Bjelave children: research continues

On July 18, 1992, a convoy of children left Sarajevo under siege. 46 of those taken from the Bjelave orphanage, they never returned to Bosnia: they were given up for adoption, despite living biological parents. A tragic story, re-emerged from the dark

06/09/2018 - Nicole Corritore

"I do not know anything about my mother, I know who generated me, it's all the life I want to see you, at least one person in my family". E 'Luca, in Skype Skype from Milan talking with his cousin Kenyan Kenan in Sarajevo, all taken up and then included in the service created in collaboration with OBCT by Rai journalist Andrea Oskari Rossini for the transmission "EstOvest" and with which he won the Luchetta 2018 prize .

The story of Luca starts from afar, in 1992 in Sarajevo at war, and has seen other children involved like him. A story that OBC Transeuropa has been following for years and which last summer has resurfaced again from the dark thanks to a 2006 article signed by the undersigned and subsequent and recent investigations.

A 12-year-old girl runs away from a shelter home in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh. She tells the police of the other girls at the home being taken away in cars in the night and returning the next morning in tears. Her testimony helps uncover a years-long sex trafficking racket being run from the shelter home.

A Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) audit of shelter homes in Bihar brings to light the sexual abuse of the inmates of a Muzzafarpur institute. The girls at the home have been subjected to brutal physical and sexual violence. The main accused in the case — Brajesh Thakur, who ran the shelter — is believed to have powerful local connections that helped him elude arrest for years.

In Telangana, a child sex racket is discovered in the temple town of Yadagirigutta, when an anonymous caller tips off a child helpline about a bruised 10-year-old girl wailing on the doorstep of a house. The police find out that the child’s guardian had ‘bought’ her from an agent, and a crackdown on other houses in the same colony leads the cops to more cases of underage girls — some as young as five — being trafficked for sex work.

Last month, Union minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi introduced the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2018 in Parliament. However, those who work in the field of women and child welfare have pointed out that the Bill is problematic: for one, its approach seems overly bureaucratic, and two, it’s heavily dependent on surveillance and enforcement through a nodal agency — a scary proposition given the track record of such agencies.

It is in encountering the individual stories of trauma that one begins to comprehend what survivors of trafficking go through. REUTERS

Child abuse at madrassa: Victims finally meet their parents with the help of district collector and NGOs

The parents of the victims, who were staying put in Pune for the past one month, were struggling to get united with their children who were kept in the custody of the child welfare committee (CWC). However, with the intervention of Pune district collector Naval Kishore Ram and parents’ firm stand to take back their children, won the latter their fight and the issue was resolved.

PUNE Updated: Aug 30, 2018 16:25 IST

Nozia Sayyed

Hindustan Times, Pune

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Date: 2018-08-29

No news from the inquiry about Chile adoptions

The Chilean investigation is currently under way in the media that claims that Chile's adoptions were in the 1970s and 1990s. The investigation, which has been highlighted in the media in the media today, is led by a particular judge and concerns adoptions to several countries.

The Adoption Center welcomes the investigation and is always available to the investigator. With respect for adopted adoptive families and biological parents it is very important that everything is done to clarify whether there were any irregularities or not.

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The homes inspected were in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. (File photo)

An inspection of 15 specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) by the ministry of women and child development (WCD) and the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), carried out in January and February, has discovered glaring irregularities, including premature deaths, unhygienic conditions, and even children not being accounted for in some cases.

SAAs house orphaned and abandoned children below the age of six meant for adoption. There are 460 of them around India. The homes inspected were in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Under the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ?Act), SAAs, which are run by private agencies or NGOs in most cases, have to be registered with the government’s Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS) for intra- and inter-country adoptions and provide details of each child admitted to the agency. The portal is run by CARA, the government’s nodal agency monitoring adoption in the country.

The Supreme Court has directed all states to complete the audit of all shelter homes and the district magistrates to finalise their report by September 15. "It seems that no one is interested in monitoring conditions in shelter homes," it remarked. This comes in the wake of Muzaffarpur and Deoria shelter homes cases in which inmates were allegedly sexually abused.

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In its audit of 21 Specialised Adoption Agencies in 20 Bihar distts, TISS found some children as old as three years were not speaking at all because there was no trained staff and also because they had no one to speak to. These institutions have 70 per cent girls. Children are also battling hunger, isolation and verbal abuse at these institutions.

TRAPPED in a world of silence, some children living in Bihar’s Specialised Adoption Agencies don’t speak at all because they have no one to talk to, reveals a Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) report that details instances of hunger, isolation and verbal abuse at the State-run institutions.

Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) are homes established by the Government to house abandoned, surrendered and missing children in the 0-6 age group. In its audit of 21 SAAs in 20 Bihar districts, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences found some children as old as three years were not speaking at all because there was no trained staff and also because they had no one to speak to. These institutions have 70 per cent girls. The TISS report also lists the various forms of punishment for the young children, some who are orphans, some who are runaways and others who may have been abandoned by their families.

“Acts such as locking the child in the bathroom, making them do sit-ups, isolating them, abusing them verbally were noticed at these homes,” the report said. Describing the punishments “very disturbing”, Mohammad Tarique, who led the TISS team that prepared the report, said they have long-term impact.