Srinagar, Dec 10: Jammu and Kashmir on Friday constituted Jammu and Kashmir Adoption Resource Agency to deal with adoption and related matters.

“Sanction in terms of Section 67 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 read with Rule 33(1) of the Adoption Regulations, 2017, is hereby accorded to constitution of the Jammu and Kashmir Adoption Resource Agency,” reads a government order.

Headed by Secretary Social Welfare Department, the seven-member committee comprises Mission Director, ICPS, J&K; one member of the State Legal services Authority (to be nominated by the Department of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs); Chairperson of a Child Welfare (to be nominated by the Social Welfare Department on| the recommendation of Mission Director, ICPS); Representative of Specialized Adoption nominated by the Social Welfare Department recommendation of Director, ICPS) and Member for Civil Society involved in Child Welfare and Protection for at least 10 years (to be nominated by the Social Welfare Department).

The terms of reference of the Jammu and Kashmir Adoption Resource Agency is to deal with adoption and related matters in the Jammu & Kashmir under the guidance of the Central Adoption Resource Agency constituted in terms of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

It has been also tasked to function as the executive arm of the Jammu and Kashmir Government for promotion, facilitation, monitoring and regulation of the adoption programme in the Jammu and Kashmir.

Srinagar, Dec 10: The J&K government on Friday set up an adoption resource agency to deal with adoption and related matters in the union territory.

As per an order issued to this effect by the General Administration Department, the J&K Adoption Resource Agency (JKARA) constituted under section 67 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 will be chaired by Secretary Social Welfare Department while Mission Director, Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), Director, Health Services Jammu/ Kashmir, one member of the State Legal Services Authority, Chairperson of a Child Welfare Committee (CWC), representative of specialized adoption agency and a member from civil society involved in child welfare and protection for at least 10 years would be its members.

The agency would deal with adoption and related matters in the UT under the guidance of the Central Adoption Resource Agency constituted in terms of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

It would also function as the executive arm of the Jammu and Kashmir government for promotion, facilitation, monitoring and regulation of the adoption programme in the UT and perform such functions as are prescribed under adoption regulations, 2017 issued by the Ministry of Child Development.

It will also carry out such other functions as may be assigned by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) from time to time.

Kim carried a surrogate baby - so she could travel the world on maternity leave. Shocked? In this defiant interview she insists she's just helping women - and plans to do it three more times

Kim Eldridge was 21 when she decided she wanted to see the world. Like many young people, the desire to wander before adulthood and responsibilities set in became a dream, then a fierce ambition.

Yet how to fund such an adventure? With no trust fund or wealthy parents to indulge her, it was down to Kim, from East London, to raise the money.

So she came up with a unique, highly controversial — and, some might argue, morally questionable — plan to raise the cash. She'd become a surrogate for an infertile couple and spend the year-long maternity leave, which she'd be legally entitled to just like any other parent in paid employment, travelling.

While it may sound like a fanciful idea, it is precisely what Kim, now 26, has done.

Tribune. Picking up or bringing a child from the other side of the world to make him your own has often been considered an act of unconditional love. Long idealized, international adoption has grown steadily since the middle of the 20th century without any real consideration of the best interests of the child. Thousands of children adopted internationally have thus been abusively and permanently separated from their families and the culture of their birth.

Today, if some adoption stakeholders minimize the importance of fraudulent practices, arguing that they took place a long time ago, the fact remains that proven abuses have been tainting international adoption for decades. in many countries: Chad, Haiti, Chile, Sri Lanka, Mali, Ethiopia, Guatemala…

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The International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) enshrined, in 1989, the principle of the best interests of the child which presupposes "taking into account their fundamental, physical, intellectual, social and emotional needs, as well as the respect for his rights which must guide all decisions concerning him” (article 3). The CRC also specifies the right of the child “to know and grow up in their family of origin and the obligation of States to support the latter so that it can raise its child with dignity” (article 7). “It defends the child's right to preserve his or her identity and family relationships” (article 8) and stipulates “that no child may be separated from his or her parents against their will” (article 9).

Chile has legalised a landmark law granting equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, in a momentous victory for gay rights activists in an historically Catholic country.

The legislation was passed by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the parliament on Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill that also includes legalisation for adoptions by same-sex couples.

With this Chile has become the 31st nation in Latin America and sixth in South America to allow same-sex marriage.

On Tuesday, the bill was approved by the Senate with 82 votes in favour and 20 in against with two abstentions. Following the landmark vote, several deputies in the Chamber hugged, including some from opposing parties.

