State in the dock again over illegal adoption practices

1 week, 5 days ago

Adoption of Rescued Children: Foster Parents Decry Attitude of Child Welfare Panel

Hyderabad: Foster parents, who adopted nine of the 16 rescued children in May and are engaged in a legal battle to claim rights to meet their children at Sishu Vihar, have now decided to take on the Child Welfare Committee, which they blame for the turbulence they have been undergoing for the last six months. The court had directed CWC …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Child-selling racket: Child Welfare Committee declares rescued children to be free for adoption

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The Child Welfare Committee of Medchal-Malkajgiri district in Telangana has declared 15 children who were rescued by police from a child-selling racket busted earlier this year as 'Legally Free for Adoption '. Official sources on Wednesday said the Committee decided the children to be LFA as per Section 38 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 as their biological parents …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Foster Parents Fight for Custody Amid Baby Trafficking Scandal

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: A group of couples are fighting a legal battle for six months to claim children, who were rescued by the police and placed in a state home. “We have been trying to explain to the authorities that we are not criminals but are victims cheated by the traffickers who took advantage of our situation, gained our trust and made …

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2 weeks ago

Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years

NL Times

Prospective adoptive parents will have another six years to complete their ongoing procedure for the adoption of a child from abroad. Earlier this year, the government already stopped accepting new intercountry adoption applications. The Kamer wanted to do away with this form of adoption after a devastating report from 2021 about numerous abuses that had been going on for years …

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Odisha couple allegedly sells newborn girl for Rs 20k, citing poverty

Deccan Chronicle

Bhubaneswar: A nine-day-old girl was allegedly sold by her parents in Odisha’s Rayagada district due to extreme poverty. The couple reportedly sold the infant to a childless couple from Andhra Pradesh for Rs 20,000, triggering a legal and social investigation. Speaking on the matter, Satyapriya Pradhan, a member of the Child Protection Commission, explained: “The couple did not sell their …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why China banned international adoptions

Live Mint

The announcement came at a routine press briefing on September 5th. Mao Ning, a foreign-ministry spokesperson, said China was grateful for the “desire and love" of the foreign families who wanted to adopt Chinese children. Exceptions would be made for foreigners adopting stepchildren and children of blood relatives in China. More than 160,000 Chinese children have been placed in homes …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

South Korean woman sues government, adoption agency after kidnapped daughter was sent abroad

LA Times

Han Tae-soon speaks during a news conference Monday in Seoul. It’s the first known case of a Korean birth parent suing for damages against the government and an adoption agency over the wrongful adoption of their child, said Kim Soo-jung, one of the lawyers representing Han. Speaking to reporters in front of the Seoul Central District Court, Han argued that …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families

The Independent

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3 months ago

Families from Tennessee to California seek humanitarian parole for adopted children in Haiti

Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities. Reed and other families said they were initially told they would be part of the evacuation group, but the U.S. government later said that “despite intensive efforts,” it …

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3 months ago

Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children

CNN

Seoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby exporter” – sending hundreds of thousands of children overseas after the country was ravaged by war and many mothers left destitute. “It’s truly terrifying to hear how systemic these issues were, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily surprising,” said Susanné Seong-eun Bergsten, who …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

LA Times

A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s. Ha Kum Chul, one of the commission’s investigators, said inmate records show at least 20 adoptions occurred from Daegu’s Huimangwon and South …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China halts foreign adoptions, leaving questions about pending cases

The Hindu

The Chinese government is ending its inter-country adoption programme, and the U.S. is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of American families with pending applications. The embassy is seeking clarification in writing from China's Ministry of Civil Affairs, the U.S. State Department said Thursday. At a daily briefing Thursday, Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China is ending foreign adoptions of its children. That leaves hundreds of American families in limbo

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — China is ending most foreign adoptions of its children, leaving hundreds of American and other foreign families with pending applications in limbo. “We are grateful for the desire and love of the governments and adoptive families of relevant countries to adopt Chinese children.” The ban raises uncertainty for hundreds of American families currently in the process …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

'We want answers': Hundreds of families in limbo after China ends overseas adoptions

NPR

'We want answers': Hundreds of families in limbo after China ends overseas adoptions toggle caption Greg Baker/AP Three years ago, Laurie Carey from Birmingham, Ala., would admire videos of the little boy she was set to adopt from China, as he said "mama" and "baba" while looking at photos of Carey's family. " Sponsor Message Carey is one of the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China’s halt of foreign adoptions leaves questions about pending cases

