BENGALURU: The High Court of Karnataka has directed a couple from India to follow the Hague Convention and apply for a 'Conformity Certificate' for their adopted child through the German authorities as the husband is a resident of that country.

The couple had knocked on the doors of the HC seeking a direction to the District Child Protection Unit for issuing them with a 'No Objection Certificate' (NOC) and a 'Conformity Certificate'.

The couple had adopted a girl child and the adoption deed between the biological mother and the couple was registered before the sub-registrar in the district headquarters town of Chikkaballapura on March 29, 2023.

The Deputy Commissioner had also verified the deed and recommended that necessary action be taken for the adoption.

But still the District Child Protection Unit refused to grant them the NOC and Conformity Certificate.

Is another documentary about the problems in the adoption field really needed? The short answer is yes, writes Frauke Giebner in this column.

" This should never have happened", says 46-year-old David, when, after ten years of detective work, he understands the extent of the lies in his adoption case.

And we already know that. This means that serious mistakes have been made in adoption cases from a large number of countries. Babies have been traded and lied to as orphans, and parents have been robbed of their children by so-called child harvesters. Can that story stand to be told one more time?

Maya's story

Maja Tae Sook Dreyer , Schlicht Katharina (authors)

This is the story of a special woman and her self-discovery against all odds.
Maja doesn't know her parents, her birthday or her exact place of birth. Just a few weeks old, she was abandoned in Daegu (South Korea) in 1969. After two years in an orphanage in Seoul, she was placed in Germany for adoption.
Here, disturbing borderline experiences of strangeness, rejection, domestic violence, sexual assault and a suicide attempt determine her childhood.
She feels more and more clearly her unconditional will to live and her longing for belonging and a self-determined life in her new home. Therefore, the later encounter with her country of birth is not the focus of the novella. Rather, the authors illustrate in powerful scenes how Maja successfully fights for a fulfilled life despite lasting moments of inner conflict and the role her daughter, her husband and her job as a yoga teacher play in this.
It is also the story of the friendship of two women who at first glance seem very different. The past can be processed together, the present can be experienced and the future can be shaped.

When Social Affairs Minister Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil closed and switched off Denmark's only adoption agency on national television on 16 January, it was with the words:

"Significant crisis", "children who should not have been adopted", "children who have been trafficked".

Analysis

INFO THE CROIX. It was to be presented on Tuesday January 23, but its publication was postponed. The report of the inspection mission on international adoption raises a lot of expectations and already a little frustration, according to the members of the National Adoption Council who were entitled to a summary of the document.

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• on 01/24/2024 at 7:58 p.m.
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Analysis

INFO THE CROIX. It was to be presented on Tuesday January 23, but its publication was postponed. The report of the inspection mission on international adoption raises a lot of expectations and already a little frustration, according to the members of the National Adoption Council who were entitled to a summary of the document.

This is a long-awaited document... which is still long overdue. Submitted to the government “at the end of September or beginning of October” , the report on international adoption from the government inspection mission has still not been made public. Tuesday January 23, the text was to be presented to the National Adoption Council (CNA) by the three inspectors general who drafted it – justice, foreign affairs and social affairs – but the latter's visit was ultimately canceled. “With the reshuffle, there is no one to bring this file to the government. There is no longer a children's secretary, comments Marie-Christine Le Boursicot, specialist in adoption issues, honorary advisor to the Court of Cassation.

The broad outlines of the report were, however, presented on Tuesday to members of the CNA and associations, by its president, Monique Limon, but not the document itself. Suffice to say that this situation generated frustration within the audience and, in particular, among adopted...

Kushinagar, UP: The visuals showed the woman using a sickle to hit the girl's neck multiple times when she approached her during household chores.

Lucknow:

A woman was seen repeatedly hitting her adopted daughter with a sickle in Uttar Pradesh. The horrifying visuals from Kushinagar district, captured from the terrace, showed the woman using a sickle to hit her neck multiple times when she approached her during household chores. It is not clear if the girl suffered any injury.

Amina Khatoon, who has no children of her own, had adopted the minor girl from a relative in West Champaran district. She has been arrested.

The girl was helping the woman while she was peeling vegetables, showed the video. She was passing tools and loitering around in free time. At one point, she sat near the woman with what looked like a book in her hands. Next moment, the woman could be seen twisting the girl's hand and attacking her with a sickle.

When Kevin Heyel walked off his airplane and out of Concourse C this fall, he embraced his mother for the first time in his 58 years of life.

“Nice to finally meet you,” he said.

Barbara Kreft reached up to his 6-foot-6-inch frame and laughed, overjoyed that the baby she had been forced to give up for adoption was in her arms at last.

“I was worried about you,” she told him. “All the time.”

The Karnataka High Court has directed a couple seeking intercountry relative adoption to petition the receiving country i.e Germany, where the father of the adopted child resides for communication to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) for issuance of a No Objection Certificate and Conformity Certificate to take the child out of India. A single judge bench of Justice M...

Norway announced an inquiry into its foreign adoptions. Anti-adoption activists are pleased but have yet to be convinced. "There must be a sufficient level of competence in the committee."

That the government turned around is the only reasonable thing, says adoption activist Priyangika Samanthie to the Norwegian Christian daily Vårt Land. "But we must ensure the level of competence of those who will be part of the review commission. We need experts in human trafficking with a strong legal background. What's more, what this has done to adoptees must be assessed – we can look at this not only legally, but also psychologically."

Samanthie runs the organisation “Romantisert innvandring” (Romanticised immigration), which works to uncover human rights violations in the adoption field. It took years before calls from Samanthie and other people critical towards foreign abortion were heard. "Adoption should be in the child's best interests, but then we are ignored until the authorities are pressured to take a position on it."

Kjersti Toppe, the Norwegian Minister for Children and Families, agrees with Samanthie that it has taken too long for an investigation to take place. "It shouldn't be like that, and we must work on this. For too many years, the prevailing thought has been that international adoption is "a happy thing". We must recognise that we must take the field more seriously."

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