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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre and other authorities concerned, including the Regional Passport Office (RPO), after a four-year-old girl filed a petition because her adoptive Australian parents were unable to apply for her passport.

According to the submissions made by the petitioner's advocate in the HC, the child was adopted by her father's sister, an Australian citizen, two years ago. The adoption took place by way of a registered adoption deed. When the adoptive parents began the process of taking the child to Australia, things hit a roadblock.

The agency responsible for adoption immigration informed the adoptive parents that many cases of migration through adoption under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act were under the Australian govt's scrutiny. Once the agency receives clearance from the Australian govt, the process for taking the adopted child to Australia will proceed further. Until then, the child could be taken to Australia through any other valid immigration process, but not through adoption.

The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the adoptive parents then initiated the process of getting the child's passport in India, as she is an Indian citizen. However, this too was not possible because the adoptive parents cannot file an application online. This is because the adoptive parents, being Australian citizens, must supply a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) confirming that the adoption is valid. The adoptive parents have applied to CARA, but the agency has not issued an NOC, stating that it was waiting for confirmation from the Australian authorities on this subject, the petitioner's advocate submitted in the court.

The petitioner's lawyer further argued that even if the child does not travel to Australia on the strength of her adoption by Australian citizens, it is her right to have an Indian passport so that a different process for travel could be resorted to.

As the officer incharge of the Wave City Police station that day, he asked a team of officers to visit the spot and admit the baby to a Community Health Centre(CHC) and get her medical check up done.

On a sunny Friday afternoon, sub-inspector Pushpendra Kumar was investigating a murder near the Inayatpur and Raghunathpur villages of Ghaziabad when he was alerted that a newborn baby was found abandoned nearby. “I thought it was ‘some’ child that was abandoned by the parents,” he said. But little did he know that was the beginning of an emotional roller-coaster that was awaiting him in the days to follow.

As the officer incharge of the Wave City Police station that day, he asked a team of officers to visit the spot and admit the baby to a Community Health Centre(CHC) and get her medical check up done.

An hour and a half later, Kumar decided to visit the spot — a jungle between the two villages — where the baby was abandoned to find any clue of the missing parents. A few village residents were still at the spot. “They said that there were wild dogs in the area. The boundary wall on which the baby was laid was narrow, it was a surprise that she was found safe,” he said.

Soon, he was at the CHC. “The doctors informed me that the baby was doing fine, healthy and weighed around 3.15 kg. I went inside to see her. She was dressed in a light blue t-shirt. Tiny hair covered her head and her eyes were closed. Wrapped in a pink towel, the doctors placed her in my arms. They said the child was doing fine and needed to be shifted to an orphanage,” Kumar said.

An offhand remark from a relative unlocked a lifelong family secret, and a quest to find her

Id been having dinner with my cousin Danny, in town for a few days on a business trip, when he lightly dropped the bombshell. We'd been talking about the usual things that families talk about — the trouble we'd gotten into as kids, the Thanskgivings we'd shared. Then I asked him what, if anything, he remembered about my father. Danny, seven years older than me, easily summoned fond tales of my mom's boyfriend horseplaying with him and his brothers. Of course, I'd never known that side of my father, I'd said, because he'd left my mother before I was born. "Well, yeah," Danny had replied, "he was gone, except for the thing with your sister." I sat in stunned silence for a moment, then flagged down a waiter and ordered another glass of Malbec. I had a sister. 

My mother was 21 when she got pregnant with me. This was before Roe v. Wade, and anyway, she was Catholic. So her parents did what any Irish Catholic parents would do at the time — they threatened to kick her out unless she got married. It lasted three tense months. That part of the story I'd long known. What I'd never imagined was the sequel. 

Danny described what he'd remembered — how, when I was three, my mother and I had decamped from our home in Jersey City to his in a quaint Boston suburb. He recalled his Aunt Bets getting "fat," and going off to the hospital with his mother one day. He said that years later, his father had told him they had offered to adopt the baby, but my mother would have none of it. 

I flagged down a waiter and ordered another glass of Malbec. I had a sister.

Over €27.4 million has been paid to survivors to date, but thousands of people remain excluded.

