The Delhi Police arrested 10 people, including a doctor, last month.

It was nearly midnight on August 22 when Suresh, a brickmaker travelling to Behror in Rajasthan, woke up at the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT and got the scare of his life. While his wife and three other children were asleep beside him on Platform 2, his six-month-old son was nowhere to be found.

After frantically looking for his child, Suresh approached the nearby Sunlight Colony police station and a case of kidnapping was registered.

What Suresh could not have known that night was that his baby’s disappearance would crack open a larger child trafficking network operating across the country with 10 people, including a doctor, being arrested last month.

During its probe, the police noticed two middle-aged men approaching the sleeping family and leaving the bus terminal with the infant in CCTV camera footage. However, the police could not trace their movements once they stepped outside the ISBT.

Adoptee human rights advocate Simone Eun Mi stood before lawmakers on Sept. 2 with a question that has haunted thousands of Koreans sent abroad as children: “Where is my home? When will I have the right to be in Korea?”

It was the fifth time she had been invited to speak at the Assembly. Her remarks were part of the “Korean Diaspora: Memories Across the Sea, National Responsibility Beyond Borders” forum, which brought together policymakers, scholars and diaspora representatives.

More than 250,000 Korean children were adopted overseas in the decades following the 1950-53 Korean War, most of whom were not true orphans but children born to single mothers who lacked state support. For many, returning to Korea as adults has brought new difficulties: visa insecurity, lack of housing and no guaranteed access to adoption records.

“These are not isolated tragedies,” Simone told the audience. “They are the outcome of policies that treated children as numbers to be exported, not citizens to be protected.”

For the last two months, 20 people have died due to the Melioidosis virus in Turakapalem village

Melioidosis outbreak: Andhra wakes up after 20 deaths, declares health emergency in Turakapalem

Amaravati: Waking up to suspected Melioidosis deaths, Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has declared a health emergency in Turakapalem village and rushed all infected people to hospitals.

The Bombay High Court ruled that emotional bonds do not grant custody rights over a child to anyone but the biological parents, directing the boy's return to them.

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday held that sharing a strong emotional bond or attachment with a child did not confer a superior right on any person to claim custody of the child over that of its biological parent. A division bench of justices Ravindra V Ghuge and Gautam A Ankhad directed the police authorities to secure a young boy’s custody from his grandparents and hand him over to his parents within two weeks.

The child, one of two five-year-old twins, had been sent to live with his grandmother at birth since the twins suffered a serious ailment and their mother was unable to take care of both of them. The father of the boy had approached the high court for custody of the boy after the grandmother refused to send the boy back to his parents.

After the Covid-19 lockdown eased, several disputes arose between the father and his parents, and in February 2025, they exchanged legal notices over the boy’s custody. The father filed several police complaints in March, requesting the police to intervene in the custody dispute, but the boy’s grandmother refused to hand him over to his parents, prompting the father to approach the court.

Representatives of the father said that grandmother has no superior legal right to retain the child’s custody over its biological father. “The son ought to be reunited with his biological parents and twin brother,” said the father’s council.

Between 1970 and 1990, Geertruida Kuijpers not only arranged irregular adoptions of Chileans to the Netherlands, but also purchased a large number of properties to operate in La Cisterna and Buin. In the 2000s, she donated a large portion of the properties to the Integra Foundation, while selling others to Jehovah's Witnesses and her former right-hand man in Chile.

Despite the passing of years, the story of Geertruida Kuijpers, who arranged irregular and illegal adoptions from Chile to the Netherlands, continues to be written. A well-known fact, but one that has not been fully explored, is the donations of real estate that this fake Dutch nun made to the Integra Foundation in the early 2000s. 

Specifically, these were six properties that Kuijpers acquired in the 1970s and 1980s with cash payments and then, thirty years later, without his personal motivations being known, were transferred to the institution. 

In this context, four properties located in the El Bosque district of Santiago were donated: one on Caminos de Chile Street and three in Los Aviadores, donated in 2004. 

