Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations

By Joshua Philipp, The Epoch Times

March 15, 2018 10:09 am Last Updated: March 28, 2018 3:20 pm

Two displaced Iraqi sisters from Mosul, play at an orphanage in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on April 30, 2017. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

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TRICHY: All 23 abandoned children in the age group of one-and-half-years to seven years from adoption agency

Martin Children Home

were likely to get a new lease of life.

 

Trichy district administration shifted the children from the home run by the Sisters of the Cross Society for Education and Development (SOC-SEAD) in Trichy to four other specialised adoption agencies in Madurai, Dindigul, Namakkal and Salem in a dispute over renewal of license on Tuesday.

A team of officials including

There are many takers for this in the West. But it’s a trend fraught with danger, not least for the babies

We’ve heard of banks for breast milk, meant for mothers who for some medical reason or emergency, are unable to breastfeed their babies. But a new, dangerous trend is setting in, particularly in developed countries such as the US and UK, where online sale of breast milk is getting more and more takers.

Last week the British Medical Journal ( BMJ) came out with an editorial in which the doctors leading an ongoing research study at the University of London warned mothers buying breast milk online of a high probability of such milk being contaminated.

Not only do their babies face serious health risks due to multiple infections, they said, their very lives could be in danger.

This is because unlike milk banks where the expressed breast milk is pasteurised and stored scientifically, and the donors screened for infections such as HIV, herpes and so on, the online market is totally unregulated.

March 4 was a usual Sunday in the life of 27-year-old actor Preeti Sood, a resident of Versova Mumbai until a series of events turned it into perhaps one of the most dramatic days of her life.

It all began with a phone call. It was from a friend who had just had an appointment at the beauty parlour in the vicinity of Preeti’s house. She told her that there were two minor girls at a salon, who were accompanied by some men. The men were ‘barking orders at the salon staff’ to do their makeup. Even though the salon ladies kept reiterating that such minor girls (aged 7 and 11) did not need that kind of loud makeup, the men kept pushing for it.

It seemed suspicious.

Without wasting any time, Preeti rushed to the salon.

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Pune: Single women above the age of 40 and financially stable top the list of parents for adoption, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has said in an Right to Information (RTI) reply to TOI’s query filed on January 14.

There have been such 159 adoptions, 93 from within the country and 66 inter-country, in the last seven months after the Ministry of Women and Child Development gave preference to single women to adopt. In sharp contrast, of the six adoptions by men, five are in-country and one is an inter-country adoption. The reply, received on February 20, said these adoptions are being processed under the Adoption Regulations, 2017 that were declared last July.

“ There has been an increasing demand from women and the new regulations are helping ease the adoption process,” Central Adoption Resource Authority head Deepak Kumar said. They have been given seniority in the antedate given to them by six months which eases the process, he added.

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Inquiry urges payouts for victims of postwar UK child migration scheme

Government called on to offer redress to people sent as children to countries such as Australia and Canada

Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent

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Thu 1 Mar 2018 16.05 GMT First published on Thu 1 Mar 2018 12.03 GMT

CAMBODIA’S STOLEN CHILDREN: FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN THE INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION SYSTEM

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