Moradabad, Mar 16 (IANS): A woman has been booked for allegedly selling her seven-day-old daughter for Rs 10,000 to a neighbour at Kathghar area of Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh.

The matter came to light when the woman herself went to the SSP office to lodge a complaint against her neighbour, saying that she wanted her daughter back.

On being questioned, she admitted that she had sold her daughter to the neighbour two months back.

The SSP directed the station house officer (SHO) of Kathghar police station to detain the woman and register an FIR against her.

The police later told reporters that the woman was married nearly three years ago and separated from her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl on January 4. Since she was living alone and her daughter had a medical condition, she allegedly threw the newborn on a railway track.

After having lodged a complaint against the former boss of the ANR, Dieu Merci Kitambo, Human Rights Defender and Head of Office in charge of Child Protection at the Network of Human Rights and Civic Education Organizations of Christian Inspiration, RODHECIC in acronym, was visited on March 09, 2020 at his home by strangers.

Obviously, these unidentified bandits were on a suicide mission. They did not find their target, missing from her home for the simple reason that she spent the night at a wake in Yolo in Kalamu Municipality.

Contacted by Objectif Infos CD, the unfortunate man presented a paper on which these thugs left him a message written in red: "GOD THANKS OKO KUFA LOKOLA MBWA PONA COMPLAINT AGAINST KALEV", a message which simply means in French: " Thank God you will die like a dog for a complaint against Kalev ".

In addition to this message, these strangers, after a systematic search, managed to extract from the inside pocket of a bag, the sum of 120 US dollars and the passport.

Recently, Mr. Kitambo posted a video of himself on social networks denouncing the horrors he experienced during his imprisonment in the ANR prison in 2017 while he was investigating a network of child traffickers implicated by Belgium.

The wait for adopting a child could get longer with more than 29,000 prospective parents registered with Central Adoption

Resources Authority (Cara) and just 2,317 children available for adoption, according to latest data.

Among the orphan children, 1,401 are with special needs. There are just 89 normal children below 2 years, the most sought

after age group for adoption while there are 649 normal children who are over two years. There are 178 children in the

‘siblings’ category. As per rules, siblings have to be adopted together by the prospective parents.

More than 20,000 Chilean babies were stolen and illegally adopted. They also ended up with Belgians who thought it was legal adoption.

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Latvian Welfare Minister Ramona Petravi?a has received 17 letters from children who were adopted by foreigners and who now live abroad, asking her to not ban child adoption by foreigners for children who remain in orphanages, as confirmed by the minister’s advisor for communication affairs J?nis Zari?š.

Authors of those letters shared with the minister their adoption experience, expressing gratitude for the opportunity be adopted into a family that cares for them. Letters have also been received from grown-up youngsters, who described their life now, says Zari?š.

Considering the content of those letters, more than a dozen of NGOs and activists have turned to Latvia’s top officials, government, parliament and the ombudsman, detailing confusion over Saeima’s Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee’s decision on establishing a moratorium on child adoption by foreigners. Zari?š says activists outline the fact that only representatives of NGOs that are publicly against allowing foreigners adopt children were present at the committee’s meeting. Activists also mention in the letter that there were no representatives of orphan courts or orphanages among the people invited by the committee. Nor there were there representatives of child right protection institution or representatives of organizations that represent the children who grew up in the system, says Zari?š.

The rush with decision-making is also confusing, because there is currently no crisis in Latvia with child adoption by foreigners, nor are there any major human rights violations. Zari?š says the letters addressed to the welfare minister also reference Section 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides that member states’ duties include making sure every child able to formulate their opinion has the right to ask questions regarding them, and the state has the duty to listen.

«By banning child adoption to foreign countries, children would be denied their interests and their opinion would be ignored.»

Vijayawada: Krishna District Child Welfare Committee (DCWC) directed the District Child Protection Unit to rescue and produce two infants, who were taken for adoption against the Government of India's CARA guidelines by two families in Kalidindi village in Krishna district. On receiving specific information from the police of Kalidindi village, the Child Welfare Committee, Krishna district, has conducted a spot inquiry regarding two cases of illegal adoption

