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The Children's Rights Collective was established in 1995 and consists of 5 children's rights organizations. These are Defense for Children, the National Youth Council, Children's stamps, UNICEF Netherlands, and Save the Children and Terre des Hommes. Together we have the mission to ensure that the rights of children in the Netherlands are guaranteed. These children's rights are laid down in the UN Children's Rights Convention. We want children's rights to be guaranteed in government policy, in legislation, in the practice of organizations and everyone who deals with children. Are the rights of children violated in the Netherlands? Then we see it as our task to stand up for these children and their rights! The Children's Rights Collective provides information about children's rights. To ensure that children get what they are entitled to, everyone in the Netherlands, young and old, needs to know what exactly children's rights mean. We also advise the government on how children's rights can be guaranteed in the Netherlands and where improvements are still needed. The Dutch government writes a report to the United Nations Children's Rights Committee once every five years on the state of children's rights in the Netherlands. In addition to this government report, we send a report to the Children's Rights Committee in Geneva on behalf of the children's rights organizations. In it we give our our vision on the state of affairs regarding children's rights in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Youth Institute is connected to the Children's Rights Collective as an independent advisor. Below is an explanation of the members of the Children's Rights Collective:

Defense for Children

Defense for Children is an international organization that defends children's rights. It promotes children's rights in the Netherlands and abroad on the basis of the UN Children's Rights Convention. Defense for Children is convinced that children's rights can only really be strengthened if children's rights are laid down in legislation and regulations. And if there is continuous monitoring of compliance. Defense for Children therefore keeps a close eye on this. She also uses court judgments about the Children's Rights Convention and other treaties that have a link with children's rights.

Children's Stamps Foundation Netherlands

Children's stamps believes in the strength of each child. We want children to have the chance to get the best and the best out of themselves. Regardless of the situation, place or circumstances in which they grow up. With our support they get that chance. We work on three themes in the Netherlands and abroad: Education, Foster Care and Trauma Processing. Thanks to the Kinderpostzegelactie we can help children. The Kinderpostzegelactie is unique in the world. Through the campaign, Dutch school children learn to have something for children who are less fortunate. Our motto is: for children, by children.

NJR

NJR is the youth network of the Netherlands. We stand for a world in which young people get the best out of themselves and thereby have a positive influence on their environment. That is why we connect young people with themselves, with each other and with those who shape the world.

Save the Children

Save the Children monitors the rights of the child. And we take action if these rights are violated. Together with our partners and donors, we ensure that every child has a fair chance to become who they are. Good health, the opportunity to learn and a protected environment are basic conditions for this. In times of need we are the first to arrive and we are the last to leave. No mountain is too high for us here: we also stand up for the most difficult children to reach. Our solutions stem from the harsh reality of children. And from the experience that we have built up in our almost 100 years of existence.

UNICEF the Netherlands

Countries: Netherlands

Adoptie Standpunten SGP

It is most beautiful when children grow up with their own parents. That is natural and it is familiar. However, there are cases where, unfortunately, this is no longer possible. A suitable alternative must then be sought. Sometimes that is close by, with family or other acquaintances. But often you have to look for a solution further away. Foster care or adoption is a solution for these children. Care in a foster family is preferable to a stay in an institution. That is because of the added value of the stability and privacy of a family. That is why the availability of sufficient foster parents and adoptive parents is of great importance. Such parents deserve full support from the government.

Adoption is a lengthy process. The time limits and the procedures that apply must - wherever possible - be shortened and simplified.

The costs of adoption must also be reduced. Justice must take active action against abuses such as child trafficking and illegal adoption.

The possibility for same-sex couples to adopt children should be deleted.

With a decreasing number of adopted children from abroad, it is advisable to call for more attention to forms of long-term foster care.

There must be good provisions for foster parents, including a sufficient foster parent allowance and generous leave arrangements. For example, the foster child may not be duped by the costs of student transportation. When recruiting and selecting foster parents, foster parents may not be excluded on the grounds of religion or belief.

In the event of an unwanted pregnancy, it is important to pay attention to the possibilities of adoption and foster care. All women must receive information about alternatives to abortion tailored to their emergency situation.