Associated Press

BEIJING — The Chinese government is ending its intercountry adoption program, and the U.S. is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of American families with pending applications. The embassy is seeking clarification in writing from China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs, the U.S. State Department said Thursday. The government later resumed adoptions for children who had received travel …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China’s halt of foreign adoptions leaves questions about pending cases

LA Times

Spanish couples take their newly adopted Chinese children for a walk in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 2007. In a phone call with U.S. diplomats in China, Beijing said it “will not continue to process cases at any stage” other than those cases covered by an exception clause. The U.S. Embassy is seeking clarification in writing from China’s Ministry of Civil …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Parents hoping to adopt orphans of Wayanad landslide may not have their wish granted

The Hindu

Compassionate parents hoping to adopt orphans of Wayanad landslide may not have their wish granted. Incidentally, a few parents had contacted various agencies expressing their willingness to adopt the Wayanad children. “The children in Wayanad are in the care of their immediate relatives at the relief camp set up by the government,” said Jose Kandathil, the chairperson of the CWC. …

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6 months ago

Norway tightens controls over adoptions from abroad but won't ban practice as investigation unfolds

The Independent

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Babies, bargains and bureaucracy: the dark side of child adoption

The Hindu

April 27 was a day of celebration at a four-storey apartment in the bylanes of Boduppal, a residential locality in eastern Hyderabad. “Her offer to us for a child came at a hopeless time when the in-vitro fertilisation procedure had gone in vain and we did not hear back on an adoption request we had filed about five years ago,” …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?

News 18

India tweaked its Juvenile Justice Act to speed up the child adoption process when a large number of minors were abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, of the 4,009 children adopted in the last one year, 449 were in-country adoptions, according to the data collated by the Central Adoption Resource Authority, under the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Rights Of Adopted Children Of Citizens Can't Be Marooned: Karnataka HC Directs CARA To Consider Granting NOC For Child Adopted From Non-Hague Convention Country

Live Law

The Karnataka High Court has directed the Central Adoption Resource Authority to consider the representation of a couple who are Indian Citizens and have adopted a child in Uganda, a country which is not a signatory to the Hague Convention 1995 and seeking to legalise the adoption in India in terms of Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and the Adoption Regulations …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Post-Covid, more orphaned girlchildren find homes

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha’s child adoption rate has gone up marginally, particularly in case of girls, post the Covid-19 pandemic. This was pointed out in a report furnished by Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani as answer to a question on ‘adoption of orphans’ in the Lok Sabha recently. This includes 163 children within the country and 25 who were adopted …

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10 months ago

Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families

The Independent

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Can an adopted child be 'returned?' Here's what rules say

Firstpost

Two cases of couples from Uttar Pradesh and Kerala wanting to return their adopted children have hit the headlines recently. Let’s look at the rules, what the courts said and why experts say ‘returned children’ are seemingly becoming a bigger problem Two unusual cases have hit the headlines recently. “Many Indian parents tried to adopt older children, but they realised …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark’s only international agency winds down work

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency said Tuesday that it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children’s biological origins abroad. The Danish agency announced it was getting out of the international adoption business on the same day Norway’s top regulatory body recommended stopping …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Sri Lanka adoption case against Dutch State must be retried

NL Times

The Dutch State and the adoption mediation agency have solid reasons to appeal a ruling on a Sri Lankan adoption from 1992. The case revolves around a woman who was born in Sri Lanka and was soon after adopted by Dutch parents. The woman wanted a judge to rule that both the state and the adoption mediation agency had acted …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Mystery deepens as child adopted illegally dies

Deccan Chronicle

WARANGAL: The death on Saturday of a six-month-old infant allegedly adopted illegally by a couple from the USA in Hanamkonda has raised several questions. Rani, along with another hospital staff member Krishnaveni, got a six-month-old male child and gave him to Kareem and Ashama for adoption under Inter-Country Adoption. When Kareem and Ashama were taking the child along with them …

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1 year, 6 months ago

South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered origins

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday it will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States. The new cases in the commission’s expanded inquiry into South Korea’s foreign adoption boom involve adoptees in 11 nations including the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

South Korea to look into more cases of adoptees whose records might have been falsified

LA Times

Peter Moller, second from right, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, submits documents to South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday that it would investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the U.S. The new …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Abject poverty forces tribal couple to give their infant in adoption, say officials

The Hindu

Abject poverty is said to have forced the tribal couple, Daravathu Vasundara and Murthy, to give their infant baby, who is their third daughter, in adoption to an issueless couple, say officials. “As I have three daughters and am poverty-stricken, I gave the baby girl for adoption,” Mr. Murthy reportedly told the officials of the Women Development and Child Welfare …

