childcare institutes (CCI) are currently running across India, out of which more than 1,100 are operating in Kerala, according to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).

As per NCPCR data, the total number of registered CCIs in India stands at 6,792. Currently, more than 2 lakh children (2,07,291) are living in CCIs, both registered and unregistered.

Maharashtra is the second state which has got the most number of unregistered CCIs - 110 followed by Manipur which has 13 CCIs running without registration.

The other states which have got unregistered CCIs are Delhi (6), Andhra Pradesh (3), Tamil Nadu (9), Arunachal Pradesh (3), Rajasthan (4), and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1).

Assam and Bihar have two unregistered CCIs which are under the process of registration, while 49 unregistered CCIs identified in Delhi are undergoing registration process, according to the data.

The Supreme Court today directed all High Courts in the country to give details on whether special courts to ensure speedy trial of offences against children have been set up in each district.

The court considered Section 25 and 26 of the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 which provide that there has to be a children's court for speedy trial of offences against them and the cases of child rights' abuses, besides appointment of public prosecutors to deal with them.

"Keeping in view the provisions, it is directed that the Registrar Generals of the High Courts would submit a report as regards Sections 25 and 26 of the Act. After receipt of the report, the issue shall be addressed.

"The Registry of this court is directed to forward the earlier order and the present order to the Registrars General of the High Courts with the stipulation that the reports shall be submitted within two weeks from the date of receipt of the orders," a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said.

The court also made it clear that the pendency of the case before it shall not be construed "as any kind of impediment for establishment of courts and appointment of Special Public Prosecutors if steps in that direction have already been taken."

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Pune: Single women above the age of 40 and financially stable top the list of parents for adoption, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has said in an Right to Information (RTI) reply to TOI’s query filed on January 14.

There have been such 159 adoptions, 93 from within the country and 66 inter-country, in the last seven months after the Ministry of Women and Child Development gave preference to single women to adopt. In sharp contrast, of the six adoptions by men, five are in-country and one is an inter-country adoption. The reply, received on February 20, said these adoptions are being processed under the Adoption Regulations, 2017 that were declared last July.

“ There has been an increasing demand from women and the new regulations are helping ease the adoption process,” Central Adoption Resource Authority head Deepak Kumar said. They have been given seniority in the antedate given to them by six months which eases the process, he added.

Adoptive parents in India are usually reluctant to take in children with special needs and those who are above six years of age | Express

NEW DELHI: Like any other child of her age, Pihu (name changed), 8, was lively and naughty. She played and interacted with all other children in the adoption centre where she was kept. Except that she suffers from thalassemia trait, making her mildly anaemic.

Because of this “abnormality,” prospective adoptive parents in India shunned her after seeing her profile. But luck finally smiled on Pihu last year when a couple from Spain took her as their daughter.

Pihu’s story is not a one-off. About 1,000 ‘special needs’ children with adoption agencies are largely ignored by domestic couples looking to adopt a child. Even a minor or easily manageable health condition is enough to make prospective parents squirm. But adoptive parents from abroad have no such qualms.

Data from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) under the Union Women and Child Development Ministry show that adoption of Indian children by foreigners and NRI parents has seen a remarkable growth.

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CHENNAI: Underweight babies, those with vision problems and an infant with cleft lip and palate are among 28 children with “special needs” waiting to be adopted in Tamil Nadu. If data from the past is anything to go by, chances of them finding a family in India are slim.

Over the last four years, 88 such children were adopted from Tamil Nadu by couples abroad, while there were no adoptions by families within the country, social defence department data shows.

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Applying for a passport online involves booking an appointment at the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) or passport center as commonly know which is done by logging in

www.passportindia.gov.in, filling and submitting the passport application form online and later paying the fee for passport online.

Once your scheduling, payment and booking of the passport appointment is done, you will have to take a print out of the ARN receipt that you have got online and visit the PSK with required documents to process your application.

Here is the step by step process let you know how to apply for passport online:

Step 1 – Register through the Passport Seva Online Portal using the link “Register Now”

Actress Sushmita Sen, who raises two adopted daughters, is happy that people are now more open to the idea of adoption. She says it is high time people get over the thinking that blood and bones create a family.

The "Main Hoon Na" star expressed her views when she became a part of TV show "Vh1 Inside Access", read a statement from the channel.

She said: "I think people need to get out of this zone which is really just a zone... where they believe that blood and bones create a family. That we are truly not marrying an absolute stranger and it has nothing to do with your bloodline and suddenly become your everything that you will even take his last name.

"Do you know 45 per cent of children are no longer in the orphanages anymore? If not in India, then globally people are adopting.

"I cannot tell you how amazing that makes me feel to know that this world, despite all its social media distractions, has a heart as large as that. That's awesome," added the actress, who has two daughters named Renee and Alisah.

ADOPTED KIDS SUE DUTCH GOV'T OVER ABUSES IN THE '80S

By Janene Pieters on March 28, 2018 - 07:38

Adopted children from Sri Lanka and Indonesia filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government over errors in their adoption procedures in the 1980's. They want the government to compensate the high costs they're incurring in the search for their origin and biological parents, according to a Zembla broadcast on Wednesday, NU.nl reports.

Last year Zembla reported that adoption files of children from Sri Lanka and Indonesia, among others, were falsified on a large scale and that biological parents did not always give their child up voluntarily.

According to the lawyers representing the adopted kids, the Dutch state is responsible for making sure that adoption procedures from abroad are correctly implemented. Because the state failed to do so, adoption files could be falsified. The government can therefore be held liable, the lawyers said. Now these adopted children have no idea what their real identity is or who their biological parents are, and have to incur high costs in their search to find out.

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Cambodia’s Stolen Children: Fraud and Corruption in the Inter-Country Adoption System

Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)

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March 30, 2018 - Thousands of Cambodian children were adopted overseas between the late 1980s and 2009. During that time it emerged that many of the adopted children were not orphans but had parents who placed them in orphanages because of extreme poverty. Their parents placed them there on the understanding that they would return home at a later date. They did not consent to their children's adoption. Instead, orphanage directors, with the help of local authorities, created documents falsely stating that the children were orphans or had been abandoned.

Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations

By Joshua Philipp, The Epoch Times

March 15, 2018 10:09 am Last Updated: March 28, 2018 3:20 pm

Two displaced Iraqi sisters from Mosul, play at an orphanage in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on April 30, 2017. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

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