Dutch:

Het is het allermooist als kinderen bij hun eigen ouders opgroeien. Dat is natuurlijk en het is vertrouwd. Er zijn echter gevallen waarin dat helaas niet (meer) mogelijk is. Er moet dan gezocht worden naar een passend alternatief. Soms kan dat dichtbij, bij familie of andere bekenden. Maar vaak moet er op zoek worden gegaan naar een oplossing verder weg. Pleegzorg of adoptie is voor deze kinderen een uitkomst.

Opvang in een pleeggezin verdient trouwens de voorkeur boven verblijf in een instelling. Dat zit ‘m in de meerwaarde van de stabiliteit en beslotenheid van een gezin. Daarom is de beschikbaarheid van voldoende pleegouders en adoptieouders van groot belang. Zulke ouders verdienen voluit de steun van de overheid.

Adoptie is een langdurig proces. De termijnen en de procedures die gelden dienen -waar mogelijk- verkort en vereenvoudigd te worden.
Ook de kosten van adoptie moeten verlaagd worden.
Justitie dient actief op te treden tegen misstanden als kinderhandel en illegale adoptie.
De mogelijkheid voor paren van hetzelfde geslacht om kinderen te adopteren, moet worden geschrapt.
Bij een afnemend aantal adoptiekinderen uit het buitenland verdient het aanbeveling om meer aandacht te vragen voor vormen van langdurige pleegzorg. Er dienen goede voorzieningen voor pleegouders te zijn, waaronder een toereikende pleegoudervergoeding en royale verlofregelingen. Het pleegkind mag bijvoorbeeld niet gedupeerd worden door gesteggel over de kosten van leerlingenvervoer. Bij werving en selectie van pleegouders mogen pleegouders niet op grond van godsdienst of levensovertuiging worden uitgesloten.
Bij ongewenste zwangerschap is het belangrijk dat er aandacht wordt gegeven aan de mogelijkheden van adoptie en pleegzorg. Alle vrouwen moeten informatie krijgen over speciaal op hun noodsituatie afgestemde alternatieven voor abortus.

Countries: Netherlands

Persons: Kees van der Staaij

LAAT KINDEREN ZOVEEL MOGELIJK IN OORSPRONKELIJKE OMGEVING OPGROEIEN

LET CHILDREN GROW UP IN ORIGINAL ENVIRONMENT

Many adoptive parents devote themselves heart and soul to their children. Nevertheless, the interests of the child must be paramount and the starting point must be that children can grow up as much as possible in their original environment and every effort must be made to prevent adoption from turning into child trafficking. Adoption from abroad is also a vulnerable process, where a lot can go wrong. Therefore, adopting children from abroad must be handled with care and with extreme care. The government carefully checks whether there is no question of child abduction, child trafficking or corruption. The retention period for adoption files must be considerably extended.

Dutch:

LAAT KINDEREN ZOVEEL MOGELIJK IN OORSPRONKELIJKE OMGEVING OPGROEIEN

Veel adoptieouders zetten zich met hart en ziel in voor hun kinderen. Niettemin moet het belang van het kind voorop staan en het uitgangspunt zijn dat kinderen zoveel mogelijk in hun oorspronkelijke omgeving op kunnen groeien en moet er alles aan gedaan worden om te voorkomen dat adoptie tot kinderhandel verwordt. Adoptie uit het buitenland is bovendien een kwetsbaar proces, waarbij veel mis kan gaan. Daarom moet er terughoudend en uiterst zorgvuldig worden omgegaan met adoptie van kinderen uit het buitenland. De overheid controleert nauwgezet of er geen sprake is van kinderontvoering, kinderhandel of corruptie. De bewaartermijn van adoptiedossiers moet fors worden verlengd.

Countries: Netherlands

Verslag bijeenkomst Wereldkinderen..

Report meeting World Children ..

