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AHMEDABAD: A 39-year-old man failed to secure custody of his threeyear-old daughter through a habeas corpus petition after his estranged

wife handed over the daughter to an orphanage, from where the child was

given in adoption to a couple not known to the father.

On Monday, the Gujarat high court rejected the habeas corpus petition

saying that the child is not under any illegal confinement and hence the

When it turns out that Reina and her husband cannot have children, it feels like a heavy loss. But their story has turned for the better: through adoption, they now enjoy their children and grandchildren.

“In the beginning, people sometimes looked surprised when they saw a dark child in the pram. We lived in the countryside in Drenthe, so you didn't see that much. Fortunately, we received a lot of positive reactions.”

Reina is in her early twenties when she discovers that she and her husband cannot have children. She married when she was eighteen, her husband was 26 years old. “I'm a Baptist and my husband was of Catholic descent, but at that time he didn't have anything to do with the faith,” says Reina (67). “Even before our marriage, it was a struggle, including with his parents. So we got married pretty quickly. We had a great desire to have children, especially me: women didn't work like that in those days."

Shame

But Reina doesn't get pregnant. “In the hospital it became clear that my husband was infertile. He has yet to have surgery and the gynecologist suggested artificial insemination, but that was not in line with my belief. It was difficult to talk about it, I was ashamed of it. When my sister and friends did have children, I found it very difficult. I must have said to God: why everyone and not me? But I can't remember praying for it. I also had to deal with it alone, because my husband was not religious.”

Final verdict in the file of child traffickers in ??nd?rei: the 25 defendants were acquitted

The case of trafficking in children from ??nd?rei, which troubled Romania and the European Union in 2010, ended on Monday, after many delays, with a decision to acquit all the accused. The verdict was given by the Târgu Mure? Court of Appeal.

After more than nine years of delayed trials, the 25 people accused of trafficking nearly 200 children from ??nd?rei in the UK are free as the bird of the sky. Judge Daniel Ursulescu, from the Târgu Mure? Court of Appeal, ordered the acquittal under art. 16 paragraph 1 letter a of the Code of Criminal Procedure - "the deed did not exist". Moreover, the defendants will claim damages at the ECHR for the months in which they were under preventive arrest and for the costs of the court, said lawyer Lorena Maria Cretescu.

In February, all the defendants were acquitted at first instance, or the judges found that the facts were prescribed after the trial was delayed for 9 years, of which only 6 were in Harghita Court, where there were 53 terms. The story of ??nd?rei's case The case of ??nd?rei exploded in 2010, the images of masked men with rattlesnakes breaking through the doors of the palaces of T?nd?rei in search of child traffickers were broadcast by several international TV stations. It was the first case of trafficking in minors investigated by Romanian and English policemen, and the trafficking of 181 Roma children in the United Kingdom was investigated, where they were used for begging and theft.

"The recruitment of minors was carried out in the environment of the poor Roma communities, the members of the group dealing with their accommodation and transport, the procurement of travel documents and the necessary money, as well as the organization and supervision of criminal activity in the United Kingdom and the management of the money obtained from the exploitation. victims, "the prosecutors said. In England, 120 traffickers were arrested and arrested, while some of the 26 people arrested and charged were released after several months. In July 2010, the DIICOT prosecutors completed the investigations and "ordered the prosecution of 26 defendants, 18 of whom were in custody". Among the accusations: trafficking in minors, money laundering, setting up an organized criminal group and possession without firearms.

YEREVAN—The Investigative Committee of Armenia arrested three civil servants late last week in connection with the National Security Service’s (NSS) ongoing investigation into illegal international adoptions. Officials arrested Liana Karapetyan, the director of a Yerevan orphanage; Razmik Abrahamyan, the director of the Republican Maternity Hospital; and Arshak Jerjeryan, Abrahamyan’s deputy director at the hospital. Abrahamyan had also served as head Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Armenia for several years.

