New Delhi, Jul 7 All child care homes run by the Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC), except those in Maharashtra and West Bengal, have filed for recognition of their institutions under the Juvenile Justice Act, officials said.

In 2015, an ideological row had erupted between the ministry and the charity over issues such as the latter''s denial to give children to separated or divorced parents.

Following this, the Missionaries of Charity decided to stop putting children up for adoption under the government''s Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) system.

But in October last year, former Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had urged them to come back into the government''s system of adoption services.

Officials told that at a meeting, the officials of the WCD ministry asked the MoC to either take authorisation of the child care institutions or shut down, following which the MoC applied for recognition of all 79 child care institutions across the country, barring West Bengal and Maharashtra, where there are around 12 institutions.

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In recent years we have been in the newspapers with some regularity

startled by news about illegal admission of children with

as a goal to adopt them and offer a safe home. Sometimes unsuspecting,

sometimes very calculated adults, circumvent the law. [1, 2]

A guardian angel who offers hope

She provides a secure nest for abandoned, lost and orphaned children

This little bespectacled girl is all of two. She likes meeting people but is too shy. Try picking her up, and she’ll jump right out of your arms. Tanu (name changed) is among the group of 23 children who are part of the Welfare Home for Children in Sarita Vihar. Mostly in the age group of 0-8 years. A few are orphans here, there are others who are lost and some have just been abandoned by their parents for various reasons.

Set up in 1979 by Achla Khanna, Welfare Home for Children has been giving shelter to such children from across the city for the last four decades.

I was the youngest in my family and had a lot of love and affection for younger kids. During my college days, I started doing social work, and as a part of it started visiting an orphanage. It was then that I conceived the idea of starting a care home with the intention of taking care of unwanted children, says Khanna whose Home is also an adoption cell registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

She opened the Centre with her husband Mohinder Singh, a lawyer, and the couple started with one child whom they received from the social worker of Lady Hardinge Hospital, where they used to distribute medicines to poor patients. With time, the number of children increased.

Police officials also started bringing infants/children who were either abandoned or were found missing from their parents, she says. Apart from being an orphanage and adoption cell, Welfare Home for Children also receives 30 children as part of the Outreach Programme where they conduct remedial coaching for 8-13-year-olds from the nearby slum areas regularly.

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Overregulation of international adoption is driving the industry into extinction. Jayme Metzgar, senior contributor at The Federalist and founder of the adoption non-profit Romania Reborn, joins Ben Domenech on the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss major issues with the State Department’s adoption policies and the failure to advocate for adoption overseas.

“In the past 10 years, it has gone from over 200 adoption agencies that accredited to less than 150. And less than 100 of those actually do foreign placement,” Metzgar said. “The State Department would much rather have a just few large agencies in charge of adoption instead of smaller agencies.”

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Of the six arrested, two including Desai, were booked for purchasing children, while four women were arrested for scouting for children and selling them.

AMAR DESAI (32), one of the six accused arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch earlier this week for his alleged involvement in a child trafficking racket, has claimed that he committed the crime as he was under pressure from his family to have a male child after two daughters.

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The police said that Desai, who hails from Kolhapur, told his relatives that his wife had delivered twins, a boy and a girl. In reality, his wife delivered only a girl. Following this, Desai, a driver with a cab aggregator, allegedly agreed to pay Rs 3.84 lakh for a seven-day boy, he told the police.

Of the six arrested, two including Desai, were booked for purchasing children, while four women were arrested for scouting for children and selling them.

United Nations launch for global Justice for Children initiative

4 July 2019

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The Justice for Children global initiative is today (July 4) launching a Call to Action to place children at the heart of justice in every nation of the world, at the United Nations.

The work is being led by project director Professor Jennifer Davidson, Executive Director of the University of Strathclyde Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures, in collaboration with many outstanding internationally-recognised partners, including the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the Child Justice Advocacy Group, with Terre des hommes and Defence for Children International.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

IAC Sessions 468-470 Results

The following referrals were issued in IAC Session 468 which was held on July 4, 2019:

1) Spanish dossier from November 2012 referred a male child aged one year with features in health status

2) French dossier from January 2015 referred two brothers aged 4 years and 7 months & 6 years and 6 months