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Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says STORY HIGHLIGHTS (CNN) -- The Guatemalan army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries during the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, a government report has concluded. Around 45,000 people are believed to have disappeared during Guatemala's civil war, 5,000 of them children. Many of those children ended up in the United States, as well as Sweden, Italy and France, said the report's author and lead investigator, Marco Tulio Alvarez. In some cases, the report said, parents were killed so the children could be taken and given to government-operated agencies to be adopted abroad. In other instances, the children were abducted without physical harm to the parents. "This was a great abuse by the state," Alvarez told CNN on Friday… |
Chinese baby girls seized and sold for adoption: reports Local officials have been accused of seizing baby girls from parents who broke birth control limits and helping hand them on to adoptive parents overseas for the equivalent of about ￡1,800 (US$2,930) each, Chinese media reported. Six officials have been punished after children were wrongly sent to an orphanage, local authorities in Guizhou Province confirmed. The authorities were still looking into the role of the institution in the affair. |
Adopting in Sweden: a draining process with amazing returns Published: 15 Jun 09 16:44 CET Meet the Roberts family: Brett, 34, owns a small building company; his wife, Eleonore, is 33 and works in banking; their daughter, Iris, is two and just begun pre-school. On paper, they may seem like any other, but the family is a truly unique trio living in the heart of Stockholm… |
Hård konkurrens om adoptivbarn 29 November 2008, 05.00 |
Sweden betraying the Vietnamese children 17 November 2008 Four adoption agencies: Sweden betraying the Vietnamese children There are many millions of abandoned children in the world who have no families, Debating adoptions in the forum! |
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Sweden offers help over int’l child adoption Hanoi (VNA)- Swedish Secretary of Health and Social Affairs Karin Johansson emphasised her Government’s interest in the child adoption issue in Vietnam and offered help to the Southeast Asian country in ratifying the relevant Hague Convention in the near future.Johansson made this statement during her working session with the Deputy Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Nguyen Thanh Hoa, in Hanoi on November 11. She also expressed expectations of stronger bilateral cooperation in family care as well as in protecting the health and rights of children. Vietnam and Sweden have enjoyed long-standing relations in these sectors, marked by the signing of an agreement regarding international child adoption… |
Sweden to stop adoptions from Vietnam 22 October 2008 Vietnam is popular among Swedes looking to adopt because it allows adoption by single parents and doesn’t have strict age restrictions like many other countries… |
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6 June 2008 One of Scandinavia's largest adoption agencies has illegally adopted children.
Who's who?
Alberto Mazzaroni: Argentine judge who is accused of abiding Kjetil Lehland: then-chairman of Adopsjonsforum. Having a Atilio Alvarez: The then children's ombudsman in Argentina. Gustavo Bobrik: Argentinian consul in Norway during parts of the 1990s. Argentina was opposed to international adoptions already on the twentieth november 1989, when the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted. But Adopsjonforum, a member of the Association EurAdopt, along with another Swedish Adoptionscentrum, defied the new laws… |
Oklart om svensk adoptionskontroll Unclarity about Swedish adoption control 5 June 2008
Hello Margit, me and my husband speculate on applying for about adoption and I have some questions. One has of course read about different adoption scandals and I want to know more about how it all goes. - OK, it is only to ask.
How does it go to when you" search children"? - it is more so that we have contact with countries where they have laws on adoption. They deal with adoptionerna. We work with countries as stipulated in international conventions.
How do you know that they follow those conventions? - one must trust that it goes fairly. |
Czech Republic puts brakes on international adoptions after death of child 04-08-2006 - Linda Mastalir About 40 children born in the Czech Republic have been adopted into families beyond this country's borders each year since 2000. But now, after the death of a Czech-born child entrusted to the care of a family in Sweden, international adoptions have been temporarily halted until the procedures undergo a review. Petr Sedlak, from the Brno-based Office for the International Legal Protection of Children, explains the history of international adoptions of Czech children. "The Czech Republic is a member state of the Hague Convention on Adoption since 2000. So for a period of six years we mediated international adoptions and during this time, there was the case of a Czech child in Sweden, who died in the pre-adoption care of the prospective parents and this situation inspired us to ask if everything in the mediation of international adoptions originating in the Czech Republic is OK, or if we need some new legislation, some new rules for the prospective adoptive parents and so on."
