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

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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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28 Years On, Child Fund Association Helps The Underprivileged To Stand On Their Feet

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Agroup of women in 1982 decided to make a difference to society. The welfare of underprivileged children was their area of concern and Child Fund Association, a home for orphaned and destitute children, was their brainchild.

Children from extremely poor families with a single or a disabled parent are provided with food, clothing, medical care and education to enable them to stand on their feet.

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Families certified to adopt will be able to check the status of their case and complain of problems

Aurelia Alexa - Mediafax

Families certified to adopt a child will be able to check at any stage of an application and their file and be able to make referrals, complaints or suggestions, thanks to a system that will be developed through a project financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

The National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption (ANPDC) released on Friday, the "Information System for Romanian Office for Adoptions - OR @", whose implementation was taken over from the former Romanian Office for Adoptions, after its dissolution.

President of the NAPCR, Gabriela Coman, explained that the integrated system would assist citizens wishing to adopt a child, and the child protection specialists from local and central level.

GHAZIABAD: Child Welfare Committee (CWC) officials took a day-old baby boy into custody on Wednesday after his mother, a 19-year-old woman, said she could not keep him as she is unmarried. The woman submitted an affidavit to CWC requesting them to take custody of her son whom she delivered at a private hospital in Nandgram on Tuesday. Following her request, CWC member Shalini Singh directed officials concerned to take the custody of the child and ensure his rehabilitation.

“The administrator of St Joseph’s Hospital in Mariam Nagar on Tuesday evening called us to inform that a 19-year-old woman who gave birth to a healthy boy has requested us to take custody of the child as she cannot keep him because she is not married” said Shalini Singh, CWC member. “She gave an affidavit in the presence of her mother in which she stated that she is leaving her child in the hospital and requested us to ensure his safety and rehabilitation and that she will not lay a claim on him in the future.”

Singh then wrote a letter to child welfare officer and others to initiate proceedings to take the custody of the child. “I personally visited the hospital and after due paperwork the custody of the child was handed over to us and he has been sent to the Women’s Hospital” said Jitender Kumar, child welfare officer. “Our first priority is to ensure the well being of the child and afterwards he will be shifted to the orphanage. We may set him up for adoption in the future,” he added.

Kumar also said that under the provisions of Juvenile Justice Act, the administration takes the custody of child who will be technically treated as ‘abandoned.’

Sister Edina of St Joseph’s Hospital in Mariamnagar in Nandgram said, “On Tuesday afternoon this woman who was in the advanced stage of pregnancy was admitted to our hospital. She went into labour by the evening and delivered a healthy male child. After she was stabilised she requested an audience with me and when I met her she told me that she did not want to keep the child as she is unmarried.”

Over delay in action in cases against two Ujjwal Niketan trust-run care institutes

Taking a serious view of delay in police action in cases pertaining to child care institutes (CCIs) run by Ujjwal Niketan Charitable Trust, the Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (HSCPCR) on Thursday summoned the Special Investigation Team officers and demanded immediate action in the case.

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Expressing dissatisfaction over investigation in the case, HSCPCR member B.K. Goel, who was on a day-long visit to the city in connection with cases related to the commission, said Assistant Commissioner of Police (City) Rajiv Kumar was summoned and directed to arrest Lily Berito, who ran both the CCIs, within 10 days.

“It is surprising that there is no headway in the case even after the formation of an SIT,” said Mr. Goel.

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MUMBAI: The metropolis recorded as many as 1,940 cases of kidnapping of minors last year—a little over 5 cases every day— next only to Delhi, which reported 5,769 such cases. Mumbai accounted for nearly one-fourth of the child kidnapping cases in Maharashtra (8260), which is ranked second among states after Uttar Pradesh.

According to the NCRB report, a majoirty of the victims in Mumbai were between the ages of 12-15 years (894). Police officers attributed the high numbers to minors running away from home, eloping with lovers, followed by kidnapping for rape, adoption, revenge, murder and ransom. A police officer said most cases of missing children are recorded as kidnapping—especially when girls elope with young men.

The NCRB report shows the number of kidnapping for ransom is low. Besides, 20 children in Mumbai were kidnapped for forcing them into slavery, begging or trafficking in 2016.

Ujjwal Niketan has never received any aid from any governmental or government-aided agency and most of the funds were sourced from individuals, according to the management

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Gurgaon: The counsel for Sister Lily Baretto, Shaju Francis, who had represented her in Saturday's anticipatory bail hearing, clarified to TOI that there isn't any charge of trafficking against his client.

He said in the first FIR, the sister has only been charged under sections 75 (punishment for cruelty to child) and 80 (adoption without following prescribed procedure) of the Juvenile Justice Act, while the second was registered under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine as fraud) of the IPC.

Regarding the charge of not following procedures while giving away two minor girls for adoption, the counsel, Francis and Drishti Mishra, told the court that while the "correctness" of giving away the two minor girls for adoption using a "single adoption deed" might be debated, it cannot be used to attribute malice on part of Baretto, adding the two girls were siblings, who were placed at the shelter home by their aunt, who could not take care of them. The lawyers also clarified the children were never entrusted to the orphanage by CWC, so giving them away for adoption, Baretto had acted by guidelines for "rehabilitation and social re-integration" in Section 39 of the JJ Act.