Prithika Yashini has moved to Madras High Court seeking help to fight discrimination faced by transgender in child adoption. In 2021, Prithika approached the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA), expressing her interest to adopt a child.

India's first transgender police officer, Prithika Yashini, approached the Madras High Court after her application for adopting a child was rejected last year on September 22. This was the second time she approached the high court after her application was turned down.

Prithika Yashini acquired the job of a sub-inspector in Tamil Nadu after fighting an extensive legal battle. This paved the way for more transgender women to join the police force in the country.

In 2021, Prithika approached the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA) online, expressing her interest in adopting a child. But her application was rejected.

Prithika, currently working as an Assistant Immigration Officer, mentioned in her petition that the rejection of her application is against the fundamental rights provided to a citizen. This is illegal and discriminatory, she added.

Margaret Tuite

Margaret Tuite has joined the Keeping Children Safe’s Independent Review Committee in a personal capacity.

Margaret was the European Commission coordinator for rights of the child from 1 November 2011 until 31 August 2018 in the unit responsible for fundamental rights policy in DG Justice and Consumers.

David Bryant and Anna Elish from the United States adopted the girl from Basundhara Childcare home in Cuttack after the completion of all the requisite formalities. Cuttack Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani handed over the baby to her foster parents.

An orphaned four-year-old divyang baby girl in Cuttack got a new lease of life after an American couple adopted her on Friday.

As per reports, David Bryant and Anna Elish from the United States adopted the girl from Basundhara Childcare home in Cuttack after the completion of all the requisite formalities. Cuttack Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani handed over the baby to her foster parents.

It is worthwhile to mention here that both Anna and David already have three biological daughters and this girl from Cuttack will be the fourth addition to their family.

Speaking on the adoption, Anna said, “We love her and are too excited to get her back to America. We are grateful to everybody here who allowed us to adopt her. We feel so honoured. We will continue to teach her about India and its culture.”

We are pleased to confirm the participation of well-known researchers, authors and activists, including Audrey et Arthur Kermalvezen, Géraldine Mathieu, Michelle Cottier, David Smolin, Maud de Boer- Buquicchio; Karabo Ozah, Elizabeth Pangalangan, Olga Khazova, Nicolas Vulliemoz and many more.

Objectives: This event aims to hold  a proactive interdisciplinary dialogue between stakeholders (children who are now adults as a result of ART, professionals, parents who have recourse to ART, politicians, academia) that will meet to discuss children’s rights and the new ART techniques; to highlight good practices as well as the abuses that allow or compromise the respect of the rights of the children concerning both their identity and their family life; to deepen the scientific and legal knowledge in this field; to give concrete tools to the professionals who work with these children and their families.

Target audience: This conference is intended for political decision-makers and professionals working with and for children and young people (social workers, psychologists, teachers, doctors, mediators, lawyers, and any other professional concerned with children's issues), as well as representatives of the academic and scientific community.

Contact: colloque-enfance-hests@hevs.ch

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The search of Chilean adoptees for their biological family threatens to become an impossible mission. Almost all files are missing or possibly destroyed. The woman who arranged many adoptions refused to provide information until her death in January.

More than two hundred Chilean children have been (illegally) adopted in the Netherlands since the early 1970s. The Dutch Truus Kuijpers, who ran the Las Palmas children's home in Santiago for more than 25 years, was involved in about a hundred adoptions.

Adoptees accuse her of child theft . Among other things, she is said to have taken babies from hospitals to Las Palmas for adoption without the knowledge and consent of the mothers. She was interrogated in 2019 by justice in Chile, who are investigating the illegal adoptions of 20,000 children in the 1970s and 1980s.

The search for the origins of adoptees now gives rise to a real business. Intermediaries offer their services for remuneration, even if it means inventing false parents.

Jessica was born in Sri Lanka in 1982. At the age of two, she was adopted in France by a loving family. She led a happy life until Christmas Eve in 2017. “I learned that adoption trafficking took place in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, right at the time of my adoption,” she explains. . " I also learned that the person who served as an intermediary for my adoption is involved in this traffic. It's a big shock. I feel the need to find my biological family.” People contacted via adoptee groups on Facebook give him the contact details of an intermediary who lives there. She contacts him to ask him to look for his biological mother.

