Imphal, December 09 2017: A team of Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), which is a statutory body of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India met Social Welfare and Cooperation Minister Nemcha Kipgen at her Office Chamber at New Secretariat, Imphal today to discuss about effective promotion of legal adoption in Manipur .

The visiting team of CARA include, amongst others, M Ramachandra Reddy, chairman, CARA, Dr Gund-lapally Sreenu, OSD to chair- man, RK Pramodini, member, Adoption Committee, CARA, and Annie Mangsa-tabam, member, Adoption Committee, CARA .

Appreciating the visiting team for highlighting concerns and issues regarding child adoption in Manipur, Nemcha Kipgen said that as a concerned minister as well as the lone woman minister in the cabinet, she deeply felt connected when it comes to the welfare of children and the downtrodden .

She added that children should be in safe hands while assuring the team that she would be do everything she can from her side as well as from that of the Government .

She also urged the team to initiate the opening of the offices in the seven newly created districts in Manipur so that children from every nook and corner will not be deprived of their basic rights .

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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

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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.

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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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