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New Delhi, India, Sep 30, 2019 / 02:05 pm (CNA).- A religious sister with the Missionaries of Charity has been released on bail 15 months after her arrest. She is accused of cooperating with the sale of a child from a home for unwed mothers, although her supporter argue that she was coerced into confessing.

Sister Concelia Baxla, 62, was arrested in July 2018, along with Anima Indwar, an employee at the Nirmal Hriday home in Ranchi.

Sr. Concelia was released Sept. 27 on a 10,000 rupee bail, the equivalent of $150, and two sureties of the same amount, ucanews reports. The sister was also instructed to leave her passport at the court.

The religious sister, who suffers from diabetes, had been denied bail twice previously – once last October on the grounds that her release could interfere with the investigation into her congregation, and again in January because charges had not yet been pressed, according to ucanews.

Her lawyer argued that Sr. Concelia should be granted bail because she is not facing direct charges, and noted that Indwar was granted bail shortly after her initial arrest.

Over 11,000 intercountry adoptions have taken place across Australia. With the help of non-government organisations some adoptees are finding their overseas biological families - but these organisations are in decline.

Rohan Samara came to Australia in a box on a plane with 330 other kids, he was an orphan evacuated in Operation Babylift after the fall of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in April 1975.

Forty-two years later in 2017 Rohan decided he’d try to find his biological mum.

“I don’t want this poor old little Vietnamese woman going to her grave not knowing about her kid,” Rohan said.

“That thought just breaks my heart."

Adoption: yes or no?

Is it good or bad to adopt a child? And should intercountry adoption continue to exist or not? Extraordinary professor Femmie Juffer and emeritus special professor René Hoksbergen, both specialized in adoption, discuss these issues. But they don't agree.

In the series 'I can't come from Sri Lanka', we follow Dinja Pannebakker, a young woman of 32 who has been adopted from Sri Lanka. She herself feels completely Dutch and has no need for connection to her birthplace.

Pannebakker is one of more than 3,400 Sri Lankan children who have been adopted by Dutch parents since the 1970s. Adoption from Sri Lanka was definitively stopped in 2018. Adoption from a dozen other countries, or 'intercountry adoption', still exists, although the number of adopted people is decreasing every year. In 2018 a total of 156 children were brought to the Netherlands from abroad. Most of them are from China (28), Hungary (24) or the United States (23). In the Netherlands, 21 children were adopted last year and placed with other Dutch families.

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Adoptie: wel of niet?

30 september 2019, Josse Wiering

2019

Is het goed of slecht om een kind te adopteren? En moet interlandelijke adoptie blijven bestaan of niet? Bijzonder hoogleraar Femmie Juffer en emeritus bijzonder hoogleraar René Hoksbergen, beide gespecialiseerd in adoptie, bespreken deze kwesties. Maar eens zijn ze het niet.

In de serie 'Ik kóm niet uit Sri Lanka', volgen we Dinja Pannebakker, een jonge vrouw van 32 jaar die geadopteerd is uit Sri Lanka. Zelf voelt zij zich helemaal Nederlands en heeft geen behoefte aan verbinding met haar geboortegrond.

Spilfiguur in Congolese adoptiefraude Julienne Mpemba (42) doorbreekt stilte en haalt zwaar uit naar ambtenaren Franse Gemeenschap

“In België wist men dat er per ongeluk verkeerde kindjes op het vliegtuig zaten. Maar niemand deed iets”

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door

Pieter Huyberechts

Is it good or bad to adopt a child? And should intercountry adoption continue or not? Special professor Femmie Juffer and emeritus professor by special appointment René Hoksbergen, both specialized in adoption, discuss these issues. But they don't agree.

Update

On Monday 8 February 2021, Minister Sander Dekker will announce that the adoption of children from abroad will be suspended. He decides this following a report on the system of so-called intercountry adoption in the Netherlands. It is up to the next cabinet to take a position on the future of intercountry adoption. Read more about this decision here .

In the series ' I'm not from Sri Lanka ', we follow Dinja Pannebakker, a young woman of 32 who was adopted from Sri Lanka. She herself feels completely Dutch and has no need for connection with her native soil.

Pannebakker is one of more than 3,400 Sri Lankan children who have been adopted by Dutch parents since the 1970s. In 2018, adoption from Sri Lanka was definitively stopped. Adoption from a dozen other countries, or 'intercountry adoption', still exists, although the number of adoptees is decreasing every year. In 2018, a total of 156 children were brought to the Netherlands from abroad. Most of them come from China (28), Hungary (24) or the United States (23). Within the Netherlands, 21 children were adopted last year and placed with other Dutch families.

