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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Four Employees of Adoption Services Provider Charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States in Connection with Ethiopia Operations

42 kids rescued from a Vasai shelter accused of running adoption racket

By Yogesh Sadhwani, Mumbai Mirror | Feb 11, 2014, 12.55 AM IST

Kids were brought in without CWC knowledge, given for adoption to foreigners.

Forty-two children were rescued from a Vasai-based orphanage-cum-adoption centre on Monday, in a joint operation by the Department of Women & Child Development (DWCD) and the Child Welfare Committee (CWC).

Investigators said the centre, Shejar Chaya, which was launched in 1985, had been under the scanner for more than a month, and that it ran a major adoption racket wherein majority of the children were given away to foreign nationals. The investigators also said that a six-year-old inmate died on January 31, but the centre didn't even inform police or any other agency, nor did it bother to get an autopsy done.

Monday, 10 February 2014

Rights of the Child Committee Chairman Talks to Delegation of European Commission Experts about Committee’s Results

The Chairman of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Dr Nebojsa Stefanovic briefed the European Commission delegation on the rights of the child, headed by Ann Vanderkerckhove and Margaret Tuite, on the legal framework in the context of article 64 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, and new information on the division of authority on children’s issues including the control and oversight role.

He also informed them about the Committee’s scope stressing that it contains five working groups:

- Working Group for the monitoring of the implementation of the Law on the Basis of Education and Upbringing, the segment on inclusion,

Adoption: They're looking for the little ones as well as the image

B. Caranovi? | 09 February 2014 07:53 | Comments: 0

More and more couples who want to adopt a child, or to become parents waiting for some years. Lane adopted 151 children. The longest on the list of those who want babies, but they do not want Roma and children with disabilities

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Nurturant boys who adopt Swedes: Signed decisions, let me suffer in peace!

The European Commission also recently announced that it would commit an unprecedented €3.5 billion ($4.6 billion) towards reducing

malnutrition between 2014 and 2020; UNICEF will be one of the implementing partners. And as part of their strategic collaboration, the EU, with UNICEF, recently developed the Child Rights Toolkit:

UNICEF Executive Board Special Focus Session

Partners for change and development:

the growing partnership between the European Union and UNICEF

MEMO

Brussels, 4 February 2014

EU – UNICEF PARTNERSHIP

The UNICEF Executive board, which takes place in New York, is a key opportunity for the EU and UNICEF to come together to take stock of what has been achieved so far and to discuss future cooperation.

The EU and UNICEF have worked as strategic partners in the last seven years in a joint mission to help partner countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); specifically those related to child protection, maternal and child health, polio, education and nutrition.

Feb 04 2015 : Mirror (Pune)

POLICE APATHY IN GANG RAPE OF MINOR - In a first, cop faces trial under POCSO

Vijay Chavan

Bombay HC refuses his criminal writ petition; API had refused to accept the 14-year-old's complaint and instead asked the girl to return with her parents

A policeman attached to the Loni Kalbhor PS on Tuesday failed to get any relief from the Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday after it rejected the criminal writ petition, requesting cancellation of the issue process ordered by a special court in Pune in June, in connection with the gang rape of 14-yearold girl in Uruli Kanchan on February 22, 2014.

I received from Dr. Maria E. Rotter, who represents Mr. Krichbaum, a clarification related to the work of his wife, Dr. Oana Harvalia. The message shows that "Oana Harvalia worked as a legal adviser to the Minister of Justice C?t?lin Predoiu, from May to November 2008. It is emphasized that "Dr. Oana Harvalia never worked for Mrs. Macovei". Jurnalul Na?ional assigned Oana Harvalia the position of Monica Macova's personal adviser, which is in the received message "a serious mistake".

WORLD NEWS 02.01.14

Ukraine Is America’s New Adoption Mecca

A year after Russia halted adoptions to the U.S. in retaliation for sanctions, neighboring Ukraine is becoming an attractive alternative for hopeful parents. But will the country’s protests strand orphans in need?

Back in 2003, when I was adopting a baby from Russia, I was never afraid our efforts would be stymied by shifting political winds, or by anything at all. Like many other adoptive parents, we chose Russia because—though the adoption process was grueling and expensive—it was a sure thing, unlike the minefield that domestic adoption can be.

In 2003 alone, Americans adopted 5,221 Russian children, about the same number adopted annually from Russia since 1999. It wasn't until 2008, when other countries' adoption programs expanded, that Russia's started to fall off.