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Special US advisor for children's issue to visit India

Washington, May 12 (PTI) America's Special Advisor for Children's issues Susan Jacobs will travel to India this week to hold talks with Indian officials on cooperation as partners under Hague Adoption Convention.

During her visit to India from May 11 to 14, Jacobs would meet with "government officials to discuss further cooperation as partners under The Hague Adoption Convention," the State Department said in a statement yesterday.

"She will also continue our regular discussions on international parental child abduction," it added.

The Hague Adoption Convention, effective from 1995, is an international agreement to safeguard intercountry adoptions, child laundering, and child trafficking.

Synopsis

Jacobs would meet with government officials to discuss further cooperation as partners under The Hague Adoption Convention.

WASHINGTON: America's Special Advisor for Children's issues Susan Jacobs will travel to India this week to hold talks with Indian officials on cooperation as partners under Hague Adoption Convention.

During her visit to India from May 11 to 14, Jacobs would meet with "government officials to discuss further cooperation as partners under The Hague Adoption Convention," the State Department said in a statement yesterday. "She will also continue our regular discussions on international parental child abduction," it added.

 

Overhaul of adoption in Haiti means fewer kids go overseas, alarming some and pleasing others

The Associated Press

In this May 8, 2015 photo, volunteer Anne-Marie Saintou announces that only special needs children will be treated, or allowed to live at the Mercy & Sharing residential center, as she walks in the seaside community of Luly in Arcahaie, Haiti. Saintou is part of a campaign by the nonprofit organization to warn people about promoters and recruiters for orphanages who roam the countryside offering money, or false promises, to desperate parents struggling to raise children, and she speaks from bitter experience. “Ladies, say ‘NO!’ she shouts. “We will not give away our children anymore.” (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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?TK | 30 APRIL 2015

Prague, April 29 (CTK) - The Norwegian child welfare service started taking steps towards the adoption of the younger of the two Czech brothers who had been taken from their mother and placed in foster families, although Norway said that adoption is not considered, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said Wednesday.

According to information that the Czech Office for International Legal Protection of Children (UMPOD) received in April, the Norwegian child welfare service asked the regional authorities to launch the proceedings that would enable the adoption of the younger son of Eva Michalakova, Zaoralek told the lower house of Czech parliament.

The Czech Republic protested against this in writing.

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Gelsenkirchener Jugendamt-Skandal - Mit Kindern Kasse machen

01.05.2015 | 15:38 Uhr

Das Jugendamt in Gelsenkirchen (rechtes Gebäude): Der Amtsleiter und sein Stellvertreter wurden vom Dienst freigestellt. Nun werden die Vorwürfe geprüft.Foto: Oliver Kühn

Gelsenkirchen. Die Leiter des Jugendamtes in Gelsenkirchen haben offenbar mit der Unterbringung von deutschen Heimkindern in Ungarn systematisch Kasse gemacht.

Besonders schwere Vorwürfe gegen den Leiter des Gelsenkirchener Jugendamtes, Alfons Wissmann, und seinen Stellvertreter, Thomas Frings, erhebt ein Bericht der ARD-Sendung "Monitor". Demnach sollen die beiden Männer ihre Funktion an der Spitze des Jugendamtes ausgenutzt haben, um mit Kindern, die in staatlicher Obhut waren, Geld zu verdienen.