The Council has today agreed on its position for an update of the EU’s anti-trafficking law. Forced marriage and illegal adoption will explicitly feature as types of exploitation covered by the directive. EU countries must also make sure that people knowingly using services provided from victims of trafficking can face sanctions.

I am glad we agreed today to criminalise the intentional use of services provided by a victim of trafficking across the EU. It is an important step in the fight against human trafficking.

Gunnar Strömmer, Swedish minister for justice

Forced marriage and illegal adoption

The agreed text makes clear that member states are obliged to criminalise human trafficking for the purpose of forced marriage and illegal adoption. This will better equip member states’ law enforcement and judicial authorities to effectively combat trafficking in human beings for the purpose of these two forms of exploitation.

Rohtak will have an agency for child adoption soon. The process to set up the facility has started. Ch. Lakhi Ram Arya Jagannath Ashram, a shelter-home for children in Rohtak, has sent a proposal in this regard to the office of the District Child Protection Officer. Rohtak Deputy Commissioner Ajay Kumar visited the ashram and inspected the facilities being provided to the inmates on Thursday.

“There are seven child-adoption agencies in the state as of now. Rohtak district does not have any such facility, due to which the local residents desirous of adopting children were facing difficulties,” he stated.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday it will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States.

The new cases in the commission’s expanded inquiry into South Korea’s foreign adoption boom involve adoptees in 11 nations including the United States, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden who were adopted from 1960 to 1990. More than 370 adoptees from Europe, North America and Australia filed applications last year demanding their cases be investigated.

Abstract

Approximately 3600 Korean children have been adopted to Australia, as of 2023. Existing studies have tended to approach transnational or intercountry adoption from child development, social welfare, or identity perspectives. Research on Korean adoption to Australia is relatively scarce. The current article approaches the population from a migration perspective, building on Richard Weil’s conceptualization of transnational adoption as “quiet migration.” Drawing on both Korean-language data from South Korean governments and Australian data, the authors analyse Korean adoption to Australia as a state-sanctioned transnational migratory mechanism that facilitated the orderly movement of children from so-called “deficient” families of predominantly single mothers in South Korea to adoptive families in Australia. Situating adoption practices within the socio-political contexts and larger migration trends of both countries, the authors identify multiple enabling factors for channelling the ‘quiet’ flow of Korean children for adoption and argue the very ‘quietness’ of the adoption system is a source of concern despite Australia’s relatively stringent regulations. A migration perspective and analysis of these enabling factors contributes to the conceptualization of adoption as a socio-political state-sanctioned phenomenon, rather than a solely private family affair.

Keywords:transnational adoption; intercountry adoption; Korea; Australia; quiet migration; orderly migration

1. Introduction

Due to this, the process of issuing adoption orders, birth certificates, and no objection certificates (NOCs) have come to a halt in Maharashtra.

A group of over 250 affected prospective adoptive parents (PAP) has written to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — the apex government regulating body for adoption — on Monday, after the Bombay High Court’s stay on the transfer of adoption cases to the district magistrates (DMs) of Maharashtra.

On January 11, the Bombay HC had directed the state government not to transfer pending adoption proceedings to the DMs, as mandated under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021.

In November 2021, Swara took everyone by surprise with her announcement of adopting a child.

Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker on Tuesday announced that she is expecting her first child with politician-husband Fahad Ahmad. The Nil Battey Sannata star shared the news on Twitter and revealed that the baby is due in October. That being said, the news raises questions on whether Swara will still pursue adoption for which she had applied in 2021.

In November 2021, Swara took everyone by surprise with her announcement of adopting a child. She even got herself registered as a 'Prospective Adoptive Parent' (PAP) with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

When The Free Press Journal had asked Bhasker to elaborate on the same, she said, “It's at a very early stage right now because the waiting period for this process is quite long. Perhaps, that is needed, because I think that the state and (CARA), are extremely careful to make sure that the orphaned children are being given to adoptive parents, who will take care of them, and who will be parents and in the truest sense of the word, and who will love them and keep them safe.”

“I don't know how many years it will take for me to actually be assigned a child, it's a random lottery system, you cannot choose if a child is allotted to you. So, in that sense, the whole method by which adoption takes place is quite impartial and fair,” she added.

Toronto couple Isrene Shao and Tommy Mui planned to start a family right away when they got married in 2019 but began having issues conceiving.

“We went to see a fertility doctor and at that point she’s said, ‘Let’s do a pap test.’ I had recently done a Pap test three years prior and it was all clean,” said Shao. “That’s when she did the pap test, and it came out as cancer.”

“That’s how we found it and the scary part was I had no symptoms,” Shao added.

The diagnosis came in 2021. It was revealed that Shao had Stage 3 cervical cancer. She underwent chemo, had to remove her cervix and ovaries. She is now cancer-free but can no longer conceive.

“The first thing we did it is looking to adoption because we still want to be parents through adoption, so we looked into Toronto. We actually also looked into international because the chance of getting an infant in Toronto is very slim,” explained Mui.

The Salvation Army is increasingly doing more in the field of sustainability. Buildings are becoming greener , waste is better processed and with special tools we try to better manage and reduce our energy consumption . Employees are also increasingly concerned with sustainability. Three of them talk about how they contribute in their own lives.

Ineke van Buren

"I now work in relief work at the Salvation Army, but in 1985 I studied the Environment in Wageningen. So in addition to relief work, I think the environment is important anyway. I haven't eaten meat since I was seventeen and, for example, travel by train as much as possible In addition, I buy my clothing second-hand and if I buy something new, I ensure that it is made sustainably.

Making sustainable choices is sometimes expensive or inconvenient. For example, the train is more expensive than the plane and sustainable cleaning products are also more expensive than non-sustainable products. But can it also cost us something? You have to leave other things behind.

What you need to see clearly is the difference between being sustainable and looking after the little ones. You now see that many organizations and companies are taking a step towards a sustainable future, but this is driven by financial incentives. The financial incentive helps, but it is better to take a step back and see what really helps."

Courtney Deacon Lalotra of Brick took a trip to India more than a decade ago when she was 23 years old. It was supposed to last a month. Instead she moved there to help orphaned children.

The group she founded, One Life to Love, is a home for abandoned and orphaned kids with special needs.

She is back home, but not for long. Deacon Lalotra will host a fundraiser in New Jersey Thursday.

“This event could not come at a better time. The impact of One Life to Love’s work is far-reaching, as these rescued children become future leaders of their communities and countries,” she said. “With your help, together we can make a difference and create a brighter future for all.”

NJ Advance Media first met Deacon Lalotra of Brick in 2019 when Gov. Phil Murphy made a trade mission to the country.

A 5-year-old boy whose skull was fractured when his mother's live-in boyfriend struck him with a mop handle, breaking it in half, has been beaten, neglected, and tortured repeatedly, the Volusia Sheriff's Office revealed on Saturday.

Investigators discovered video surveillance from inside the DeLand-area home revealing the child once had his hands tied behind his back for more than 19 hours. Doctors examining him found, in addition to the skull fracture, 46 visible injuries as well as internal injuries, Volusia Sheriff's spokesman Andrew Gant said in a news release.

There were three children in the home, including an 8-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy.

"The torture these kids endured is hard to imagine. The good news is they're in safe hands now, and their scumbag abusers will have to answer for what they did," Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote in a Facebook post Saturday.