On the first day of the special session, following the Federal Council's lead, the National Council is expected to also denounce the persecution of Yenish and Sinti people in Switzerland as a crime against humanity. This is the recommendation of the National Council's Legal Affairs Committee. Willi Wottreng of the Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse (Road Cooperative) demands that these well-intentioned words now be followed by action.

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Introduction

In Gur Kaur Minor & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr.1 (2026), the Delhi High Court addressed a critical gap at the intersection of domestic adoption law and intercountry relocation procedures. The case raised important questions regarding the obligations of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in facilitating the relocation of children adopted under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956. At its core, the judgment clarifies whether regulatory authorities can deny or dilute procedural safeguards by invoking jurisdictional limitations, particularly when India’s commitments under the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption are engaged. The ruling ultimately reinforces a purposive interpretation of adoption regulations, anchored in the paramount consideration of child welfare.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Factual Background
• Core Legal Issue
• Judicial Reasoning
• Key Findings
• Directions Issued
• Conclusion

Factual Background

Mark Wall

23 April 2026

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Labour’s children spokesperson Mark Wall TD has urged Government to launch an investigation into Tusla following the harrowing failures shown on RTÉ Investigates last night.

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– The camera is the first thing that comes out and sees things. I feel like I see things through the camera.

Things are important to Anders. They have been defining for where he is now. In life. In South Korea.

What Anders had when he arrived in Norway was a change of clothes, a baby bottle, a pair of small Korean rubber shoes and some documents in a small blue travel bag.

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Preston Davey was just 13 months old when he died

A 13-month-old baby allegedly lay dying after being sexually assaulted while the teacher who was in the process of adopting him filmed his final moments, a court was told.

The Dutch cabinet said in a Monday parliamentary letter, signed by State Secretary for Justice and Security Claudia van Bruggen, that it will formally apologize to people affected by the forced removal of children in the second half of the last century. The letter responds to a June 2025 report by the Commission on Domestic Relinquishment and Adoption.

According to the Commission's findings, between 1956 and 1984, thousands of newborn children were placed for adoption under pressure. Most cases involved unmarried women who saw no viable option to raise their children themselves. Girls and women who became unintentionally pregnant were, in some instances, required to place their children with a guardian.

In its response, the cabinet stated that the events described in the report “never should have happened and caused significant suffering.” It added that “there was insufficient attention to the vulnerable and distressing position of mothers and children" and said this led to considerable pain and grief. The government also acknowledged its role in these events.

The statement said that for those affected, government apologies represent “a starting point for recognition of this suffering.” It added that the cabinet aims to organize a meeting before the summer, in which the apologies will be formally delivered. Preparation for that meeting will involve those affected and advocacy organizations.

GWACHEON, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s justice minister has pledged to expand access to judicial remedies for victims of state-led abuses, including foreign adoptees whose adoptions were marred by widespread fraud under previous military governments.

Using unusually strong language for a senior South Korean official, Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho said the country’s past adoptions amounted to “forced child trafficking” and that the government will largely refrain from appealing rulings in cases brought by victims seeking compensation for government wrongdoing. Jung spoke Thursday in a roundtable interview with selected journalists.

Hundreds of Korean adoptees in the West have already requested that their cases be investigated by a fact-finding commission reviewing past human rights violations. The body was relaunched in February after its previous mandate ended in November. That earlier Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that the government bore responsibility for an adoption program riddled with fraud and malfeasance, driven by efforts to cut welfare costs and carried out by state-authorized private agencies that systematically manipulated children’s origins.

Some adoptees hope the commission’s findings will provide legal grounds for damages lawsuits against the government or their adoption agencies. But victims of other government abuses recognized by the commission have often been locked in lengthy legal battles after state prosecutors appealed rulings in their favor, citing expired statutes of limitations or deeming the commission’s findings inconclusive.

Pregnancy. Source: Priit Mürk/ERR

Draft amendments to the Penal Code and the Victim Support Act would make exploitation for the purpose of surrogacy or illegal adoption in connection with human trafficking punishable.

According to Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs Liisa Pakosta (Eesti 200), the focus of the amendments is on preventing human trafficking and strengthening the protection of victims.

"Demand fuels human trafficking, so those who knowingly use the services of victims and thereby effectively support the criminal world must also be held strictly accountable. Even in cases involving services such as massage or manicure — if the service is provided by a trafficking victim and the client is aware of this, it may result in up to five years' imprisonment for the client," she said.