There is a lot of controversy on this topic, but finally the coalition agrees on a compromise that should anchor the rights of children in the Basic Law. The change in the law is now being passed through the Federal Cabinet. But she could fail at the next hurdle.

The federal government wants to strengthen the rights of children and has initiated an amendment to the Basic Law. The federal cabinet decided in Berlin that children's rights should be expressly included in the constitution. However, it is uncertain whether the project will result in anything, because two-thirds majorities in the Bundestag and Bundesrat are necessary for amendments to the Basic Law.

The grand coalition is therefore dependent on the approval of the opposition, which has already expressed itself critically - either because the project goes too far or not enough for it. "Children are not little adults. They are particularly vulnerable and have special needs," said Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht.

Anchoring in the Basic Law

Children are demanding more rights in front of the Bundestag

An alleged baby trafficking syndicate has been busted by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Medical and Dental Council after an investigation.

According to the Executive Director of EOCO, Frank Adu Poku, the buying and selling of babies has been on the radar of the crime office for a while and has so far resulted in the arrested of at least 10 suspects.

These suspects are said to be doctors, nurses, social welfare workers, traditional birth attendants and mothers who operated in various hospitals in the Greater Accra Region.

“Medical and Dental Council and Economic and Organised Crime Office have been investigating the activities of some medical practitioners and other individuals who were suspected to be engaging in an illegal act of baby harvesting and human trafficking.

“As a result of this investigation, two doctors, four nurses, two social welfare workers, a traditional birth attendant and two mothers have been arrested so far,” he stated.

Geographical distance does not dim the huge emotion contained in the pages of the Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, and the responses of survivors, residents, and their families.

Out of deeply held respect for survivors and their families, I wanted to hear these most powerful of voices before commenting.

The State holds much of the responsibility. There are actions of reparation which must be done and be rooted in the fundamental belief of the equal human rights of all people.

This must include an urgency around adoption legislation grounded in adopted people’s unequivocal human right to their identity.

The complex legal and political background on this issue is worth reflecting on as it could lead to informed decisions now.

MUMBAI: City crime branch investigating a baby sale racket arrested a 56-

year-old homeopathy doctor from Worli on Monday and identified four

more children aged two months to three years sold by a gang of eight to

couples.

Dr Dhananjay Boga allegedly took a commission of Rs 30,000 in the sale

Hyderabad: SOS Children’s Villages of India, a self-implementing premier child care NGO providing alternative care solutions for children without parental care or those at risk of losing one, helped all 41 Yenadi families of Chindepalli Tribal Colony in Tirupati, Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh get permanent housing plots from the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, under the latter’s YSR Jagananna Illa Pattalu Scheme. The land owners are expected to begin the construction of their own concrete homes this year, as they are now eligible for housing loans from the government.

The flagship Family Strengthening Programme, the community outreach model of SOS Children’s Villages of India, brought children of 23 eligible families, out of 41 families, under its direct care in 2016. Through its various capacity building and welfare measures, including livelihood training for mothers as primary caregivers of children, healthcare camps for awareness, and remedial education over the last four years, the NGO has transformed the Yenadi tribal community into a self-reliant one, securing parental care for their children. The household income has increased sustainably, the community has broken itself free from the clutches of usurious money lenders, and the school dropout rate has been brought down from 90% to 0%. There has been no child marriage, which used to be very common, since last two years.

Commenting about the Yenadi community’s transformation, Mr. Sumanta Kar, Senior Deputy National Director, SOS Children’s Villages of India, said that the impoverished Yenadi tribes were living in vulnerable conditions at Chindepalli Tribal Colony, before we commenced our Family Strengthening Programme. The primary class children were quite irregular, and almost 90% of them dropped out from school after class five. These Out-of-School Children were sent to work in agricultural fields. Child marriages were widely reported from the community.

They were subsisting with meagre, irregular income from agricultural labour. They were exploited by usurious money lenders. Fire accidents, due to electric short circuits, were frequent in the habitat, as the houses, in the absence of legal electricity connection, drew power by illegally tapping the overhead electricity lines.

We started off our developmental work in 2016. We first offered financial support to families to rebuild their houses, damaged by fire accidents. In 2017, with the support of the Tribal Welfare Department of the state, we arranged for caste certificates and temporary land documents for them. In 2018, using these documents, we helped obtain ration cards for all the families, and power connection for all houses. And last year, when the state government announced housing plots for landless Below Poverty Line (BPL) families, we supported community members to apply for the scheme, and facilitated housing plots for each of 41 landless families under the government scheme.

Vietnamese children and young people have been disappearing in Germany for years. Behind this are unscrupulous human traffickers. Many of the young Vietnamese end up as work slaves. The film tells their story.

