gang who said they could arrange a baby in exchange for a few thousand rupees.

Hyderabad | Written by Uma Sudhir | Updated: December 23, 2017 00:42 IST

Hyderabad: A baby selling racket has been busted in Hyderabad, in which a child trafficking gang identified girls while still in the womb and found buyers for them, putting a price on their head even before they are born. NDTV tracked this gang over the last six months.

As part of a sting operation, NDTV set up a fictitious office space in Hyderabad to capture on camera the child trafficking gang who said they could arrange a baby in exchange for a few thousand rupees.

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As part of a sting operation, NDTV set up a fictitious office space in Hyderabad to capture on camera the child trafficking gang who said they could arrange a baby in exchange for a few thousand rupees.

Hyderabad | Written by Uma Sudhir | Updated: December 23, 2017 00:42 IST

Hyderabad: A baby selling racket has been busted in Hyderabad, in which a child trafficking gang identified girls while still in the womb and found buyers for them, putting a price on their head even before they are born. NDTV tracked this gang over the last six months.

As part of a sting operation, NDTV set up a fictitious office space in Hyderabad to capture on camera the child trafficking gang who said they could arrange a baby in exchange for a few thousand rupees.

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Over one thousand children are without families in Latvia. “Empty the orphanages”, but there are increasing number of children in half of them

22 dicembre 2017

Sarah Numico

The government’s commitment is to find a family for the 1,200 children currently living in "social care centres.” But foster care and adoption procedures are complicated and not very widespread. On top of this stands the problem of foreign adoptions. The Archbishop of Riga, Msgr. Zbignevs Stankevics, said: "When you help a child, you are helping God inside him.” The "Repairing childhood" initiative is ongoing.

(Foto: AFP/SIR)

Global effort to get kids out of orphanages gains momentum

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Soft toys on the beds and posters on the walls. No more than three children to a room. One of the girls living in the four-bedroom home gushes about getting makeup for her birthday.

In this group home on a leafy street in Bucharest, Romania’s orphanage nightmares seem far away.

The horror stories, along with images of hollow-eyed children lying in row upon row of dilapidated cribs, emerged quickly after the 1989 toppling of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu: shocking accounts of thousands of children beaten, starved and humiliated in overcrowded, underfunded state-run orphanages.

“There was no heating, no windows, no bedding, no running water,” recalled Rupert Wolfe Murray, a British freelance journalist who accompanied an aid convoy that reached an institution for disabled children soon after Ceausescu’s fall. In a single year in the 1980s, 30 children had died of cold, malnutrition and disease, according to records found at the orphanage, said Rupert, who joined the aid effort there after he saw the appalling conditions.

The parents were earlier warned by the council

State Child Welfare Council General secretary S.P. Deepak has demanded the arrest of a Bengali couple, who allegedly abused a six-year-old boy they had adopted from the council’s adoption centre four years ago.

The council has filed a complaint with the State Police Chief regarding this. Two days ago, the council officials had brought back the child to the centre, following complaints of abuse. The child was allegedly physically abused by the adopted mother.

A year ago, the council had received a complaint that the boy was beaten up by the mother.

The parents were called in, counselled, and warned against abuse.

Voor veel geadopteerden is het niet mogelijk om via de reguliere kanalen (anders dan DNA-onderzoek) hun biologische ouders en overige familie te vinden. Daarom schrijven geadopteerden zich steeds vaker in bij DNA-databanken en/of hebben zij vragen over deze manier van zoeken. Om in de behoefte naar informatie te voorzien, staat sinds september de nieuwe kenniscollectie op Fiom.nl online over zoeken via internationale DNA-databanken. Aanvullend organiseerde Fiom op donderdag 13 december een thema-avond voor volwassen geadopteerden over dit onderwerp.

De 29 deelnemers luisterden aandachtig naar de presentatie van Rob van Drie van het Centrum voor Familiegeschiedenis (CBG). Rob is gespecialiseerd in (de rol van) DNA en familiegeschiedenis en verzorgde een algemene inleiding over de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van het zoeken via de DNA-databanken.

Vervolgens was de beurt aan Jeroen Schuddebeurs. Jeroen, geadopteerd vanuit Indonesië, is sinds 2011 bezig met zijn tijdrovende en ingewikkelde zoektocht via DNA en maakte ons deelgenoot van zijn ervaringen. Het werd duidelijk dat hij er plezier in heeft om op deze manier met zijn afkomst bezig te zijn en hierbij telkens nieuwe mogelijkheden en tools te zoeken. Voor Jeroen was het met name belangrijk om zijn etniciteit te achterhalen en dat is hem gelukt.

Een mooi contrast vormde het verhaal van Amanda Janssen. Als voorzitter van de stichting Sri Lanka-DNA beoogt zij via DNA-onderzoek verwantschap aan te tonen tussen Sri Lankaans geadopteerden en afstandsmoeders. Zij probeert met haar stichting het DNA van zoveel mogelijk mensen (kinderen en moeder) in een DNA-databank onder te brengen. Dit alles met het doel om geadopteerde kinderen en hun biologische moeder met elkaar in contact te brengen. Met haar persoonlijke en gepassioneerde relaas nam zij de zaal mee in haar missie.

Het was een waardevolle avond met voldoende ruimte voor vragen, uitwisseling en discussie. Er is een realistisch beeld geschetst van de mogelijkheden van zoeken via DNA. Helaas blijven de inschrijvingen uit de landen van herkomst achter bij die van de Verenigde Staten en Europa. Dit heeft te maken met de onbekendheid van de DNA-databanken daar, en met een gebrek aan financiële middelen. Verder werd duidelijk dat een zoektocht via DNA ingewikkeld en tijdrovend kan zijn en dat je 'geluk moet hebben'. Het is belangrijk om een zekere nuchterheid te houden tijdens de zoektocht en om resultaten in het juiste perspectief te plaatsen.

The six-year-old boy was adopted by a non-Malayali couple four years ago

A child who was adopted by a non-Malayali couple from the adoption centre of the Kerala State Child Welfare Council at Thycaud here has been brought back following allegations of abuse.

The child was allegedly being physically abused by the adopted mother.

The boy, a six-year-old, was adopted by the couple nearly four years ago. A year ago, a complaint was received at the council about the boy being hit by the mother.

The parents were called in and given counselling and warned against any further abuse.

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European Adoption Consultants (EAC) Temporary Debarment Upheld

December 15, 2017

On December 16, 2016, the Department temporarily debarred European Adoption Consultants, Inc. (EAC) for a period of three years. As part of the debarment process, EAC was given an opportunity to dispute the Department’s temporary debarment action. EAC requested a hearing and presented its case through written submissions and an administrative hearing held October 23-26, 2017. On December 13, 2017, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch upheld the Department’s temporary debarment of EAC. The temporary debarment will remain in effect until December 15, 2019, at which time EAC may apply to the Secretary for withdrawal of the debarment. In the interim, EAC is prohibited from providing any adoption services in any intercountry adoption cases.