NEW DELHI: Adoptive parents returned 179 children in the last three years

after taking them in their care for fostering, the Ministry of Women

and Child Development has informed Parliament.

While 174 children were returned after the legal formalities were over, five

children were sent back while the legal procedure was underway and the children were in pre-adoption foster care with

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7 Feb 2020, 16:57

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Dear Mr. Seibert,

BRUSSELS — A coalition of six child rights NGOs met the European Union’s new leadership this week, aiming to cement child protection and participation as priorities for the bloc in the next five years and beyond.

“Egos and logos stay outside the room. When we are going here to the commissioners … there is no competition”

— Richard Pichler, special representative for external affairs and resources, SOS Children’s Villages International

The NGO leaders from Joining Forces — uniting ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children International, SOS Children’s Villages International, Terre des Hommes International Federation, and World Vision International — were in Brussels to meet with the European Commission, European Parliament, and European External Action Service.

Richard Pichler, special representative for external affairs and resources at SOS Children’s Villages International, told Devex that International Partnerships Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen is seeking the group’s input on a number of issues.

Historical decision of the Romanian High Court: Family-based foster care can no longer be restricted!

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The Romania Without Orphans Alliance (ARFO), represented by the Law Firm of Ra?iu & Ra?iu, obtained a definitive judgment of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) that cancelled certain restrictive provisions in the law governing the placement of children in family based foster care within the child protection system.

Back in 2015, the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice in Romania limited the chances of children in the system of having a foster care placement family through Ordinance 1733. As a result of its issuance, many orphanages used the existence of this regulation to prohibit children from having a chance to be in family care.

“After the issuance of Ordinance 1733, we received word from all over the country that requests for family based foster care for children from residential care centers were being refused because on this very ordinance. Unfortunately, there are many children who could have had a family but are still in orphanages due to these provisions which have been proven to be illegal,” said Liviu Mih?ileanu, President of the Romania Without Orphans Alliance.

EurAdopt Conference 2020.

As you know, there isthese days a particular awareness with the international adoption system.

We are a larger group of adult adopted, who have a particular interest in participating and following in the field.

As the high cost of participation keeps the adoptees from participating, we hereby request you / the National Board of Appeal to cover the cost of registration fees, accommodation and travel costs for approximately 5 adopted.

Bébés volés au Guatemala : la maman de Coline réagit

mer, 05/02/2020 - 07:00 Télépro

Coline Fanon, en 1987 et aujourd'hui

Coline Fanon, en 1987 et aujourd'hui

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Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

In Bangladesh Adoption is only approved for Hindus as it follows the principal of traditional Hindu Law

On February 21st, 2017, a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists found a newborn in a drain. They rushed the infant they named Ekush to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

After 14 families applied for his guardianship, on March 29th that year Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge of Chittagong Jannatul Ferdous, also judge of the Children’s Court of Chittagong, granted custody of Ekush to Dr Jakirul Islam and his wife Shakila Akhter.

Since the family law in Bangladesh is dictated by religion, Muslims cannot legally adopt but be granted guardianship under the Children Act, 2013.

The police handed over all the abandoned newborns to the Society of Friends of the Sassoon Hospitals (Sofosh), a voluntary charitable trust, working for such abandoned children

On January 14, when twin newborns wrapped in a blanket were spotted near the Pashan lake by morning walkers, police swung into action and arrested the parents who abandoned the infants on January 22.

While the police were able to locate the parents in this case, there are 35 other cases registered at various police stations where no progress has been made.

According to statistics provided by Pune police, 14 newborns were found in 2017; six in 2018 and 15 during 2019.

The police handed over all the abandoned newborns to the Society of Friends of the Sassoon Hospitals (Sofosh), a voluntary charitable trust, working for such abandoned children.

Rupa to publish Jennifer by NANDITA PURI

03/02/2020

Despite all manner of hardship that she has had to endure, Jennifer has survived. What she deserves now is to live with dignity.

ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 240 PP)

Seattle, Washington, 1990. It was a cold February day when eight-year-old Jennifer ‘Pinky’ Francis stepped on the American soil for the first time, little knowing that her life was to change forever. Her Indian passport contained no last name. Unbeknown to her poor and illiterate parents, she had been illegally trafficked into the US under the garb of adoption by the very people who had been entrusted with her care.

Don’t cry for Commission’s HR chief

Staff didn’t think of Irène Souka as their defender — they saw her as the president’s enforcer.

By TIM KING 1/29/20, 5:23 PM CET Updated 2/3/20, 4:53 AM CET

Irène Souka’s chief complaint is that she was left hanging | Etienne Ansotte/European Union

It would be an extraordinary achievement if Irène Souka, who in her 11 years as head of the European Commission’s human resources department built a reputation for the merciless execution of her political masters’ wishes, were to garner sympathy for the brutality of her own departure.