The incident came to light when agency coordinator Chandra Shekhar Singh noticed injuries on hands and legs of the girl, who was then admitted at sadar hospital on Friday.

A female warden of a child adoption agency at Bhabua in Bihar’s Kaimur district, accused of burning a three-year-old orphan girl with a hot tong for defecating on bed, has been booked by the police and dismissed from her job, officials said.

The girl was brought to the agency from Sasaram railway station on September 4.

The incident came to light when agency coordinator Chandra Shekhar Singh noticed injuries on hands and legs of the girl, who was then admitted at sadar hospital on Friday.

When asked about the injuries, the warden told the coordinator it could be of an insect bite, but doctors at the hospital confirmed they were burn injuries and informed the authorities.

It sounded sincere and promising when I was approached 1.5 years ago to work out the content of the ancestry center's application for recognition. In retrospect, I think the main reasons why I was recruited by some of the members of the core steering committee at the time was because:

I was the only one who had ever officially been part of Vandeurzen's working group on parentage information and therefore had a lot of information as knowledge > 1 of the recommendations that we put forward as a working group at the time was the establishment of a parentage center

the group of donor children needed to be represented and I have a large following, expertise and built-up credibility

Other members of the then core steering committee were Jacqui Goegebeur, Benoît Vermeerbergen, Miranda Ntirandekura Aerts and Atamhi Cawayu. Foster care was approached to submit the application together with us, as only an organization with a recognition or license within the policy area Welfare, Public Health and Family could compete for the recognition.

In May 2020, we started working diligently, we worked out the project proposal, and Foster Care submitted it. At the end of August 2020, we received the good news from Growing up that our file had scored best based on various criteria and was therefore awarded the recognition.

NEW YORK, 1 October 2021 – “The Ethiopian Government’s decision to expel the UNICEF representative in the country – along with other members of the UN leadership team – is regrettable and alarming.

“UNICEF has been present in Ethiopia for more than 60 years, working to advance and protect the rights of the most vulnerable children. As the humanitarian situation in the country deteriorates – with children bearing its biggest brunt – our work is more urgent than ever. We have full confidence in the teams working on the ground to save children’s lives, guided – as always – by the principles of impartiality, humanity, neutrality and independence. Our programmes will continue. Our one and only priority is to support the children who urgently need our help, wherever they are.”

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The petition has challenged Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 which lays down that adoptive mothers will be eligible for maternity leave only if they adopt children who are less than 3 months old.

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 which lays down that adoptive mothers will be eligible for maternity leave only if they adopt children who are less than 3 months old (Hamsaanandini Nanduri v. Union of India).

As per the provision, a person has to be an adoptive parent to a child below three months to avail the benefit of 12 weeks maternity leave.

There is no provision for maternity leave at all for a mother adopting an orphaned, abandoned or surrendered child above the age of three months.

Such a distinction will lead to parents preferring to adopt a new born children as against older children, the petition filed by Hamsaanandini Nanduri said.

Today, white-coated professionals tell parents of children with gender dysphoria: affirm your child’s trans identity right away or prepare for suicide. Are those really the only two options? For a movement that decries the binary, its commitment to this false dichotomy is relentless.

I was sixteen the first time I heard my mother curse.

She was worn and weary—stretched beyond her maternal limits. From delirious dreams, I sat up, mumbling that I felt sick. From her own crumpled position in a bedside chair, Mom scrambled for the emesis bowl too late, triggering her exasperated expletive. Who could blame her, after our late-night trip to the ER and the projectile vomiting that began as soon as I walked through the hospital’s sliding doors?

I felt so bad about the mess I was making. I apologized profusely in between heaves, reaching out and cupping my hands to try to catch it, as if that would somehow help. Soon a thin tube was up my nose and down my throat, liquid charcoal slowly descending, making its way to my stomach to absorb the numerous prescriptions I consumed in my first major suicide attempt. Most of what had been in our downstairs bathroom medicine chest was now in me.

After sexual abuse at age ten, my subsequent years had been filled with suicidal ideation. I hated myself, and I hated my female body, scorning it as the source of my vulnerability and betrayal. As I developed, I sought an androgynous appearance, which for me was both a style and a shield. I could tie a man’s necktie as deftly and neatly as my father, I wore one so often.