It was observed that these families have taken infants for adoption. When it was noticed by the local ICDS Supervisor and Anganwadi worker, they have warned those families against illegal adoptions and suggested them to take guidance from the Project Director of Women Development and Child Welfare department in Vijayawada. Accordingly, those families have come to Vijayawada and contacted District Child Protection Officer, who has advised them to enter into an agreement and get it registered in local Sub Registrar office to legalise the adoption, which is a gross violation of adoption process. According to his advice, they have registered the agreement on January 6, 2020 and January 9 respectively, said the chairman of the CWC, BVS Kumar. The adoptions are guided by CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority), Ministry of Women Development and Child Welfare, Government of India. As these two adoptions were not done as per the CARA guidelines, CWC directed the DCPO to immediately rescue and produce before CWC Bench for necessary orders to keep the children in Sishu Gruha. CWC has also taken this issue to the notice of CARA and District Collector and requested the Collector to constitute an inquiry committee with Joint Collector to probe into the details of the case and to initiate action. CWC members L Francis and L Malleswara Rao also participated in the spot inquiry at Kalidindi.

The future of identity systems is being shaped by the UN's Legal Identity Task Force, which has opportunities for a positive influence, yet severe risks remain.

KEY POINTS

The UN Statistics Division has endorsed the Legal Identity Agenda and the Legal Identity Task Force, which shape the understanding of the key Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 on legal identity for all.

Dangers remain in the potentially severe human rights implications of their approach towards civil registration and identity systems.

However, they are aware of many of the dangers surrounding issues like unique identifiers, function creep, and the role of the private sector.

Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI-P) has abandoned a claim for libel against UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). The articles we wrote about DCI-P remain on our website.

The articles to which DCI-P objected were about financial organisations and funding platforms that withdrew services from DCI-P.

DCI-P has issued a statement about UK Lawyers for Israel on its website and Twitter, incorrectly alleging that UK Lawyers for Israel has recanted on its previous statements about the links between DCI-P and a terrorist organisation.

UKLFI has not “recanted” or withdrawn any of its previous statements regarding DCI-P’s links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP is an active terrorist organisation, designated as such by the UK[1] and other countries and regions including the USA[2], Canada,[3] and the EU[4]. The stated goal of the PFLP is the destruction of the State of Israel.[5]

The statement published by UKLFI HERE simply clarifies that UKLFI did not write about any of DCI-P’s current board members in its published articles and therefore did not suggest links between present board members and a terrorist organisation. Our allegations concerned previous board members up to May 2018, as well as other employees.

Chambre du conseil de Dinant : le dossier des fraudes suspectées à l'adoption d'enfants congolais reporté sine die

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Publié le mardi 10 mars 2020 à 09h16 - Mis à jour le mardi 10 mars 2020 à 09h16

Des devoirs d'enquête supplémentaires ont été demandés.

La chambre du conseil de Dinant a reporté sine die, lundi, le dossier concernant des fraudes suspectées autour de l'adoption d'enfants congolais par des Belges, en raison du fait que des demandes de devoirs d'enquête complémentaires ont été déposées, a indiqué Eric Van der Sypt, porte-parole du parquet fédéral. Dans ce dossier, le parquet soupçonne que cinq adoptions d'enfants congolais par des couples belges ont été effectuées de manière frauduleuse. La dénommée Julienne Mpemba est particulièrement soupçonnée de trafic d'êtres humains.

Latvia’s Welfare Ministry has decided not to support Saeima’s Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee’s proposal to ban child adoption by foreigners. Instead the ministry proposes discussing improving existing regulations, as reported by minister Ramona Petravi?a’s advisor for communication J?nis Zari?š.

«Although the ban is planned only temporary until stricter regulations have been developed, experts are concerned preparation of amendments and approval may take a long time and many children may be denied the opportunity to be adopted,» says Zari?š.

Welfare Minister Ramona Petravi?a says that already every adoption case by foreigners is carefully evaluated, and in order to adopt children from Latvia, all applicants have to undergo an evaluation process: «In majority of cases this is the only option for these children to get a family, especially for teenagers and children with disabilities or other major health problems. Without a doubt the focus is always put on our country’s adopting parents, but if we cannot ensure this here, children should not stay in an institution for life. We cannot take away children’s rights to rewrite their lives.»

Welfare Minister’s advisor for disability policy affairs Jolanta Kalni?a-Levina stresses that the number of children adopted by foreigners is not high. Additionally, the most often teenagers are adopted abroad, as finding a family for them in Latvia is very difficult.

Teenagers also remain in the state system – institutions, without chances of ending up in a family, says Kalni?a-Levina: «We cannot claim every child in Latvia has the opportunity to live in a family in Latvia!»