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1 year, 7 months ago

South Korean court orders agency to compensate adoptee over his mishandled adoption to US

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the country’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where he faced legal troubles after surviving an abusive childhood before being deported in 2016. However, the Seoul Central District Court dismissed …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Over 14,000 children staying in child care homes in A.P., many of them even after crossing 18 years

The Hindu

Official instructions to the managements of child care homes to give priority to reuniting children with their families and not keep them in homes for long periods, are reportedly being observed more in breach and much against the rules. According to official sources, more than 70 children in the 0-5 age group, who are either abandoned or are orphans have …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Russian charged with war crimes: Ukrainian kids can go home

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is being sought for war crimes for deporting children from Ukraine, told a U.N. meeting Wednesday that the children were taken for their safety and Moscow is coordinating with international organizations to return them to their families. An Associated Press investigation, published in October, on Lvova-Belova’s involvement in the abduction of …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Ukraine urges Russians not to adopt nation’s war-hit ‘stolen’ children

Firstpost

Ukraine’s Ministry of Integration of Occupied Territories, has said over 19,514 Ukrainian children are currently considered illegally deported. Russia, meanwhile has not concealed a programme under which it has taken thousands of Ukrainian children, but presents it as a humanitarian campaign Kyiv: Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has urged the Russian people not to adopt children who she claimed …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Swedish investigator says S. Korea key to her adoption probe

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — A Swedish legal expert investigating the country’s international adoption practices said Tuesday she’s trying to determine whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children. She said such findings would be key in determining whether Sweden had effective safeguards or monitoring measures to ensure South …

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1 year, 10 months ago

As support grows for a forced adoption inquiry in WA, there's hope for positive change nationwide

ABC

If survivors of forced adoption fighting for a parliamentary inquiry in Western Australia get their way, they believe it will be partly thanks to an Albany woman's traumatic story. Key points: Danae only found out she was adopted at the age of 50 She said the news left her feeling "overwhelmed" She has criticised the WA government for a "complete …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Western Australia announces parliamentary inquiry into forced adoptions of children

ABC

Western Australia will follow Victoria in holding an inquiry into forced adoption, following two years of campaigning by people who were adopted out as children and mothers who were forced to give up their babies. Key points: WA has announced it will hold a parliamentary inquiry into forced adoptions The practice was common across Australia between the 1940's and early …

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2 years ago

South Korea’s truth commission to probe foreign adoptions

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid- to late-1900s. The decision Thursday opens what could be South Korea’s most far-reaching inquiry into foreign adoptions yet, …

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2 years ago

38 of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck in 2019 were registered in NL

NL Times

All but one of the 39 Vietnamese people who died in a refrigerated truck while being smuggled from Belgium to the United Kingdom in 2019 were registered in the Netherlands. According to Argos, the report shows that the Dutch authorities had taken fingerprints and registered 38 of the 39 people who died by suffocation while in the truck. According to …

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2 years ago

Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation

Associated Press

KHERSON, Ukraine — Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, health staff at a children’s hospital in the south started secretly planning how to save the babies. Russian children’s rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova personally oversaw moving hundreds of orphans from Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine for adoption by Russian families. Local and national security and law enforcement are looking for the …

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2 years, 1 month ago

South Koreans abroad want probe into their past adoptions

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — A group of South Korean adoptees in Europe rallied in Seoul with their local supporters on Tuesday, urging South Korean authorities to investigate their adoptions decades ago that they say were based on falsified documents and involved rights abuses. “We are now fighting for the rights to know our own true story.” Møller said his group …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Nearly 300 demand South Korea probe their adoptions abroad

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — For 40 years, Louise Kwang thought she was an orphan baby found on the streets of the South Korean port city of Busan before her adoption by Danish parents in 1976. I have been made non-existent in Korea, to get me out of Korea as fast as possible.” Kwang is among nearly 300 South Korean adoptees …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Explained | The tedious process of adoption

The Hindu

The story so far: From September 1, District Magistrates have been empowered to give adoption orders instead of courts. The key changes include authorising District Magistrates and Additional District Magistrates to issue adoption orders under Section 61 of the JJ Act by striking out the word “court”. The District Magistrates have also been empowered under the Act to inspect child …

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2 years, 3 months ago

1,000 adoptions pending, but new rule sows confusion

The Hindu

There is confusion over implementation of new adoption rules that require transfer of adoption petitions from courts to District Magistrates, and parents, adoption agencies and activists are worried that this could lead to further delays in a long and arduous procedure. The following month she brought home the girl under pre-adoption foster care pending a formal adoption order from the …

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