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Can’t restrict adoption only to kids in conflict with law or orphans: Bombay high court

NAGPUR: In a landmark verdict, the Nagpur bench of

Bombay High Court ruled that adoption can't be restricted to only orphaned,

abandoned and surrendered children or those

in conflict with law or in need of care and protection.

While partly allowing a revision application by the biological

Adopted in Sri Lanka in 1985, she denounces child trafficking and files a complaint against X

Chambérienne Champika Macherel was adopted in Sri Lanka in 1985 via a Grenoble association. After returning to Sri Lanka in search of her origins and her biological mother, she today denounces child trafficking and files a complaint against X, with an adoptive couple, before the Paris court. For her, the framework for international adoption needs to be completely revised.

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Tamil Nadu: Illegal Adoption Row in Madurai; NGO comes under scanner after faking burial of 1-yr-old

Tamil Nadu: Illegal Adoption Row in Madurai; NGO comes under scanner after faking burial of 1-yr-oldAutoplay Next Video01 JULY 2021 10:24 IST | ENGLISH | CRIME | GENERAL AUDIENCEA shocking incident has now come to light from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, wherein an NGO staged a fake burial of a 1-year-old in order to illegally sell the baby. The NGO has now come under scanner after it informed the parents of the one-year-old boy that their baby passed away due to COVID-19. The NGO used fake documents to fool the parents. Times Now's Shilpa Nair reports that the NGO has come under the scanner and the investigation in this connection have begun. Further, it was also discovered from the sources at the cremation ground that a 75-year-old man was also falsely buried earlier

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Mothers, we’re looking for you ! And yet…

I was born in Beirut in 1966. My mother was hidden during her pregnancy, and was forced to abandon me at birth. I was adopted a few months later in France. After a long and arduous search, I was lucky enough to find her in 2017. As this journey enriched my life so profoundly, since this time, I’ve been committed to helping other adoptees from Lebanon in their endless search for their biological roots.

Every year, a handful of people feel profoundly happy when they find their mother, their father, a sibling…people they resemble, a piece of their history, a biological home port, a possible response to the nagging question: "Why was I abandoned?". But too few get to experience this solace, and I just cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of all the others.

Three years ago, I launched an appeal "Mamans, nous vous cherchons et nous ne vous en voulons pas"1 (Mothers we’re looking for you, we’re not blaming you) via the daily newspaper ‘L’Orient-Le-Jour.’ Thanks to Anne-Marie El-Hage’s article, a few biological mothers found the courage to ask for help to find their children. This article also provided an opportunity for a few half-siblings to launch their search. And yet….

And yet today, my observation is a sad one: the adoptees’ search is all too often in vain. In fact, when we go to Lebanon, all too often we’re faced with the tired old remark "but you already have a family back home!" The point is not however to find out whether or not we were lucky enough to have been brought up in an adoptive family, it is to find the person to whom we owe our life!

We’re here, ready to welcome you and listen to your story without judging, simply in response to the natural need to find a face in which we can find the reflection of our own, in order to make it easier to move forward, hear a birth story that we can root ourselves in. Unfortunately, we all too often come up against an incomprehensible omertà from those who have participated in our adoptions, as well as from a great number of Lebanese that we come into contact with - including those in the diaspora. Adoption is a subject so taboo that from the moment the word "adopted" is uttered, contact is often permanently cut off.

Maharashtra: 13,197 kids lost one of their parents to Covid

The number of children who lost either of their parents to Covid-19 has mounted to 13,197 in Maharashtra.

While 11,659 of them lost their father, 1,538 lost their mother to the virus. A total of 409 children have been orphaned after losing both the parents, according to the data collected by the women and child welfare department.

Acting on the Supreme Court direction, the state constituted task forces in each district to identify such children and avert trafficking and illegal adoption.

Women and child welfare officers have reached out to families with deaths due to Covid-19 and facilitate them with counselling, legal and financial aid. The process for enrolment of orphaned children whose extended family members are not able to look after them has begun.

Pune has the highest number of children who have lost either or both parents (1,380), followed by Nagpur (1,206), Thane (1,103), Mumbai (762) and Nashik (508). Thane has the highest number of orphaned children (53), followed by 36 in Nagpur and 34 in Pune. Of the orphaned children, 221 are boys and 180 are girls.

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Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees

Highlights

Intercountry adoptees with adoption discontinuity experiences experience legal, residential, relational, and cultural losses

Violent criticism of the youth welfare office: babies and mothers separated without sufficient reason?

Two cases, two mothers: the Waldeck-Frankenberg youth welfare office threatened to take away the newborn child.

