Barrister Sabrina Zarin, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and partner at the FM Associates/

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Having dual citizenship has become a matter of concern for many citizens of Bangladesh due to the high interest in migrating to different countries of the world from Bangladesh. People from Bangladesh are moving towards the western countries to avail a higher standard of living and better opportunities for earning their livelihood. Therefore, they must have the scope for getting dual citizenship when they migrate to different countries because being a citizen of Bangladesh is a right they acquire at birth, which should not be given up lightly.

The Citizenship Act 1951 generally does not allow ‘dual citizenship’. If a person is a citizen of Bangladesh and is at the same time, a citizen of another country, he shall, unless he makes a declaration in that other country renouncing his status as a citizen or national, shall cease to be a citizen of Bangladesh.

However, the Bangladesh Citizenship (Temporary Provision) Order 1972, (as amended in 1978) 1978, Bangladesh now permits dual citizenship under certain limited circumstances. Therefore, Bangladeshi-origin nationals of certain countries as specified by the government may apply to the government of Bangladesh for the reacquisition of Bangladeshi citizenship without having to renounce their existing citizenship of other countries.

The Brazilian celebrity faith healer accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women is now facing allegations he sold babies to foreigners, including Australians, for up to $70,000 each.

Joao Teixeira de Faria, also known as John of God, was arrested in Brazil in December after hundreds of people came forward with allegations of rape and threats of violence. Many claimed they were underage at the time of the alleged abuse.

Now, John of God has been hit with stunning new claims that he operated a baby-selling and human trafficking ring from his spiritual compound in Abadiania, 130km south-west of Brasilia.

Prosecutors have reportedly been given information that an unknown number of adoptive parents from five countries, including Australia and the US, bought Brazilian babies for a price between $27,000 and $70,000, according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.

The infants were said to be born to impoverished mothers who lived around John of God's compound, the newspaper reported.

The Department of Social Development removes adoption fees

13 January 2019 10:31 AM

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The Department of Social Development has changed the legislation process around adoption, saying fees should not be charged for adoption as it is not a business but a child protection measure.

The department stated that, although there was much public interest in the removal of the Adoption Fee Clause, as proposed in the Children’s Act Amendment, it must be noted that it began consulting on changes to the act as early as 2016.

Congress ratifies bill simplifying adoption process

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Congress has ratified a measure eliminating a lengthy court procedure in adopting children. File/Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

MANILA—Congress has ratified a measure eliminating a lengthy court procedure in adopting children.

Congress has ratified a measure eliminating a lengthy court procedure in adopting children. File/Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

MANILA—Congress has ratified a measure eliminating a lengthy court procedure in adopting children.

In a statement Saturday, the Senate said the “Simulated Birth Rectification Act of 2018” aims to fast-track adoption and “grants amnesty and allow the rectification of the simulated birth of a child where simulation was made for the best interest of the child, and that such child has been consistently considered and treated by the person.”

“Birth simulation” refers to the tampering of the birth record to make it appear that a child was born to a person who was not the child’s biological mother.

Under the Domestic Adoption Act, however, penalties are due those who cause fictitious registration of the birth of a child.

Vrouw sleept Nederlandse staat voor de rechter om 'schimmige' adoptie

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Dilani Butink NIEUWSUUR

Voor het eerst sleept een geadopteerde de Nederlandse overheid voor de rechter, omdat ze vindt dat die meer had moeten doen om frauduleuze adopties te voorkomen. Volgens de vrouw zijn haar geboortepapieren in Sri Lanka vervalst, waardoor het voor haar onmogelijk is haar biologische ouders op te sporen. In een dagvaarding eist ze dat de overheid schuld erkent, haar schadeloos stelt en een dna-databank opricht voor geadopteerden uit Sri Lanka.

De 26-jarige Dilani Butink werd geboren in Sri Lanka. Toen ze een paar jaar geleden terugging naar haar geboorteland ontdekte ze dat het documentnummer op haar geboortepapieren toebehoort aan een ander kind. De adoptieprocedure in 1992 verliep dan ook schimmig. Haar ouders zouden een jongetje ophalen in Sri Lanka, maar die bleek bij aankomst niet meer beschikbaar. Een tussenpersoon regelde daarop dat Butink geadopteerd kon worden.

As per court records, the woman filed a petition in 2018, taking “shelter under this new phrase” of the JJ Act, 2015. The scope of guardianship is “limited” once the minor turns 18.

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District Judge Girish Kathpalia said it would be in the best interest of the child that she be given in adoption to the woman, who has been taking care of her for more than a decade as her appointed guardian.

EW DELHI: A minor, who was abandoned by her parents in 2004 at the age of two, has seen a ray of hope as a Delhi court has allowed her 60-year-old guardian to adopt the child despite "procedural deficiencies" as the two nurtured a strong mother-daughter bond.

District Judge Girish Kathpalia said it would be in the best interest of the child that she be given in adoption to the woman, who has been taking care of her for more than a decade as her appointed guardian.

The strong bond shared by the girl, now 16, and the woman who was made her guardian by an adoption society, which was taking care of the child, convinced the court to allow the elderly's plea for adoption.

The court noted that since the woman and the child have cultivated and nurtured a strong mother-daughter bond for about a decade and a half, directing her now to move the adoption application before the society, followed by the home and child study report, would be a "meaningless exercise".

The case against a former Ottawa aid worker, accused of victimizing several Nepalese boys, is the latest black mark for the international aid community, which has seen several organizations roiled by allegations of workers committing sex crimes against children.

Paul McCarthy, 62, was granted bail Wednesday, on a condition of house arrest, after he was charged last week with multiple child pornography offences and one count of luring a child.

McCarthy was stopped by the Canada Border Services Agency in mid-December as he returned home following a volunteer mission to an orphanage in Nepal.

Authorities said the investigation led to the identification of five alleged victims: all Nepalese boys under the age of 16.

In the 1990s, McCarthy worked for disaster relief organization CARE Canada where he was director for Indonesia between 1992 and 1995.