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Adoption Awareness Month

  • 08 Nov 2024
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Source: PIB 

Recently, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) celebrated November as National Adoption Awareness Month to promote legal adoptions. 

  • About CARA: It is a statutory body established under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and functions under the Ministry of Women & Child Development. 
    • It is the nodal body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions 
  • Theme: Rehabilitation of Older Children through Foster Care and Foster Adoption. 
  • Hague Convention is an international treaty to ensure the prompt return of the child who has been “abducted” from the country of their “habitual residence”. 
    • The Convention shall cease to apply when the child attains the age of 16 years. 

Read More: Adoption in India

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