The three stand accused of conspiring with two unnamed individuals in an alleged scheme to illegally separate newborns from their parents and present them as orphans to international adoption agencies. The Investigative Committee has not disclosed the identity of a fourth conspirator implicated in the case. Data produced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reveals that 54 children were adopted overseas between 2016 and 2018, and authorities now suspect that at last 30 of those may have been cases of illegal international child trafficking.

Dr. Abrahamyan has been charged with two counts under the Armenian Criminal Code: Article 167 (illegal separation of the child from the parents or substitution of the child) and Article 200 (commercial bribe). The 76-year-old wasn’t placed under pre-trial detention despite a motion filed by the NSS. Yerevan Children’s Home Director Karapetyan, who was charged with Article 167 and Article 314 (official forgery), has since been released on bail after posting the three million AMD ($6,300) required. A third—unnamed—suspect also posted bail set at five million AMD ($10,450).

Substantial allegations of ongoing and organized illegal international orphan trafficking are not recent. A 2011 report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) revealed cases of prospective adoptive parents using such agencies being asked to provide ‘gifts’ to the orphanage managers and other officials in thousands of dollars in cash payments in order for them to “hold on to” their prospective adoptive child. Hmayak Navasardian, head of an Armenian Justice Ministry department coordinating foreign adoption procedures at the time, admitted that such payments are considered illegal under Armenian law.

These cases closely resemble the testimonies of adoptive parents who recently spoke with the Armenian Weekly, which included one woman who described handing bags full of American dollars to a local handler in Armenia, as well as being ‘forced’ to sign forged documents for other American adoptive parents for ‘procedural’ reasons. “Naturally, if there is such a thing, it means not paying for [legal] services but paying bribes,” Navasardian told RFE/RL at the time.

BHOPAL: The six-year-old boy from Jhansi, who got lost in Bhopal in May,

will soon be united with his mother.

The secretary of State Legal Service Authority told TOI on Sunday that the

adoption process of the boy had been cancelled and orders to send him

home were passed in late November. There has been a delay in executing

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Pune: Stringent government rules have considerably brought down foreign adoptions in the country, women and child

development department data revealed.

From around 600 since 2016, the number of inter-country adoptions is down to 275 this year till November. In comparison, the

number of in-country adoptions is 2,000 in 2019.

The adoption agencies attribute the fall in foreign adoptions to the changes in the adoption procedures and the “stringent”

On November 8, 2018, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers enacted new adoption regulations that restrict which children may be eligible for intercountry adoption. The new regulations restrict which children may be eligible for intercountry adoption and limit intercountry adoption to children in three groups: 1) children living in institutions, for whom an adoptive family in Latvia has not been found; 2) stepchildren of prospective adoptive parents; and 3) children living with a foster care family in Latvia, if the adoptive child is related to the prospective adoptive parents. The new regulations will also impose additional requirements on accredited adoption service providers (ASPs) and require more pre-adoption training programs, including classroom and practical training hours. ASPs have six months from the effective date of the new regulations to create new training programs and apply for an extension of their authorization to operate in Latvia. Latvia’s Ministry of Welfare (Central Adoption Authority) will post an official English translation of the new regulations on their website in January 2019. Once the regulations are posted, the Office of Children’s Issues will post an updated notice on adoption.state.gov with a link to their site, and will update the country information page for Latvia.

The U.S. Embassy in Latvia has met with the Ministry of Welfare to discuss adoption cases that were in process prior to the November 8, 2018 implementation of the new regulations (pending cases). The Minister confirmed that cases will not be subject to the new requirements if the prospective adoptive parents received an official referral prior to November 8, 2018. On a case-by-case basis, the Ministry will consider whether the new requirement will apply to situations in which the ASP submitted completed adoption applications OR letters of intent prior to November 8, 2018 but for which the prospective adoptive parents have not yet received a referral.

In an effort to ensure the Ministry is aware of all pending cases, ASPs should provide the following information to Jana Sipola, Senior Desk Officer at the Children and Family Policy Department of the Latvian Ministry of Welfare, by e-mail at Jana.Sipola@lm.gov.lv.

Names of the prospective adoptive parents;

Names of the children;