In addition, Kuijpers had his own foundation called Stichting Kindertehuis Las Palmas Foundation, which he also used to manage donations, but in Buin. One was located on Calle San Martín and the other in Balmaceda in 2005. 

The Telangana High Court has declined to interfere with the action of the Child Welfare Committee and District Child Protection Unit in taking away the custody of an adopted child residing with the petitioner, holding that the adoption process was illegal. The Division Bench of Justice Moushmi Bhattacharya and Justice Gadi Praveen Kumar has further held that a petition for habeas...
 

SOS Children’s Villages is actively supporting family tracing and reunification in Syria, while continuing to support children and young people without parental care. We stand with families searching for their children, and we are committed to uncovering the truth about children who were forcibly separated from their families and placed in care by the former regime. 

During the Syrian war, many children were forcibly and unnecessarily separated from their families by authorities and placed into care, often without proper documentation. In this time of extraordinary instability, these placements reflected the absence of a child protection system grounded in international standards – in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.  

SOS Children’s Villages condemns the former regime’s practices of forcibly separating children from their families and assigning falsified or incorrect names to children. We acknowledge that, under that regime, some children who had been forcibly separated from their families were referred to our care without the necessary documentation. 

We took decisive action in 2018 to halt the placements of children into our care without proper documentation. It is our firm belief that children should never be separated from their families unless it is in their best interest – and only through a documented, child-centered process. 

We recognize that, despite our best intentions, not all decisions made during this time met the high standards to which we hold ourselves. Learning from these shortcomings, we have taken active steps to ensure this does not happen again.

BRUSSELS — Plans to overhaul the EU’s executive arm will be brought forward by the start of next year at the latest, leaked documents reveal, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pushing for a restructure to make its labyrinthine civil service more efficient and cost-effective.

According to a document seen by POLITICO, the bloc’s budget and public administration chief Piotr Serafin has been tasked with “a large-scale review of the Commission’s organisation and operations, together with an external benchmarking exercise.”

The intention is to deliver a “modern, efficient public administration to deliver on our political priorities,” while also being able to handle “volatility as the new normal” and reduce both complexity “and, where possible, costs.”

Two Commission officials, granted anonymity to speak about the sensitive process, said that alternative models were being considered whereby departments could be merged.

A woman struggling with severe money problems sold her newborn son for fifty thousand rupees. The woman is originally from a place called Kanti and currently lives in the Kacchi Pakki area. After she spent all the money, she started missing her child badly.

Following this, on Tuesday, she went to the city police station and began telling her story while crying. She told the police officers that a businessman from Jawaharlal Road had taken her baby. Acting on her complaint, the city police immediately went to the location to investigate.

During the inquiry, the businessman explained that he is childless and that the woman had given him the baby willingly. He claimed that he had adopted the child and was taking good care of him.

After the investigation, the newborn baby was returned to his mother. It was learned that the woman had worked as a domestic helper at the same businessman's house for a long time. She already has four other children. About fifteen days ago, she gave birth to the son while at the businessman's home and then handed the baby over to him.

Sharat Kumar, the Station House Officer of Nagar Thana in Muzaffarpur, said, "A woman complained that a businessman had taken her child. Based on this information, the police were sent to the businessman's house. After an investigation, the child was handed over to his biological mother. As of now, no formal complaint has been filed in this matter."

Why we take action

We, Sharon and Sita, are sisters—but we didn't know that for a long time. We were separated through adoption and grew up unaware of each other's existence. In 2016, we reconnected. Shortly afterward, we discovered we had another sister: Charlotte. But she was already gone by then. Charlotte had taken her own life.

On June 7th, Charlotte would have turned 40. We would have loved to have known her so much. With this campaign, we commemorate her—and draw attention to a painful truth: adoptees have a threefold higher risk of suicide.

For Charlotte. For all the adoptees who suffer in silence. For those who are no longer here, and for those who are still here.

We are taking action, will you also support us in this action?