The Delhi High Court recently came to the rescue of an Australia-based couple, who were precluded from taking their adopted son back to the country for over 4 years, due to inaction of CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority).Justice Sachin Datta observed that the Adoption Deed was executed in 2020 and thus directed the Authority to forthwith issue a NOC enabling the Petitioner-couple to...

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• 12 people appointed to Western Australia's inaugural Forced Adoption Reference Group
• Established as part of the State Government's response to Report 66 - Broken Bonds, Fractured Lives: Report on the Inquiry into Past Forced Adoption in Western Australia
• Will guide the implementation of the State Government's response to recommendations

Twelve people have been appointed to Western Australia's first Forced Adoption Reference Group as part of the State Government's commitment to addressing the impact of historic forced adoption policies and practices.

The establishment of the Reference Group was announced during the tabling of the State Government Response to Report 66 - Broken Bonds, Fractured Lives: Report on the Inquiry into Past Forced Adoption in Western Australia.

The Reference Group will play an important role in guiding the implementation of the recommendations supported by the State Government. The Forced Adoption Reference Group will be co-ordinated by the Department of Communities.

The State Government supports 19 recommendations to improve the lives of people impacted by forced adoption, including mothers, fathers, adopted people and their families.

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court recently dismissed a petition filed by a couple seeking custody of a male infant they purchased from the infant's biological mother through an agent. The baby was rescued by police at Chaitanyapuri when they busted an interstate baby trafficking racket. Along with the infant's adoptive parents, the infant's biological mother also sought custody. However, the court noted that the child's adoption did not occur through the proper adoption guidelines

Rachakonda police, in March 2025, busted a child trafficking racket, rescuing 16 infants and arresting around 15 persons. The accused included the kingpin of the racket, K Krishnaveni, a 'supplier' from Gujarat named Vandana, their associates, and adoptive couples.

The petition seeking the child's custody was filed by a Jeedimetla resident couple as well as the child's biological mother.

Biological mom, adoptive couple were family friends

Their counsel alleged that since the child's biological mother and the adoptive couple were family friends, they gave the child in adoption, a process approved by the Supreme Court in a similar case. Arguing that the child should not be deprived of parental care, they sought the child's custody

Amsterdam, June 23, 2025 – Today, on World Whistleblower Day 2025, we honor the courage and determination of people who speak out against abuses and celebrate the positive changes they bring about. In that light, Transparency International Netherlands tells the story of whistleblower Ina Hut who, as director of Wereldkinderen, exposed the abuses and dangers of child trafficking in the adoption world. After a long battle full of resistance and intimidation, twenty years later she has finally achieved what she wanted: no new intercountry adoption procedures have been started since May 2024. In recognition of the courage and perseverance that Ina Hut has shown in addressing abuses in the adoption world, Transparency is presenting her with the Spotlight Award today.

Hut speaks out after receiving signals about serious abuses in the adoption world at the beginning of the 21st century. The demand for adopted children is many times higher than the supply, with all the risks of child trafficking. At the time, Ina Hut still thought that she could improve the system from within, but it is a losing battle. She tries to raise the issue with various authorities and for six and a half years she speaks out publicly and very critically about adoption on many occasions. She is not appreciated. She encounters a lot of resistance from adoptive parents, from the Ministry of Justice and Security, but also from fellow permit holders and direct colleagues.

Adoption full of market forces and corruption

Ina Hut studies pedagogy and business administration. She has her own company, is an advisor to employers' organisation VNO-NCW and a board member of Nyenrode University. Because Hut wants to do something for the less fortunate, she makes an early switch to the non-profit sector in early 2003: the adoption world. Early, partly due to the death of her first child during birth. Ina Hut starts as director of Wereldkinderen with the idea that children were adopted in the interest of the children, but was disappointed. She herself is also registered for adoption. After a look behind the scenes, she is shocked by what she finds: a harmful system of market forces and corruption in which the demand for adopted children stimulates the supply. It is even reason for her to stop her own adoption procedure a year after her appointment as director of Wereldkinderen, after having been on the waiting list for 12 years.

Children taken away and resold

To say that Pauline was surprised is an understatement, rather stunned when she heard Mayor Stemerdink say her name. The Voorschoten native is the initiator and co-founder of Villa Voorschot, which celebrated its 10th anniversary on Saturday afternoon. A great opportunity for a medal and Pauline was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau.

“But I didn’t do it alone,” Pauline quickly exclaimed. “My husband Marcus, family, friends, they all helped.” That was true, but Pauline got things rolling. The supporters of the application for a medal called her ‘tireless, involved and dedicated’.

The adventure started 15 years ago. Pauline was looking for a place for her multiply handicapped son with autism. “He was a young adult and wanted to leave home just like everyone else, but living alone was of course not an option.” So Pauline thought she would build it herself. She got to work with a large group of parents. She negotiated with the municipality, found a housing corporation that could take over the land from the municipality, brought in ASVZ to supervise the residents, looked for and found sponsors and on 20 June 2015 Villa Voorschot opened its doors, a small-scale residential and work location for 16 young adults where living, working, supervision, care and social entrepreneurship came together.

