Santosh Garje, founder of an orphanage in Maharashtra’s Beed district, has been buying around 10,000 litres of water from private suppliers, at a cost of Rs 1,200 a day, since January 2018.

Santosh Garje, who runs an orphanage for 85-odd children in Maharashtra’s drought-hit Beed district, is going to sit on an indefinite hunger strike outside tehsildar’s office in Georai tehsil from Tuesday. Reason? Despite following up with the district administration for a year, the orphanage has still not got the water supply needed to fulfil its daily needs.

Garje has been buying around 10,000 litres of water from private suppliers, at a cost of Rs 1,200 a day, since January 2018. As the orphanage is run through public participation, spending more than Rs 36,000 a month only on water is no longer feasible.

Beed district collector M Devendra Singh said he had no idea about any such demand from the orphanage and arrangements can be done if they approach him.

Garje founded Sahara Anathalaya Parivar, an orphanage known as Balgram, in 2004, when he was 18.

It was in the end July that a girl child’s scream and a concerned neighbour’s call to the child helpline lifted the lid on the gory saga of a child sex racket in the temple town of Yadadri. The eight-year old girl Manjula (name changed) who was coerced to witness sexual acts of adults during night time was forced to complete household chores during day. The tired girl was punished with a hot spatula for not obeying the commands of her pseudo mother Kamsani Kalyani.

Upon questioning by the police, Kalyani spilled beans that the girl was not her child but was procured from a pimp Kamsani Shankar and was groomed into the flesh trade. The lady further revealed that young girls are generally taught tricks of the trade at an early stage of their lives. After investigation, the police have sealed 22 houses and arrested 30 people, including several women, on August 2, 2018. The police slapped cases under IPC sections 370A, 371 and 366, relevant sections of POCSO Act and the PD Act. Police hope conviction of at least 10 accused under the PD Act (Preventive Detention Act).

A registered medical practitioner (RMP) Venkat Reddy in the vicinity helped the mothers to transform the girls into women by pumping hormones. The doctor also helped the trade by illegally terminating pregnancies. The Anuradha Maternity Clinic in Ganesh Nagar of Yadadri is now being sealed and the doctor has been arrested under sections 420, 419 of IPC, Section 26 of Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Section 15 of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956.

Many ampoules of Oxytocin, referred as love hormone, were found in the clinic located close to the Yadadri Hill. Oxytocin is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that is involved in childbirth and breast-feeding. It is also associated with empathy, trust, sexual activity, and relationship-building. It is said that the love hormone shoots in blood during hugging and orgasm.

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The Centre’s efforts to map and register all Child Care Institutions in the country seem to have been thwarted by 579 homes in the state of Kerala that have contested the requirement in court.

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This target group discussion paper captures the situation of children in alternative care in EU countries. It shows that an effective decrease in the number of children in institutional care can only be sustained through measures including the development of family support services, the strengthening of other alternative care options such as foster care or kinship care, and the adoption of high-quality alternative care standards.

This paper was prepared in the context of the Feasibility study for a Child Guarantee.

Almost a quarter of all children in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The European Parliament and the European Commission called for a Child Guarantee to ensure that every child in Europe in a vulnerable situation has access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition. This study assesses the feasibility, efficiency and overall benefits of a Child Guarantee scheme. It also includes concrete suggestions for improving policies and programmes at EU and national levels.

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The incident came to light after someone informed the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Ranchi, which recovered the child with the help of the local police on Friday.

RANCHI: A widow who became pregnant after being gang-raped in Narayanpur Soso village near Jharkhand capital Ranchi sold the child even before it was born to a childless couple in December last year.

The incident came to light after someone informed the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Ranchi, which recovered the child with the help of the local police on Friday.

“The child, which is currently in our custody, will be produced before us and sent for adoption. The mother was a rape victim and conceived the child out of the crime. The deal to hand over the child to the purchaser after its birth had been finalized when she was five months pregnant,” said CWC Chairperson Rupa Verma, who said action will be taken against both parties.