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A young Thai Girl search for her roots in Thailand A young Thai Girl search for her roots in Thailand : The photograph of Maria-Elsa: inset - when she was 10 to 12 weeks old. Maria-Elissa wrote to “Asian Tribune” and sought our assistance to locate her biological parents and her roots in Thailand. “Asian Tribune” undertook to assist her on humanitarian grounds and we appeal to those who might be able to provide some form or … any form of information that might lead to locating Maria-Elissa’s biological parents or members of her family or her biological roots - to contact “Asian Tribune” and leave the information. After checking the credibility of the information “Asian Tribune” would revert back to contact those provided the information for further developments. Given below is the first person testimony of Maria-Elissa : My name is Maria-Elissa - I am 27 years old, said to be a Thai, but brought up in Sweden when I was just a baby less than six weeks old, and I am now a Swedish national and live in Sweden. I was adopted from Thailand in April 1977, during the height of the period when babies were kidnapped by the notorious gang of Pongsawat and Choulay and sold to innocent and unsuspecting Europeans families, especially from Sweden, who visited Thailand with the noble idea of legally adopting Thai babies with the consent of the biological parents and the approval of the Government of Thailand. I presume that everyone in Thailand must have probably heard of this scam by a few notorious gangs long before. It is learnt that between 1975 and 1977 nearly 900 Thai children were taken for adoption just alone in Sweden, unfortunately I am not aware of the adoption details of Thai babies in the other European countries for the corresponding period. Out of the 900 cases of adoption in Sweden from Thailand, just 5 of those adopted children are aware of their real identities and the rest - 895 children are searching for their identities, their biological and genetic roots. Absence of information regarding the biological background of these said 895 children, who were adopted from Thailand points only to one plausible conclusion – probably they were all kidnapped and sold with fabricated identities. |
Thai adoption fraud case closed By Christer Nilsson, 30 December 2002 |
Swedish Adoption License Scandal in Cambodia Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh demands cancellation of Swedish license to adopt Cambodian children. These Cambodian children are offered Swedish parents for an "administrative fee" of 4000 US dollars. Photo: Dennis Thern The United States has stopped all adoptions from Cambodia because of substantiated suspicion of widespread corruption, trade with children and forged documents related to adoptions of children from the still war marked country. Photo: Dennis Thern Who is she? Who knows? Photo: Dennis Thern "Cancel Adoption Centre's (AC) license to adopt from Cambodia!" demands the Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Swedish National Board for Inter-country Adoptions (NIA) issued a license on 20th March 2002 to AC, which is the second largest adoption agency in the world. This decision is now heavily criticised by Sweden's own representation in Cambodia. The Embassy of Sweden writes in an unusually emotional and upset letter, dated 6th June 2002, to NIA that AC's documentation prior to the licensing by NIA is deceptive, contains wrongful information, is faulty and misleading. These Cambodian children are offered Swedish parents for an "administrative fee" of 4000 US dollars. Photo: Dennis Thern The United States has stopped all adoptions from Cambodia because of substantiated suspicion of widespread corruption, trade with children and forged documents related to adoptions of children from the still war marked country… |
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On the night of December 9, 1992, Nancy Apraez Coral was kidnapped with her 11-month-old son, Carlos Alberto, from the home of her son's father in Popayan, a town in the district of Cauca in southern Colombia. The kidnappers were later identified as members of UNASE (Unidad Antiextorcion y Secuestro), an anti-kidnapping unit connected with Colombian state security forces in Popayan. They were apparently searching for the father of Nancy's child, who himself was suspected of involvement in a recent kidnapping. When they did not find him, they took Nancy and her infant son instead. Nancy was killed some time in the next 8 days. In the early morning of December 16, her baby boy was left, dressed warmly and with a bottle of milk, on a street in Pasto, a town about 300 miles south of Popayan, in the Andes near the Ecuadorian border. The child's cries were heard by Cecilia and Conrado Espana, who took him in and later that morning notified the Colombian child welfare department, ICBF (Institute Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar). According