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Mumbai: Crime branch on Saturday claimed to have busted a baby-selling racket in Mumbai with the arrest of eight people, including 6 women, who were allegedly involved in selling infants under the garb of adoption. Accordingly to the a report by The Times of India, the accused would approach new mothers from economically weaker sections and offer to facilitate the ‘adoption’ of their babies. Also Read - Petrol Prices Touch Record High in Delhi & Mumbai | Check Prices Here

While baby girls were sold for Rs 60,000, boys were sold for Rs 1.50 lakh. So far, the gang has sold four babies in the last six months, however, the police fear that the number could be a lot more. Also Read - Brain Dead UP Woman Gives New Lease of Life to 5 People by Donating Her Organs

The racket came to light after police sub-inspector Yogesh Chavana and Manisha Pawar got a tip-off about a woman who was selling babies. Acting on the tip-off, the police launched an investigation and identified a woman named Rukhsar Shaikh who had sold a baby girl through Rupali Verma. Further probe revealed that another woman Shahjahan Jogilkar had also sold her baby through Verma. Also Read - Thanks to Karnataka Police, Woman Reunited With Her 9-Month-Old Son After He Was Left Abandoned

All the three women were interrogated at the police station, during which Shaikh revelaed that in 2019, Verma had helped sell her baby girl for Rs 60,000 and recently her newborn boy for Rs 1.5 lakh. Jogilkar said she too had sold her newborn son for Rs 60,000 to a family in Dharavi.

During interrogation, Verma named two other persons- Heena Khan and Nisha Ahire- who acted as sub-agents.

MUMBAI: The city crime branch busted a baby-selling racket with the arrest of eight people, including a pathology lab technician.

Accordingly to the police, the accused would approach new mothers from economically weaker sections and offer to facilitate the ‘adoption’ of their babies for a price—Rs 60,000 for a newborn girl, and Rs 1.5 lakh for a boy. Preliminary investigations indicate that the gang sold four babies in the last six months, but the police suspect the number could be much higher.

Among those arrested on Saturday were Arti Singh, Rupali Verma, Rukshar Shaikh, Nisha Ahire, Heena Khan, Geetanjali Gaikwad, Shahjahan Jogilkar, and Sanjay Padam. Singh, a lab technician, and Verma were ‘agents’, while Khan and Ahire were ‘sub-agents’ in the baby-selling racket.

The police seized eight mobile phones from the accused. They hope to trace the babies sold to families in Mumbai and Pune from the photographs and WhatsApp chats retrieved from the phones.

The police have also sought the call detail records of the arrested accused, who have been booked under the Indian Penal Code sections of human trafficking and the Juvenile Justice Act.

It is one of the comparatively unknown chapters of the National Socialist dictatorship: in several European countries the SS had children stolen in order to have them "Germanized" in the care of the so-called Lebensborn Association. Thousands of families were affected by this brutal policy of "Germanization", many of the children still do not know their true origins.

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Those affected who are still alive are not officially recognized as victims of Nazi tyranny in Germany . But that should finally change - if it is up to the will of children who were abducted: The association »Robbery Children - Forgotten Children« from Freiburg is now calling in a letter to members of the Bundestag that »Lebensborn« children are legally victims of National Socialism to acknowledge.

According to the letter that is available to SPIEGEL, this should go hand in hand with a claim for compensation for those who were once abducted. Anyone who is officially a victim of the first German dictatorship in Germany can receive benefits according to the so-called guidelines on hardship payments to victims of National Socialist injustice.

ANZEIGE

When I found out that I’m getting adopted to another family, I didn’t understand what they meant. Few days later Amma, who was the head of the hostel, said that my sisters and I were going to meet our new mom. I understood then that I was getting a family. I wasn’t excited to meet my new family, but I just pretended to be because I didn’t want them to think that I was not happy to see them.

One April afternoon, we left to meet our new mom. I was nervous. When we arrived, I saw a woman wearing a beautiful saree. She came towards us and I said, “Hi Ma’am.” She smiled. Then I said “Mom?” She said yes. She introduced herself, “Namaste, I am Rama, your new mom.” She sounded friendly. However, because she was wearing glasses and had short hair, I was afraid that she may be strict. She reminded me of a woman I knew who was very mean to everyone in the first hostel we stayed at.

When we went to a separate room to talk, our new mom asked, “What do you like to do?” I said, “I like to play with the kitchen set.” I used to love to pretend play. It was so much fun to cook, pretend to be a parent and send kids to school. Our new mom got a delicious biscuit which we all shared and talked about other things for a while. She asked us about the things we don’t like, and I replied, “I don’t like it when adults fight.” I don’t think any kid likes it when their parents fight. They get scared and sometimes, it becomes traumatic and haunts them for the rest of their lives.

Sometime later, she showed us her husband’s photo. We were shocked! My sisters and I had never ever seen a white man or woman in our lives and there he was in the picture!

I imagined his whole family looking white, it was like he had put so much powder on his face; that’s what some people do in India. I asked our new mom, “When are we going with you?” I wanted to make sure how much time I had with my friends in the hostel. She answered, “As soon as the paperwork is done.” We had a good time talking and sharing things about our lives. I felt happy because she wanted to know about my life, my likes, and dislikes.