Run by Sindhutai Sapkal since 2011, Sanmati Bal Niketan is not registered with the state WCD; the orphanage has asked for a special status, despite there being no such category

T he state government™s strict diktat in 2009, prohibiting the registration of children™s homes, seems to have left a trail of ambiguity in its wake. Established in 2011, Sanmati Bal Niketan, an orphanage for boys run by wellknown social worker Sindhutai Sapkal at Manjri, has been running illegally for the past five years, without being registered with the state Women and Child Development (WCD) department, as is mandatory under the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act.

A child rights activist filed a complaint on Friday, though District Child Protection Officers (DCPO) had already visited the home on June 20 following other grievances.

Popularly known as the ‘Mother of Orphans,™ Sapkal has nurtured over 1,050 orphaned children. However, in this case, her zeal for social work seems to have overstepped the law. In fact, the DCPO had even recommended that the children here be moved to other homes, a plea that has remained on paper.

Report of an independent review on sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic (A/71/99)

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Note by the Secretary-General

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CHENNAI: Extremely anguished by the high rate of child thefts and the number of children still remaining to be traced in Tamil Nadu, Madras high court has made some radical suggestions to address the social problem.

Form a special child-missing squad with officers trained in such cases, a division bench of Justice S Nagamuthu and Justice V Bharathidasan told Tamil Nadu government on Monday.

Passing further orders on a PIL filed by Exnora highlighting the blatant theft of two children who were sleeping on Chennai platforms with their parents, the judges said they do not want to refer the cases either to cbcid or central/district crime branch, since they are already overburdened. They have to handle frauds, murders, law and order, besides other responsibilities, judges said, adding that only a special unit could do justice to child thefts and child lifts. "We are anxious. We don't know whether they are stolen for sale or for their organs," the bench remarked.

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Adopting more children from care will save £310m, says government

An impact assessment on the impact of the Children and Social Work bill says government reforms will save more than £300 million over ten years

by Luke Stevenson on June 17, 2016 in Cameron's social work reforms, Children

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Adoptions DRC: from June 10 all adopted children in the Congo by Italian families are at home by their parents. (6/17/2016)

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Great news and a great satisfaction.

All adopted children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Italian families were able to hug their parents and start a new life journey together.

The Commission expresses its joy because the intense work done in these two years, which saw Italy protagonist, made it possible to reach, in agreement with the authorities of the DRC, this beautiful result.

Letter from Against Child Trafficking

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DG HR Unit E.1

European Civil Service Law and Social Dialogue (Roques)

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Suspension of Michael S. Goldstein, Esq. Accreditation Lifted

June 15, 2016

The Council on Accreditation (COA) announced that, on June 14, 2016, it lifted the May 23, 2016 suspension of the accreditation of Michael S. Goldstein, Esq. Michael S. Goldstein, Esq. completed the corrective action plan to COA’s satisfaction and COA has determined that Michael S. Goldstein, Esq. is now in substantial compliance with applicable U.S. accreditation standards. Michael S. Goldstein, Esq. may resume providing adoption services for Convention adoption cases as of June 14, 2016.

European Commission appoints senior managers in its Legal Service, Secretariat-General and Health department

The European Commission today appointed Ms Laura Pignataro Nolin to the position of Principal Legal Adviser “Team - European Civil Service Law” in the Legal Service of the Commission, as of 16 June 2016; Mr Giovanni Fracchia as the Commission's Mediator in the Secretariat-General, starting date to be determined later; and Ms Paola Colombo to the position of Director for Health and Food Audits and Analysis in the Health and Food Safety department (DG SANTE), as of 1 August 2016. Ms Pignataro Nolin, Italian, joined the Commission from academia in 1992. She has worked in the Commission's Legal Service since 1995, representing the Commission in hundreds of court cases and working on countless pieces of EU legislation. She is currently Legal Adviser dealing with internal market and environmental issues. Mr Fracchia, Italian, joined the Commission 1990. Medical doctor by education, he worked on a variety of topics in the area of medical research and health policies. Mr Fracchia has extensive management experience: he first became Head of Unit in 2003 and was briefly an Acting Director in 2008. He is currently the head of the European Commission's medical service. Ms Colombo, Italian and a trained veterinarian, joined in the Commission in 1995. Until 2002, she worked on policies tackling different animal diseases and drafting relevant legislation. In the mid-2000s, she gained political experience as a member of former Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding's private office. Since 2007, she headed the Management and Resource Unit of the European Political Strategy Centre of the European Commission, the successor of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. (For more information: Alexander Winterstein - Tel.: +32 229 93265; Andreana Stankova – Tel.: +32 229 57857)

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Parliamentary questions

15 June 2016

E-000923/2016

Answer given by Vice-President Mogherini on behalf of the Commission

Although there is no EU legislation on adoption, the EU delegation in Kinshasa has and will continue to follow closely the issue regarding adoptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The EU delegation and the EU Member States with embassies in Kinshasa have repeatedly raised this issue with the Congolese authorities. The EU Delegation sought and recently obtained meetings at ministerial level. Information indicated that, by the beginning of March this year, 600 of the children whose cases had been blocked, have been authorised to join their adoptive parents. A draft law on adoptions, which is expected to better regulate future adoptions, is due to be debated during the current parliamentary session, according to information received from the presidents of the parliamentary chamber.