to a subsequent Colombian newspaper story, "[H]e was a precious child, swarthy [trigueno], robust, acceptably clothed and had a little white poncho" (Calvache 1995:12A). The child was picked up that evening by welfare officials, and subsequently placed in a foster home pending location of his family or a legal declaration of abandonment. The local newspaper, Diario del Sur, published his picture on its front page the following day, along with an account of his discovery by local residents . Colombian law requires that efforts be made to locate a "lost" or "abandoned" child's family by placing a notice in the local or national mass media. If no family member appears to claim him, the child becomes available for domestic or international adoption. In this case, apart from the report in Diario del Sur, the effort to locate Carlos Alberto's family consisted of announcements on the local (Pasto) radio station on January 14, 15, and 18. When there was no response to these notices, he was declared legally abandoned on February 4, 1993, and was named Omar Conrado Espana, after the family who found him. Two months later, a Swedish couple was selected by ICBF as adoptive parents for the child, and on June 4, 1993, the adoption was completed in Colombia. The child left for Sweden with his new parents, and his adoption was officially recognized by the Swedish government on August 4, 1993. His new parents named him Omar Konrad Vernersson, retaining in his new legal identity the traces of the violent displacements that had shaped his brief life… |
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Greece's Black-Market Babies Come Home -- Stolen Children Demand To Know Their Histories By Nikos Konstandaras Raised in an orphanage and by foster parents and told her mother had died in childbirth, young Amalia Balch and dozens of other children that October were herded aboard an airplane in Greece. When the plane landed in New York City, adults streamed on board to claim the children they knew only by photographs, the kids they had adopted by proxy. "I remember being very sick, and a plane full of children . . . and being very scared," she says. Today, at age 45, Amalia Balch still doesn't know if she was a black-market baby, if her adoptive parents paid money for her. She hasn't pressed the point, but she suspects they did. Over the past 10 years and five trips to the country of her birth, she has learned some truths about her roots. First she learned that she was stolen from her unmarried mother at birth. And recently she was reunited for the first time with dozens of her blood relatives in her mother's home village. Balch is one of thousands of people who now suspect that as infants they were sold in the baby black market that flourished in Greece for more than a decade after the 1946-49 civil war. A baby for $1,000 Almost half a century later, there's no reliable way to determine how many children were taken from poor parents and sold, both in Greece and abroad, in Canada, Australia, Sweden and South Africa, as well as the United States… |
All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise Leonard Doyle / Liz Searle Tonight in dozens of nurseries across Europe and North America, parents will look lovingly down at their adopted children and thank their lucky stars for meeting John Davies. The parents are only too aware that, but for Davies' determination and his unorthodox adoption methods, their cots and playpens might still be empty while they waited for an "official" adoption that might never happen. "A baby delivered to your door", the circular promised. And that is exactly what happened after the prospective parents paid $20,000 to Davies, who runs a company registered in the British Virgin Islands. By deftly bypassing official channels, Davies has ended the heartache and frustration of couples many of whom had been wanting to adopt for years. |
Booming Polish Market: Blond, Blue-Eyed Babies By GABRIELLE GLASER, Poland's opening to Western market forces has brought an unexpected side effect: a booming traffic in the country's blond, blue-eyed babies. Since the fall of Communism two years ago, Western embassies in Warsaw have reported a striking rise in the number of residence visas and passports granted to Polish infants and toddlers. Polish officials say that many of the adoptions are legal but that the black market is growing. And participants in such transactions say some young mothers are being pressed to sign away the rights to their children. In some cases, officials say, poor, pregnant women give up their babies in exchange for money directly. But most often, they say, administrators of homes for single mothers, as well as the attorneys involved in the adoptions, receive up to tens of thousands of dollars… |
10 000 Dollar für ein Baby aus Kolumbien 10 000 Dollars for a Baby from Colombia |
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