Pauline was chair of the board from the start, after seven years she became an advisor. Since July 2022, Pauline has been chair of the Care Committee at Stichting Voorschot. She was involved in setting up the committee and introduced the committee to healthcare institution ASVZ, the supervisors and parents of the residents and those involved outside the foundation. Last year, the board was commissioned to put together a project group 'Complete Package Home'.

In this setup, living and working, Villa Voorschoten was quite unique in the Netherlands. Even then Prime Minister Mark Rutte came by to hear more about the project. Pauline also used her knowledge and experience in the board of Stichting Hethuis in Leidschendam. A living and working place for 18 young adults with multiple disabilities was opened there in 2021. Pauline also founded Stichting Dienstverlening Ouderinitiatieven (SDOI). Parental initiatives are small-scale residential facilities (such as Villa Voorschot and Hethuis), set up by parents for their disabled children. She was and is also active as a mediator in conflicts within parental initiatives, and she is a member of the complaints committee of the SDOI.

On Wednesday 18 June, Minister Norma Foley officially launched a project to develop a best-practice framework and a roadmap for the reform of domestic adoption in Ireland. The project is being led by the Adoption Policy Unit of the Department of Children, Disability and Equality in partnership with the Child Protection Section of UNICEF Europe & Central Asia and the European Commission Reform and Investment Task Force and is funded by the European Union through the Technical Support Instrument (TSI).

This project will develop an evidence-based, best practice framework and roadmap to make sure that the child’s best interests are the paramount consideration at all stages of the adoption process. Learnings from other European Union and non-EU countries and engagement with stakeholders locally will help inform the project and provide a chance to reflect on how the lessons learned can best be applied in Ireland. The ultimate goal is to achieve better outcomes for everyone involved, most importantly, the child.

The TSI project is one part of a wider European initiative in which Ireland is joining with Croatia, the Czech Republic and Portugal to strengthen child protection systems and uphold children’s rights across the region.

The launch event brought together a diverse group of stakeholders, including professionals in child protection and adoption services, academics and people with lived experience, ensuring that a wide range of voices will help shape this work. Representatives from the other countries who are part of this initiative, and staff at the EU Commission, also attended the event online. In addition to the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality, Norma Foley, the meeting was addressed by UNICEF’s Senior Child Protection Regional Advisor for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO), Aaron Greenberg UNICEF ECARO’s Ina Verzivolli and Martin Punaks Head of Sector (Labour market, social services and inclusion) with the European Commission’s Reform and Investment Task Force, Florin Popa and Principal Officer Seosamh Mac Carthaigh of the Department’s Adoption Policy Unit. The keynote address, “Domestic adoption and international human rights standards and principles”, was given by the Lead Consultant on the project, Mia Dambach. Judit Rozsa, Director of the Commission’s Reform and Investment Task Force provided a pre-recorded message.

Launching the project, Minister Foley said:

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The Commission for the Investigation of Domestic Relinquishment and Adoption today presented its report 'Damage through Shame' to State Secretary Teun Struycken. This report describes the period 1956-1984 of domestic relinquishment and adoption in the Netherlands and its impact on all parties involved. 

The research report stirs up many emotions and memories for all those who had to give up their child, for children who were given up and for families who were involved. The report touches on very personal and painful experiences that have left deep scars for many and have irreversible, lifelong consequences. 

We will carefully study the committee's research report and also critically examine our own role. We want to learn from the past and be of significance to everyone who has had to deal with adoption.  

Does the report evoke something in you that you would like to discuss with us? Please feel free to contact us. We will be happy to make time for you. Send an email to reactie@fiom.nl and let us know which form of contact is most convenient for you.  

Until 1999, thousands of children came to Switzerland to be adopted by parents, sometimes under dubious circumstances. Nevertheless, the Federal Council's adoption ban is likely to fail – including because of two people directly affected.

Shortly :

• Thousands of children came to Switzerland through illegal practices between 1970 and 1999.
• The Legal Affairs Committee of the National Council rejects the adoption ban proposed by the Federal Council by a majority.
• Two directly affected National Council members are actively campaigning against the ban.

It could have been a rewarding deal for the asylum-plagued Justice Minister Beat Jans. Everyone agrees: The suffering of children adopted from abroad under questionable circumstances must not be repeated. According to the latest findings, between 1970 and 1999, several thousand children from abroad were brought to Switzerland for adoption through child trafficking, with forged documents, missing information about their origins, or through other illegal practices.

Chandigarh: Taking cognisance of a viral video, reportedly showing a couple employed as senior faculty in PGI beating up their 13-year-old adopted daughter, the PGI administration has filed a police complaint in the matter and asked for an explanation from the couple.

The video has reportedly been sent by a neighbour from Shimla, where the couple is currently on vacation.

The disturbing footage, which went viral among PGI staff, shows the father, a professor in the department of immunopathology, ruthlessly beating the girl with a wooden stick while the mother, a professor in experimental medicine, stands by without intervening.

Deeply concerned by the incident, the neighbour wrote to the PGI director and other faculty, expressing profound worry for the child's safety.

In a letter, a copy of which is with the TOI, the neighbour mentioned: "This was a regular practice for the last 10 years. Please check how your employees are treating their child. We deeply feel concerned for her safety and the students of such mentors." She wrote further: "I was also hurt while trying to protect the child as an elder sister. I hope you can help the child in some way or the other."