27/28, 2019, that is Saturday on Sunday, while all the attention was directed to the event in Caracal, the Association for the Protection of the Human and the Environment, signalled a descent of a mixed team from three special structures in Bucharest, who, without the news of the press and without the knowledge of the policemen from Arad county, started investigations at a farm in the town of Chilindia, Arad county. Here, complex researches were conducted, as well as searches / searches, sample collections and security interviews with several persons. Chilindia is 50 kilometres from the border town Curtici, 80 kilometres’ from Turnu and 75 kilometres from V?r?and, all three being border crossing points between Romania and Hungary.

Associate Professor Sonja Van Wichelen, sociologist and leader of the Biohumanity FutureFix research project in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences made the call in a paper published in the latest issue of Law and Society Review.

In the paper, Associate Professor Van Wichelen argues that the world of international adoption today is undergoing profound changes and that legal systems and processes have been unable to catch up.

Over a period of five years, Associate Professor Van Wichelen conducted fieldwork in the United States and the Netherlands, where she visited a number of adoption agencies and conducted in-depth interviews and ethnographic research.

One key aspect of her research was an examination of the impact of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which was established in 1993 and sets out the international principles that govern intercountry adoption.

"The Convention does have an important role to play in ensuring the protection of the child and combating illegal and unethical adoptions," Associate Professor Van Wichelen said.

HYDERABAD: Abandoned by her parents soon after birth, four-year-old intersex child, Nitya (name changed), has finally found

a home — miles away in the United States of America. According to officials of the state’s women and child welfare department

(WCWD), this is the first time that a LGBTQ+ child has been adopted from Telangana

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Telangana).

Nitya’s American parents are based in Washington DC. “The child moved in with her adoptive parents a few months ago. The

Violation of children rights will not be tolerated, warned Child Welfare Committee (CWC) District Chairman Gurugubelli Narasimha Murthy.

She lost her husband and daughter, now she may lose her son!

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Srikakulam: Violation of children rights will not be tolerated, warned Child Welfare Committee (CWC) District Chairman Gurugubelli Narasimha Murthy. Speaking to media at CWC office here on Thursday,he said that CWC was a statutory body established under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 (JJA) to

protect neglected, orphan, abandoned, disserted, missed, differently abled and mentally retarded children from exploitation. He added the CWC has ordered to close two childcare institutions (CCI) in Srikakulam city.

Call for review of processes around cross-border adoption

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In a globalising world where new family structures are emerging and evolving, a University of Sydney scholar is calling for a reassessment of the regulations around intercountry adoption.

Associate Professor Sonja Van Wichelen, sociologist and leader of the Biohumanity FutureFix research project in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences made the call in a paper published in the latest issue of Law and Society Review.

In the paper, Associate Professor Van Wichelen argues that the world of international adoption today is undergoing profound changes and that legal systems and processes have been unable to catch up.

Three cases registered; five people arrested; two babies handed over to orphanages

Investigations into the abduction of an infant outside Mahim railway station in June have uncovered a racket of selling babies, with two more cases being registered with the Mumbra and Khandeshwar police. While the agents remain the same, the seller and purchaser are different in every case.

On June 26, a two-month-old baby, who was sleeping with his twin brother and parents on the pavement outside Mahim station, was stolen after midnight. Around 2 a.m., when the mother found the baby missing, the family approached the Government Railway Police in Dadar.

Senior inspector Prasad Pandhre and team found the baby and arrested kidnapper Shahbaz Shaikh (26). Since the case came under the jurisdiction of the Mahim police, the case was transferred to them along with the accused.

An officer from Mahim police station said, “On interrogation, Mr. Shaikh revealed that he was promised ?25,000 for providing a baby boy to one Raju and Sujata in Panvel. He was to meet them near Panvel railway station, but they did not turn up. So we nabbed them at their residence and later, they were arrested.”

Between 2018 and April 2019 an alarming 3,041 young boys and girls were kidnapped.

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Between 2018 and April 2019 an alarming 3,041 young boys and girls were kidnapped

Out of these the count of young girls stood at 2,000 whereas the count of boys was at 1,041

Of the above 1,422 girls and 792 boys were found but a significant number remained untraceable

Niklaus Samuel Gugger, who was adopted by a Swiss couple, visited Thalassery – a place he calls his hometown.

In 1970, when Anasuya gave birth to a baby boy in India, she told the nurse and the lady doctor who attended her not to tell her son about her, and ask him never to come in search of her. Forty nine years later, Niklaus Samuel Gugger, now an MP in Switzerland visiting Thalassery in Kerala – a place he calls his hometown – is happy he honoured his unknown mother’s wish.

“The lady doctor has passed away and the other woman is 84 years old. I respect my mother’s wish. She trusted the missionary hospital (where I was born) to find the best place for me. And they did,” Nik says on a phone call from Kochi. He has just reached Kochi from Thalassery. Before that he was in Thiruvananthapuram, where he was hosted for lunch by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Nik had hosted the CM when he visited Switzerland earlier.

Nik is on a holiday with his family, and Kerala is very dear to him. After leaving India as a four-year-old to move to Switzerland, he has come back to the country at least 10 times, he reckons.

“It is because of my parents – the Swiss couple that adopted me, Fritz and Elizabeth. They said we should never lose our roots,” Nik says. Fritz also made sure Nik remembers all of his childhood. With a Super 8 camera, he made movies of little Nik running around in Thalassery and at the Hermann Gundert Foundation where he lived for four years.