{"id":2080,"date":"2010-06-21T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2011-03-11T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T12:47:14","slug":"mps-calling-for-stop-to-india-adoptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/mps-calling-for-stop-to-india-adoptions\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs calling for stop to India adoptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cphpost.dk\/news\/politics\/49291-mps-calling-for-stop-to-india-adoptions.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cphpost.dk<\/a><br \/>\n21 June 2010 09:49\u00a0RC\u00a0News<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A children\u2019s home and local police in India together helped to carry out illegal adoptions that sent children to Denmark<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nMembers of parliament from both ends of the political spectrum are pushing for a ban on adoptions from\u00a0India\u00a0after reports that children have either been stolen or taken from their parents under false pretences.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Government ally Danish People\u2019s Party and the opposition Socialist People\u2019s Party have called for a halt on adoptions from India after revelations made by public broadcaster DR\u2019s \u201821 S\u00f8ndag\u2019 programme this week.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The most serious allegations of illegally selling children are against children\u2019s home Preet Mandirt in the city of\u00a0P\u00fane. Indian authorities \u2013 who had in 2007 denied that any illegal activity was being conducted by the home \u2013 have now arrested a police officer in connection with the case and revoked the home\u2019s right to conduct adoption procedures.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">DR originally shed light on problems with adoptions from\u00a0India\u00a0in 2007, when it aired a documentary detailing the circumstances of a man who agreed to send his children to Preet Mandirt after his wife died due to complications from childbirth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He later discovered that the children were no longer at the home and had all been adopted by Danes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">DR\u2019s coverage of the Indian police\u2019s recent arrests and confirmation that the adoptions had taking place illegally prompted the calls for the ban.<\/span><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/www.cphpost.dk 21 June 2010 09:49\u00a0RC\u00a0News A children\u2019s home and local police in India together helped to carry out illegal adoptions that sent children to Denmark Members of parliament from both ends of the political spectrum are pushing for a ban on adoptions from\u00a0India\u00a0after reports that children have either been stolen or taken from their&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/mps-calling-for-stop-to-india-adoptions\/\" title=\"Read MPs calling for stop to India adoptions\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}