VADODARA: Six-year-old Rahul and three-year-old Kadu — two brothers who made the Nizampura Shishugruh their home —

after losing their parents a couple of years ago to illness.

However, fate had another home designed for the Surat-born siblings. They got a fresh lease of life when a French couple,

Vincent Pierre (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vincent-Pierre) Marie Padel and Christine Nadia Lapinsonniere, got

permission to adopt the two brothers.

Three decades after the collapse of communism in Romania, Visinel Balan still has fresh memories of one of its most infamous legacies -- the orphanage system in which he grew up.

"They used to beat us until we couldn't move," he says of the orphanage he entered in 1987, aged just two months.

The scars of those institutions, exposed to the world in the 1990s through horrifying news images of emaciated children in caged beds, have still not fully healed for Balan.

They were places where children were caned on the soles of their feet for bedwetting and fed in an assembly line while sitting on potties.

Balan was one of the "Decretei" or "children of the decree": children abandoned by poorer families as a result of the natalist policies of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, among them a 1966 decree banning abortion.

How can I participate in the study of distance and adoption between 1956 and 1984?

You can participate in the distance and adoption investigation between 1956 and 1984 by contacting the distance and adoption hotline. This can be done by telephone, e-mail and mail. You can register up to and including June 2020.

Distance and adoption by pressure

According to research, many women renounced their child for adoption between 1956 and 1984 under pressure. The government wants even more clarity about the situations of the distance parents, distance children and adoptive parents. And about the role of the government. The government wants to learn from this and if necessary adjust rules and agreements on, for example, adoption. That is why a more extensive investigation is ongoing until the end of 2020.

The researchers include personal experiences of, for example, distance parents or adopted children in the study. And also material such as photos and letters.

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A month on, Jhansi ‘orphan’ yet to be reunited with family

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A month on, Jhansi ‘orphan’ yet to be reunited with family

BHOPAL: A six-year-old boy from Jhansi, who went missing in May and was living in a Special Adoption Agency (SAA) of Bhopal, has still not been reunited with his parents, even after he revealed his exact home address to a couple from Ahmedabad who wished to adopt him.

The child had been made legally free by the Child Welfare Committee of Bhopal after the SAA certified him as an orphan. After the Ahmedabad couple found his biological parents, the pre-adoption process was sent for cancellation, but despite efforts of the members of the Jhansi CWC, the boy is yet to be sent home.

Congo: A new Contracting Party to the Adoption Convention and a 154th connected State to the HCCH!

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The Permanent Bureau has been informed that on 11 December 2019, the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (“Adoption Convention”).

Habitual offender nurse and man got into scuffle as they demanded extra cash for ‘handing over’ male child

COIMBATORE: Passerby at Pappampatti Pirivu were in for a rude shock on Tuesday when they saw two women and a man tugging on a baby beside aw car. Horrified by the sight they called police, upon whose arrival, a child adoption racket was busted.

Coimbatore Rural Police placed the women and the man under arrest on Wednesday after District Child Protection unit members took custody of the 40-day-old baby boy. The roadside scuffle began after the women asked the man for extra cash for the deal, more than the earlier accepted Rs 2.5 lakh as they had brought a boy baby.

“Four months ago, Jahir Hussain (33), Madukkarai union deputy president of an auto driver union affiliated to the DMK, approached Haseena (27), a nurse at a private hospital in Erode, seeking a newborn child,” police said. Hussain allegedly offered her Rs 2.5 lakh and gave Rs 2 lakh as advance. Haseena’s friend Kalyani (35) from Erode, allegedly introduced her to Madurai-based couple Kannan and Jothi. The couple was offered Rs 1 lakh for their baby. Meanwhile, an illegal child adoption racket was busted in Namakkal, and Haseena was arrested in that case. She is suspected to be part of a statewide racket. Recently, Haseena came out on bail and proceeded with the deal she struck with Hussain.

“On Tuesday, Haseena and Kalyani along with the couple and the 40-day-old baby reached Karumathampatti to hand over the baby to Hussain. However, Hussain wanted the child to be tested for HIV infection before he accepted the boy. So the group proceeded to a private hospital in the area, where the doctors refused to perform the test as the group failed to produce a birth certificate,” police added.