The child was apparently taken away by the couple that bought it soon after it was born in December, but the amount involved in the deal was yet to be disclosed as the matter is still under investigation, she added.

1,300 children died in adoption homes in 5 years

NEW DELHI: The government informed Parliament on Friday that a total number of 1,265 children have been reported to have died in the specialised

adoption agencies across states between April 2014 to January 31, 2019. These institutions cater to children in the age group of 0-6 years.

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Women and child development minister of state Virendra Kumar in a reply to a written question in Lok Sabha on Friday shared that the highest number of

NEW DELHI: Nearly 13 of every 100 “out of family” children living in adoption centres in Uttar Pradesh, who were hoping to get adopted, have ended up dead since 2014. In Bihar, this percentage was barely better at 11 per cent. These figures are alarmingly higher than the national average. Less than five per cent of children in India died in adoption centres between April, 2014 to January, 2019.

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Rajasthan was another state with a glaringly high percentage. The revelation came from data presented by the Union Women and Child Development Ministry in response to a question by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. The children, up for adoption, are mostly abandoned or rescued from human trafficking with no legal guardian. The government informed the House that in all, there were 1,265 deaths recorded in 484 adoption centres in the country. Under the Juvenile Justice Act, adoption centres have to be registered with the government’s Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS) . The portal is run by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA). A WCD Ministry official said a random inspection of 27 adoption centres in 9 states last year had revealed irregularities, including premature deaths, unhygienic conditions, and missing children.

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Preeti Goel Bishop, a naturalized American citizen, had got the Delhi High Court’s nod for inter-country relative adoption despite CARA’s objection

By Sumit Saxena

The Law Ministry is preparing to challenge a Delhi High Court order, which granted the daughter of Justice Adarsh Goel, a retired judge of the Supreme Court and presently chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), permission for inter-country relative adoption. Justice Goel’s daughter, Preeti Goel Bishop, is married to an American national and is herself a naturalized US citizen.

On January 14, a bench of Delhi High Court’s Justice V. Kameswar Rao had allowed Preeti, a resident of Pleasant Hill, California, and a licensed American attorney, to proceed with an inter-country relative adoption. Preeti had moved the Delhi High Court pleading that her request for adoption, pending clearance from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), be expeditiously processed in her favour. The court’s order had cleared the way for Preeti and her husband to adopt a Hindu child.

CARA, India’s nodal agency for approving adoption, had refused to issue a No Objection Certification (NoC) to Preeti for the inter-country relative adoption citing certain procedural lapses on her part. The Hague Convention mandates every country to have a centralized adoption agency authorized to approve inter-country adoption. Further, prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) cannot directly initiate the adoption process but have to engage an Authorised Foreign Agency to act on their behalf.

TONGI - Terres Des Hommes Interview 2019

9 Februari 2019 (10:00 s’ochtends )

Tijdens mijn reis in Bangladesh in Tongi (net buiten, ten Noorden van de hoofdstad Dhaka) heb ik o.a. een gesprek gehad met Bhuiya.

Bhuiya werkte destijds (Jaren 70) in Tongi bij Terres Des Hommes en werkt nu nog steeds op dezelfde locatie.

Op de foto is Bhuiya de man rechts in het wit gekleed.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the transfer of the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual assault case from Bihar to a court in New Delhi and

slammed the state government for its management of shelter homes. A bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said the cases should be transferred from the Bihar CBI court to a POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Saket trial court within two weeks. It ordered the Saket trial court to conclude the trial within six months.

The apex court also rapped the CBI for transferring its officer probing the sexual assault case and said it amounted to a violation of its order. A bench asked the investigating agency to file an affidavit giving an explanation.

"Enough is enough. Children cannot be treated like this. You cannot let your officers treat children this way. Spare the children," the top court told the Bihar

government. It said the court will summon the chief secretary if the state fails to give all information. Several girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused at an NGO-run shelter home in Muzaffarpur. The issue came to light in May last year following a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). PTI SJK