Korbach - Does the Waldeck-Frankenberg youth welfare office tend to separate mothers and their children without sufficient reasons? The full-time supervisor Uwe Lutz-Scholten from Korbach and Carola Wilcke from the child and youth welfare law association in Dresden are in any case criticizing the decisions of the authority.

The allegations: general resolutions instead of individual help, a lack of transparency in decisions, violations of values ??protected by fundamental rights and prevailing legal opinions.

Violent criticism of the youth welfare office: babies and mothers separated without sufficient reason?

Case 1: The Waldeck-Frankenberg youth welfare office wanted to take the newborn child away from a young woman suffering from a mental illness, although the family court in Fritzlar had previously granted her custody.

'Single mother' Kim Mi-ae appeals for 'tears' against adoption system reform

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Kyung-joon = 'Single Mom Attorney' National Power Rep. Kim Mi-ae, on the 30th , appealed with tears for a re-examination in relation to the government's reform of the public adoption system.

Rep. Kim said at a press conference at the National Assembly on the same day, "The government is trying to reorganize the work that private adoption agencies have been doing for over 70 years without securing professional manpower , like flipping the palm of their hand."

The reform of the public adoption system, criticized by Rep. Kim, will come into effect from today. The reform plan aims to change the body of the adoption process from the existing adoption agency to the local government.

Counseling with birth parents, including pregnant unwed mothers, and children is carried out by the child protection agent, a private professional of the local government, and the children eligible for adoption are decided by the case decision committee of the local government.

Rep. Kim said, "The problem is that not all local government case decision committees are formed." He said, "It is said that public organizations decide on children to be adopted and protected, but the government does not consider the current situation of local governments and only gives orders unilaterally." pointed out

Romania ratifies agreement with US for cooperation on Cernavoda

Romanian nuclear utility Nuclearelectrica on 24 June announced the adoption by the Romanian Parliament of a draft law on the ratification of the Agreement between the Romanian Government and the United States Government on the cooperation regarding the Cernavoda nuclear project - the refurbishment of units 1,3 & 4. The Government adopted the draft law for the ratification of the agreement in March and the legislation was sent to the Parliament in an emergency procedure. The Chamber of Deputies adopted the bill on 12 May followed by a positive Senate vote in June.

Cernavoda has two commercially operational Candu 6 pressurised heavy water reactors supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and built under the supervision of a Canadian-Italian consortium of AECL and Ansaldo. Construction of the two-unit station began in the early 1980s. Cernavoda 1 has a capacity of 700MWe, and accounts for about 10% of Romania’s electricity demands. It was commissioned and began commercial full power operation in December 1996. Cernavoda 2 was commissioned in 2007. Construction of three more units began, but was stopped in 1990. The Cernavoda 3&4 project aims to complete and commission two further Candu 6 reactors. According to Nuclearelectrica, the two units currently comprise the reactor building, the turbine-generator building and hydrotechnical circuit structures in various stages of completion.

In October 2020, Romania and the USA initialised an Intergovernmental Agreement on the cooperation in the civil nuclear industry field, which was subsequently notified and endorsed by the European Commission. Ratification of the Agreement represents the general framework for the continuation and implementation of strategic nuclear projects assumed by Romania in the energy strategy and as a pillar for achieving decarbonisation targets, energy security and the efficient transition to clean energy.

“I welcome and appreciate the efforts of all factors involved in the adoption of the draft law for the ratification of the Agreement. From the operator’s point of view, time is an important variable in carrying out projects and our goal is to have unit 3 connected to the grid in 2030 and unit 4 in 2031,” said Nuclearelectrica CEO Cosmin Ghita. “Thus, Romania will align itself with the states that heavily capitalise on domestic resources to ensure the transition, as well as the energy consumption at sustainable prices considering that, for example, based on the international studies, the cost of electricity resulting from the extension of the nuclear units lifetime is the lowest of all sources, and that new nuclear projects are considered competitive. Therefore, nuclear projects come with a double advantage: competitive costs and zero CO2 emissions.”

Romania is keeping its options open, however, having also signed a declaration of intent with France in October 2020 for a partnership on the construction of reactors 3&4 and the upgrade of Cernavoda 1, and also signed a contract in February with a subsidiary of Canada’s Ontario Power Generation to support refurbishment of Cernavoda.

Baby found abandoned on empty plot

It could have been a regular day for a group of labourers who were returning to work after lunch. They were taken by

surprise after noticing a toddler left abandoned on a vacant plot. If it was not for the labourers, the infant would have been

in grave danger with rodents, bandicoots or even dogs that could have attacked him.

The labourers stay in sheds near the vacant plot behind Banaswadi fire station in HRBR Layout. Immediately after

noticing the toddler, they informed fire officials. The officials alerted Banaswadi police and a Hoysala team led by Head