Taking note of a large number of abandoned infants who are left in dustbins, in parks or on footpaths by parents unwilling to support them, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has joined hands with a city NGO to raise awareness about safe spots where parents unwilling to bring up their newborn can leave the latter for adoption.

Social workers feel that access to better nodal points will ensure an ailing child is not left prone to infections when abandoned by their parents. In several instances, abandoned newborns are found near railway tracks, at railway stations and near garbage bins by mothers who find it difficult to bring up the child.

Health officials claim such children need proper medical care and may contract infection due to poor immunity.

BMC conducted an awareness drive regarding abandonment of infants for 40 health workers in two health posts and five dispensaries in B ward (Sandhurst Road) last week. “People don’t know what to do when they find an abandoned child. The community needs to be made aware about what to do when they find an abandoned child,” said Dr Vilas Mahokar, medical officer, B Ward.

Health workers were trained to educate people about surrendering a child at NGOs empanelled with government for adoption of children. Health workers have also been given contacts of volunteers who aid in adoption procedures. “Lack of awareness about a safer alternative and easy access to them, are the reasons that deprive the child of a safe passage to rehabilitation through adoption. A lot of children, our volunteers find, are left to die in

A view of the Supreme Court of India.

A view of the Supreme Court of India. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy

A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, allowed the woman the liberty to pursue other remedies in law.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain the writ petition of a woman, claiming to be the biological daughter of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, for a DNA test to ascertain her parentage.

A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, allowed the woman, identified as Amrutha and represented by Indira Jaising, the liberty to pursue other remedies in law.

Shrill, campy and brutally honest: Director Rosa von Praunheim is a pioneer and icon of gay rights in Germany. The tireless filmmaker's latest movie is released as he celebrates his 75th birthday.

"Hello freaks, film friends and perverts! I was one of the first in the world to make a gay rights film after World War II, and I can say in all modesty that I'm probably the most productive gay filmmaker on Earth," Rosa von Praunheim confidently writes on his website.

He is definitely the most hard-working one. Von Praunheim has directed about 80 feature and documentary films to date, as well as countless short videos for television.

He initially didn't even want to become a filmmaker, as he preferred painting. But he quickly noticed that he could reach a larger audience with his movies.

First artistic ambitions

Health Ministry initiates a programme help adopted children to find their biological parents in Sri Lanka

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It is found that around 4,000 Sri Lankan children are living in Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, and UK as adopted children.

Recently, during a TV interview with a Netherland TV channel, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said that the Ministry will initiate a mechanism in order to help those adopted children to find their Sri Lankan mothers.

Accordingly, DNA tests will be carried out through the University of Colombo.

The majority parties in the Flemish Parliament (N-VA, CD&V and Open VLD) have developed a new framework for the so-called intercountry adoption, the adoption of children from abroad. The aim is to avoid as many uncertainties and abuses as possible and to better assist prospective parents.

he rules on intercountry adoption were only renewed five years ago. "But the theme is evolving so quickly that new regulations are required," says Flemish MP Katrien Schryvers (CD&V).

"Not only has the number of intercountry adoptions fallen sharply (from 122 in 2012 to 62 in 2016), which strongly influences the organization of the adoptions. We were also repeatedly confronted with questions and ambiguities in existing channels," says Schryvers, who now proposes a number of reforms together with Lorin Parys (N-VA) and Emmily Talpe (Open VLD).

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It happens that an adoption service or the Flemish Center for Adoption suspends or terminates cooperation with an adoption channel or service abroad, for example in the event of doubts about the integrity or when the legislation in the country concerned changes.

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The Delhi High Court came to the rescue of a child-less Indian-origin couple from Germany who had been unable to take their adopted child back home thanks to a maize of cumbersome rules governing inter-country adoptions.

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Germany-based Dalip Arora and his wife with their adopted son.Germany-based Dalip Arora and his wife with their adopted son.

International adoptions. For the benefit of the uninformed journalists, here is how the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Italy have followed and verified the adoption procedures of Italian couples

Adoptions in the Democratic Republic of Congo return to being debated topic on the web. These days, in fact, some blog is back on the issue of international adoptions in the African country, the protagonists of a block started September 25, 2013 by decision of the local General Directorate of Migration (DGM) and ended only in late 2015 , when a special Inter-ministerial Commission, mandated to review all pending cases, after finishing its verification work, has given the green light for the granting of exit permits from the country by the DGM for children adopted by foreign families.Among the pending cases, many were related to Italian couples , whose dossier turned out all approved by the Interministerial Commission , composed of representatives of all Congolese ministries involved in intercountry adoption procedures. Therefore the children of the Democratic Republic of Congo adopted by families in our country could finally leave for Italy in full regularity and compliance with the laws of their country of origin.

However, some journalists, obviously poorly informed about the adoption procedures in force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, continue to describe the African country as a land of "Wild West" where to lord it isthe legislative confusion and the absence of any controls by the authorities administrative and judicial.

For the benefit of those who think that the Democratic Republic of Congo is a kind of state without laws, we describe how to take place the steps leading to the adoption of a minor.

Each time you find an abandoned child, the social services of the reference Hall first issue the certificate of provisional custody and place the child with a foster family or an institution. The confirmation of this measure should arrive within 5 days of the Juvenile Court . Then it's up to the same Social Services noted the status of the child abandonment, by issuing the relevant certificate. It is at this point that the reception facilities reporting the minor for adoption to an authorized organization to operate in Congolese territory. At the same time, these institutions also receive information on the child and its abandonment certificate. Then the competent Juvenile Court to give the judgment of birth.