{"id":6795,"date":"2018-08-13T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2018-08-13T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:29:49","slug":"the-australian-government-says-india-has-improved-its-processes-but-one-anti-trafficking-group-says-corruption-is-still-rife-in-the-countrys-orphanages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/the-australian-government-says-india-has-improved-its-processes-but-one-anti-trafficking-group-says-corruption-is-still-rife-in-the-countrys-orphanages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Australian government says India has improved its processes, but one anti-trafficking group says corruption is still rife in the country\u2019s orphanages."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

13 August 2018
\nBy James Elton-Pym<\/p>\n

Australians will once again be allowed to adopt children from India, after the federal government lifted an eight-year suspension over trafficking concerns.<\/p>\n

Assistant Minister for Children and Families David Gillespie confirmed he wrote to his state counterparts on Monday morning, as a group of politicians launched a new pro-adoption advocacy group.<\/p>\n

He said India had \u201cimproved its processes\u201d to comply with the Hague convention on adoption and could rejoin the 13 countries still on Australia\u2019s approved adoption list. Among the Asian nations on the list are Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and China.<\/p>\n

A Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan celebrates pre-Christmas Day with kids at an Indian orphanage.
\nBollywood actor Varun Dhawan celebrates pre-Christmas Day with kids at an Indian orphanage.
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\n\u201cOfficers from the department have been there and checked what they’ve got in place,\u201d Mr Gillespie told SBS News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recommendation is to start with small numbers and obviously observe and make sure that what is in place on paper is what happens in reality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t want to see child trafficking, we don’t want to see children that aren\u2019t getting what they deserve. That is a permanent, safe, caring home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Gillespie said in the lead up to the 2010 decision, orphanages were acting as the \u201cmarketer of the children\u201d and playing the leading role in putting them up for adoption.<\/p>\n

He said the Indian states were now in charge and were running the system more ethically.<\/p>\n

File image of David Gillespie (AAP)
\nAssistant Minister for Children David Gillespie is also considering allowing adoption of children from Kenya.
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\nThe government could also move on a new adoption deal with Kenya, Mr Gillespie said.<\/p>\n

Liberal senator Lucy Gichuhi, who migrated to Australia from Kenya, had already held preliminary talks with the Kenyan president.<\/p>\n

Mr Gillespie said the Kenyan leader was \u201ckeen to reopen discussions\u201d but stressed there were \u201cmany steps before we get to the stage we’ve reached with India\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018It cannot be done right\u2019
\nOne anti-trafficking group has warned the Indian adoption system is still plagued with scandals and corruption, urging the Australian government not to proceed with reopening the pipeline.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure that trafficked children, children who have not been properly [cleared] for adoption will end up with Australian parents,\u201d Arun Dohle from Against Child Trafficking told SBS News, speaking on the phone from the Indian city of Pune.<\/p>\n

Mr Dohle said there were still trafficked children sold to Indian orphanages and he alleges corruption in the country\u2019s child protection agencies was allowing children to slip through the cracks.<\/p>\n

He said there was \u201cabsolutely no way\u201d to conduct proper vetting because the Hague convention makes background checks the responsibility of the source country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to trust the Indian authorities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia would do much better assisting India to take care of the children instead of importing them from India. It cannot be done right. A market in children can never be right.\u201d
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