His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the celebration of the 125th anniversary of The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) on Wednesday afternoon, September 12. The intergovernmental organization draws up international treaties ('Hague Conventions') to achieve uniform international regulations. The anniversary celebration will take place in Theater Diligentia in The Hague.

HCCH focuses mainly on (international) civil proceedings, child protection and commercial and financial legislation. The organization has developed a total of 38 Hague Conventions and other instruments that have broad international support. Among the most important Hague Conventions are: facilitating the use of public instruments abroad, intercountry adoption and child abduction. In 2019, the HCCH will finalize a new treaty on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

82 member states are affiliated with the organization. The European Union is also a member. In addition, 69 countries (non-members) are affiliated with one or more international treaties drawn up by HCCH.

India’s missing children: The story WhatsApp forwards don’t tell you

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Some 174 children go missing every day. Only about 50% of them are ever found again. But the story behind these statistics is complex

Shehzadi Malik has watched the seven-minute video clip on her phone a few hundred times these past three months. Sometimes she is looking for clues. Sometimes she is just watching it, empty of hope. Sometimes she is simply looking at her nine-year-old boy, Kabir. This CCTV footage was given to Malik by the police, on a pen drive, and it’s the last record she has of her son, who went missing on May 11 this year.

In the video, at 2.25 p.m. that day, Kabir enters the frame; he is walking back from tuitions in Delhi’s Nizamuddin colony — as he has done for two years — carrying a big red-and-black schoolbag on his back. His gait is jaunty but he seems to be in no particular hurry; at one point he appears to mock-bowl with his left hand, at another he stops to pick up something from the pavement, maybe a coin or a pebble. He doesn’t exit the frame, he gets obscured by a row of Ashoka trees, then the video ends. “Can you see him standing behind the tree?” Malik asks, pointing to a corner of the phone screen where a portion of his black trousers is just about visible through the foliage. “ Maybe he is waiting for someone, or talking to someone. He is a friendly child, he spoke to everyone in the area,” she says, the possibilities clearly confounding her.

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Days after the Missionary of Charity ‘baby-on sale’ scandal was brought to light creating much of a turbulence, the Jharkhand police swooped down on 88 Christian missionary-operated non-governmental organizations (NGOs), on grievous charges of misusing foreign funds for forceful religious conversion of tribals and political subversion, as exclusively reported by MyNation.

As confirmed by the Jharkhand police as many as 33 NGO’s have already been raided and rest of the task would be completed soon. These NGOs have been reported to have received in excess of Rs 250 crore funding between 2013 and 2016 under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).

A ‘CID report’ accessed by MyNation, makes grave charges against the Christian Missionary operated NGOs’ running ‘hospitals, schools, shelter homes’ saying that these organizations “train tribal women as nurses and sends them abroad. They also pressurize them to convert to Christianity.” It also mentions that many of these institutions were indulging in political subversion and anti-State activities. “Many of these institutions, especially the missionary NGOs, misuse funds received under FCRA to foment anti-State rallies and protests,” the report noted.

Mostly all of these organizations have received funds running in crores, with the top 11 receiving funds between Rs 7.5 crore and Rs 39 crore. Name of few with the annual break-up of funds received from 2013-2016 are listed below:

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JAMMU, June 22: The case of a BJP worker from Rajasthan posing as Dr Jitendra Singh, a well known Jammu based BJP leader and a nationally known Diabetologist, has been reported from Bharatpur in Rajasthan.

This man, who is a namesake of Dr Jitendra Singh and whose full name is Dr Jitendra Singh “Faujdar”, had also unsuccessfully contested the Rajasthan Assembly election in 2003 from Nadbai, Bharatpur constituency as a BJP candidate.

The most interesting part is that when Jammu based Dr Jitendra Singh was nominated to BJP National Executive Committee for the second consecutive term in March this year by the BJP National President Rajnath Singh, this Bharatpur based Dr Jitendra Singh sent out a fictitious press hand-out to this effect as if he had been appointed. What is more, this man also arranged felicitation functions for himself in and around Bharatpur hailing his nomination as BJP National Executive Committee (NEC) Member by displaying the name in the list of BJP NEC members which was actually the name of Jammu based Dr Jitendra Singh. He has also been reportedly going around throwing his weight in local administrative circles as BJP National Executive member.

