Days after an American couple decried that a three-year-old Kenyan boy whom they have been taking care of was taken away from their custody; questions abound as to the state of adoption in Kenya.

The Kenyan-based US couple, Matt and Daisy Mazzoncini, noted that the child was taken away from their apartment in Westlands on April 5 by 11 DCI officers and they do not know of his whereabouts hitherto.

This, they add, is despite the fact that the Children's Court in 2017 granted them legal guardianship rights to the boy who is reportedly said to be sickly and in dire need of surgery in the US.

Daisy, a British who holds dual American citizenship and has been working in Kenya as a volunteer missionary since 2016 maintains that the boy suffers epileptic seizures which require him to be on "anti-seizure medicine three times a day."

The incident has since triggered a debate with sections of Kenyans wondering; what is the legal position of adoption in Kenya?

Vandeurzen: 'Wie twijfels heeft over adoptiedossier, kan dat laten onderzoeken'

29/04/19 om 19:46

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'Wie vragen of twijfels heeft over zijn dossier of adoptieprocedure kan terecht bij de adoptiedienst of bij het Vlaams Centrum voor Adoptie (VCA). Zij kunnen inzage geven in het dossier en samen met de geadopteerden of de adoptieouders bekijken of en op welke manier er meer duidelijkheid kan komen. Indien nodig kan een onderzoek ter plaatse uitsluitsel bieden'. Dat zegt Vlaams minister van Welzijn Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V)

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TOKYO (Jiji Press)— The Justice Ministry has presented the Diet with a set of bills to expand the special adoption system to cover children under 15 years old, up from the current basic age limit of under 6.

The first revision of the system since its introduction in 1988 is aimed at helping children lacking proper care due to reasons such as abuse and poverty, according to ministry officials.

The special adoption system terminates legal ties between adopted children and their biological parents. The consent of the children is not required, and the names of their birth parents are erased from their official family registries.

But there are many hurdles to adoption under the special system. For example, the consent of biological parents is required and at least one of the adopting parents must be 25 years or older.

Thousands of children in Cambodia live in orphanages even though their parents are still alive. Some of the institutions exist solely to make money from tourists. Now, efforts are being made to reunite the families, but that is easier said than done.

Every morning at 6:30, the boys and girls of the Little Angels orphanage in Cambodia get to work, sitting at wooden tables set up in front of the entrance to ensure that passing tourists can't miss them.

For hours at a time, they use hammers and small chisels to punch holes in pieces of leather traced with delicate patterns. No one says a word as they work -- one of the boys has earbuds in his ears. The leather creations are traditionally used in Cambodia for shadow puppet shows, but here they serve as souvenirs for tourists. The larger works sell for as much as $700.

At around 11:00 a.m., a small tour bus stops on the dusty road in front of the orphanage. Little Angels is located not far from Angkor Wat, the World Heritage Site in Siem Reap Province, which attracted more than 2.5 million visitors last year.

Colorfully-dressed Chinese tourists pour out of the bus, drop some money into a transparent donation box, buy small heart-shaped leather pendants and give the children bags of candy. To show their gratitude, the youngsters line up and begin to sing songs, ending with the English-language classic: "You Raise Me Up." The tourists take pictures with their smartphones.

n order to implement the UN Child Rights Charter, the existing child law has been repealed

Laws aimed at enacting a new law

Since the United Nations has been included in the Bangladesh Child Rights Sanctions; And

Since it is expedient and necessary to formulate a new law to repeal and integrate existing child laws for the implementation of the provisions of that charter;

It is hereby enacted as follows: -

Ai.Bi. authorized to operate in Nigeria. Africa is the new frontier of international adoption

With the most populous country on the continent, the countries of equatorial Africa rise to six, with Ai.Bi.

Good news on the international adoption front. After seven years, new horizons are reopened, in particular towards Africa, the continent towards which, due to a series of factors, not least migration and demographic pressure, global attention is increasingly being concentrated .

In fact, in recent days the news that Ai.Bi. - Amici dei Bambini, has been authorized by CAI - International Adoptions Commission to operate in Nigeria. The African country, which does not participate in the 1993 Hague Convention on the protection of minors and cooperation in the field of international adoption, finds its reference legislation on the subject of extra-national adoptions in the Child's right act of 2003 and in the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child, entered into force November 29, 1990, in addition to a law of 1968 originally drafted for adoptions in the State of Lagos.

This is important news, because, to date, only an Italian association was operating at those latitudes. As a result, the number of adoptions was very low: eight Nigerian children adopted altogether between 2016 and 2017, with an incidence on total international adoptions of approximately 0.25%. For 2018, according to the data currently made available by the CAI, they were allowed to enter Italy from Nigeria for international adoption a minor in January, two in February and two in April.

Trafficking of children: The story of Kristoffer Ohrn, a mapuche baby who was kidnapped in dictatorship

His family called him Eduardo, but a social worker took it and made it available to a court. After living in Sweden, he learned the truth when he had a DNA test. 41 years later he traveled to Chile and managed to reunite with his brothers.

Kidnapping with violence, an imprescriptible crime suffered by a 9-month-old baby in La Araucanía. This is Kristoffer Tobias Ohrn Johansson is a Mapuche who today is reunited with his origins, with his family and with a violent past that separated him from his parents in 1977.

It was only known that La Aurora de Lautaro, headed by Rafael Cerda and Tusnelda Barriga, entered the home. Like hundreds of children, his passport consigned the address of a Monsignor Monsignor Muller 38, a property belonging to social worker Telma Uribe, who is investigated by the courts.

Uribe was the right hand of the representative of the Swedish adoption center, Ana María Elmgren, a housewife who sent thousands of children abroad during the dictatorship and Ohrn was one of them.

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We have experience with Bangladesh which has been our first starting point for meeting families who have experienced that their child disappeared suddenly in the 1970s and 1980s. Many children in Bangladesh were adopted away to families in Europe at that time, and many adult adopters now miss their roots and biological families and do not know where to look.

Children in the care system could struggle to provide evidence they need to remain in the UK once Britain leaves the EU.

Thousands of EU children living in foster care in the UK should be given automatic British citizenship to avoid becoming the new Windrush generation, say a leading children's charity.

Coram, a legal children's centre specialising in adoption and fostering services, has warned that thousands of children risk being left undocumented when the UK leaves the European Union because they are unaware of the EU settlement scheme or find it too complicated.

The government has launched an online settlement application which all EU nationals must complete in order to remain in the UK and be able to work, access healthcare and education.

But Coram's childcare lawyer, Alexandra Conroy-Harris, told Sky News that many children in the care system will struggle to provide the evidence they need to remain in the UK.