This summer I was approached by a Master's student in Educational Sciences at Leiden University. In collaboration with, among others. The Wereldkinderen Foundation hoped to learn more about international adoption in the Netherlands. Her goal was, as a neutral third party, to gather information about the context of intercountry adoption in Bangladesh in the 70s and 80s. This student wanted to try to collect a wide range of opinions and stories from different sources. She came to me through my blogs that I wrote about Bangladesh and adoption. She said that she had read my blogs with pleasure. She wanted to hear my story and ask me some questions and if she could use some information from me. Upon hearing that she did this in collaboration with Wereldkinderen, I became a bit skeptical. Wereldkinderen was not so loved by many adopted people and I also had my thing with Wereldkinderen. She asked if I knew more people who wanted to participate in this. I'd look for her. But not everyone was eager to lend his / her cooperation. She was sorry, but after I explained why, she understood. The invitation to a meeting follows. I didn't know they gave them a meeting for this either. Wereldkinderen wanted to invite all adopted people from Bangladesh to present their findings they have made in recent months to us. What findings? And what do they have for something new that we don't know yet? I would go. I later doubted, also because world children were vague about this gathering. And it wasn't next door. After I had spoken to the student last Monday, I decided to go to the meeting on Wednesday 27 November. With the knowledge that there will be nothing new. But yes, the miracles are not over yet! After a journey of 2.5 hours I arrive at Wereldkinderen in The Hague. I thought I would see black from the bengal who had all come to this meeting. But unfortunately, I only saw 7 brown heads, while we are really with 500 .. the turnout was therefore very thin. The opening.. The director of Wereldkinderen, who was also new there, opened the meeting. Was he a director? I wondered. I didn't really see anyone standing there radiating authority, standing firmly in his shoes and knowing what he was talking about. No, none of this! I found him nervous and confused.

The first speech was made by the master student. From the week when I had her on the phone, she told me she was quite upset, mainly because there was so much negative about this meeting. But she did well. What I found unfortunate was that she summarized the information she got from my blogs in one go. On the contrary, she could have made a story out of it and elaborated on it. In her story, I also missed examples of the misunderstandings that existed during the adoptions. Or sharing the experiences of adopted people. I also indicated this to her. They could not obtain information from former Wereldkinderen employees, unfortunately they are no longer there. From a few people, such as Dr. Preger, a doctor who worked in Bangladesh, could also have approached them and obtained interesting information. By the name Dr. They all looked a little sheepishly at Preger. A missed opportunity for World Children. Mr Manzur was blamed for everything and what is the share of World Children? They still act as if they know nothing. DNA database .. An adopted from India, who works at Fiom, told about her own adoption, the search and DNA database. How or what you can do, where you need to be, etc. I found it boring and long-winded. Also because we have been working on this for so long. This entire meeting was one big child's play. Wereldkinderen could have done much more than what they have done so far. Tips for the next meeting .. first check everything out, get the most out of it. Make an inventory of the needs of the adopted and respond to this again. Several adopted people interview, tell their story, try to reach more people, etc ... so enough learning points for Wereldkinderen. Adoption remains a sensitive topic with many adopted people and everyone experiences it differently and everyone deals with it in his / her own way. There is a lot of anger and frustration at various authorities .. Because do you know what adopters would really want? The magic word: RECOGNITION! That World Children take on their responsibilities and can admit that they made mistakes at the time. Then maybe there is a possibility for a cooperation between World Children and the adopted ones ..

Dutch:

Verslag bijeenkomst Wereldkinderen..

Organizations: Wereldkinderen aka NICWO

Countries: Bangladesh

Couple use Twitter to rescue newborn girl abandoned on Indian garbage dump

(CNN)Vinod Kapri, an Indian filmmaker based in New Delhi, checks Twitter first thing every morning -- like virtually every journalist on the planet.

On Friday, something amid the relentless stream of content caught his attention: a graphic video of a newborn baby, who was left abandoned on a garbage dump, naked and wailing.

Almost moved to tears, Kapri showed the video to his wife Sakshi Joshi, who is also a journalist. "We were very upset," Kapri told CNN. "I couldn't watch the whole video -- I could hear her crying and that was enough," Joshi said.

Both immediately knew what to do. "Our conversation suddenly shifted to: 'We should adopt her," Joshi added.

So Joshi tweeted a request to her followers to send over any information they could find about the baby, saying she and Kapri wanted to adopt her if they could locate her.

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"We had no idea of the location of the video or its authenticity," Kapri said. "We see many fake videos of babies on social media."

In a couple of hours, Joshi's tweet -- and her husband's following post in English -- went viral, with hundreds of netizens searching for clues that could allow the couple to locate the girl.

"Everybody on Twitter was keen to find the girl," Joshi said. "Twitter had the biggest role in the whole story."

