Indian on the outside, Swedish on the inside

By Vaihayasi Pande Daniel

Last updated on: April 28, 2017 17:16 IST

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Born and abandoned in Mumbai, reborn in Sweden, Erika Sandberg says she is Indian on the outside, but feels Swedish on the inside.
Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel narrates her tale.
Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com

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It's called the 'second-hand children's market': In the United States, parents are allowed to give away their adopted children if problems arise. There are even special “fashion shows” organized. In ZEMBLA INTERNATIONAL you can see how children present themselves on the catwalk. They are adopted children looking for new parents. The procedures surrounding the American re-adoptions are neatly arranged on paper. It is intended as a solution. And sometimes it can mean a new start for a child when untenable tensions arise in an adoptive family. But when French journalists investigate, they also encounter the excesses of this system.

In ZEMBLA INTERNATIONAL an investigation into the relocation of American adopted children.

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Every year an American charity sets up the red carpet in the Lutheran church in the American town of Topton. During the children's fashion show, the children do everything they can to be allowed to go home with one of the potential new adoptive parents in the audience. Cindy, visitor to the children's fashion show:

"It almost looks like a trade fair, where children are the product."

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Adoption Alert—Suspension of Adoptions from Ethiopia

April 21, 2017

On April 21, an official from Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women and Children (MOWA) informed U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa that it is suspending its processing of intercountry adoption cases, effective immediately. The U.S. Department of State does not yet know how long this suspension will last. The Office of Children’s Issues and the Embassy are working with MOWA to seek more information on the terms of the suspension. We will urge MOWA to complete processing of cases that were in progress prior to this suspension.

If you have questions about your pending case, please contact your Adoption Service Provider. You may also write to ConsAdoptionAddis@state.gov if you have questions about an adoption-related visa application or immigrant petition. You may copy the Office of Children’s Issues at Adoption@state.gov on your email to the Embassy if you wish.

Please continue to monitor adoption.state.gov for updated information on intercountry adoption in Ethiopia.

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Laura Laera to the Commission Adoptions

of Sara De Carli 16 hours ago

The CSM confirms that he has given the green light to the placement out of role for the President of the Court of Minors of Florence to go to assume the vice presidency of the CAI. "The Italian system is a strong system," he said a year ago the Justice Committee, talking about international adoption: "It must point to a collaboration between all institutions working in the field, that everyone plays his part well and there is one exchange of training-information '

Laura Laera

It's the 13 that the news on social chases and many have already done the best wishes of good work. But she rightly asks to wait for the official "no communication to me has not yet come," he repeats in the afternoon. Eventually the officer arrives from the CSM: the plenum in the afternoon gave the green light to start off the role of Laura Laera, to go to take the chair of the International Adoptions Commission ( here the press release arrived in the evening , about Laura Laera as "destined to hold the post of vice chairman of the Committee on International adoption, appointed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers"). A necessary step, prior to the actual appointment itself, which at the moment - I point out - not yet exist and which will arrive by the Cabinet. I will then still a judge to lead the CAI: Laura Laera happen to Silvia Della Monica, whose three-year term came to last February deadline. A passing of the baton in recent weeks has been accompanied by much controversy.

L'Italie au cœur de l’imbroglio des adoptions internationales

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Associations et institutions en charge des adoptions internationales sont en totale guerre des tranchées. La justice et la presse sont prises à témoin.

Born and abandoned in Mumbai, reborn in Sweden, Erika Sandberg says she is Indian on the outside, but feels Swedish on the inside.

Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel narrates her tale.

Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com

Illustration: Dominic Xavier

In August 1976, a Swissair jet flew out of the monsoon skies of Bombay, due west, with a precious little bundle onboard.

Welfare Home For Children vs Union Of India Air 1984 Sc 469 on 12 April, 2017

                                               ­ 1 ­       In the Court of Ms. Poonam A. Bamba, District and      Sessions Judge : South East : Saket Court, New Delhi.In the matter of :G.P. No. 16/2016        Welfare Home for Children         B­1, Institutional Area, Sarita Vihar        New Delhi­110 044.        Though its Social Worker Ms. Lata Nair       .... Petitioner                                      V E R S U S        Ms. Elisabeth Clementina Josepha Jacobs        R/o Wipstraat 47 AT 2590 Berlaar        Belgium        Through her attorney Ms. Nidhi         Kataria, Adoption Officer        Welfare Home for Children         B­1, Institutional Area, Sarita Vihar        New Delhi­110 044.                     .... Respondent                 Petition presented on                        :        05.12.2016                 Arguments concluded on                       :        12.04.2017                 Judgment Pronounced on                       :        12.04.2017                 PETITION   UNDER   SECTION   59   (7)   OF                  JUVENILE   JUSTICE   (CARE   AND                  PROTECTION   OF   CHILDREN)   ACT,   2015,                  FOR   ORDER   OF   ADOPTION   WITH                  RESPECT   TO   THE   MINOR   CHILD   'NITIN'                  IN FAVOUR OF THE RESPONDENT. G.P. No. 16/16               WHC V. Elisabeth Clementina Josepha Jacobs                                     Page  1 of 25                                                     ­ 2 ­ JUDGMENT

1.0 Vide their petition, Welfare Home for Children, B­1,  Institutional   Area,   Sarita   Vihar,  New   Delhi,   ("Petitioner  Society"  in   short)   through   its   social   worker   and   authorized  representative Ms. Lata Nair, prayed that the minor child 'Nitin'  born on 09.05.2011 ("Child" in short) be given in adoption to  the respondent Ms. Elisabeth Clementina Josepha Jacobs, as her  son and that she be permitted to remove the minor child outside  the jurisdiction of this Court for his upbringing to   Belgium,  where the respondent resides.

2.0 The   petition   has   been   filed   by  WHC  being   a  Society,   registered   as   a   Charitable   Organization   running   its  Orphanage   Homes   for   abandoned/destitute/   handicapped  children.     WHC   is   duly   recognized   by   the   Central   Adoption  Resource   Authority   (hereinafter   referred   to   as   "CARA"),  Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India, as  an agency for placing children in adoption i.e. as  Specialized  Adoption Agency  ("SAA" in short)   Ms. Lata Nair has been  duly authorized by WHC, the petitioner society to sign, verify    ­ 3 ­  and institute the petition under Section 59 (7) of Juvenile Justice  (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 ("JJ Act" in short).

3.0 The petitioner has submitted that a minor male child  'Nitin'   born   on   09.05.2011   was   placed   with   the   WHC.     The  petitioner desires to give the child in adoption to the respondent  Ms. Elisabeth Clementina Josepha Jacobs, through her attorney  Ms. Nidhi Kataria, Adoption officer, WHC.