Couple loses bid to have adopted son declared a citizen by operation of law.

PETALING JAYA: A court has held that an adoption order issued by a lower court concerning a man almost 10 years ago did not confer on him a right to citizenship.

Lau Jhun Guan, 22, and his adoptive parents had applied to the Johor Bahru High Court for a declaration that he was a Malaysian citizen by operation of law.

He also sought a court order compelling the government to issue a birth certificate and an identity card reflecting his status as a citizen.

Dismissing the application, judicial commissioner Shamsulbahri Ibrahim said that while an adoption order conferred the adoptive parents certain rights and obligations over a child, its “operability and interpretation should not be stretched to supplement the provisions of the (Federal Constitution) in matters relating to citizenship”.

There is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies: Centre

A total of 79 children have died between April to December, 2022, in Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) majorly due to unsafe abandonments which exposed them to harm like being bitten by animals or asphyxia. Very low birth weight and premature birth were some of the other reasons.

However, there is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies, the Ministry of Women and Child Development informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The Ministry said that for improving quality child care in Child Care Institutions (CCIs), particularly in SAAs, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has been advising the agencies through circulars and through various training and development activities.

Adoption Regulations, 2022, also emphasises on quality child care by the adoption agencies and also mandates Chief Medical Officers for necessary interventions.

Ihe question of access to knowledge of personal origins entered social and political debates a few decades ago in many countries of Europe and North America, concerning adoptive family situations, which became transnational at the end of the XX th century, then families resulting from assisted procreation involving a third party donor. Carried by the claims of movements militant for the rights of people born in secret or abandoned, then by the demands expressed by people conceived by gamete donation, it called upon knowledge in psychology, the opinions of lawyers and the lighting of social sciences while leading to lively societal exchanges and several parliamentary debates. The legislative changes that have occurred in recent decades bear witness to the growing importance recognized in origins in conceptions of identity, but they also lead to new questions about the limits of kinship.

2Based on the case of France, we propose, in this article, to return to the way in which the question of origins was first manifested by issues relating to fundamental rights, linking protection of children and construction of personal identities. , then to consider its effects on the transformations of kinship and its borders, seen from the angle of anthropology. What forms of links can it give rise to, and to what extent do these transform the relational environment of the people concerned?

(Dis)placed children, adoption and origins

The 2002 law and the CNAOP

3In France, as in the United States a little earlier, claims for access to personal origins emerged in the field of abandoned childhood and adoption during the last decades of the 20th century . They echo old situations: the history of Public Assistance traces the secrets and silences imposed on foster children

There is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies: Centre

A total of 79 children have died between April to December, 2022, in Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) majorly due to unsafe abandonments which exposed them to harm like being bitten by animals or asphyxia. Very low birth weight and premature birth were some of the other reasons.

However, there is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies, the Ministry of Women and Child Development informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The Ministry said that for improving quality child care in Child Care Institutions (CCIs), particularly in SAAs, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has been advising the agencies through circulars and through various training and development activities.

Adoption Regulations, 2022, also emphasises on quality child care by the adoption agencies and also mandates Chief Medical Officers for necessary interventions.

Binnenlands geadopteerden vragen meer aandacht: ’Maak haast met het onderzoek naar de praktijk van afstand en adoptie. Straks kan het niet meer’

Domestic adoptees demand more attention: 'Hurry up with research into the practice of distance and adoption. Soon it won't be possible anymore

Domestic distance children are beating the drum, in the wake of the distance mothers who have been doing so for some time. The distance children hope that research into the practice of distance and adoption will be speeded up in the years 1956 to 1984, the years in which more than 15,000 children were adopted.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, a study is being conducted into the practice of renunciation and adoption in the Netherlands between 1956 (the adoption of the Adoption Act) and 1984 (the implementation of the Abortion Act). In those years, 15,290 babies were given up immediately after birth and later adopted, according to the report 'Strapped in the hinges of time' from 2017 by the Scientific Research and Documentation Center.

Developmental delays

Our adoption story begins around May 1997, we wondered if our family could have another girl. A baby didn't seem to fit into the age chain, because our son Björn was already 10 years old at that time. That's how we came up with the idea of ??adoption, and adoption didn't pose the risk that it could end up being a boy. Because my wish (Peter) was another daughter, but it should be 2. More on that later. After a while we both made up our minds.

So our way led us to our youth welfare office. The social worker was very nice and helpful. So we submitted the adoption application and our adoption suitability report should also be prepared quite quickly.

But there was also disillusionment: Adopting even an older child in Germany is almost hopeless.

Some time later she visited us to get to know us and our home better.

It was here that the question of "foreign adoption" came up for the first time. She reported from the ISD in Frankfurt.

The Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) of the HCCH met from 7 to 10 March 2023. The meeting was attended by over 450 participants, representing 80 HCCH Members, 8 non-Member States, 7 intergovernmental organizations, 9 international non-governmental organizations, and members of the Permanent Bureau. The Conclusions & Decisions adopted by CGAP are now available in English and French.

In terms of work relating to possible new legislative instruments, CGAP mandated the establishment of a Working Group on private international law (PIL) matters related to legal parentage generally, including legal parentage resulting from an international surrogacy arrangement. Noting progress made by the Working Group on matters related to jurisdiction in transnational civil or commercial litigation in the development of provisions for a draft Convention, CGAP invited the convening of two further Working Group meetings. It also supported further exploratory work on the PIL implications of the digital economy, including, among other, by mandating the conduct of a study on the PIL implications of CBDCs and by endorsing the launch of the HCCH-UNIDROIT Project on Law Applicable to Cross-Border Holdings and Transfers of Digital Assets and Tokens. Across several projects, CGAP welcomed the cooperation with UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, and WIPO, including with respect to work in the areas of digital economy, insolvency proceedings and intellectual property.

In relation to post-Convention work, CGAP approved the Toolkit to Prevent and Address Illicit Practices on Intercountry Adoption and the Model Forms for use under the 1993 Adoption Convention, mandated the development of a Template for Country Fact Sheets on available post-adoption services relating to search for origins, and mandated the establishment of a Working Group on financial aspects of intercountry adoption. CGAP also agreed upon the extension of the scope of the International Hague Network of Judges (IHNJ) to matters relating to the 2000 Protection of Adults Convention. CGAP endorsed the Conclusions & Recommendations of the recent meetings of the Special Commissions (SCs) on the practical operation of the 1993 Adoption, 2000 Protection of Adults, and 2007 Child Support Conventions, and welcomed the preparations for the upcoming meetings of the SCs on the practical operation of the 1980 Child Abduction and 1996 Child Protection Conventions, to be held in the second half of 2023, and on the practical operation of the 1965 Service, 1970 Evidence and 1980 Access to Justice Conventions. Finally, CGAP mandated the PB to continue work, in partnership with relevant subject-matter experts, and subject to available resources, to study the 2006 Securities Convention and digital developments in respect of securities markets; the interpretation of analogous institutions for the purpose of Article 2 of the 1985 Trusts Convention; and, in relation to the 2015 Choice of Law Principles, the feasibility, desirability and necessity of developing guidance on applicable law in international contracts providing protection to weaker parties.

From a good governance perspective, CGAP approved the HCCH Strategic Plan for 2023-2028. It also decided to adopt Spanish as an official language of the HCCH as of 1 July 2024. Finally, CGAP decided to recommend Dr Christophe Bernasconi to the Netherlands Standing Government Committee on Private International Law for the position of Secretary General of the HCCH for another five-year mandate.

Enforcement Directorate officials told Press Trust of India that the searches are tied to a cheating case registered against PC Singh, bishop of the CNI's Jabalpur Diocese.

Nagpur, Maharashtra:

The Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at 11 locations across India, including the Nagpur office of the Church of North India (CNI), in connection with a case registered in Bhopal, a probe agency official said on Wednesday.

Enforcement Directorate officials told Press Trust of India that the searches are tied to a cheating case registered against PC Singh, bishop of the CNI's Jabalpur Diocese.

The office of CNI, a Protestant denomination, located in the Sadar area in the city is being searched, an official said.

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International adoption: when the quest for origins collides with omerta

INVESTIGATION (3/3). Born in Romania, India and Haiti, adoptees question the methods of the association Rayon de soleil de l'enfant étranger.

In 1992, a group from the St. Vitus parish set out on a long journey to Transylvania for the first time in order to bring "first aid" to the children of the second largest Romanian orphanage after the fall of communism in Romania. The "Hemmingen Romania Working Group" was founded with its headquarters in Wilkenburg. Members also included people from Harkenblecker, Arnumer and Hemminger.

After contacting communities in Fiatfalva, which belongs to the town of Cristuru Secuiesc (= Szekler Cross), a partnership was even established there. After numerous aid shipments to surrounding villages, the main project developed: five family houses were gradually built , each for ten to twelve children, who were thus rescued from the orphanage and were then able to grow up in a secure family atmosphere. When the Gerts family left the community, the community group that had grown in this way became the association "A House for Tomorrow" so that the project could be secured in the long term.

The family homes are still in operation, but fortunately, with European help, the overall situation of Romania's "lost children" has improved significantly: there are no more homes. Family homes and placement in foster families ultimately led to their closure. A young social science emerged that gradually took on modern forms. This fulfilled an essential task of the group. The association therefore decided to dissolve in 2023.