The equal marriage bill has stalled in Congress for four years after first presented by left-leaning president Michelle Bachelet and remained neglected until it was given urgent status by President Sebastián Piñera. Mr Piñera’s support came as a surprise to everyone as he had long argued that marriage is a union between a man and a woman.The law will allow gay couples with parental rights, which was until now prohibited under the Civil Union act.

Anupama S Chandran’s newborn child was sent away by her parents, who were unhappy that his father was from the Dalit caste

Through the rains and steamy heat of November, day and night, Anupama S Chandran sat by the gates of the Kerala state secretariat. She refused to eat, drink or be moved. Her single demand was written on a placard: “Give me my baby.”

The story of Chandran’s fight to get back her child, who was snatched from her by her own family days after he was born and put up for adoption without her knowledge, is one that has been greeted with both horror and a sad familiarity in India.

In a society that remains split by the fault lines of caste, Chandran’s ordeal exposed the cruelties still inflicted upon women who dare to cross those lines.

Chandran, the daughter of a local leader from the Communist party of India, was a 19-year-old student when she fell for Ajith Kumar. Each was involved in leftwing political activism. He was 10 years older and previously married, but it was a friendship that gradually grew closer until they realised they had fallen in love.

The thousands of Greek orphans who were taken abroad from 1821 through the 1960’s were the topic of a recent seminar hosted by the Eastern Mediterranean Business Culture Alliance (EMBCA), which brought together experts from around the world to discuss the triumphs and tragedies of the past.

Tens of thousands of ethnically-Greek orphans — or, more often, children who were simply without fathers, due to war or other causes — were taken abroad to be adopted or put into orphanages in Turkey and Greece after the war killed so many family breadwinners and disrupted normal life in the country.

But it wasn’t only the War; it was the Ottoman Turks’ genocide of the Greeks that happened afterward, during the 30 year period from 1894-1924, that caused so many Greek children to be spirited away to other lands, most of them never to return. Much later, during the Cold War, Americans and Europeans also adopted thousands of Greek youngsters — many of them becoming completely assimilated at such a young age that they had no connection to their roots whatsoever.

Greek Orphans Event

The panel was moderated by Lou Katsos, the president of the EMBCA. Dr. Gonda Van Steen, the Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College; Historian and Author Dr. Constantine Hatzidimitriou, and Dr. Theodosios Kyriakidis, the Chair of Pontic Studies in the School of History and Archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki were the presenters.

http://www.cna.gob.gt/Documentos/EstadoHogares.pdf

For more than 50 years, enormous resources have been invested in finding and transporting adopted children to Sweden. It is beyond any doubt that irregularities have occurred.

To spend time and work on ensuring that the 60,000 individuals brought to Sweden have access to their fundamental rights is, on the other hand, considered unrealistic, write representatives of the Transnationally Adopted National Organization.

DEBATE. On Thursday 27 October at 08.00, a press conference was held where Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren announced that a state inquiry would be appointed to "investigate the existence of any irregularities in relation to the countries of origin from which most adoptions to Sweden took place and the countries of origin where there are strong suspicions of that there have been irregularities ”. The investigation will last for two years, and aims in addition to the investigation of irregularities to clarify what responsibility different actors have had.

Put beyond all doubt

Hallengren's statement will be another disappointment for those who have hoped for redress. Over the past year, parents from several countries have testified in news reports as well as documentaries and police investigations that their children have been stolen from them, or that they have been pressured in various ways to leave their children. It is not about "possible irregularities". It is beyond any doubt that irregularities have occurred.

As Le Vif revealed in June 2020, five Métis women had sued the Belgian state for crimes against humanity. Born to Belgian fathers and Congolese mothers, they had been placed in an orphanage. The trial began last October, and the Brussels civil court has just dismissed them.

The Brussels civil court ruled, in a judgment handed down on Wednesday, that the segregation of mixed race children in the Congo was not incriminated as a crime against humanity during the period when Belgium was in charge of this African country. . He thus declared unfounded the action of five women who were victims of this system set up by the Belgian authorities in the Congo.

Five women, born in the Congo between 1946 and 1950, had filed a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity and had brought a civil liability action before the civil court in Brussels.

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Five women, born in the Congo between 1946 and 1950, had filed a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity and had brought a civil liability action before the civil court in Brussels. They claimed damages for the significant damage caused, but also the production of archives concerning their origins and their history.