MUMBAI: Hindus who have always wanted to adopt a girl even though they already have a daughter can now do just

that. The Hindu adoption law prohibits same gender adoptions but, in a landmark judgment this week, the Bombay High

Court has thrown open the legal doors to allow Hindus adopt a child of the same gender as their existing one.

In the verdict, the HC allowed a recent petition by Mumbai-based actor couple (names withheld on request) to be legally

declared as adoptive parents of a girl they had taken in as their ward over four years ago under the Juvenile Justice Act.

A Crushing Choice for Ethiopian Mothers With HIV

Facing Death, Women Leave Children at Orphanages

By Emily Wax

Washington Post Foreign Service

Saturday, February 19, 2005; Page A01

Orphanage managers arrested for selling children

The Tia Sang School in Bao Loc Town, Lam Dong Province

The president of an orphanage in the Central Highlands province of Lam

Dong has been arrested for further investigations into allegations the

children were being sold.

FG request interim Vietnam adoption agreement

19/09/2009 - 10:43:38

Fine Gael are asking the Government to introduce an interim adoption agreement to allow adoptions between Vietnam and Ireland.

The party are claiming that the Government is not helping 350 families in their efforts to adopt Vietnamese children.

A previous agreement between the two countries was allowed to lapse in May because of concerns, mainly from the US, over the adoption process in the country.

The Catholic church sold my child

Unmarried mother Philomena Lee was forced to give up her son to Irish nuns, who sold him on to rich Americans. For decades she tried to find him. A chance meeting with Martin Sixsmith eventually uncovered the truth

Martin Sixsmith

The Guardian, Saturday 19 September 2009

Article history

Posted: Sat, Sep 19 2009. 1:15 AM IST

Skin deep

Adopted by an American family 25 years ago, Goa-born Nisha Grayson is coming back ‘home’ in search of her birth mother and herself

Melissa A. Bell

When Nisha Grayson was in second grade, her school class in California, US, put up a performance. “Don’t come!” Nisha told her mom on the day of the event. Stephanie Grayson went anyway. When she walked into the classroom and a child shouted “Whose mommy are you?” Nisha just hunched up, blushed and kept silent.

September 18, 2009 - Joint Council is well aware of the grave issues relating to intercountry adoption in Ethiopia. Earlier this week, Joint Council initiated an immediate assessment of any possible violations by Adoption Service Providers. Pending review Joint Council will issue a public statement. Any action taken by Joint Council, based on its findings, will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

.

Draft law promotes adoptions by locals

(17-09-2009)

HA NOI — The draft law on adoption will encourage more Vietnamese people to adopt orphaned children, currently numbering about 200,000, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee heard at its session in Ha Noi yesterday.

According to a report prepared by Deputy Minister of Justice Dinh Trung Tung, the biggest difference between the draft law and existing adoption laws is the specific encouragement for domestic adoptions.

Tung said 20,000 children had been adopted over the past five years, only 13,000 of whom were adopted by domestic families. The rest were adopted by foreigners.

Sierra Leone

Adoption Alert

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Bureau of Consular Affairs

Office of Children’s Issues

No way for mushroom orphanage homes? ? Social Worker

Main News

Agona Swedru, Sept. 17, GNA - Mrs Monica Siaw, Agona West Municipal Officer of the Department of Social Welfare, has warned that the government would not hesitate to close down all mushroom orphanage homes which are not registered.

She said Ghana had begun to experience a sudden mushrooming of orphanages estimated a 127 nationwide, and that there was the need to check the trend.

Mrs Siaw noted that a majority of the almost 4,000 children living in these unregistered Orphanages in the country are not orphans.