NAGPUR: Ending an interesting legal battle over a 6-year-old boy’s

custody between two couples, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court

allowed the child to remain with his adoptive parents while dismissing the

case filed by his biological parents, who are from “poor background”. The

child was born out of an extramarital affair of his biological parents on

Main accused in the case of alleged fraud in the adoption of Congolese children, the Belgian-Congolese lawyer, Julienne Mpemba, breaks the silence and delivers, for the first time, her version of the facts to the media. And this, a week after his dismissal in correctional by the Chamber of advice of Dinant. For Ms. Pemba, this is a fabricated case, because there has never been any child theft and the investigation has never proven otherwise. ACTUALITE.CD publishes below, the entire interview with the Director of the TUMAINI Orphanage.

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I’ve always known that I’m adopted, it’s a conversation that my parents and I have had since I was two and we all flew back on a plane from China. In many ways, I think that the candor on the distinctions between myself and the rest of my family, and indeed, the world around me, encouraged me to always have a strong voice. I felt like I needed to say things louder, in order to be equally recognised.

Things that should have been easy for me became more challenging as I came to terms with issues surrounding race and identity.

The Girl With Many Faces | Jinling Wu

Allie was adopted from China when she was two years old.

As I was growing into this world, there were so many foundations that I was missing, and I had to create those roots myself

I’ve always known that I’m adopted, it’s a conversation that my parents and I have had since I was two and we all flew back on a plane from China. In many ways, I think that the candor on the distinctions between myself and the rest of my family, and indeed, the world around me, encouraged me to always have a strong voice. I felt like I needed to say things louder, in order to be equally recognised.

Things that should have been easy for me became more challenging as I came to terms with issues surrounding race and identity.

The Girl With Many Faces | Jinling Wu

Allie was adopted from China when she was two years old.

As I was growing into this world, there were so many foundations that I was missing, and I had to create those roots myself

In the early 1980s, I was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka. No adoption organization was involved in the mediation of the adoption. I was adopted privately or informally by my Swedish adoptive parents.

My adoptive mother's brother worked in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka and mediated the contact between my adoptive parents and a local couple who handled adoptions abroad. The couple found children for tourists who wanted to adopt and assisted with the legalization of the adoption. They facilitated the adoption process and realized the family formation projects of thousands of charter tourists.

That Swedish charter tourists in particular adopted informally during this time has been discussed and reported in several contexts in both Sweden and Sri Lanka. A Swedish social worker who has reasoned about a reason why Swedes adopted informally believes that the waiting times for adoption were long in Sweden. In the late 1970s, for example, an adoption organization had waiting times of 3-4 years. From this, the social worker believes that it became understandable that those who wanted to become adoptive parents chose informal paths to form their family.

The first so-called long-haul flights from Sweden went to Sri Lanka and Gambia as early as 1971. The countries were marketed as relatively cheap destinations far away in relation to Sweden. The marketing was aimed at Swedes who were at a normal income level with capital to spend and time to spare for a trip.

The tour operators 'travel catalogs offer an opportunity to get closer to a motive for many Swedish charter tourists adopting children during their holiday stay in Sri Lanka and an understanding of the Swedish tourists' expectations of the country. One theme that went through the marketing was that Sri Lanka was presented as different in comparison with Sweden.

A woman adopted from Southport in 1953 was brought to tears when she found out her birth mother was still alive.

Margaret, who grew up in Warwickshire, was adopted from Southport when she was just six months old.

Born in 1953, the woman always believed her birth mother was one of the many Irish women who came over in the 1950's for the sake of adoption.

Margaret went on BBC2 's DNA Family Secrets in order to search for her birth mother.

Going into the show, the only thing Margaret knew about her biological mother is the name written on her birth certificate, although she wasn't convinced that it was a real name.

The special rapporteur for child protection has warned that “doing nothing is not a credible option” for the State in relation to investigating potential illegal adoptions.

Prof Conor O’Mahony has been asked by the Government to investigate possible future actions after an independent report found that as many as 20,000 files could contain markers indicating potential incorrect registrations or illegal adoptions.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Prof O’Mahony said he wanted to recommend to Government a realistic way forward for the investigation of the files. Although there were “multiple significant challenges” including a large number of records, he said he believed the six-month timeframe he had been given would be enough.

