Judge returns Vietnamese to mother

When doctors at Wadia Hospital revealed the baby’s HIV status, the ‘adoptive’ mother disowned the child, said Ramkrishna Reddy, district child protection officer, Thane.

The Mumbai police have booked two women from Thane who allegedly adopted a child illegally after tricking the administration of KEM Hospital. A search is on to locate both the accused who hail from Kalyan (East).

According to police sources, one of the women posed as the other person at the hospital and delivered the child. This allowed the ‘adoptive’ mother to procure a birth certificate which stated that she was the child’s biological mother.

The matter, however, came to light after the baby developed health complications and doctors at Wadia Hospital found out that she was HIV+. A First Information Report in this regard was initially lodged at Thane’s Manpada police station on Saturday and was transferred to Mumbai’s Bhoiwada police station by Sunday.

As per sources with the police, the child’s biological parents come from a poor financial background. The baby’s mother, aged 38, tried to abort the pregnancy as her husband is a drunkard and they were struggling to run the family. During this time, she came in contact with another woman, aged 37, who was looking to adopt a child as she was unable to have a baby due to some health complications.

Only after several adoptees spoke out did the Minister of Employment say that she would change the rules.

Minister of Employment Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (S) has been in the middle of a storm for a few weeks.

Because it has turned out that the new law on work obligations in connection with cash benefits, which was intended to affect immigrants in particular, would also affect adoptees. This meant that adoptees would not have the same rights as their Danish-born family.

This stirred up emotions among several adoptees and their families, who, among other things, made it clear under #ErJegStadigDanish? that they felt alienated. They were placed in the "immigrant" category in the legislation.

This subsequently caused several parties to raise their voices. And the question of what the minister knew when has been floating in the wind.

Anju Yadav A 22-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh, who was rejected by Kusumbai Motichand Mahila Sevagram off Karve Road for apparent erratic behaviour, had to spend two days in the Shivajinagar Polic

A 22-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh, who was rejected by  Kusumbai Motichand Mahila Sevagram off Karve Road for apparent erratic behaviour, had to spend two days in the Shivajinagar Police Station premises, as none of the women’s shelter homes were ready to take her in. The Shivajinagar police tried their best to get her admitted to the mental hospital in Yerwada, but a city court rejected their plea.

The Sevagram authorities claimed that the girl was distressed and disturbed. She disturbed and abused the other 60 inmates at the home. “The girl was brought to us by the Shivajinagar Police Station authorities 52 days ago. We took care of the girl, but she continued to behave in an unruly manner.

This is affecting other girls here in an adverse way, hence we decided to hand her over to the police again, as she is mentally disturbed. This is not an appropriate shelter home for the girl. when she is calmer, she sits under a running tap for hours, till someone puts a stop to it.” the residential superintendent of the home, Sunita Joshi said.

Joshi said that before sending the girl back to the police station, she wrote several letters to the police station requesting them to take her away.

Three days ago, the girl Anju Rajendra Yadav was brought to the Shivajinagar Police Station. Shelter home authorities told the police that the girl was not mentally sound.

The police took custody of the woman and decided to send her to Yerwada Mental Hospital for treatment and admission. However, the mental hospital authorities in their report, stated that the woman speaks gibberish, but she was not mentally unsound.

A woman assistant sub-inspector, Nirmala Naik, took her to court after making a station diary note at the police station. Chief judicial magistrate Suchitra Ghodke threw some questions at the girl and found that the girl responded to them in a positive manner.

The judge then said that the girl was not mentally ill. The judge maintained that the certificate issued by the regional mental hospital did not disclose any abnormal act committed by the woman produced in court, so as to treat her as if she was mentally ill and so that medical treatment can be provided at the mental hospital. The court rejected the plea of the policemen to send her to regional mental hospital, Yerwada.

For the last two days, the constables of the police station were doing the rounds of shelter homes, requesting them to accommodate the girl. Finally, the girl was sent to a state government women’s home in Mundhwa late on Friday night.

