NB! This program has been canceled due to the storm.

The number of children born through artificial reproduction is increasing worldwide. IVF, artificial insemination, surrogacy and sperm and egg donation offer opportunities to prospective parents. At the same time, these techniques have now become part of a global reproductive market. How can children's rights be protected in this high-tech, international and economic context? Britta van Beers will deliver the 2023 Miek de Langen lecture.

Children's rights also deserve protection in the regulation of the international reproductive market. In her lecture, Van Beers will discuss two current developments: large-scale donation of sperm and eggs, as is currently being promoted by mass sperm donor Jonathan M.; and international surrogacy, which is on the current political agenda due to the recent surrogacy bill.

There is debate about what exactly protection of children's rights means in this context. Firstly, at the time of the reproductive choices there is not yet a born child, but a possible future child. This makes it difficult to determine what is owed to these children.

A second complicating factor is that the reproductive market and 'reproductive tourism' are cross-border phenomena. Internationally operating sperm banks, IVF clinics and surrogacy mediators offer various 'reproductive services and goods' to Dutch prospective parents for a fee, not all of which are in accordance with the principles of the Dutch legal order. This raises the question of how far the responsibility of the Dutch state, Dutch prospective parents and Dutch fertility doctors extends in protecting children's rights in this international setting.

Children whose names have been mentioned in the forged adoption letters found with accused Shakti Devi and Archana were being traced.

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The doctor and four other accused arrested on charges of child abduction and human trafficking have made a startling revelation to police. The crime branch officials said that on Wednesday during interrogation, accused Shakti Devi, doctor and Archana said they used to forge adoption certificates of kids and would hand them over to other couples for money. The doctor was arrested by crime branch police from Delhi.

DCP (crime) Shrutkirti Somwanshi revealed the name of Ashok, an accomplice of doctor and Shakti Devi, and said no FIR has been registered against him. He is being questioned.

Meanwhile, police have found biological parents of child named Angel (2). Her parents belong to Delhi and have been called to Bhopal for questioning. As per police’s claims, their DNA test will be conducted to ascertain whether they are Angel’s biological parents.

Kotwali police station house officer (SHO) Kashiram Kushwaha said that the children whose names have been mentioned in the forged adoption letters found with Shakti Devi and Archana were being traced. Police cyber cell has been engaged to expedite investigation.

Departement Soziale Arbeit Institut für Kindheit, Jugend und Familie Hinweise auf illegale Adoptionen von Kindern aus zehn Herkunftsländern in der Schweiz, 1970erbis 1990er-Jahre Bestandesaufnahme zu Unterlagen im Schweizerischen Bundesarchiv

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2426

Translated Unofficially from German. Unofficial translation of the Swiss Federal
Council report Hinweise auf illegale Adoptionen von Kindern aus zehn Herkunftsländern
in der Schweiz, 1970er- bis 1990er-Jahre Bestandesaufnahme zu Unterlagen im
Schweizerischen Bundesarchiv Bericht im Auftrag des Bundesamts für Justiz, available
here. See also, media release “International adoption law: Federal Council sees need for
action.” The full report contains information on ten different countries from which
intercountry adoptions were facilitated for Swiss adoptive parents from the 1970s to the
1990s. This translation was facilitated through artificial intelligence and is subject to
mistakes and inconsistencies. Do not rely on this translation as legal authority or for
official purposes. This English translation is courtesy of Adoptees United Inc., a US-based
national nonprofit organization dedicated to equality for all adult adopted people.

Today it is a year since Dennis Knudsen's daughter passed away - and the loss is still very much felt by the celebrity hairdresser.

Dennis Knudsen's daughter, Naomi, was just 7 weeks old when she died of unexplained cot death. The daughter's death came as a sudden shock, and Dennis Knudsen was struck by a great sadness - a sadness that still fills a great deal a year later.

Today is one year since Dennis Knudsen lost his daughter. In the most beautiful way, Dennis Knudsen has made a touching post in which he sends a tribute to Naomi, where he also shares pictures of the little girl.

Nigel Cantwell has worked with children's rights since 1974. Throughout the 80s, he contributed to the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and later the Hague Convention .

It is this that forms the basis for today's Norwegian adoption system.

Cantwell believes that the problems associated with international adoption have been swept under the rug, and that there is still a long way to go before foreign adoptions can be defended.

- Adoption must be about the individual child's needs. Not that a country has decided that they will export 50 children a year, says Cantwell to TV 2.

- Known the challenges for a long time
 

note accompanying a letter to Parliament on a decision on a Woo request regarding the selection of a central mediation organization for intercountry adoption

Union of India today submitted a set of suggestions before the Supreme Court in a plea seeking directions to make adoption procedures simple, and superfluous.

ASG Aishwarya Bhati informed the bench that as pert experts from the field once a child came under the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), there was no delay in their adoption.

"Its the identification that takes time..so we can direct the nodal departments to carry out an identification drive every 3-4 months", ASG Bhati added.

A bench of CJI Chandrachud with Justices Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was further told that a positive step of foster adoption has been started by CARA.

The Federation

Members and local chapters

The adoption center gathers around 3,000 member families.

As a member, you get a branch affiliation to one of our local associations, depending on where in the country you live. We have 7 local departments which are divided into geographical areas of operation and a central department which is for members living outside Sweden, among other things.

The departments operate independently with their own boards.