DIPLOMAT 'BRIBE' British ambassador denies claims she adopted an African child by bribing a controversial minister with a ‘substantial sum’

A BRITISH ambassador has denied claims she adopted an African child by bribing a controversial minister.

A Zimbabwe MP alleges Catriona Laing, 55, paid a “substantial sum” to the country’s ex-social welfare minister Prisca Mupfumira to flout adoption rules.

A British ambassador has denied claims she adopted an African child by bribing a controversial minister

Ms Laing adopted her daughter three, from a children’s home in 2017 when she was ambassador to Zimbabwe.

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.

Julienne Mpemba Lubadi: spilfiguur in het Congolese adoptieschandaal

02/08/2019 om 03:00 door Pieter Huyberechts

Begonnen als “heldin”, maar toen rook ze geld: liet deze vrouw kinderen ontvoeren om te verkopen aan onwetende Belgische ouders?

Vermeende spilfiguur in de grootschalige adoptiefraude Julienne Mpemba (43). FOTO: ID

De Naamse Julienne Mpemba Lubadi (43) had tentakels tot in de hoogste Congolese regeringskringen en binnen de Franse Gemeenschap. Daardoor was ze jarenlang ongrijpbaar voor het gerecht. Tot bleek dat ze minstens vijf kindjes liet ontvoeren bij hun ouders en als weeskinderen verkocht aan onwetende Belgische ouders. “Ze is een op geld beluste meestermanipulator”, zeggen mensen die haar pad kruisten.

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.

APOM investigation into human trafficking network, confirmed

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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.”