His accomplices illegally took away newborns from mothers – some claimed that the babies had allegedly died at birth

Armenia’s chief obstetrician and director of the Republican Maternity Hospital Razmik Abrahamyan and several other individuals have been detained in the case of a recently exposed scandal involving the illegal adoption of children by foreigners in Armenia.

The investigation claims that mothers were told that their children were either sick and that they should give them up for adoption, or that their newborns had died shortly after birth.

Most of the children taken from their mothers in this way were then adopted by foreigners – more than 30 such cases have been recorded involving Italian foster parents, in which the process took place involving flagrant violations of the law.

There is concern that the children were adopted for the purposes of harvesting their organs, however so far this has not been confirmed.

Human rights body appeals to Govt

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is appealing to the Government to protect the interests of a 15-month-old boy – the son of a Venezuelan woman.

The baby is in TT custody. He has been in a safe house for more than a year under the care of the Children's Authority, while two court cases related to custody continue between the mother and the alleged adoptive parents.

For more than a year, the mother has not had any contact with her child.

The Children's Court is due to rule on custody in January 2020, after the case has been postponed repeatedly.

Adoptieprocedures Haïti tijdelijk opgeschort

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De Nederlandse Centrale autoriteit (NLCA) heeft de NAS medegedeeld dat namens de Minister van Rechtsbescherming het besluit is genomen om adopties vanuit Haïti tijdelijk op te schorten. De oorzaak hiervoor ligt niet bij de adopties zelf maar bij de verslechterde veiligheidssituatie in het land. Sinds september is het aanzienlijk onrustiger dan gebruikelijk. In november werd een Frans echtpaar dat voor een tussentijdse adoptiereis naar Haïti was gevlogen, kort na aankomst om het leven gebracht. De onrust in Haïti houdt verband met de oppositie tegen de president en gaat onder andere over corruptiebestrijding, brandstofprijzen, water- en voedseltekorten en werkloosheid. Daarbij komt dat er verkiezingen zullen zijn begin 2020. In het verleden zagen we vaker dat met verkiezingen in het vooruitzicht, onrust ontstond onder de bevolking met rellen tot gevolg. Door het opschorten van de adopties zullen geen nieuwe approval aanvragen (matchingsvoorstellen) goedgekeurd worden door de NLCA.

De NAS is voortdurend in overleg met onze Haïtiaanse partners over de veiligheidsaspecten. Juist in de laatste weken verbetert de situatie zich enigszins. Sinds vorige week zijn de scholen weer open en ook de overheidsinstanties die in downtown Port-au-Prince zijn gevestigd werken weer, evenals alle instanties betrokken bij adopties. De NAS vindt het in het belang van de betrokken kinderen, dat er per situatie naar een maatwerk oplossing wordt gezocht wat er mogelijk is met in acht name van de actuele situatie. In de afgelopen maanden is juist met onze partner gewerkt aan beoordeling van reismogelijkheden per situatie. Dit heeft er toe geleid dat een aantal kinderen toch thuis kon komen naar Nederland. Dat geldt overigens ook voor andere landen. Er zijn de afgelopen maanden ook adoptiereizen naar Haïti uitgesteld naar een moment dat reizen beter verantwoord was of was de accommodatie aangepast.

De Nederlandse Centrale Autoriteit heeft aangegeven dat in samenspraak met de NAS (en partnerorganisaties in Nederland en Haïti) gekeken zal worden naar die gezinnen waar reeds een voorstel heeft plaatsgevonden om te beoordelen op welke wijze de betreffende adopties afgerond kunnen worden. De gezinnen aan wie een kind reeds is voorgesteld, zijn door de NAS persoonlijk geïnformeerd. De aspirant adoptiefouders met een ouderdossier in Haïti die wachten op een voorstel, alsmede de aspirant adoptiefouders op de wachtlijst voor intake hebben wij geïnformeerd door middel van een nieuwsbrief.