France has issued a decree suspending all international adoption procedures concerning children habitually resident in Burkina Faso by any person habitually residing in France.

The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs issued an order on September 13, 2023 relating to the suspension of international adoption procedures concerning children residing in Burkina Faso.

“ All international adoption procedures concerning children habitually resident in Burkina Faso by any person habitually residing in France are suspended ,” it is written in a decree dated September 13, 2023. This measure does not apply " to the procedures which gave rise, on the date of publication of this decree, to an agreement by the Burkinabe Central Authority for the implementation of the Hague Convention of May 29, 1993", it is specified .

Degraded relations between France and Burkina Faso

Imagine your child being stolen from you. Kidnapped. You do not know where your child is or how he is doing. The pain you live with as a result is inhumane. What you don't know is that the kidnapping is the reason why your child has been adopted to the other side of the world. Decades after the criminal acts took place, you are reunited. Maybe the kidnapping of the child was worth it, as long as the child was okay.

Distasteful wording

What a strange thing to say, you might think. Kidnapping and "worth it". Two things that don't belong together. When I read the NRK article To persons i ein this summer , my stomach twisted. 

The article deals with the case of John Erik Aasheim, who was kidnapped as a child in Colombia and adopted to Norway. Journalist Oddgeir Øystese writes the following towards the end of the article: " John Erik, Jhonatan, has managed to bring together two different lives, two different lives. Was it then for the best that once upon a time he was the chair of his family?" The wording of the question is unmusical, distasteful and objectionable.

 

In a larger context

The Bombay High Court refused to grant interim relief to two “abandoned” young girls seeking directive to the state government to consider granting them reservation in the 1 per cent parallel reservation quota for “orphans” for admissions to undergraduate medical courses.

The two girls had sought reservation pending issuance of “orphan” certificates to them.

The court said if the said relief was granted and if at the final hearing of the plea the court had decided against the petitioners pending their pleas, same would amount to deprive some other orphans of the seats in medical courses in which petitioners were seeking admission.

A division bench of Justices Sunil B Shukre and Firdosh P Pooniwalla was on September 14 hearing a plea by The Nest India Foundation, argued by advocate Abhinav Chandrachud.

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During the 26 years that Alex Balógh has been in Denmark, her situation has gone from bad to worse, and she is now among the most vulnerable in society.

Advocate Shubham Lokhande, who approached the police, said the toddler is the sixth daughter of her parents and they sold her because they were unable to look after her.

The Pune city police have arrested a couple belonging to a nomadic tribe for allegedly “buying” a toddler from their relative and then making her beg. According to the police, the girl was under two years of age when she was allegedly sold for Rs 2,000 and she is now four years old.

The police registered a first information report (FIR) at the Yerwada police station Wednesday based on the complaint by advocate Shubham Lokhande. They booked the arrested couple, the girl’s parents and 11 others, including the “panch” of their community, under sections 363A, 370 (human trafficking), 34 of Indian Penal Code, and provisions of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act and Maharashtra Prevention of Begging Rules.

When contacted, advocate Lokhande said he received information about the toddler from his friend Sudam Nimbalkar. “Initially, I found it hard to believe that a little girl was sold by her parents for just Rs 2,000. After conducting inquiries, I learned the girl is the sixth daughter of her parents. They were unable to look after her. Hence, they gave her to a married couple just for Rs 2,000,” said Lokhande.

The lawyer further said following “consent” from the “panch” of their community, the nomadic couple took the girl’s custody just by making a “notary” agreement, saying they were adopting her.

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Inger-Tone Ueland Shin did not have too much hope when she wrote a letter to the royal house. Now the 58-year-old has been invited to an audience with King Harald.

Shin was thirteen when she was brought to Norway. Those who would become her adoptive parents themselves came to South Korea in 1978 to take her home.

The only problem was that the couple from Rogaland were not approved as adoptive parents. In fact, the then King Olav had refused in the cabinet that the couple would be allowed to become adoptive parents after they submitted a complaint.

One of the adopted girl is 4 year old while the other is 2 and a half year old

Cuttack: A highly educated couple from Bangalore has adopted two minor girls from ‘Basundhara’ of Cuttack in Odisha after executing all the legal formalities. The two girls had been rescued from the Jagatpur Golei Chhaka in the silver city two years ago. They had been abandoned by their parents. The two girls Lipa and Seepa are 4 year old and 2 and half year old respectively. The couple adopted them and took the two girls with them to Bangalore.

A couple from Karnataka adopted these two sisters from Basundhara through the Cuttack District Administration today and took them to Bangalore.

As per reports, the two sisters had been rescued from Golei Chhak on February 24, 2021. Their mother had abandoned them. The Cuttack district administration has not been able to find any trace of their father or anyone else. According to the law, these two sisters were adopted today by a couple from Karnataka, Rahul Isaac and Angeline Kutavilla.

Though 10 years have passed after the marriage, the Bangalore-based couple had no children. After many medical treatments, they failed and thus finally applied for adoption.

What does cerebral palsy mean?

“It is also known as spasticity and is a posture and movement disorder caused by damage to the brain. In my case, this is due to a lack of oxygen at birth. My biological mother gave birth on the street, after which I ended up in a children's home in Mumbai.

I was adopted when I was seven months old and ended up in the Netherlands. This is where my disability was diagnosed. I can barely walk, so I have been in a wheelchair since I was three.”

Do you feel as young/old as you are?

“Actually, yes. At least I don't feel old! I think this is because I do a lot of business and am often among people. For example, I did wheelchair dancing, I enjoy acting and I am building a modeling career.

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The horrors of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society — Georgia Tann’s adoption mill that flourished in Memphis from 1924 until Tann’s death in 1950 — are now well known. Less familiar, but equally heartbreaking, are the long searches many of those adoptees have made for their birth families. Co-authors Lisa Wingate and Judy Christie have collected some of those stories in "Before and After."

After reading Wingate’s 2017 novel based on Tann’s activities, "Before We Were Yours," Connie Wilson, one of the TCHS adoptees, emailed the author with a stunning idea: “Have you considered a reunion?” Intrigued, Wingate pulled her friend and fellow author Christie into the project, and the three women began searching for Wilson’s fellow adoptees. “Piecing together stories of siblings who struggled for decades to find one another brings to my mind those movies where the hero absolutely, positively refuses to give up,” Christie writes.

Protected by Memphis politicians and judges, Tann ruthlessly swept up choice babies from the docks, streets and backwoods of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. TCHS sent more than 5,000 children to eager would-be parents from coast to coast, many of whom were too old or otherwise ineligible to adopt children through traditional routes. An additional 500 children are believed to have died of neglect and abuse in Tann’s custody.