Sunday newspaper

September 30, 2019

"Intelligent, dynamic, warm, authentic, persuasive..." From the appointment of Jacques Chirac , just elected MP for Corrèze, as Pompidou's Secretary of State for Employment in April 1967, American diplomats posted in Paris never stopped no praise for this young 34-year-old "athletic-looking" enarque. According to them, he has a "taste for adventure", since he spent a summer as a waiter in Boston in 1953, before criss-crossing the United States as the driver of the widow of a Texan billionaire. Above all, he has to his credit "close ties with the Prime Minister which enabled him to be elected to the Assembly and the aura of success that surrounds him".

Invited with other Gaullist leaders to the United States Embassy on October 16, 1967, Jacques Chirac impresses his interlocutors because he evokes his trips across the Atlantic and his short aborted romance with a fiancée from South Carolina: "He seems to be as American – and not just pro-American – as many Americans,” enthuses Ambassador Charles Bohlen. Chirac was "the revelation of lunch"!

Chirac, an "Americanophile" Gaullist

By Priyanka Sharma

New Delhi [India], Sept 29 (ANI): Scores of medicos

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Court comes down heavily on WCD over adoption exercise Usha Rani Das29 Sep 2019 10:53 PM New Delhi: A Delhi court came down heavily on the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) for making adoptive parents travel from distant places to the national capital to complete the adoption exercise. Compelling proposed adoptive parents to travel to Delhi from distant places "militates" against the basic philosophy that it is the duty of the state to ensure every parentless child gets parent, the court said. District Judge Girish Kathpalia directed the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) to submit an action taken report on whether petitions for adoption can be filed in the court within whose territorial jurisdiction the adoptive parents and the child, who is in foster care, reside so that they did not have to travel to Delhi. Also Read - SC says large number of cases filed before it due to 'insufficient or wrong sentencing' The court, in its order, noted that there were cases where the child was physically challenged or the adoptive parent was a single mother but they had to travel to the national capital from distant places to testify. The court directed the director of CARA to submit the report within a month and put the matter for further hearing on October 10. It also said that previously CARA opted not to assist the court despite the seriousness of the issue and hence asked the secretary of the Ministry of Women and Child development to take necessary actions. Also Read - Naga talks continue for second day The court, however, took note of the fact that it would be financially onerous on the adoption agencies to file petitions in the court within the territorial jurisdiction concerned. "Under the pretext that proceeding with adoption matters in the courts within whose territorial jurisdiction proposed adoptive parents reside would be expensive for adoption agencies, the basic philosophy underlying the concept of adoption under the Act (to provide parent to every parentless child) cannot be abrogated. "But the court has to adopt a positivist approach of law and has to ensure strict adherence to the laid down law.... At the same time, I also find it opportune to express disappointment that despite such seriousness of the issue, CARA opted not to respond and assist this court," the judge said. The court said that since the regulations have been framed and can be amended only by CARA (unless suitable amendments in the enactment are contemplated by the legislature), it was necessary that the issue be brought to the notice of higher authorities. "Situations were found where the proposed adoptive parents and the child under pre -adoption foster care, who are residing in far away places, have to come to Delhi to testify in order to obtain adoption orders, and in some such cases the proposed adoptive child is even physically challenged and the proposed adoptive parent is a single mother.... "There are number of cases where the child concerned is a special needs child (who was given in pre adoption foster care), is made to travel from far away places of country to Delhi (or whichever place where the adoption petitions are filed) because the proposed adoptive parents at the nascent stage of emotional bonding with the child do not want to leave the child alone at home and travel to Delhi. "There are also cases where single women opt to come forward for adoption but have to travel from far away distant places," it said. Adoption Regulations, 2017, provided that the Specialized Adoption Agency shall file an application for adoption order in the court having jurisdiction over the place where it was located, said the court. "Hence, the crux of the legal position is that an application for the adoption order has to be filed only in that court within whose territorial jurisdiction the adoption agency was located. "The compulsion for the proposed adoptive parents to travel to Delhi from far away places militates against the basic philosophy that it is the duty of the State to ensure that every parentless child gets parent," it said. As it is the duty of the State "to ensure that every orphaned and/or abandoned and/or surrendered child must get a family", it is the State which has to ensure, irrespective of financial considerations, that people are encouraged to take a child in adoption. It added the court has to adopt a positivist approach of law and has to ensure strict adherence to the laid down law. PTI