Now Fergie is sued for £20k over bid to ban orphans book

By DANIEL BOFFEY

Last updated at 10:01 PM on 8th May 2010

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A television presenter has launched a legal claim against the Duchess of York for nearly £20,000 over her failed attempt to ban a book they worked on together.

Turkish court charges Duchess of York over undercover film footage shot in state-run orphanage

They say she 'violated' childrens' privacy

Authorities wait three years to bring case

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Last updated at 4:37 PM on 12th January 2012

Turkish court charges Sarah Ferguson on orphanagesShare

The Associated Press

Published: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 6:29 am

Last Modified: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 8:12 am

ANKARA, Turkey -- A Turkish court has pressed charges against Britain's Duchess of York for secretly filming orphanages in Turkey.

Georgia: Military Shuts Orphanage, Staining Childcare Reform

August 21, 2011 - 10:53am, by Molly Corso Georgia EurasiaNet's Weekly Digest Children'a Rights

While the small group home in Telavi is a successful example of the reforms the Georgian government is trying to implement, the former Dighomi Children's Home shows how the authorities can act rashly. The institution, now abandoned and slated to be a military cadet training school, was abruptly closed to the surprise of international donors, who are working with the Ministry of Health to resettle minors with their biological families, in foster care or in group homes. (Photo: Molly Corso)

An ambitious Georgian government program to move children out of state care and into the community has earned praise by local and international children’s rights advocates. But the unexpected decision to close a state children’s home to make way for a new military training center has sparked fears that – despite the progressive reforms – politics still triumph over children’s rights.

Nearly 60 children were resettled from a home in Dighomi, a Tbilisi suburb, in June as part of an agreement between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defense. The move caught children’s rights organizations by surprise, feeding concerns that the children and their families were not properly prepared for the closure.

Grandmother’s investigation plea against Preet Mandir dismissed

Asseem Shaikh TNN

Pune: A special court’s refusal on Tuesday to issue direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to further probe into the inter-country adoption racket, involving the city-based Preet Mandir, has left a 70-year-old woman distressed in her fight against the adoption centre to get back her two granddaughters.

Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, a resident of Khandala in Satara district, had handed over her granddaughters — Komal and Ashwini — to an observation home at Karad for taking care and providing education, following the death of their parents in 2004-05. However, the Satara child welfare committee without taking Lokhande’s consent shifted the girls to Preet Mandir for rehabilitation.

Lokhande, in a plea filed before the court, had alleged that Preet Mandir in connivance with government-run agencies had “sold” the girls for Rs 5-25 lakh. Lokhande argued through her lawyers that Preet Mandir had issued an advertisement in a local Marathi daily to show that the girls were destitute.

BELGIË NIEUWS SAMENLEVING

donderdag 15 december 2011

door Leo De Ley

Adoptieouders krijgen voortaan sneller uitsluitsel

BRUSSEL – Na lang palaveren in de commissie welzijn, volksgezondheid en gezin van het Vlaams Parlement is donderdag het nieuwe decreet voor buitenlandse adoptie goedgekeurd. Dat is bijzonder goed nieuws voor kandidaat-adoptieouders die nu wellicht in de toekomst sneller zekerheid en duidelijkheid zullen krijgen.

BUSTED! - Suspected human trafficker arrested

Cops: Alleged human trafficker paid $60,000 per child

Saturday, December 17, 2011

THE lives of 17 Jamaican children in the United States may today be in danger after they were adopted and shipped off to that country by a woman the local police believe may be part of a major human trafficking ring operating between both countries.

Local police, with the help of US law enforcement officials, are currently trying to track down the children, aged between five and 16. Detectives believe that more than the 17 children could well have been victims of the illicit trade.

Lankan court releases Indian nun

PTI | 06:12 PM,Dec 15,2011

Colombo, Dec 15 (PTI) A Sri Lankan court today dropped charges of child trafficking against a Mother Teresa charity and released a senior nun, an Indian national, suspected of selling babies for adoption. Sister Mary Eliza the head of Missionaries of Charity convent was arrested late November for her failure to disclose an underage pregnancy at the Prem Children's Home at Moratuwa, a Colombo south suburb. The nun who hails from Kerala, was already on court bail. The Criminal Investigation Department, which questioned 55 people, concluded that there were no grounds to charge her with selling children or with failing to report under-age pregnancies. It said all adoption procedures run by the sisters were fully legal. Sister Mary Eliza was present in the court. The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) reported to court that the Attorney General had advised the release of the sister Mary Eliza. Head of the local Catholic Church Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith had vowed to stay away from state functions or state organised events in December in protest of the raid of the home. The Cardinal while denying that the Prem Children's Home was a baby farm which sold babies of unwed teen-aged mothers accused the police of framing the case. The police said they had acted on a complaint by the National Child Protection Authority who wanted the home probed for suspicious activity. A week back, Sri Lankan government had apologised to the Catholic church. "This is a complex and sensitive problem. On one hand there was the law. But if there were shortcomings in the way the raid was conducted, we need to rectify them," Keheliya Rambukwella, Minister of Media and government spokesman, said.

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They pose as single parents to circumvent domestic law

To adopt kids, foreigners shed live-in tag

Sandeep Moudgal and Chethan Kumar, Bangalore, December 13, DHNS:

As India gets stringent with its adoption laws, more so in the case of couples in live-in relationships, foreigners, especially the Westerners do not even mind shedding their 'live-in' tag to adopt and take home their bundle of joy.

According to sources in the Women and Child Development Department (WCD)?a lot of these people, pose as single parents as it helps them circumvent the Indian laws on adoption, which bar couples in a live-in relationship, even if they are foreigners, from adopting a child. Ramesh Zalki, Secretary, WCD, confirmed that the laws do not permit any live-in couple, regardless of their nationality to adopt children in India.