Eight years ago, a woman reportedly adopted an Indian child and abandoned her in Australia, prompting Canberra to suspend adoptions from India.

New Delhi (Sputnik) — India's Ministry of Women and Child Development confirmed on Tuesday that Australia has revoked a ban it imposed eight years ago on the adoption of children from India over trafficking concerns.

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"The ministry was in constant touch with the Australian government to relent and allow adoptions from India and they have finally agreed," an official was quoted by the news agency PTI.

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Rachakonda Police rescued 11 girls from BC Colony of Yadagirigutta recently. (Photo for representation: Reuters)

Earlier this month, when the team of Rachakonda Police along with child welfare officers raided the BC Colony of Yadagirigutta in Telangana, they had no idea that it could lead them to the discovery of minor girls who were trafficked.

Now, several families from across the state are queuing outside the local police stations enquiring about their missing children.

The shocking human trafficking racket came to light after the Rachakonda Police got a distress call. An inquiry was ordered following which the police busted a prostitution racket involving minor girls between five and seven years of age.

Initially, it was suspected that the racket was being operated by members of the Dommari community. Police rescued 11 minor girls and six women were arrested in connection with the racket.

NEW DELHI: Australia has lifted a ban on its nationals to adopt children from India after eight years.

The ban was put in place in 2010 amid concerns that trafficked children were being put for adoptions by many shelter homes, including those aided by the government.

“Australia has decided to recommence the adoption programme with India, as per the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption,” the WCD Ministry said. “The adoptions from India had earlier been put on hold by the Government of Australia eight years ago, on the reported charges of trafficking of children for inter-country adoption by some of the recognized Indian placement agencies.”

The Central Adoption Resource Agency’s data show that the new adoption regulations have given boost to adoption by foreigners, who also show preference towards special and older children.

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The Government of Australia has decided to recommence the Adoption Programme with India, as per Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption. The adoptions from India had earlier been put on hold by the Government of Australia eight years ago, on the reported charges of trafficking of children for Inter-country adoption by some of the recognized Indian placement agencies (the Adoption agencies mandated to place children in Inter-country adoption at that point of time).

The regulation of Inter-country adoptions have been made strict by the Government of India with the enactment of Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and notification of Adoption Regulations, 2017. The Ministry of Women & Child Development along with Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) have been constantly engaging with Australian Government for recommencement of the Adoption Programme. The recommencement of the adoption programmes will now enable large number of prospective adoptive parents including those of Indian origin settled in Australia in fulfilling their desire of adopting a child from India.

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Sajeda returns home after 40- yr from Netherlands

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Arshad Ahmed Asad, Gafargaon, Mymensingh :

A couple left their two female children in the waiting train at Gafargaon Railway Station 40 years ago for not giving them food and clothing . After that two sisters were lost . The names of the ill-fated two sisters are Sajeda and Mallika.

After 40 years ,little daughter Sajeda has come back her parent's home. She has got her own relatives. Only that parents were not alive. The parents who left their children in the train was in hardship. As ill luck would have it , they were taken shelter at Mother shelter, from there the two children were taken shelter at the house of two couples in Netherlands.

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His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the celebration of the 125th anniversary of The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) on Wednesday afternoon, September 12. The intergovernmental organization draws up international treaties ('Hague Conventions') to achieve uniform international regulations. The anniversary celebration will take place in Theater Diligentia in The Hague.

HCCH focuses mainly on (international) civil proceedings, child protection and commercial and financial legislation. The organization has developed a total of 38 Hague Conventions and other instruments that have broad international support. Among the most important Hague Conventions are: facilitating the use of public instruments abroad, intercountry adoption and child abduction. In 2019, the HCCH will finalize a new treaty on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

82 member states are affiliated with the organization. The European Union is also a member. In addition, 69 countries (non-members) are affiliated with one or more international treaties drawn up by HCCH.

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Shehzadi Malik has watched the seven-minute video clip on her phone a few hundred times these past three months. Sometimes she is looking for clues. Sometimes she is just watching it, empty of hope. Sometimes she is simply looking at her nine-year-old boy, Kabir. This CCTV footage was given to Malik by the police, on a pen drive, and it’s the last record she has of her son, who went missing on May 11 this year.

In the video, at 2.25 p.m. that day, Kabir enters the frame; he is walking back from tuitions in Delhi’s Nizamuddin colony — as he has done for two years — carrying a big red-and-black schoolbag on his back. His gait is jaunty but he seems to be in no particular hurry; at one point he appears to mock-bowl with his left hand, at another he stops to pick up something from the pavement, maybe a coin or a pebble. He doesn’t exit the frame, he gets obscured by a row of Ashoka trees, then the video ends. “Can you see him standing behind the tree?” Malik asks, pointing to a corner of the phone screen where a portion of his black trousers is just about visible through the foliage. “ Maybe he is waiting for someone, or talking to someone. He is a friendly child, he spoke to everyone in the area,” she says, the possibilities clearly confounding her.

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Days after the Missionary of Charity ‘baby-on sale’ scandal was brought to light creating much of a turbulence, the Jharkhand police swooped down on 88 Christian missionary-operated non-governmental organizations (NGOs), on grievous charges of misusing foreign funds for forceful religious conversion of tribals and political subversion, as exclusively reported by MyNation.

As confirmed by the Jharkhand police as many as 33 NGO’s have already been raided and rest of the task would be completed soon. These NGOs have been reported to have received in excess of Rs 250 crore funding between 2013 and 2016 under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).

A ‘CID report’ accessed by MyNation, makes grave charges against the Christian Missionary operated NGOs’ running ‘hospitals, schools, shelter homes’ saying that these organizations “train tribal women as nurses and sends them abroad. They also pressurize them to convert to Christianity.” It also mentions that many of these institutions were indulging in political subversion and anti-State activities. “Many of these institutions, especially the missionary NGOs, misuse funds received under FCRA to foment anti-State rallies and protests,” the report noted.

Mostly all of these organizations have received funds running in crores, with the top 11 receiving funds between Rs 7.5 crore and Rs 39 crore. Name of few with the annual break-up of funds received from 2013-2016 are listed below: