KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested human rights activist and philanthropist Sarim Burney when he arrived at Karachi airport from abroad for his alleged involvement in “child trafficking by way of illegal adoption” on the complaint of US authorities.

An FIA official said that the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) of the FIA-Karachi registered a case (FIR No. 126/2024) against Mr Burney under Sections 420 (Cheating and dishonestly, inducing delivery of property), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document), 109 (abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Sections 3 (trafficking in persons), 4 (aggravating circumstances) and 5 (abetment and criminal conspiracy) of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act, 2018.

According to the FIR, “Sarim Burney and his associates Basalat Ali Khan, Humaira Naz and others, in collusion with each other knowingly and wilfully gave false information, made misdeclaration as well as concealment of the facts before the Hon’ble Family Courts District East Karachi in the garb of illegal adoption/guardianship of three baby girls by using and providing fraudulent documents.”

It stated that the statement by the suspects that “the three baby girls in question were orphans and found from outside the gate of M/s Sarim Burney Trust and it tried level best to find their parents but no person came forward for claiming them” was contrary to the facts.

The FIA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the US Consulate General had stated in its complaint that during the last one and half years, around 17-18 children had been adopted in the US but the adoption process was ‘illegal’.

There will be a stop to adoptions from Peru, South Africa, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

The reason is that Bufdir cannot be sure that the adoptions from these countries are carried out in a legal, ethical and sound manner.

Sir Rod Stewart looked every inch the proud father in a sweet Instagram snap with his large blended family as he celebrated the wedding of his hockey player son Liam in Croatia.

Joined by six of his eight children, wife Penny Lancaster and ex Rachel Hunter, who is Liam's mother, the 79-year-old singer couldn't keep the smile from his face as he posed with his clan on the steps of the church of Jesuits in the Old Town.

Sir Rod shares eight children with five mothers. He is a father to four daughters Sarah, 60, Kimberly, 44, Ruby, 36, and Renee, 32 and four sons, Sean, 43, Liam, 29, Alastair Wallace, 18, and Aiden Patrick, 13.

Remarkably, he regularly proves he is the friendliest of exes with Alana Stewart, Kelly Emberg and Rachel Hunter, having previously posed with his wife Penny, 53, and the mothers of seven of his children in 2019 at daughter Kimberly's 40th birthday party.

The rocker's paternal adventures began at the age of 17, and his youngest was born nearly half a century later, when he was 66. Along the way there has been three wives, one long-term girlfriend and a teenage fling.

Dutch funding Defence for Children DCI

150 Kaandorp and Meuwese, 1996, p. 121. The exact amount of money granted to DCI was probably somewhere between 25.000 and 50.000 Dutch guilders. In the request from the Permanent Representative to the Ministry, 50.000 guilders were asked for, but Nigel Cantwell and Jaap Doek recall a subsidy of about 25.000 guilders. See: Copy of a memorandum from the Social and Environmental Affairs Section to the Director-General International Cooperation through the Legal and Social Affairs Division, the Secretary of the International Organisations Department and the Policy Planning Section and the Advisory Council Secretariat of the International Cooperation Division, 13 June 1980, Archive MFA, VN 1975-1984, 999.232.154, file 1328; Interview with Cantwell, 30 November 2003; Interview with Doek, 28 October 2003.

On 27 October 2011 at 15:14, Arun Dohle <arun.dohle@gmx.de> wrote:
 

Funding ‘Stan Meuwese took over the chairmanship of the DCI-Netherlands board in 1988. He was working for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports at the time and had experience in youth policy and juvenile justice. In 1991 the ministry was reorganising and gave him the opportunity to work full time for DCI-Netherlands. As of January 1992, he became the Executive Director of DCI-Netherlands. He stayed on until 2007. He was the first paid employee. In that way, the Dutch government, through the Ministry of Health, greatly contributed to the development of DCI-Netherlands. The subsidy of the Dutch ministry stopped in 1995 and the organisation had to look for other funds. It has been quite successful at that. DCI-Netherlands has grown slowly but steadily, with approximately one new paid employee per year over the last fifteen years.’
 

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Adoption problems  The poor carer: monthly magazine for poor relief and Youth welfare containing the decisions from the area of Welfare and social security systems

De : OLAF-FMB-NO-REPLY@nomail.ec.europa.eu <OLAF-FMB-NO-REPLY@nomail.ec.europa.eu>
Date : mardi 4 juin 2024 à 08:41
Objet : Letter - Notification of Decision to Dismiss a Case OC/2023/0646
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Dear Sir/Madam,

 

Please find attached letter for your attention.

 

Kind regards,

 

OLAF Unit.0.1

 

New laws streamlining the adoption process will have a "significant and really positive" affect on families going through the process, the health minister has said.

Regulations relating to the Adoption Act 2021 will go before Tynwald this month and if approved come into effect in July.

The regulations aim to speed up the decision-making and process of adoption, which is currently governed by legislation from 1984, and provide ongoing support once the child is settled into their adoptive family.

Health and Social Care Minister Lawrie Hooper said the new laws would make the process more "focused", but would "ultimately put the needs of that child absolutely at the heart of everything".

While the updated legislation received Royal Assent in October 2021, the Department for Health and Social Care has since been developing underlying regulations, with nine orders set to go before Tynwald - six of which require approval.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of people who have died.

"If there's anything I've learnt in making this film, it's that I think the best thing anyone can do in their life is tell their story. Good, bad or indifferent," says Adrian Russell Wills.

Wills and his co-director and co-writer, Gillian Moody, have two powerful stories, but share one unique experience.

Moody, a Wodi Wodi woman, and Wills, a Wonnarua man, both grew up in white families.

As adopted Aboriginal children raised in affluent areas of Sydney's northern beaches in the late 1970s, they were both disconnected from Country and culture throughout their childhood.

Les victimes roumaines de traites humaines subissent encore une fois une forte complaisance de l’Office de Lutte Anti-Fraude (OLAF).

par Racines & Dignité | 6 Juin 2024 | Nos actions, Actualités

Réponse OLAF le 4 juin 2024

D’un revers de main, le 4 juin, après des relances et une plainte auprès de la Médiatrice Européenne Mme O’Reilly pour mauvaise gestion administrative, l’OLAF nous adresse une réponse surréaliste avec le titre « SENSIBLE : OLAF Enquêtes » que les informations complémentaires fournies ne justifiaient pas une réévaluation de la décision.