In Pakistan, police have busted a child trafficking ring. They ran a black market for babies. Doctors, nurses and the clinics themselves had a hand in it. But many of the children will never return to their real parents.
 

After the birth of her son, Nusrat Khela Orakzai was overjoyed. The Pakistani woman and her husband now had two sons and two daughters. Perfect, they thought. But the happiness only lasted three days. The newborn was taken to a clinic in the nearest larger city, Peshawar, because of jaundice - and kidnapped from his hospital bed.

"If he had died, I could go to his grave and cry. That would be easier - but like this..." says Orakzai and bursts into tears. Since that terrible day a year and a half ago, not a moment has passed when she hasn't thought about her son. 

The family hasn't given up looking for the boy. The little one probably fell into the hands of baby traffickers - not an isolated case in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a poor province in northern Pakistan : the police are looking for hundreds of missing children there.

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AHMEDABAD: When a childless couple from Shahpur was seen with a 10-day-old child earlier this week, it surprised many and one such observer informed city police about the incident on Monday. A police team reached Borsalli Apartment in Shahpur and found the child with the couple.

The couple said they had adopted the child from a hospital in Deesa. However, as there were no papers of adoption or government agencies involved, city police decided to take cognizance and approached Banaskantha police. Police detained one person in connection with the case and have started questioning to ascertain if this is a case of human trafficking.

Shahpur police said they got a call on Monday that Hiren Shah, a cloth trader, and his wife, were seen with a child. When police approached the family, they said the 10-day-old infant was adopted on January 21 from Aakash Hospital in Deesa through a man identified as Tinabhai. B J Gadhvi, inspector of Shahpur police station, said they recorded a non-cognizable offence and have sent the child and the case to Deesa for further investigation on Monday.

"The couple have been married for a decade and were trying to adopt a child. In their statement, the family mentioned that they learned about Aakash Hospital through their contacts and approached the officials there. They got a call and went there on January 21 and brought the child home," he said. The family members said that they got the child out of compassion and did not know about the rules. "We are cooperating with police in the probe," said a member of the extended family, who asked not to be identified by name.

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The government restricts foreign adoptions. "Polish children adopted by the Polish family"

Marcin Koz?owski, PAP 24/01/2017 13:23

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Child care home. illustrative photo

Child care home. Photo illustration (Fig. Marcin Wojciechowski / Agencja Gazeta)

Justice adoption center closes

January 24, 2017Karol Sobiecki 0 comments

On Friday Pawe? Passini from the National Center for Adoption and Welfare Society of Friends of Children said on social media that it has to be closed. The resort existed for 27 years and has made more than 2,000 international adoptions of children with disabilities.

"After 27 years of extremely hard work of my life's work of Mother Barbary Passini, and the wonderful people who contributed to it, the National Adoptive-Guardian TPD has ceased to exist. Now it will be only the Catholic Center. We live in a religious state. I can not describe here examples almost impossible adoption, which conducted, but believe, there were many. Thanks to the efforts of my Mother and her colleagues stopped reaching for adoption to separate siblings. Foreign adoptions started to monitor up to the age of majority. We managed to thwart attempts to dumping of children as organ donors. For this reason, Mom was dragged through the courts for defamation of those who took part in it. She won. And above all, they won the children and parents. But today came good change. I will only Catholic Center. Good Zmiano! You will burn in hell !!! Believe me !!! " - he writes in an emotional entry Passini.

- On Monday late afternoon we were invited Tuesday to the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy. There Bartosz Deputy Minister Marchuk minister read to us a notice that from January 17 in Poland are two centers authorized to carry out international adoptions. One is Catholic adoption center in Warsaw, the second Diocesan Center in Sosnowiec. One of these centers has experience in foreign adoptions, the other does not. In the Notice was not us, the Center TPD, and the provincial center of Warsaw, which until now had such powers - said in an interview for the portal naTemat Izabela Rutkowska, Head of Section for. Foreign Adoptions at the National Center for Adoption and Welfare TPD.

‘Push for adoption’ causing ‘unprecedented level of state intrusion in family life’

Legal Action for Women publishes dossier quantifying ‘discriminatory treatment’

A dossier, published by Legal Action for Women, describes and seeks to quantify 'the traumatic and discriminatory treatment of children, mothers and grandmothers by the state and the institutions who are in charge of child protection'.

The organisation has published the dossier because, it says, the crisis in women's lives has had little publicity and that 'it is generally not known how widespread the intervention of the state in families is'.

Suffer the little children & their mothers states that new research shows that local authorities with the highest adoption rates also have the highest increase in children in care. Prioritising adoption over support for families has led to a 65% increase in the number of children separated from their parents. According to the dossier, single mothers, immigrant mothers, teenage mothers and mothers on low incomes, of colour, and those with learning difficulties are particularly vulnerable. Women who suffer rape and/or domestic violence are most likely to have their children removed.

In short: Nigel and ISS want individual decisions per child (micro level), while the Ministry/RSJ must look from the perspective of the macro-level.

The RSJ does quote from my article about the differences between UNCRC, Hague. But does not take that further.

They chicken out, and say it "subsidiarity cannot be properly observed"

But, whatever... RSJ killed the Hague subsidiarity, but also art 21b of the UNCRC.

They fully killed it all. Knowingly or unknowingly.

Adoptive couples’ only hope is High Court, which could hand them the custody again.

Four families which accepted lifelong responsibility of unwanted babies and nurtured them for months have been torn apart by a hurried police inquiry into suspicions of interstate child trafficking that have proved unfounded.

In December, the Mankhurd police snatched from the families four babies — whose biological parents didn’t have the resources or will to raise them — assuming the infants had been abducted from Mumbai and sold in Goa, Karnataka, and Gujarat.

The infants, now aged between 5 months and 10 months, were placed in a government-approved shelter’s care only for cops to conclude that no real crime had been committed: the biological parents had willingly consented to their children being raised in a new family.

The realisation came too late as the infants’ immediate future is now ensnared in legal complexities, which do not favour the four adoptive families.

“Lion gives an insight into the lives of children who have been adopted and I hope will push more Western countries to recognize the need for and benefits of adoption. There are so many kids who never end up in a loving family and there are so many loving families who want a child.”

The incredible true story of Indian-born Australian Saroo Brierley and his unwavering determination to find his lost family and finally return to his first home is now realised in all its splendour on the big screen in Lion.

Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train travelling away from his home and family. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata.

Somehow he survives living on the streets, escaping all sorts of terrors and close calls in the process, before ending up in an orphanage that is itself not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple, and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. Not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings, he suppresses his past, his emotional need for reunification, and his hope of ever finding his lost mother and brother.

But a chance meeting with some fellow Indians reawakens his buried yearning. With just a small store of memories, and the help of a new technology called Google Earth, Saroo embarks on one of the greatest needle-in-a-haystack quests of modern times.

Date: 19/01/17

Poland, the Central Authority reduced to 2 authorized centers for international adoptions

PolandStill difficulties in the world of adoption. Poland comes in fact the decision of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy of r idurre to two the number of Polish centers accredited to handle the procedures for international adoptions . The ministry, which is also the central authority for international adoptions in Warsaw, issued its notice in the Official Gazette of the Government on Tuesday 17 January. The news on its website the US Department of State , US Central Authority.

The only centers authorized by the Polish government to handle international adoptions are now the Diocesan Center for Adoption , based in Sosnowiec, and the Catholic Center for Adoption , based in Warsaw.

Conversely, the Children's Friends Society and the TPD Public Adoption Center, both located in the capital, are no longer allowed to operate in the field of international adoptions.