When Mirror quizzed Anju, she said that she was married and has two kids. She had come to Pune to watch a film. “We have a home in Uttar Pradesh and many people stay in it,” she said adding that “I have not had a proper bath in the last many days.” Anju was found loitering around at the State Transport (ST) bus stand at Shivajinagar on November 11, 2010. Following this, she was admitted to Sevagram.

â–º The girl was brought to us by the Shivajinagar Police Station authorities 52 days ago. We took care of the girl, but she continued to behave in an unruly manner. This is affecting other girls here in an adverse way, hence we decided to hand her over to the police again, as she is mentally disturbed.”

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From: ROCHEL Walter (ELARG)

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To: ITURRITZA FERNANDEZ DE LANDA Maria Isabel (SJ)

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Friday, 8 December 2000

By coincidence I had met a while ago a colleague, a human rights specialist, who had been responsible for the Romanian children file for a short while in 1999. I had asked her if she knew what the status of the UNCRC was. She thought it had a strong status, but found it wiser to ask this question to the Commission’s Legal Service.

Today she had indeed sent a note to the Commission’s Legal Service explaining why in her view the Convention should be considered acquis (the EUs legal basis) and requesting their opinion. When I had met her, she had also told me she had analysed law 3/1970. The law that according to De Combret was responsible for the high number of children in institutions. She had concluded it was a rather normal child protection law. It was not law 3/1970 that was the reason so many children were in institutions, but much more complex reasons related to poverty, discrimination of the Roma minority and the attitude towards single motherhood. Law 3/1970 regulated family placement of children without parental care, and as a last option placement in an institution. Her opinion at the time had been wilfully ignored and the Commission had preferred to follow the De Combret-line that because of Ceaucescu’s law so many children were in institutions.

Wednesday, 18 April 2001

Enrico had sent to the Romania Team, for information, the acquis list of DG Justice. And what did I see under Human Rights acquis, the UNCRC. I had forgotten about the note sent to the Legal Service end of last year, and to which no answer had been received. But this was clear: the UNCRC was acquis.

Despite political commitments, Ukraine remains one of the countries in Europe with the highest rate of child institutionalisation, with an estimated 100,000 children living in various forms of institutions including baby homes for children 0-4 years old.

In June 2021, the Ukrainian Government adopted amendments to the National Strategy for Reforming the System of Institutional Care and Upbringing of Children for 2017-2026.

Special boarding schools, education and rehabilitation centres and sanatorium boarding schools are excluded from the reform. This leaves behind more than 50.000 children and effectively legitimises discrimination based on disability and (their) needs for individualised support.

Eurochild co-signed a joint statement calling on the Ukrainian government to:

Demonstrate strong political will to reform child protection and care systems, to ensure the protection of children’s right to family life and work towards ending the institutionalisation of all children;

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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has named Hope and Homes for Children as this year's winner of its annual Access to Justice Award.

Hope and Homes for Children is an international charity that works to transform childcare systems in order to uphold and protect the rights of children. Specialising in the global eradication of children’s institutions, it supports governments in establishing modern family-based care systems. The charity’s ‘Opening Doors for Europe's Children’ campaign operates in 12 countries across Europe and calls on the EU and national governments to prioritise moving children out of institutions and into loving families – a process called deinstitutionalisation.

Hope and Homes for Children has won a donation of £50,000 from the Clifford Chance Foundation and 500 hours of pro bono volunteering. It plans to use the donation to fund a national audit of the childcare system in Ukraine to inform its Opening Doors campaign and the development of legislation, policy and best practice guides to drive change. The funds will also support the delivery of training to 30 professionals and government representatives in child rights and deinstitutionalisation. These professionals will train a further 370 who will be the 'engine' of the reform of the Ukrainian childcare system, leading the implementation of changes set out in legislation and policy.

Pro bono volunteering hours from the firm will be used to provide vital legal expertise to the Opening Doors campaign in Ukraine, including the delivery of the national audit. It will also support the training programme and will come from lawyers and business services staff from the firm's offices in Kyiv and around Europe.