SP Member of Parliament Nine Kooiman and SP MEP Dennis de Jong want clarification about the message that the European Commission is trying to draw more power over the heads of adopted children. A quality Romanian newspaper revealed today that the European Commission has been pressuring researchers to conclude that there is a need for a European Adoption Agency when the underlying research does not support that conclusion. Kooiman: 'We are all aware of the European Commission's desire for more resources and more power, but I would find it terrible that the problems surrounding adoption are used for this. Adopted children in particular deserve extra protection and care.'

Past adoption scandals have prompted Romania to stop intercountry adoptions. Now, efforts would be made to force Romania to reopen its borders to adoptions. The rumors about establishing a European adoption policy have been around for some time. Kooiman: 'I recently asked a number of critical questions about this, but they have not yet been answered. But today's revelation goes even further than I suspected.'

The SP is not in favor of promoting intercountry adoptions in Europe, because the basic principle must be that children can grow up in their original environment as much as possible. Moreover, adoption from abroad is a vulnerable process. Kooiman: 'If it is true that the European Commission manipulates research results, we have a problem. Not only because it is unacceptable that investigations are modified so that Europe can take more power. But especially because it concerns vulnerable children. The best interests of the child must come first, not the interests of the European Commission.'

Kooiman has put written questions to the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the State Secretary for Justice, who deals with adoption. Dennis de Jong has asked the Commission for clarification.

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The story of Purvish and Swara Shah is a happy one. The couple remembers the rush of love when they first saw their two-year-old son Reyansh in Karnataka through a video call. They are the first family in Northern Territory to successfully adopt a child from India after the India-Australia intercountry adoption program was reactivated in 2019.

Their journey to adoption started when Mrs Shah decided to become a parent. The couple organised all the relevant paperwork and wasted no time to lodge their application in 2019. This was soon after Australia and India reactivated its adoption program for Queensland and Northern Territory applicants only in April 2019.

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Queensland and the Northern Territory have started assessing a small number of prospective adoptive parents: Department of Social Services

In 2019-2020, Australia finalised just over 330 adoptions

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Narender has held five persons guilty in a case involving an interstate child trafficking racket busted by the UT police in 2020.

The court will pronounce the quantum of the sentence on January 27. Those held guilty are Amarjit Singh, a constable in the Punjab Police and residing in Kharar, Mandeep Singh, a resident of Punjab, ASHA workers Kuldeep Kaur of Patiala and Sarabjit Kaur of Sangrur, and Bhawna, also a resident of Punjab, but putting up in a rented accommodation in Burail.

The police had arrested them near the Airport light point on August 3, 2020.

After finding them prima facie guilty, the court framed charges against them for the commission of the offences punishable under Section 370 and 120-B of the IPC and Section 81 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act-2015, to which they pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.

As per the prosecution, the suspects used to sell a girl child at a price between Rs80,000 and Rs1 lakh and a boy for around Rs4 lakh. The gang was active in Punjab and Delhi.

Nayagarh (Odisha) [India], February 9 (ANI): Odisha Police arrested three persons including two hospital staff in connection

with the alleged child trafficking (/topic/child-trafficking) at the Nayagarh District Headquarters Hospital (/topic/nayagarhdistrict-headquarters-hospital) (DHH), said police on Tuesday.

The accused were arrested on January 28 after an FIR about a missing newborn child was registered.

According to reports, one Jali Swain, wife of Rabi Swain of Notar village had lodged a complaint of a boy child going missing

from the DHH on January 28.

PARIS-BAMAKO SURVEY , paths to adoption (1/2). Between 1989 and 2001, more than 300 Malian children were adopted through a French association. Nine of them are now taking the case to court.

A red dress with flowers among the boubous. This September 21, 2019, Marie M. stands out with her look. By his attitude too. On this day of celebration, this Frenchwoman of Malian origin, expatriated in Luxembourg, seems embarrassed. At his side, about forty members of the Malian diaspora are celebrating the 59th anniversary of independence, at the cultural center of Ellange, a small town in the Grand Duchy. But the young doctor knows nothing of this distant country where she was born thirty-two years ago, not even its anthem. To reassure herself and be able to sing a few verses with her lips, she stares at the screen where the lyrics scroll, like at karaoke. Marie M. seems disturbed to be suddenly immersed in this culture. These people, this hymn, these colors, it's a little, a lot, his story.

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His Malian life was brief, eighteen months. When she was one and a half years old, Marie M. was adopted in 1989 by a French couple. For years, growing up in this loving family, she didn't really ask questions about her African past. Until the day she herself became a mother, in 2017. So, to offer a complete family history to her daughter, she opened the blue binder, that of her adoption file, so long set aside. Inconsistencies, things left unsaid, lies: the examination of the various documents plunged her into doubt, to the point of encouraging her to go in search of her roots. With a central question: under what conditions had she left Mali in 1989?

The Minister of Social Affairs is, as she herself puts it, on the side of the children.

The number of children being adopted away from their parents withoutconsent - that is, by force fromthe authorities - has exploded in a few years, and that is basically good, says Astrid Krag (S).

- The figures show that it may well be that we in the legislation had the opportunity to forcibly adopt, but that it largely did not apply.

That is, there were children who would have benefited from an adoption away - from getting a new one,stable and lasting family - who have not got it, saysthe Minister in an interview with P1 Morgen.

The interview takes place after Zetland has uncovered how the high numbers coincide with pregnant women fleeing the country to avoid their child being adopted away. But first and foremost, they fall in line with a political ambition.

A MAN believed to have been born in a mother and baby home has been awarded €225,000 out of the estate of his estranged birth mother.

The deceased did not include her son, her only offspring, in her will.

The retired man, who is in his 60s and cannot be named, applied to the High Court under section 117 of the Succession Act seeking proper provision out of his late mother’s estate.

His case was against his mother’s niece in her capacity as executor of the estate.

Section 117 asks the court to look at how a testator ought to have provided for his or her child in a will.

27-year-old Meseret Tesfamichael's song choice in 'X Factor' reflected the difficult situation she and her family were in the middle of.

On the outside, Meseret Tesfamichael radiated calm.

In this year's bootcamp, which airs Friday night on TV 2, the 27-year-old 'X Factor' contestant stepped in front of Judge Thomas Blachman in a floor-length white dress and bare toes.

If I first opened up, I knew I would crack

Meseret Tesfamichael

A Florida couple was arrested for allegedly forcing their adopted teen son to live in a small locked structure inside the garage of their home for several years, police said.

The horrifying conditions endured by the 13-year-old boy were uncovered by authorities after the teen was reported missing from the family’s Jupiter home on Jan. 30, according to cops.

A detective investigating the missing-persons case spotted the 8-by-8-foot structure with a deadbolt lock and a light switch on the exterior wall, according to the Jupiter Police Department.

Inside the box was a bucket, a mattress and a camera.

The mother, Tracy Ferriter, claimed to the detective the space was used as an office and for storage, police said.

An inspection team visited the site in the last week of January and took note of the poor sanitation and lack of amenities, and directed the child welfare council to rectify them, officials aware of the matter said

The inauguration of the district’s first government-affiliated adoption agency at an old-age home in Sector 4 has been put on hold, officials said Tuesday.

An inspection team visited the site in the last week of January and took note of the poor sanitation and lack of amenities, and directed the child welfare council to rectify them, officials aware of the matter said.

Last year, the state government had approved a proposal to set up a specialised adoption agency in Gurugram, which the district administration planned to inaugurate on January 31 this year.

Earlier, abandoned children were sent to an adoption agency in Faridabad from where their details were uploaded on the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) website.