“I welcome the Government’s decision to explore further the options for investigating the practice of illegal adoptions in Ireland. The independent review published yesterday has highlighted that there may be up to 20,000 records that warrant further investigation, as well as a further substantial archive of records in private ownership that was not included in the sample examined.

“Illegal adoptions were criminal offences and human rights abuses, and the State has an onus to make every reasonable effort to establish the extent of the practice and take steps to make information available to those affected and to rectify records where appropriate.”

Solicitors for adopted people who are suing St Patrick’s Guild adoption society for facilitating their illegal adoptions have told the High Court that they will make claims of “kidnapping, forgery . . . and conspiracy for wrongful concealment”.

They will say the society engaged in “well-practised and systematically-perfected child abductions contrary to the express prescriptions of the Adoption Act, 1952”.

They will also say that these practices “repeatedly generated ample profits” for the society.

The allegations came to light in a hearing last Monday in which the liquidator of the society sought an order from the High Court enabling it to advertise to find people who may have claims against the society.

The liquidator, KR Professional Advisors Ltd, has also been told by the High Court to contact Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in order to advertise the liquidation of the society to potential litigants who may have been the victim of illegal adoptions.

Iadopted my daughter when she was six years old. She had been in the care of a local authority pretty much since birth. Now 18, she and I both worry about the current predicament for many children in the UK who grow up with a local authority as their corporate parent, a situation exacerbated by the pandemic as lockdown puts families under pressure. “How can we change things?” my daughter asked me as we completed my book about adopting, The Wild Track, together. “Who will really listen?”

Government statistics show that, in England as of 31 March 2020, there were 80,080 children in care. In that same period only 3,440 children were adopted. But in 2015 the number of adoptions in England had risen to 5,360. Why this rise? And why the subsequent fall?

In 2005, a review of the adoption system introduced amendments, including support for adopters and – reflecting changing attitudes – broadening the field of prospective adopters to include single parents and the LGBTQ+ community. In 2011, a significant adoption reform programme followed on from a report by Martin Narey, a government adviser on children’s social care, initiated by Tim Loughton, then parliamentary undersecretary for children and families, and Edward Timpson, who took over that post in 2012 – and supported by Michael Gove, then education secretary. The latter two had a personal investment: Timpson, the son of John (of the shoe repair chain), grew up with children fostered by his parents; Gove and his sister were adopted as babies.

The plan was to make faster decisions on release for adoption, to speed up court procedure, to find more prospective adoptive parents, and to relax strictures on matching and the search for “perfect” homes. As Gove put it at the time: “We can’t afford to ration love.”

But then came some important legal rulings. In one case from 2013 the judges declared that adoption was only appropriate “where nothing else will do”. Also that year, a survey of case law concluded that “the severance of family ties inherent in an adoption without parental consent is an extremely draconian step and one that requires the highest level of evidence”. Social workers, while eager to place children at risk, felt constrained and cautious.

(New York) – Panama’s National Assembly passed a bill on March 3, 2021, that includes a discriminatory prohibition on adoption by same-sex couples, Human Rights Watch said today.

Bill No.120, which aims to protect children and adolescents from unnecessary separation from their biological family, allows for adoption by both single persons and married couples. However, not only are same-sex marriages not yet legal in Panama, but the bill defines eligible married couples as those composed of partners of “different sex.”

President Laurentino Cortizo should veto articles 22 and 26 of the bill, which violate international human rights standards on non-discrimination, respect for private and family life, and the rights of the child, and perpetuate prejudices about lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people.

“Excluding same-sex couples as adoptive parents is not only stigmatizing but in Panama compounds the violation of not having their relationships acknowledged or protected in the first place,” said Cristian González Cabrera, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Categorically barring children from being adopted into loving and supportive families is also inconsistent with the principle of the best interest of the child.”

After passing the National Assembly, the bill is now ready for signature by President Cortizo, who has the legal authority to veto all or part of it.