A fake mother

The man demands 350 euros from him for food, accommodation and travel costs. “He says the search will not last more than four days. The time, he says, it took him to find other relatives.” Confident and full of hope, Jessica makes a transfer to him and sends him the information she has on his adoption. The result lived up to his expectations: “After three days, he told me that he found a woman who had information that matched my file.” According to him, it was his aunt.

Upset, Jessica decides to go meet her in Sri Lanka. “It’s a magical moment. We hug each other. We cry. I’ve been waiting for this moment for so many years!” , she remembers. Back in France, Jessica continues to talk with her aunt. But a few weeks later, her husband at the time, overcome with doubt, advised her to request a DNA test. It’s a blow: “The test is negative. She's not my aunt. I’m completely falling apart.”

Established on October 9, 2018, the International Social Service France (SSI France) is a system of the Fondation Droit d’Enfance.

Child protection foundation, founded in 1859, and recognized as being of public utility since 1866, it welcomes and supports several hundred children in Île-de-France placed under its protection by Child Welfare.

She places great importance on avoiding placement breakdowns and supporting families with the aim of avoiding placement or allowing links to be (re)created.

By developing various activities in the field of child protection, its desire is to think about the institutional journey of the child or adult as close as possible to their environment while allowing temporary removals if this proves necessary. .

In any situation, Droit d'Enfance strives to provide varied, shared and thought-out responses for each situation.

A vacation bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Manoj Misra of the Supreme Court passed an interim order staying the high court direction and issued notice on the appeal filed by Shahnaz Khanam which has now been posted for hearing on July 28

Weighing the child’s interest over that of her biological parents, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order passed by the Orissa high court directing the transfer of custody of a 12-year-old girl from her adoptive parents to her biological parents.

The Orissa high court order was passed on April 3 on a habeas corpus petition filed by the girl’s biological father – Nesar Ahmed Khan who accused his elder sister of kidnapping his daughter in 2015 from Rourkela, where he currently resides.

In its order, the high court had directed Ahmed Khan’s elder sister Shahnaz Khanam and her husband (the adoptive parents of the child) to hand over the custody by June 30 failing which a formal order will be passed to hand over the custody of the child to her biological parents.

Among the adopted, eight were boys and four were girls; except for two children aged one year and two years, the rest were just months old

Twelve children have been adopted in Ernakulam district in the nine months since the introduction of the amended adoption rules aimed at speedy completion of adoption procedures.

Under the new adoption rules, as per Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Amendment Act, District Magistrates are authorised to issue adoption orders. The amendment was aimed at avoiding the inordinate delay when adoption process was executed through courts. The amendments came into effect on September 1, 2022.

Among the adopted, eight were boys and four were girls. Except for two children aged one year and two years, the rest were just months old. Five other adoptions are being processed by the district magistrate.

“Adoption is lot quicker now since District Magistrates are required to issue orders within two months of submission of files by the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU). There was no such time frame when the adoption process was carried out through courts,” said Sini K.S., District Child Protection Officer, Ernakulam.

In Vietnam, a remarkable woman has adopted 346 children after overcoming a life of incredible hardship which started when her parents left her on a doorstep as a foundling.

Huynh Tieu Huong, whom national media has dubbed “Mother Theresa of Vietnam” runs a non-profit organization dedicated to the adoption, support, and free offering of loving kindness to foundlings, orphans, and homeless children. Thanks to support given by donors and volunteers, these 346 children are all able to receive education, safe places to sleep and play, and the proper medical care to ensure they reach adulthood healthy.

Huong herself doesn’t really know when she was born. An ID found on her didn’t include a surname, but did say 1968. In the years following the war, An old homeless woman dedicated what was left of her life’s energies toward trying to help Huong find a home—which she did in the hands of a young couple from the city of Vinh Phu.

These turned out to be sexual predators, and it took the neighbors to help her escape a permanent fate of sexual exploitation. Her life then became year after year of vagabondry, until she found a baby girl left on her doorstep when she was about 19 years old.