To address the grave concerns that has come to notice, through media reports, that some organizations have been propagating illegal adoption outside the domain of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, which is tantamount to child trafficking, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has instructed that all the State Govts/UTs should ensure that all the registered Child Care institutions, whether run by a State Government or by voluntary or non-governmental organizations, are linked to Specialized Adoption Agencies and are reflected in the online portal CARINGS within one month. This applies to all CCIs which are meant, either wholly or partially, for housing children in need of care and protection or children in conflict with law,

Further for speedy execution, State Govt/UTs have also been asked to publish this direction in the local newspaper to ensure compliance by the institutions within the stipulated period, failing which action may be taken against the non-complying institutions.

State Govts/UT have also been asked to issue instructions for conducting inspection of all homes run by Missionaries of Charity and also identify all potential institutions/organizations which could be involved in unlawful activities. Conduction of timely inspections of the Institutions, as per the provisions of Section 54 of the Act, has also been advised.

Besides in order to check the illegal adoptions, State Govt/UTs have been asked to keep a close watch on the maternity hospitals and other facilities, which may also act as potential places for illegal and child trafficking. A Status report has been asked from the States/UTs by 31.07.2018

A Background note:

Lack of awareness on legal adoption a boost for agents.

Lack of awareness on legal adoption a boost for agents.

Hyderabad: Despite strict guidelines to prevent illegal adoptions for curbing child trafficking, unlawful adoptions are still taking place without any hurdles. The adoptions which were once quite common in rural areas have now spread to the city.

Since January, three cases were reported from different parts of the city. In all the cases, the newborns were illegally procured from their biological parents by luring them with money. Police said that the childless couples who had adopted the kids were from well- to-do families and are literate when compared to the biological parents of the kids.

While investigating these cases, police said that lack of awareness on legal adoption methods by the agencies concerned is becoming a boon for the agents to exploit parents. “Even educated persons, who are aware of the consequences of illegal adoptions, resort to illegal means raising concern,” a senior official said.

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Adoptions, Romania: "institutionalization is still the rule, not an exception"

Azota Popescu, president of the Catharsis of Brasov, sent to both chambers of the Romanian Parliament in a letter which challenges the project presented by the Executive on the law on adoptions. The new bill is quite different from that presented by president of the Brasov last year.

According to Popescu, the government insists on maintaining the provision that international adoption of Romanian children can be made ??only in situations where the adopter (or a spouse of the adoptive couple)is relative within the third degree with a child for which has started the adoption procedure.

The provision is effective from 2004, when, were virtually closed international adoptions. Furthermore, according to Popescu nitrogen in this situation even national adoptions are facilitated , as is maintained expression of the mandatory adoption , made ??in writing by all the relatives to the fourth grade.

The Missionaries of Charity shelter in Ranchi. A woman employee and the in-charge of the home have been arrested for selling children of inmates of the shelter. (Photo: Reuters)

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RANCHI: The probe into the sale of babies at the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, or MoC, could be widened to cover other shelters run by the Kolkata-headquartered charity and other groups, a senior police officer in Jharkhand told NDTV after a woman worker and a nun at the Ranchi shelter were arrested.

Sister Konsalia and Anima Indwar, an employee of Nirmal Hriday were arrested on Thursday for allegedly selling infants for adoption. The police have come across four instances at the shelter home where infants were sold for about Rs. 1.2 lakh each but say there could be more.

"If this was a lucrative trade, there is reason to believe other centres operated by MoC or other shelter homes also may be indulging in such activities," senior police officer RK Mallick told NDTV. He expected more cases to come to light in the near future.

This isn't the first time that the Ranchi branch of Missionaries of Charity has faced such an allegation, Dr OP Singh, who took over as the head of the child welfare committee in 2013. He recalls going to the MoC-run shelter in 2014 to probe a complaint of child trafficking.

"But the shelter's manager created such a ruckus... shut the doors on me to block the investigation," Dr Singh told NDTV. He complained to the social welfare and child development department but nobody was interested to go into the allegations. When he persisted, Dr Singh said he was edged out of the post and a probe reportedly conducted that found nothing wrong.

Ranchi’s child welfare committee chairperson said, “All 22 children staying at Nirmala Shishu Bhawan in Harmu locality were shifted to a safe place, which we cannot disclose currently in view of their safety.”

INDIA Updated: Jul 06, 2018 23:55 IST

Sanjoy Dey

Sanjoy Dey

Hindustan Times, Ranchi

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/missionaries-of-charity-staff-arrested-for-selling-babies/articleshow/64862419.cms

HC says preserve all adoption orders as it can’t find '97 do ..

HC says preserve all adoption orders as it can’t find '97 document

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HC says preserve all adoption orders as it can’t find '97 document

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has directed its registry to maintain, in perpetuity, all court orders and records related to Indian or international adoptions. These are vital documents affecting the rights of adoptees, said Justice Gautam Patel.

German woman meets biological mother in Gumla after 27 years

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Gumla: In a fairytale of sorts, a 27-year-old Indian-born German woman travelled 7,000 km to the tribal heartland of Gumla to meet her biological mother after 27 years. It was an emotional reunion for Sarika Kratz - a psychology student living in Dusseldorf - and her mother as the two met privately at an undisclosed location on Sunday.

"I am very happy to meet my mother. She is very nice. I have been impressed by her," she told TOI. The meeting point of Kratz and her mother, a tribal woman now in her fifties, was kept under wraps respecting the latter's wish.

The mother, who had given up Kratz to the Missionaries of Charity 27 winters ago identified her lost child from the latter's photographs. "She must continue her study with zeal and not think about me only," the mother said.