Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 22 April 2025

In a significant move aimed at bridging cultural traditions and modern legal frameworks, Rayhaan Pasha, President of the Nicobar Youth Association, has written to the Chief Secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar Administration, urging legal recognition for traditional adoption practices observed in the Nicobar Islands.

For generations, Nicobarese families have adopted children within their communities — particularly during times of loss or hardship — offering them love, care, and full integration into their new families. While deeply respected and accepted within tribal society, these traditional adoptions currently lack formal legal recognition, resulting in difficulties for adopted children in obtaining essential documents, accessing educational opportunities, and availing government welfare schemes.

MILIMO CHITSULO and JULIUS MBEWE

MILIMO CHITSULO and JULIUS MBEWE

A Dehradun rally called for greater acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, with participants demanding an end to discrimination and equal rights, including the legal right to parenthood through adoption.

A working professional who lives proudly with her identity, the woman advocates fiercely for the community, particularly championing the cause of adoption rights. Photo | Express

Narendra Sethi

The jury that will decide the fate of Thalia Driessens (37) was appointed at the Leuven Assize Court on Friday. Starting next Wednesday, the woman will be tried for the murder of her adoptive mother Brigitte Vanaudenaeren (68) in July 2023 at her home in Steenokkerzeel.
Kim Aerts 18-04-25, 16:55 Last update: 17:13
In the night of 11 to 12 July 2023, Brigitte was killed at home along the Tervuursesteenweg in Steenokkerzeel. She had lived there for four decades and no one could say a bad word about her. However, that evening things got out of hand between Brigitte and her adopted daughter. The local police had to go to the scene twice, but when the officers had to return, Brigitte was already dead in the living room. She died of suffocation. The victim worked for the municipality of Zaventem for many years in the Tax Department.
Victim Brigitte Vanaudenaeren. © Marc Baert / rv
Accused Thalia Driessens, born in San Salvador, will be tried in the Leuven Assize Court from Wednesday 23 April for the manslaughter of her mother. Seven men and five women were drawn to judge her guilt. The public prosecutor is represented by Attorney General Marcel Verbelen. Driessens is assisted by Wouter Van Driessche and Jan Donkers. The chair of the Assize Court is Veerle Aelbrecht.

Desperate women denied abortion access in much of the US are being offered a way out for the children they cannot raise themselves. It’s not always what it seems

Desperate women denied abortion access in much of the US are being offered a way out for the children they cannot raise themselves. It’s not always what it seems

The apartment complex nestled in the cradle of Salt Lake City’s snow-capped Rocky Mountains is teeming with expectant mothers. The women have travelled from all over America to give birth to babies they have no intention of keeping.

The apartments are run by adoption agencies that have bussed and flown pregnant women to Utah in their hundreds, if not thousands, exploiting the most relaxed laws in the country governing private adoption. In many cases they have been lured to the state on the promise of rent and cash payments, a practice so controversial Utah has been likened to a “human marketplace”.

The Times interviewed more than a dozen people as part of an investigation into the so-called baby broker business, including women who quickly came to regret the decision to give up their children only to find they had no way to legally reclaim them.

Avantae Deven is accused of killing two of her five adopted children.

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Recently, we partnered with UNICEF India and Indian Association For Promotion Of Adoption & Child Welfare to host a one-day consultation on Strengthening Sponsorship Support for Vulnerable Children. 🚸

From hashtag#frontline CSOs and DCPUs to child protection hashtag#experts, over 50 participants gathered to reimagine sponsorship-not just as financial aid, but as a hashtag#holistic, rights-based family strengthening approach to help children thrive 'within' their hashtag#families. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

📣 Through powerful conversations on hashtag#schemes like Bal Sangopan Yojana and Mission Vatsalya, shared hashtag#experiences from the field, and a deep dive into community-driven models, the consultation became a space for hashtag#collective reflection, learning, and hashtag#action.

At Prerana, we believe that hashtag#sponsorship is most effective when it is not treated as a stand-alone intervention, but rather woven into a broader family hashtag#strengthening framework - one that is rooted in empowerment, care, and sustained connection. 

hashtag#Grateful to all who are working to keep children safe, supported, and surrounded by love. 🌻

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Snehalaya (Official) Catalysts For Social Action Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (CASP) India Salaam Baalak Trust Mumbai Pratham Education Foundation Bal Asha Trust Committed Communities Development Trust 

Geetarani Lourembam Rashmi Taylor Ragamala R. Datta Bhakti Patel 

hashtag#SponsorshipSupport hashtag#ChildProtection hashtag#FamilyStrengthening hashtag#CommunityCare hashtag#PreranaCollaborates hashtag#EveryChildMatters
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hashtag#ProtectChildren

Supreme Court of India

Pinki vs The State Of Uttar Pradesh on 15 April, 2025

2025 INSC 482                                                              REPORTABLE                                IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA                              CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION                               CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1927 OF 2025                            (ARISING OUT OF SLP (CRL) NO. 4658 OF 2025)             PINKI                                                     …APPELLANT(S)                                               VERSUS             STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANR.                         …RESPONDENT(S)                                                 WITH                                  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1928 /2025                                 (Arising out of SLP(Crl.) No. 592/2025)                                 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1929 /2025                                 (Arising out of SLP(Crl.) No. 590/2025)                                  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1930 /2025                                 (Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4660 / 2025)                                  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1931 /2025                                 (Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4661 / 2025)                                  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1932 /2025                                 (Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4662 / 2025)                                  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1933 /2025                                 (Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4664 / 2025)                                  CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1934 /2025   Signature Not Verified   Digitally signed by                                 (Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4665 /2025)   VISHAL ANAND   Date: 2025.04.15   12:47:38 IST   Reason:                                 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1935 /2025                                (Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4666 of 2025)CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1936 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4667/2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1937 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4668 / 2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1938 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4670 / 2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1939 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4671 / 2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1940 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4672 / 2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1941 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4673 / 2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1942 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4674 / 2025) CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1943 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4675 /2025)CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1944 /2025(Arising out of SLP (CRL.) 4676 / 2025)         JUDGMENT

J. B. PARDIWALA, J.

For the convenience of exposition, this judgment is divided in the following parts: -