"Everybody has (their) own ideology and opinions, but this was beyond ideology. It shows that humanity still exists, calling to everyone in this world," she added.

Thanks also to their journalistic sources, the couple started to get some leads that the girl was found in Rajasthan.

So Kapri asked one of his former colleagues and friend, Rahul Choudhry, to go and find her "on a personal level."

Choudhry found out the baby girl had been admitted in a serious condition to the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Hospital in the city of Nagaur. He visited the facility and sent a video of her to Kapri, who immediately tweeted it to his followers.

"Then we had a long chat with the doctor and we told him we had the intention of adopting the baby. Even though we're not legal parents, we already felt emotionally connected," Kapri said.

The doctor told him that the baby was doing well and that only her weight, 1.6 kg (3.5 pounds), was cause for concern. But he invited Kapri and Joshi to come to Rahjahstan to see the baby.

So on Saturday, the couple drove 500 kilometers (311 miles) to Nagaur.

In the meantime, they asked their Twitter followers about the adoption process.

"We never had any intention of adopting a baby. I'm already 46," Kapri said. "We had no idea about the process. We started researching and we found out that adoption is quite tedious and long in India."

"We are both going to do our medical checkups, the application will take 2-3 more days," he added.

Once they got to the hospital, words failed them.

"I can't express my feelings ... what me and my wife felt was just beyond words, I completely lost my words. Inexplicable," he said.

And on Father's Day, Joshi tweeted a picture of the three of them together, saying: "The whole Kapri family is dying to have her in the family."

As a temporary name, Joshi and Kapri decided to call her "Pihu," which was suggested by some Twitter users.

"It's the name of a bird and a film I directed. The main character has a 2-year-old," Kapri said.

CNN has reached out to the hospital for comment.

Countries: India

DRAMA MICU?EISORINA,feti?a de numai8 ani,luat? dela familia care...

DRAMA MICUZEISORINA, the little girl of only 8, taken by the family who she grew her date for adoption in the US, she took the street over 300 people! State authorities, IMPOSSIBLE!

More than 300 people protested in Baia de Aram on Sunday, empathizing with the Sarmatian family, who was left without one of the girls he had taken from the orphanage and raised them, and now the authorities they gave it to adoption for a couple in America. If, initially, the Mehedinti Court refused to accept the adoption, the court's argument being in the meaning of the little Sorina to remain with the family that grew up, the judges at the Court of Appeal

Craiova have finally determined that the 8-year-old girl is taken from this family and left in the USA. The S?r?mat village, which had priority in adopting the baby, according to Romanian law, accuses officials of the General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection (DGASPC) Mehedinti committed a series of forgery in the documents filed in the court file.

The wives Mariana and Vasile ?r?m?t wanted to take a little girl in the placement, but they returned home with two little girls. Andreea had at that time nine months, and only she wanted to take her wives, except that her neck Sorina, a girl of only one year and two months, was hanging on the woman and she did not let go. Since then, the ones two grew up together in the house of the Sheremat family in the Negoie?ti village, near Baia de Aram?, as two

sisters. They share the same room, they are dressed the same way, they go to school together, they are practically and Mariana and Vasile call them "mommy" and "daddy". It must be said that the Sarmatits have two children, theirs, who are now married to their homes. Andreea adopted it after some time, but Sorina did not she met the conditions of adoption, because she was interested in her an aunt from time to time, but husbands

Organizations: Adoption Scandal Sorina

Tweet from CEO CARA (@CEO_CARA)

CEO CARA (@CEO_CARA) tweeted at 2:09 am on Sun, Jun 16, 2019:

https://t.co/sX5pP3uXTR

That's a false story. The child has been registered on CARINGS and it will be rehablitated through adoption by #CARA as per the legal process. The child has been named Ganga and will be placed in the State Government's Adoption Agency.

(https://twitter.com/CEO_CARA/status/1139995866666659840?s=03)

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Organizations: Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA)

Countries: India

Baby abandoned in garbage bin, rescued by Indian couple

Indian filmmaker and journalist couple to adopt newborn girl abandoned in Rajasthan.

Filmmaker and journalist @Vinodkapri and his wife @SakshiJoshi, who want to adopt the baby.Image Credit: Twitter/@Vinodkapri

She lay hunched on her belly. Tiny hands and feet digging into the earth. Dried leaves and dirt sticking to her tender skin, cries renting the air. Yet another abandoned girl child. Yet another new-born baby in a garbage dump.