The case of this imposter has now been brought to the notice of BJP Party High Command and a formal complaint regarding this has been filed by former BJP district President of Bharatpur Rajvir Singh who has produced local newspaper clippings of felicitation functions held in the honour of this imposter and also released to the Rajasthan press the photographs of real NEC member Dr Jitendra Singh who is presently based at Jammu. In his complaint to Party High Command, Rajvir Singh writes that this imposter is not only misusing the name of BJP but also making a laughing stock of the BJP workers.

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Union minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi said that the government has shut down 28 specialised adoption agencies in six states after allegations of illegal adoptions, child abuse and flouting of norms under J.J. Act. (PTI File Photo )

The government has shut down 28 specialised adoption agencies in six states after allegations of illegal adoptions, child abuse and flouting of norms under J.J. Act surfaced, Union minister Maneka Gandhi told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

In the wake of alleged rape of inmates of a shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and another in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi also requested parliamentarians to visit the shelter homes periodically to check the living conditions and level of care provided to the children.

The Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD) also said that there were only 43 complaints regarding child abuse and neglect in shelter homes and Child Care Institutions (CCIs) from 2014 to 2018, out of which 38 have been disposed of.

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The ordeal of children illegally adopted from a maternity home in Mysuru by childless couples is far from over.

Four months after a city court gave interim custody of three children to couples who had adopted them illegally by paying money, the order has been recalled. This follows an appeal filed by the Mysuru district Child Welfare Committee (CWC).

The Principal Senior Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Mysuru has directed the caregivers to hand over custody of the children to the CWC. Two of the children are girls, aged six and seven, while one is a boy aged less than three.

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Based on the court order dated August 4, CWC has issued notices to the caregivers to immediately hand over custody of the children. While the six-year-old girl is with her caregivers in Thrissur in Kerala, the boy is with his caregivers in Dakshina Kannada. The seven-year-old girl is in Mysuru.

Guwahati: The Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) is conducting an inquiry into the alleged sexual assault on three inmates of the SOS Children's Village here at Borjhar.

Police on Thursday arrested the assistant director of SOS Children's Village, Loon Vaiphei, 44, on the charge of sexually abusing the minors and registered a case against him at Azara police station under Section 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012.

The commission's chairperson, Sunita Changkakati, said a three-member team of the commission led by Rupa Hazarika visited the SOS Village on Monday and spoke to the victims, officials of the village and police.

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Changkakati said though the police promptly registered the case and arrested the accused, they did not conduct the medical examination of the victims till the team visited the village on Monday. "The victims were also not produced before the Child Welfare Committee," she said.

On a cold afternoon in 2017, I was fighting off the urge for a nap when a message popped up on Facebook:

Ms. Demick. You contacted me a long time ago? Are you still interested in talking with me? If so, my family and I are interested.

I was the New York correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and was exhausted from covering the aftermath of the presidential inauguration. I tapped out a curt reply, saying I didn’t know who he was.

My mom adopted a little Chinese girl years ago … and it appears like she has a twin sister still in China.

I bolted upright. Of course I hadn’t forgotten.

Recently the Bombay high court reunited a 14-year-old Hindu girl with the four-member Muslim family that brought her up ever since her biological mother abandoned her.

Justice Gautam Patel of Bombay high court ignored the biological mother’s plea for her custody primarily on the ground that the woman was involved in some immoral activity.

The girl was handed over the foster family on July 24.

The Muslim family filed a Petition in the high court, seeking guardianship of the girl. They contended that she had been living with them and has been taken care of as a family member since her biological mother abandoned her and moved to Kanpur.

The Petitioner Family complained that the biological mother returned to Mumbai and demanded the girl’s custody. They said the biological mother and one of her male friends had forcibly taken away the girl. The girl was brought back only after the petitioners approached the Child Welfare Committee.