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19 children adopted from three centres across Ernakulam district in four months

Indicating an increased demand for children from Kerala and speedy completion of adoption formalities, 19 children have been adopted from three adoption centres across the district during the four month period between June and October.

Thirteen boys and six girls were among those adopted, out of which eight were three-months-old, five were four-months-old, one was seven-months-old, one was one-year-old, two were nine-years-old, and one was three-years-old and one was 11-years-old.

‘Legally free’ children

Sarmishta Venkatesh and Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan with their son Abhi By Express News Service

BENGALURU: My husband Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan, who is a pastor, and I wanted a child for a while, and had tried different ways to get pregnant, says Sarmishta Venkatesh, who legally brought nine-year-old Abhi home earlier this year. “I had suffered two miscarriages earlier, and wasn’t sure if I was ready to adopt a child yet. In 2017, we started the process and registered as Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) with CARA. We registered for a low-risk category adoption.

I would frequently go through their website, and read the profiles of kids with special needs. There were about 350 to 400 kids on that list, and over the months, I noticed that none of them were being adopted,” she says.

Their son, Abhi, was the eighth profile on the list of special needs children up for adoption, and Sarmishta says that his profile had been on the site for five years – no one had come to get him. Abhi suffers from a condition called spina bifida, where the spinal cord is malformed – he is paralysed from the waist down. He also suffers from hydrocephalus, wherein fluid builds up in brain cavities. He was abandoned as an infant in a hospital, and spent his first eight years in a children’s home in Andhra, during which he had eight surgeries.

“We were on the waitlist, and didn’t think we would see any results for the next two years. But when I saw my son’s face on the website, something tugged at my heart – we thought, maybe this is the child we should focus on. We then started to get more information on Abhi, and touched base with his foster dad and the adoption centre in Andhra,” she says.

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Latvian government approves changes to foreign adoption rules

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The outgoing Latvian government decided on October 30 to restrict adoption of children to foreign countries, allowing such adoptions only in cases where the adoptive parents are the child’s relatives.

Dr. Pfund has been endorsed by Marquis Who's Who as a leader in the legal field

 BOWIE, MD, October 31, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Peter Harry Pfund with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

Pfund retired in 1997 after working in the Office of the Legal Adviser (L) of the U.S. Department of State since 1959, with two assignments abroad. He began in 1959 as one of several attorneys working on the Department publication Whiteman: Digest of International Law. Subsequently he was in the part of L responsible for European and Canadian matters, including US-Canadian boundary waters.

1966 to 1968 Pfund was seconded to the Legal Division of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Thereafter he returned to the part of L counseling the Consular Affairs Bureau, working primarily on extradition to and from the United States. Pfund was posted to the U.S. embassy in Bonn, Germany as its legal adviser from 1973 to 1978, focused mainly on issues concerning the status and security of Berlin, as well as legal issues involving U.S. forces stationed in Germany.

From 1979 until his retirement from L in 1997, Pfund was Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law in L, responsible for U.S. participation in the private law unification and harmonization work of four intergovernmental organizations, including the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCOPIL). During that tenure, Pfund headed the U.S delegations to sessions of those organizations and the diplomatic conferences at which the final texts of treaties were negotiated and adopted, including the 1980 U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the 1980 Hague Convention on International (Parental) Child Abduction. The United States subsequently became a party to both Conventions. He was also responsible for U.S. participation in the negotiation and conclusion of the 1993 Hague Convention on the Intercountry Adoption of Children, designed primarily to protect the children involved in such adoptions and their biological parent(s). The United States became a party to the Convention in 2007. Pfund retired from L at 65 in 1997, but continued to work part-time until his final retirement in 2004 in the Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs on the provisions of federal regulations for the implementation of the Intercountry Adoption Convention by the United States.

Pfund is a graduate of Amherst College, cum laude (history), and of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a member of the D.C. Bar, the American Bar Association (ABA), and the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, was on the Board of International Legal Materials and has been a member of the American Society of International Law. He helped to found the Bonn-based Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen Vereinigung (German-American Lawyers Association) in 1975 and served on its Board of Directors from 1975 to 1978.. He was given the Secretary of State's Career Achievement Award upon his retirement from L in 1997. The ABA in 1987 awarded Pfund the Leonard J. Theberge Prize for Private International Law. In 2000 the National Council for Adoption conferred on Pfund its Adoption Hall of Fame Award.

Minister Maneka Gandhi was keen on getting Missionaries of Charity into CARA

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Published 30.10.18, 3:17 AMUpdated 30.10.18, 3:17 AM

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Missionaries of Charity decided to stop putting children up for adoption under the government's Central Adoption Resource Authority system after a row with the Women and Child Development Ministry

Three years after the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) decided to stop giving children in its homes up for adoption, it has agreed to join hands with the country’s nodal agency for adoption.

The development follows a meeting between Sister Mary Prema Pierick, the head of the organisation and Mother Teresa’s successor and Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi at the latter’s office on Monday.

“I requested them to come back into the CARA system of adoption so that children in the 79 MoC homes can go into family care. Sister Prema agreed to my request... so children in the MoC homes can be onboarded into CARINGS expeditiously,” Ms Gandhi said on Twitter.

In October 2015, soon after the Central government announced new rules for adoption and made it mandatory for all homes to be linked to the Child Adoption Resource Authority(CARA), which would be the only body in the country authorised to process adoptions, the Missionaries of Charity sought de-recognition of its homes.

Without specifying the reasons for its decision, the MoC had said in a press statement that complying with all the provisions of the new regulations would be difficult for the organisation.

Return To Adoption System: Maneka Gandhi To Missionaries of Charity Homes

The move seeks to bring children living in 79 homes into family care, Maneka Gandhi said. (File)

NEW DELHI: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday asked child-care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to "come back into" the government's system of adoption services.

In 2015, an ideological row erupted between the ministry and the Mother Teresa-founded organisation over issues such as the MoC'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.

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