Adoption Awareness Month : CARA
Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) celebrated November as National Adoption Awareness Month to promote legal adoptions.
- CARA 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.
- Inter-country adoptions in India adhere to the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003.
- 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”.
