How do we respond to international views on fraudulent adoptions?

In May of this year, an additional hearing took place on intercountry adoption from Ethiopia in the Committee on Welfare, Public Health and Family of the Flemish Parliament. This hearing came after the testimony of Thereza De Wannemaeker who questioned her adoption from Ethiopia in 2009. Several testimonies of Ethiopian adopted children and their parents followed, after which Flemish Member of Parliament Lorin Parys (N-VA) asked for an extra hearing in the Flemish Parliament to hear those involved.

During the hearing, the then Flemish Minister for Welfare, Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V), promised to create an expert panel to conduct in-depth research into past adoptions and to formulate policy recommendations. In July, the former Flemish Government composed this panel. Recently Christof Bex and Miranda N. Aerts, both adopted and familiar with the theme, were also added to the panel. This happened after 23 adoptees in an open letter to current Flemish minister of Welfare, Wouter Beke (CD&V), criticized the fact that none of the adoptees led the investigation. The panel will soon be meeting for the first time to define the content and determine a concrete work approach.

Unfortunately, malpractice within adoption remains a reality, despite efforts made worldwide to prevent it. In March 2016, the ISS1 published "Responding to Illegal Adoptions: a professional handbook". This international publication was the first attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of possible remedial and preventative measures. Stakeholders and experts from various countries contributed to the manual and highlighted action points from a legal, psychosocial, social and political framework. In summary, David M Smolin² formulated four perspectives and four recommendations that we present below at the end of the handbook.

Four perspectives to look at adoption fraud

KOLKATA: The detective department has busted a gang of traffickers who prepared fake adoption papers of children aged

between two and five and finally pushed them into flesh trade as they turned into teenagers. Cops have rescued two girls aged

— three and 13 — and have traced two more — aged below five — in the Burtolla region who had fallen prey to this gang. One

person, identified as Rituraj Singh (24), has been arrested.

“We came to know of the gang from a 22-yerar-old girl from Agra. Adopted by the racket run by Rituraj and his parents — Pinki

A United Nations special rapporteur has again called for a full-scale inquiry into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions that occurred in Ireland.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, reiterated her call at an event at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Dublin where she was discussing her report on Ireland.

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A United Nations special rapporteur has again called for a full-scale inquiry into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions that occurred in Ireland.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, reiterated her call at an event at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Dublin where she was discussing her report on Ireland.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) chairperson Sandhyabati Pradhan Friday emphasised that every child has the right to get a family with healthy environment. She was addressing a programme on Adoption Awareness Month-2019 organised by State Adoption Resource Agency and Odisha State Protection Society of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti department here. Friday.

The objective of the programme is to promote and familiarise the adoption process. The district child protection officers, chief functionaries of specialised adoption agency and children’s home, adoptive parents with children were present in the programme. This apart, representatives from Governing Body of SARA and executive committees of OSCPS also participated in the programme. Three posters on adoption were unveiled on the occasion. A signature campaign was carried out by the guests and participants to promote adoption and create awareness. Some saplings were planted during the inaugural session.

Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) chairperson Sandhyabati Pradhan, ICDS & Social Welfare director and OSCPS director Aravind Agrawal, Women and Child Development advisor Sulata Deo and Odisha State Council for Child Welfare member secretary Quamar Sultana Begum graced the occasion.

Begum highlighted that legal option is the best way to adopt a child and steps should be taken to stop the illegal adoption.

Sulata Deo emphasised on the objectives of the programme. Adoption is a noble work so everybody should follow the legal provision under Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and Adoption Regulation, 2017.

A baby Indian girl from Bihar has been adopted by a Swedish couple. The young child had previously been abandoned by her parents.

Swedish couple adopted a baby Indian girl who had been abandoned by her parents. The adoption officially went through on Thursday, November 28, 2019.

The child, named Garima, had been living in a Child Protection Unit in Saran, Bihar after she was rejected by her parents sometime in May 2019.

All procedures of the court were completed to entrust the Swedish couple with the girl who had been living in the adoption centre.

The couple flew to India to pick up their seven-month-old adopted child.

Miek de Langen (1930-2019), founder of the very first Kinderrechtswinkel

Miek de Langen was a professor and pioneer in youth law. Still, she felt that children should actually be under normal law.

She was a professor of youth law in Amsterdam for many years, but she would never have children or get married. "Maybe that's why she chose that direction," says her sister Hettie Paans-de Langen (91), herself a mother of four who lost her husband at a young age.

Hettie has lived together with Miek de Langen in a house on the Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam for the past 38 years. In 1985, in a building next to this house, Miek de Langen opened the Kinderrechtswinkel, the very first in the world. Children could go there without questions from adults (the building was forbidden territory) for questions from students of the UvA, who could link theory to practice.

Italian delights

Alexis Deswaef is the lawyer for Nicolas Ullens de Schooten, a former State Security agent. The latter accused Minister Didier Reynders, the new European commissioner, and Jean-Claude Fontinoy, his right-hand man, of corruption. He claims that he was muzzled from 2015. The lawyer explains why, in his eyes, the Ullens "case" is a state scandal.

Lawyer Alexis Deswaef surprised some of his colleagues, including in his very "human rights" Brussels firm, when he agreed to defend the man who accuses Didier Reynders and Jean-Claude Fontinoy: Nicolas Ullens de Schooten , a former State Security agent. Deswaef, “the lawyer for undocumented migrants”, has just been elected vice-president of the FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights Leagues), after having presided over the Belgian league. Why is he embarking on such an adventure? How to prove such allegations?

Quick reminder of the sequence: in April 2019, Nicolas Ullens balance what he has to the police. Indications, names – that of Reynders and Fontinoy – which recur in the files he follows from his position as an agent of the intelligence services. He then evokes the Kazakhgate, the affair of the “Libyan funds”, the move of the federal police to a building sold by the State to a private firm or even the construction of the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa. Faced with the police, agent Ullens claims to have been sidelined in August 2015, right when a member of the Reynders cabinet was appointed No. 3 of the Sûreté. Serious charges.

Reynders is a political heavyweight. The Belgian government chose him to represent our country at the European Commission. Is it for (all) that that the Brussels public prosecutor closes the file without duty of investigation, last September?

A "machination"

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Bombay high court

MUMBAI: In a case involving alleged trafficking of children for adoption, the Bombay high court to have daily visitation rights. They can meet the children

they had raised, but who since the past four months have been placed in the care of adoption agencies.

The HC bench of Justices B P Dharmadhikari and Sadhana Jadhav did not allow a plea made by the parents' lawyer, Randhir

Kale, to allow them interim custody of the children. The bench instead said that the adoption process of each of the children be