Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 19 (IANS): An FIR has been filed against a Malta-based couple and an orphanage official here for 'wrongful conversion' of an abandoned baby girl who was adopted by the foreigners.

Three years ago, the baby was found abandoned in an earthen pot here and was adopted by the couple.

Right-wing activists have now lodged an FIR against the orphanage in Bareilly and the Malta-based couple that has adopted the baby.

This comes a week before the child, named Sita, was supposed to travel to Malta.

The FIR has been registered under IPC sections 420 (cheating),467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (fraudulently using document as genuine which is actually a forged one) along with sections 3 and 5 (1) of UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 against an orphanage official, child's adoptive parents and an unidentified person on the complaint of Bareilly-based activist Anshu Kumar.

IV. Estranha

All my life I've felt like I don't really belong anywhere. Ever since I planned my trip back to my mother country and family, I put everything into this. This could be my home. After five days of doing my very best, I unfortunately have to come to the conclusion that this is not (yet?) the case. And that hurts indescribably.

On the contrary, just as I feel like a stranger in the Netherlands, I feel like a stranger here too. My stomach can't get used to the food. The smells overwhelm me again and again. I have a cold from the climate. My head explodes, either from the mountainous landscape or from constantly trying to understand and speak a foreign language. The rhythm of life here that doesn't seem to have a pause button gets on my nerves.

It's all just too much and I don't know what to do with it. Let alone that I can explain this in a foreign language to my very own family who goes to such great lengths to welcome me and my Curlyball to my motherland. I feel naive, disappointed, ungrateful, but above all, out of place.

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They lived in children's homes or were taken away from their mothers immediately after birth: 20,000 Chilean children were adopted to Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly illegally. For the victims, the consequences are traumatic, to this day.

"My adoptive mother and father told me that my biological mother allegedly left me in the hospital and fled to Argentina," reports Ruth Corinna Stein. "Then I was taken to various foster families, put in the children's home in La Unión, from where I was adopted."

The place where Ruth Corinna Stein lives seems like a paradox to her story: Homberg (Efze) in North Hesse is pure idyll. A gentle, hilly landscape envelops the well-preserved medieval town, in which half-timbered houses are lined up.

The 36-year-old can be called by her middle name Corinna. Long, dark hair frames her friendly face. She was adopted from southern Chile when she was three years old. She learned that from her adoptive father when she was six, she recalls. "We were sitting in his office or in her office, in any case we were sitting in one of those rooms, and then he suddenly said to me: Listen, we're not your real parents, there's your biological mother, who is you didn't want to, and that's all I know. I thought so, they were white, I was always completely brown, and people always questioned who your mum and dad are. And then someone once brought a stupid saying about you don't belong here."

Brought to Germany at the age of seven

What you need to know:

In 2020, the US imposed sanctions on two Ugandan judges, a lawyer and her husband for their alleged involvement in activities that victimised young children in a corrupt adoption scheme. Retired judge Moses Mukiibi writes on the role of judges.

I do not think that I can scrap enough to remove the wrong impression that removal of children from their parents was a conspiracy between lawyers and judges. I feel I must make a few things clear for the present and posterity.

We live in a world where corruption has engulfed many sectors. So even without the slightest knowledge of how a process worked, one is quick to think it was because of money.

One of the reasons for this is a failure to understand the difference between the person carrying out the duties of a judge and the High Court.

In 2021-22, 2991 children were adopted by Indians and 414 by foreigners, while in 2020-21, 3142 children were adopted by Indians and 417 by foreigners.

NEW DELHI: As many as 1836 children have been adopted by Indians and 222 by foreigners, including non-resident Indians, this year till December 13, according to Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Z Irani. The number has dipped as compared to the previous three years.

In 2021-22, 2991 children were adopted by Indians and 414 by foreigners, while in 2020-21, 3142 children were adopted by Indians and 417 by foreigners.The highest number of adoptions occurred in 2019-20 when Indians adopted 3351 and foreigners 394 children.

Irani said that most of the grievances they have received are waiting time from prospective adoptive parents (PAPs). “While there is a long queue to adopt a normal young child upto six years of age, there is no waiting period for the PAPs who desire to adopt a child having special needs and a child from immediate placement category (mostly older children),” she said. Further, the waiting time is relevant for the PAPs only; the legally free children do not have to wait, she said in a written reply.

Based on feedback received from the stakeholders and experts, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has framed the Adoption Regulations, 2022 in line with the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (as amended in 2021), which has been notified on September 23.

A judicial source, who asked to remain anonymous, told Arab News: “The incident of Shenouda is not unique. There are many similar stories that were not covered by the media

CAIRO: The case of a four-year-old boy, Shenouda, who was raised by a Coptic couple who found him abandoned outside a church, has sparked a heated debate in Egypt involving human rights activists and lawmakers.

Activists have called for the case to be brought before the House of Representatives in the hope that Egypt’s laws regarding the adoption of children by Christians will be amended.

Shenouda was raised as a Christian by the Coptic couple. But the husband’s niece filed a legal case claiming that the couple had kidnapped a Muslim child, as a result of which Shenouda was taken from his foster parents and placed in an orphanage by the public prosecutor.

Shenouda’s foster mother Amal, 50, alleged that the niece filed the case because of a family dispute over inheritance.

This week, the Government approved a policy paper and legislative proposals on international surrogacy and the recognition of past surrogacy arrangements.

So, what has the interdepartmental group that created the document proposed in relation to the future of international surrogacy?

In order to regulate surrogacy in Ireland, amendments to the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill will be required at committee stage of the legislation.

The AHR bill was created to regulate procedures such as in-vitro fertilisation and technologies like embryo screening as well as domestic surrogacy.

This week's announcement means that early next year, international surrogacy will be inserted into the AHR bill at committee stage, when amendments to the existing legislation are thrashed out.

Thiruvananthapuram: An infant abandoned by its biological parents

fearing social stigma over pre-marital pregnancy is to be returned to the

mother. The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has decided to return the

baby as a DNA test proved its parentage.

As reported earlier the parents abandoned the baby fearing social

Promise Kids a Future (PKAF), a local adoption agency, is working with their orphanage in Africa called Noah’s Ark Children’s Home, to raise funds for adoption.

Their “Hope for the Future” campaign has raised roughly $8,500 at press time with a goal of $18,000 by Dec. 20.

“For the last several years we have had an anonymous donor who has reached out to say that they would give a certain amount if we could match it by the end of the year,” said Promise Kids a Future Director Jill Baker. “This (deadline) we set as Dec. 20.”

PKAF was started in 2006 by Baker, who has had a heart for international adoption.

“It’s just a beautiful thing to be able to provide (adoption) for people,” Baker said. “I love the idea of joining people who want children that don’t have families. As much as it is one way, it is the other; a child that needs a family. And, there (are) families that need children.”

On October 5, 2022, the Racines&dignité group filed complaints with the public prosecutor for the opening of a judicial inquiry into the main actors who participated in our forced exodus without the consent of our biological families. We publish the letter addressed to Mrs BECCUAU so that our request is taken into account vis-a-vis these crimes against humanity.

For the attention of Mrs Laure BECCUAU, Public Prosecutor of Paris

Madam Prosecutor,

We have the honor to inform you that we are a group of victims born in Romania in the 1960s. We created the Roots&Dignity group in order to denounce the establishment of a trade in children and violations of human rights. child of which we have been the object.

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