But, there’s a happy ending to this story – we hope.

GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW

Indian Tweep @ACJangid7 posted in Hindi on June 12: “I don’t know when or where these pictures are from? But, where it is. It is a stigma in the name of humanity. The person who has discarded his flower-like baby as soon as she was born on a pile pf garbage, with no mercy for his own blood, how much lower will you fall? Please spare these babies!!”

Countries: India

From Noida to Nagaur, couple wants to adopt newborn found in garbage

From Noida to Nagaur, couple wants to adopt newborn found in garbage ANI | Updated: Jun 16, 2019 14:51 IST RELATED NEWS 21.6.2019 From Noida to Nagaur, couple wants to adopt newborn found in garbage https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/from-noida-to-nagaur-couple-wants-to-adopt-newborn-found-in-garbage20190616145134/ 2/11 Nagaur (Rajasthan)[India], Jun 16 (ANI): After being found in a garbage dump, Pihu now looks at a bright future with a journalist couple making efforts to adopt the abandoned newborn. The couple on Sunday met the Nagaur District Collector in order to inquire about the legal procedure to make the baby girl a part of their family. "We are trying our best to initiate the legal procedure in order to adopt the child. In this regard me and my wife met the Nagaur Collector in order to understand the adoption procedure," Vinod Kapri (/search? query=Vinod Kapri), a filmmaker and journalist, told ANI. Before meeting the Collector, Kapri and his wife Sakshi Joshi (/search?query=Sakshi Joshi), a TV news anchor went to JLN Hospital to meet the baby and enquired about her condition. On getting to know that the child's condition is improving, the couple travelled straight from Noida to Nagaur to inquire about the legal procedure. After battling for her life, the newborn is now stable. 21.6.2019 From Noida to Nagaur, couple wants to adopt newborn found in garbage https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/from-noida-to-nagaur-couple-wants-to-adopt-newborn-found-in-garbage20190616145134/ 3/11 TAGS Newborn (/search/?query=Newborn) "The present condition of the child is stable, however, she is having a recurring problem in breathing," said Dr Mula Ram of JLN Hospital. A video of the newborn lying helplessly on a mound of garbage caught the couple's attention. On watching the viral on social media, they named the child Pihu. Kapri tweeted photos from his hospital visit and wrote, " A BIG shout out for team of Doctors at JLN Hospital , Nagaur , Rajasthan. Dr RK Sutaar and team , you guys are simply superb. Thanks again for taking care of little one and other new borns." While his wife Sakshi also tweeted Kapri's photos with the baby. "This is final post from me. The whole Kapri family is dying to have her in the family. We will try our BEST to adopt her as per rules and guidelines. The whole Thanks a lot for all your love and support #HappyFathersDay," she wrote alongside.

(ANI)

Countries: India

Journalist couple to adopt newborn girl abandoned in Nagaur

Act of kindness has restored faith in humanity, say social media users

A journalist couple has offered to adopt a newborn girl who was abandoned and found lying on a heap of garbage in Rajasthan’s Nagaur town, after a video of the infant soaked in blood went viral on social media. The girl is recovering in Nagaur’s Jawaharlal Nehru Government Hospital.

Journalist and film-maker Vinod Kapri and his wife Sakshi Joshi, a news anchor with a television channel, decided to take care of the child when they noticed the video. As they enquired about the girl and were informed that she had been shifted to the hospital, they volunteered to help her.

Mr. Kapri shared the child’s video on Twitter, showing her sleeping on the hospital bed under medical care. The couple informed on the social media that they would meet the child soon and adopt her through the legal process.

Mr. Kapri, who appealed to the government authorities to expedite the process of adoption through the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), informed through a tweet on Saturday morning that Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had called the doctors at the hospital and advised them to give the best possible medical attention to the girl.

Commentators on social media platforms praised the couple’s gesture profusely and wished a speedy recovery to the infant. A follower on Mr. Kapri’s Twitter account commented: “The screams of this child are haunting, but your lullabies mute them all.” Several other commentators said that the couple’s act of kindness had restored the faith in humanity.

Organizations: Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA)

Countries: India