On September 29, 2021 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., SSI France is organizing its fourth webinar on the theme of tracing origins for people adopted internationally.

This webinar will be an opportunity to review the support and support that the SSI can offer to adoptees in this process and to present our RACINE project, financially supported by the International Adoption Mission of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Here is the complete program:

– Opening by Sandrine Pepit, Director of SSI France
– Introductory remarks by the Mission of International Adoption
– Presentation of SSI/CIR publications on the search for origins by Juliette Duchesne – Roulez, Children's Rights Officer at SSI/CIR
– Presentation of psychological aspects of the search for origins by Dr. Fanny Cohen-Herlem, consulting psychiatrist at the SSI/CIR
– Presentation of the SSI methodology in the management of origins search files by Albert Mukwiye, social worker at the SSI Switzerland
– Presentation of the RACINE project, by Jimmy Messineo, coordinator of SSI France
– Question/answer time

Germans are only allowed to adopt an adult refugee if their identity has been clarified. According to a judgment of the BGH, it must also be "morally justified".

When adopting an adult refugee, there must be a close personal relationship like that between parents and their child, demanded the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in a decision published on Wednesday.

The specific case concerned an Afghan refugee who entered Germany via the Balkan route in 2016 without a passport and applied for asylum. At first he stated that he had just come of age. His birth parents are dead. A German couple from the Mayen-Koblenz district took the young man into their household.

OLG Koblenz and BGH show the limits of adoption

In the asylum procedure, the refugee later changed his date and place of birth. After his asylum application was rejected, the couple from the Mayen-Koblenz district applied for the refugee to be adopted. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Koblenz rejected this.

Several parents whose children were allegedly trafficked by Madam Maria Morgan-Luyken have threatened a peaceful protest in demand of justice in order to draw the attention of the Government of Liberia and the international partners over delays in sentencing the accused.

The aggrieved parents say the accused, Madam Morgan – Luyken was found guilty by Criminal Court ‘’B’’ for trafficking – in – person, but it has taken over seven years and she has not been sentenced.

Speaking in an interview at the ground of the Temple of Justice, Matherline Johnson, spokesperson of the aggrieved parents, said they are tired of being left alone because they have not received any information from the government regarding the sentencing of the lady.

She explained that they have met the Assistant Justice Minister for Litigation Cllr. Weseh A. Wesseh several times and he told them to go to the Ministry of Labor to get more information concerning the case.

Matherline indicated that they believe that their children are dead because since Madam Morgan – Luyken was found guilty, the accused has not been able to bring back their children or face her sentence.

The term “birth mother” is set to be dropped from legislation on adoption and tracing working its way through the Oireachtas, Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman will tell a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

Mr O’Gorman is to give evidence on Tuesday afternoon to the joint committee on children, equality, disability integration and youth, which is carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill.

In his opening statement, the Green Party Minister will say that he has met with a group of mothers to discuss the “deeply sensitive issue of the term”, which is used in the heads of the Bill.

“I am clear that a more suitable term is needed,” he will say, although no alternative term has yet been agreed. Mr O’Gorman has met with a group of mothers who feel the term is “reductive and hurtful”.

“Some find the term natural mother more appropriate, other prefer the term first mother,” he will say, noting that a survey of adopted people undertaken by the advocacy group Aitheantas finds that there is a preference for the term.

FRA’s Management Board elected Rick Lawson as its new Vice-Chair on 24 September. He will take office on 11 October.

Rick Lawson joined FRA’s Management Board as the Dutch member in October 2020. He is Professor of European Human Rights Law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His work covers fundamental rights in the European Union, as well as the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

Elise Barbé, a French Supreme Court of Appeal judge, continues as Chair of FRA’s Management Board.

The Management Board is FRA’s independent oversight body. It is responsible for adopting the agency’s multiannual Programming Document, and its annual Fundamental Rights Report. It monitors the Agency’s operations and adopts its budget. It also appoints FRA’s Director, as well as the members of its Scientific Committee.

The Management Board consists of one independent member per Member State, nominated for five years. Members have high-level responsibilities in national human rights institutions or other public or private sector organisations.