The process for adoption has been on for last six months.

Born in Barabanki, abandoned in Lucknow, he will now be raised in Spain.

Meet this nine-year-old boy who had to spend two years of his childhood at a shelter home in Lucknow after his parents expired due to some illness in 2017.

“He was abandoned in a train to Lucknow by his uncle. They did not want to keep the child after the death of his parents. He was rescued by child rights authorities at Lucknow railway station,” said an official.

Two years on, the child has found a new family.

According to the data presented by Irani, 6,971 orphaned and abandoned children, including 3,990 girls, are available for adoption in 488 specialised adoption agencies across the country.

ccording to ministry of women and child development, about 8,677 children, including 5,033 girls, are available for adoption at child care institutions and specialised adoption agencies across the country right now.

Even though so many parents are not able to have their own kids, adopting is still considered an uncomfortable taboo in India

In reply to a Lok Sabha query, WCD Minister Smriti Irani presented data of the state-wise number of children available for adoption at child care institutions (CCIs) and specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) across the country.

According to the data presented by Irani, 6,971 orphaned and abandoned children, including 3,990 girls, are available for adoption in 488 specialised adoption agencies across the country.

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Johannesburg — Missionary Renee Bach, who runs a local non-governmental organisation called Serving His Children in eastern Uganda, is being accused of representing herself as a doctor, and treating children in her care. She allegedly took children with malnutrition from local hospitals to "treat" them at her organisation - and some of them died.

Gimbo Zubeda and Kakai Rose from Masese in Jinja District alongside civil society organisation, Women's Probono Initiative, are suing Bach for the actions they allege led to the death of their children while in her care.

The two women say that they were led to believe that Renee Bach was a medical doctor and that her home was a medical facility as she was often seen wearing a white coat, a stethoscope and often administered medications to children in her care. They say they learned that Bach had no training at all in medicine after their children died. They also found out that in 2015, the District Health Officer had closed her facility and ordered her to not offer any treatment to any children.

So how then did an American missionary without any medical qualification end up allegedly performing medical procedures and giving treatment to children even after her facility was ordered to shut down?

Children were made to believe they had been sexually abused and were sold to foster parents

Italian police have arrested 18 people, including a mayor, doctors and social workers, for allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they could then be sold to foster parents.

Police in the northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation, started in 2018, revealed an alleged network of carers who used methods including electroshock to make the children believe they had been sexually abused.

The network then allegedly gave the children to foster families in exchange for cash, while keeping gifts and letters sent to the children by their real parents hidden in a warehouse that was discovered by police.

The alleged abuse was reported by Italian media and confirmed to AFP by police in Bibbiano, near Reggio Emilia, on Thursday.

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What is the Brussels IIa Regulation?

The Brussels IIa Regulation is the cornerstone of EU judicial cooperation in cross-border matrimonial matters (divorce, separation, marriage annulment) and matters of parental responsibility, including custody and access rights, and international child abduction. The Regulation has applied in all Member States, except Denmark, since 1 March 2005.

With the rising number of international families, now estimated at 16 million, cross-border disputes on family matters have increased in the EU. There are about 140,000 international divorces per year in the EU. There are around 1,800 cases of parental child abduction within the EU every year.

The Council adopted today improvements to the EU rules ("Brussels IIa Regulation") that protect children in the context of cross-border disputes relating to parental responsibility and child abduction. The new rules ("Brussels IIa Recast Regulation") make court proceedings clearer, faster and more efficient. They are based on the proposal made by the European Commission in 2016.

The number of children adopted from foreign countries is down and adoption organizations believe they know why.

Tens of thousands of foreign children are adopted annually by American families, who rescue many of them from orphanages, but by 2018 the number had dropped to a little over 4,000.

The problem can be traced back to the U.S. State Department and to one person in particular, Susan Jacobs, who oversaw the federal agency's adoption division during the Obama administration.

Jacobs, whose State Department title was special advisor for international children’s issues, penned an April op-ed acknowledging the drop in adoptions but denied the federal agency is responsible for what she called “plummeting” numbers.

The adoptions have decreased, she claims, because foreign countries have tightened their rules due to loose federal oversight that endangers children’s safety.

Victims of widespread adoption trafficking in Sri Lanka, seeking truth about their origins

Paris (AFP) - Over thirty years later, French victims of widespread adoption trafficking in Sri Lanka, and their adoptive parents, have embarked on a difficult quest to shed light on their origins.

"Many parents feel guilt or are still in denial," confide to AFP Jean-Noel and Veronique Piaser-Moyen, victims of this scandal recently revealed. "There are three victims: the biological mothers, the children, and we the adoptive parents, we need to hear that we are not guilty".

The couple who adopted a baby - Maria - in 1985 in Sri Lanka, discovered recently that he had unwittingly participated in a large international adoption trade. The latter could concern some 11,000 babies stolen or sold by various intermediaries to Western families, according to surveys conducted by several French and foreign media.

The existence of this traffic has been recognized by the Sri Lankan government in 2017.

Those who violate the rights of children deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law

It is a grim truth that when it comes to sexual exploitation, no child is immune.

Child rights activists have pointed out again and again that while there are laws and policies in the country designed to protect children, implementation continues to lag behind, leaving many children vulnerable as a result.

Statistics of abuse, when it comes to children, are notoriously unreliable, because they do not speak to the whole picture -- a vast number of incidents simply go unreported and unnoticed.

Of all groups of people, children are the ones most in need of legal and institutional protection, and needless to say, ours is failing them badly.