THE FIRST OF a number of legal cases calling for the Government’s redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby institutions to be extended is due to come before the High Court next week.

The case was originally due to be mentioned today but was pushed back until next Monday, 21 October, as a document was missing from the case file.

Judge Mary Rose Gearty said the case would be mentioned next week instead.

John Duncan-Morris, who spent time in Bessborough institution in Cork and St Joseph’s in Stamullen in Meath, is taking legal action against the State.

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Sentenced  on Thursday to ten years in prison by the Namur Criminal Court for, in particular, kidnapping minors, hostage-taking and fraud in the context of international adoptions between the DRC and Belgium , Juilenne Mpemba from Namur benefited " from officials of the French Community, managers of approved adoption organisations and various personalities, a culpable leniency without which the defendant could not have acted as she did  ".

These sentences from the judgment did not go unnoticed, particularly by Mr. Vincent Lurquin. The lawyer for three Congolese biological families decided to initiate civil proceedings  so that decisions could be made on "  the responsibility of the entire Belgian adoption chain and of politics ."

As a reminder, a general dismissal of the case was pronounced by the Liège indictment chamber in September 2022, ending the charge of failure to assist a person in danger against, among others, the chief of staff of Rachid Madrane, former Minister of Youth Assistance, the director of the community authority at the time and the two directors of the adoption organization who supervised all the adoption procedures.

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10 ans de prison ferme pour Julienne Mpemba, reconnue coupable d'avoir enlevé des enfants en République Démocratique du Congo. Cette Namuroise était aussi accusée d'avoir traité ces enfants comme des marchandises à monnayer au meilleur prix pour les mettre à l'adoption. 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Sur ces images 2:04 Conclusion Un sujet diffusé le 11/10/2024

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Condamnée jeudi à dix de prison par le tribunal correctionnel de Namur pour, notamment, enlèvement de mineurs, prise d’otages et escroquerie dans le cadre d’adoptions internationales entre la RDC et la Belgique, la Namuroise Juilenne Mpemba a bénéficié "de la part des fonctionnaires de la Communauté française, des responsables des organismes agréés d’adoption et de diverses personnalités d’une mansuétude coupable sans laquelle la prévenue n’aurait pu agir comme elle l’a fait ".

In his lifetime, Ratan Tata was often compared to Jamshedji Tata and JRD Tata. But what many may find interesting is that Ratan Tata would never have acceded to the Tata throne had his father Naval Tata not been adopted by Navajbai Tata

Former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata breathed his last in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital at 11:30pm on Wednesday. The industrialist leaves behind a formidable legacy in the corporate world, having a staid group into India’s largest and most influential conglomerate with a string of eye-catching deals.

Given his successes in the business world and the charitable causes close to his heart, Ratan Tata has often been compared to Jamshedji Tata and JRD Tata. But what many may find interesting is that Ratan Tata’s father Naval Tata, who was born on August 30, 1904, was only a distant relative of the Tata business family.

Naval Tata’s father worked as a spinning master at Ahmedabad Advance Mills. In 1908, Naval lost his father at the age of four, following which his mother took him to Gujarat’s Navsari where she started working on embroidery to make ends meet.

In these circumstances, Naval Tata was sent to the JN Petit Parsi Orphanage, where he met Navajbai Tata, wife of Sir Ratanji Jamsetji Tata. Navajbai decided to adopt Naval when he was 13. Following this, Naval Tata was given formal education and he graduated in Economics from the University of Bombay. He then went to London where he enrolled in courses related to accounting.

Eight-year-old Grace Welch has been waiting since 2019 for her older sister to occupy the bed next to hers.

Her parents had told her that, Penelope, a 10-year-old born in China, would be joining the family, who live in Kentucky in the US.

Grace, also adopted from China, was born without her left forearm. Her mother, Aimee Welch, said Penelope too has a “serious but manageable” special need, although she did not wish to disclose it.

The Welch family, who have four biological sons, sought to adopt children with disabilities after the birth of a nephew without arms.

“He taught us all what a person with limb differences can achieve with the right love and support. His birth started us on the path towards adopting Grace,” Ms Welch said. “We believe in the dignity and worth of each person, just as they are, in all their diversity.”