PRESS INVITE
Date: 19th February 2013
Venue: Press Club Lawns, 1, Raisina Road, New Delhi-110 001
Time: 3:30 pm
Child trafficking and intercountry adoption: Need to unveil the reality
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Press Invite New Delhi: Child trafficking and intercountry adoption: Need to unveil the reality
‘Ban inter-country adoptions’
Source: http://www.deccanherald.com
Bangalore: Feb 19, 2013 DHNS
Activists urge overhaul of laws in bid to curb child trafficking
Child rights activists demanded an overhauling of adoption laws and a ban on inter country adoptions citing instances of child trafficking. Around 10 parents from various states came to talk about their experiences of child trafficking related to adoptions abroad on Tuesday at a press conference.
The activists said many adoption agencies are involved in inter-country adoption scandals and despite written complaints to CARA (Central Adoption Resource Agency) they are still running.
“In many cases even the CBI has confirmed trafficking. However, these agencies are still running, some have changed their names,” said Anjali, an activist from Pune.
The activists said so far there has been no segregated data compiled by CARA on how many adoptions are in waiting, how many children are free for adoption, how many children are in the special needs category and how many inter-country adoptions have taken place. “The first flaw is that CARA has only adoption guidelines and does not have a law. Some guidelines are vague, like CARA claims that preference will be given to intra-country adoptions, and children with special needs will be given for inter-country adoption,” said activist Bharti Ali. (more…)
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Parents Nagarani and Kathirvel
Countries: India, The Netherlands
Agencies: Malaysian Social Services, Meiling
Nagarani and Kathrivel’s son was kidnapped during the night in Chennai, India. Five years later the kidnappers were arrested and they confessed that her son had been sold to an orphanage Malaysian Social Services Chennai and subsequently was given for adoption to adoptive parents in the Netherlands, through the mediation of a Dutch adoption agency.
ACT retraced the child in the Netherlands. The adoptive parents have so far refused to cooperate in DNA testing, to proof that the child is indeed Nagarani’s. ACT helped this Indian family to find a Dutch Attorney and to file a Court case in the Netherlands that took place in June 2010.
After two weeks, Nagarani and Kathirvel went back to India. Without even having met the adoptive parents, who did not appear in Court.
The Family Court of Zwolle-Lelystad has ruled on March 4 2011 in the case. The Indian couple’s request for a DNA test to determine that a boy adopted by Dutch parents is their biological son, was dismissed by the Court. Furthermore, Kathirvel and Nagarani were condemned to pay the costs of the expert hired by the Court: 4.763 Euros (= 6,574 USD)
If you would like to support Nagarani and Kathirvel:
Or bankaccount:
Against Child Trafficking, the Netherlands
Bank Account 67 26 82 060
IBAN: NL41 INGB 0672 6820 60
BIC: INGBNL2A
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Request Indian parents for DNA testing rejected
Source: http://www.rechtspraak.nl
Zwolle-Lelystad, March 7, 2011 – The Family Court of Zwolle-Lelystad has ruled on March 4 in the case of the Indian couple. The Indian couple’s request for a DNA test to determine that a boy adopted by Dutch parents is their biological son, was dismissed by the Court.
Kidnapping
The Indian couple was robbed in 1999 of their son when he was two years old. He would be with the adoptive parents in the Netherlands. These adoptive parents would have adopted their son would in good faith and take care of the now 12-year-old boy since many years. (more…)
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Indian children stolen for adoption
Source: http://www.thenational.ae
Shaikh Azizur Rahman, Foreign Correspondent
- Last Updated: June 28. 2010
Nagarani, with her husband and two children in the background, at their home in Pulianthope slum in Chennai. Their bid for a DNA test to confirm whether a boy adopted by a Dutch family is their son kidnapped 11 years ago was turned down. Shaikh Azizur Rahman / The National
CHENNAI, INDIA // When Nagarani and her husband, Kathirvel, reached the Netherlands from India this month, the couple believed they would be able to prove that a 12-year-old Dutch boy was their son Sathish, who had been stolen from their home in a Chennai slum 11 years ago.
But a Dutch family court last week turned down the couple’s request for a DNA test on the adopted son of a Dutch ethnic Indian family, ruling that it risked inflicting severe emotional trauma to the minor. (more…)
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Continuation “DNA case” Indian couple
Source: http://www.rechtspraak.nl
Zwolle-Lelystad, 23 June 2010 – Today, the three-judge family section of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad proceeded behind closed doors with the hearing of the request filed by the Indian couple in the “DNA case”. For further information about this case please be referred to the press releases issued by the court on 11 June and 15 June last.
Adoptive parents present
Today’s hearing was attended by the adoptive parents and their lawyers, the special curator of the child and the lawyer of the Indian couple. (more…)
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Continuation “DNA case” Indian couple
Zwolle-Lelystad, 23 June 2010 – Today, the three-judge family section of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad proceeded behind closed doors with the hearing of the request filed by the Indian couple in the “DNA case”. For further information about this case please be referred to the press releases issued by the court on 11 June and 15 June last. (more…)
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Indiase ouders ‘Rahul’ doen aangifte van kidnapping
Source: http://www.netwerk.tv
De zaak rond het geroofde adoptiekind ‘Rahul’ krijgt een nieuwe wending: het Indiase echtpaar dat claimt dat ze de biologische ouders van de jongen zijn, stappen naar de politie om aangifte te doen van kidnapping.
(more…)
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Chennai couple seek embassy help in fight over boy
Source:http://www1.lite.epaper.timesofindia.com
Chennai: The Netherlandsbased organisation Against Child Trafficking,which is helping Nagarani Kathirvel to fight the case,claiming that a 12-year-old boy is her son,wrote to the the ambassador to the Netherlands,Manbir Singh,and urged the Indian mission to take up the issue.
Kathirvel and Nagarani fear that their interests may not be given equal weight and request your Embassys urgent support in case a DNA testing would not be imposed by the Court.They are worried about the wellbeing of their child and request your urgent intervention to help them confirm their parenthood and to gain access to the child, said Arun Dohle,representing the organisation,in his letter written a day after the court session. (more…)
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