Adoption only hurdle to passage of new law

Kamau Muthoni 08th Jul 2019 00:15:00 GMT +0300

Differences on which body should control adoption in the country has derailed the proposed bill on children to get to parliament.

It has now emerged that the proposed new law on children is still stuck at the Labour ministry, headed by Ukurr Yattani despite being complete and ready to be passed to Parliament.

The proposed law proposes a National Adoption Committee, which will be an independent body to review applications for adoptions.

Differences on which body should control adoption in the country has derailed the proposed bill on children to get to parliament.

It has now emerged that the proposed new law on children is still stuck at the Labour ministry, headed by Ukurr Yattani despite being complete and ready to be passed to Parliament.

The proposed law proposes a National Adoption Committee, which will be an independent body to review applications for adoptions.

This takes away the powers from the current regime which is headed by children’s welfare lobby Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK). Among the proposals is to include CWSK in the law.

A top official in the Attorney General’s told The Standard that the draft bill, as currently is, factored all the views of Kenyans, but that the single issue delaying it is whether CWSK should manage adoption processes .

Verkiezingen voorbij. EU & Timmerfrans gaan verder met klokkenluider Roelie Post kapotmaken

Jagen op klokkenluiders, dat gaat nog eens heel groot worden

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Onverkwikkelijke ontwikkeling in de zaak-Roelie Post, die wij inmiddels allemaal zo goed kennen. Roelie luidde de klok over maffiose kinderhandel en werd vervolgens jarenlang dwarsgezeten door de Brusselse bureaucratie. Zo erg, dat ze met schulden opgezadeld ergens ondergedoken zit te wezen. Na een hoop politieke druk leek er dit voorjaar eindelijk een compromis in de maak: de Europese Commissie zou stoppen met dwangebevelen om "schuld" wegens "unjustified absences" terug te eisen. Roelie zou voor het afgelopen jaar vervroegd pensioen uitgekeerd krijgen, en haar schuld over een langere periode aan de Commissie terugbetalen.

Ten eerste is het al een grof schandaal dat de Europese Commissie geld van een kapot getreiterde klokkenluider eist vanwege 'unjustified absences'. Maar het is wel een extra grof schandaal dat de Europese Commissie tegen de afspraak in dat geld aftrekt van de overeengekomen uitbetaling. Ja dat leest u goed. De Europese Commissie van Frans Timmermans is weer teruggekomen van haar eigen belofte en stuurt nu een bericht waarin staat dat Roelie haar vervroegd pensioen op één maand na is opgegaan aan het betalen van haar schuld aan de Commissie. En die ene maand die Roelie nog zou krijgen is ook nog niet overgemaakt.

BHOPAL: Childline filed an FIR against a couple at Shahpura police station (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shahpurapolice-station) on Friday, after a boy they are in the process of adopting complained of assault. He also alleged that the couple

made him do household chores and treated him like a servant.

The boy, aged around 8-10 years, was brought to Bhopal after a couple from the city adopted him from an adoption centre from

Patna (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Patna) in Bihar (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bihar). The boy alleged

that his adoptive parents treated him badly, using abusive words to address him. Childline, along with Madhya Pradesh

New Delhi, Jul 7 All child care homes run by the Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC), except those in Maharashtra and West Bengal, have filed for recognition of their institutions under the Juvenile Justice Act, officials said.

In 2015, an ideological row had erupted between the ministry and the charity over issues such as the latter''s denial to give children to separated or divorced parents.

Following this, the Missionaries of Charity decided to stop putting children up for adoption under the government''s Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) system.

But in October last year, former Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had urged them to come back into the government''s system of adoption services.

Officials told that at a meeting, the officials of the WCD ministry asked the MoC to either take authorisation of the child care institutions or shut down, following which the MoC applied for recognition of all 79 child care institutions across the country, barring West Bengal and Maharashtra, where there are around 12 institutions.

Summary

In recent years we have been in the newspapers with some regularity

startled by news about illegal admission of children with

as a goal to adopt them and offer a safe home. Sometimes unsuspecting,

sometimes very calculated adults, circumvent the law. [1, 2]

A guardian angel who offers hope

She provides a secure nest for abandoned, lost and orphaned children

This little bespectacled girl is all of two. She likes meeting people but is too shy. Try picking her up, and she’ll jump right out of your arms. Tanu (name changed) is among the group of 23 children who are part of the Welfare Home for Children in Sarita Vihar. Mostly in the age group of 0-8 years. A few are orphans here, there are others who are lost and some have just been abandoned by their parents for various reasons.

Set up in 1979 by Achla Khanna, Welfare Home for Children has been giving shelter to such children from across the city for the last four decades.

I was the youngest in my family and had a lot of love and affection for younger kids. During my college days, I started doing social work, and as a part of it started visiting an orphanage. It was then that I conceived the idea of starting a care home with the intention of taking care of unwanted children, says Khanna whose Home is also an adoption cell registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

She opened the Centre with her husband Mohinder Singh, a lawyer, and the couple started with one child whom they received from the social worker of Lady Hardinge Hospital, where they used to distribute medicines to poor patients. With time, the number of children increased.

Police officials also started bringing infants/children who were either abandoned or were found missing from their parents, she says. Apart from being an orphanage and adoption cell, Welfare Home for Children also receives 30 children as part of the Outreach Programme where they conduct remedial coaching for 8-13-year-olds from the nearby slum areas regularly.

She provides a secure nest for abandoned, lost and orphaned children

Rewati Rau

This little bespectacled girl is all of two. She likes meeting people but is too shy. Try picking her up, and she’ll jump right out of your arms. Tanu (name changed) is among the group of 23 children who are part of the Welfare Home for Children in Sarita Vihar. Mostly in the age group of 0-8 years. A few are orphans here, there are others who are lost and some have just been abandoned by their parents for various reasons.

Set up in 1979 by Achla Khanna, Welfare Home for Children has been giving shelter to such children from across the city for the last four decades.

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