Uruguay approves $513,000 settlement for disappearance, illegal adoption during dictatorship

By Associated Press, Published: January 24

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s president has approved a $513,000 payment to Macarena Gelman, who was illegally adopted during the dictatorship after her mother was tortured and disappeared.

The payment complies with an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that accuses Uruguay of delaying justice for crimes committed by its dictatorship in the 1970s, according to a brief statement posted Tuesday on the presidency’s website.

Gelman’s parents were kidnapped in Argentina and taken to a torture center notorious for being a nexus of Operation Condor, the effort by South America’s U.S.-supported dictatorships to combine forces and eliminate opponents in each other’s countries. (more…)

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Call for re-opening ‘Prem Nivasa’ case

Source: http://www.asiantribune.com
Mon, 2012-01-23 02:32 — editor

By Janaka Perera
Colombo, 23 January, (Asiantribune.com):
Have all doubts about the case involving Blessed Teresa’s Home, ‘Prem Nivasa’ run by the Missionaries of Charity at Rawatawatte Moratuwa in Sri Lanka been cleared?

According to the Patriotic Bhikku Front, Chinthana Parshadaya and Sinhala Bauddhayo the speed in which the investigations were supposedly completed has given cause to strong suspicions since Cardinal Malcolm Ranjit had threatened to boycott State-sponsored Christmas festivities unless Rev. Sister Mary Eliza – the nun in charge of the home – was released before Christmas last year. In less than two weeks after the threat was issued the case against Sister Eliza was withdrawn on the advice of the Attorney General in time for the Cardinal to attend a Christmas festival held under the President’s patronage at Temple Trees on December 22.

The three organizations demand to know why there is no response yet on the part of the authorities to their appeal for reopening the case involving ‘Prem Nivasa.’ (more…)

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They pose as single parents to circumvent domestic law

To adopt kids, foreigners shed live-in tag
Sandeep Moudgal and Chethan Kumar, Bangalore, December 13, DHNS:

As India gets stringent with its adoption laws, more so in the case of couples in live-in relationships, foreigners, especially the Westerners do not even mind shedding their ‘live-in’ tag to adopt and take home their bundle of joy.

According to sources in the Women and Child Development Department (WCD)?a lot of these people, pose as single parents as it helps them circumvent the Indian laws on adoption, which bar couples in a live-in relationship, even if they are foreigners, from adopting a child. Ramesh Zalki, Secretary, WCD, confirmed that the laws do not permit any live-in couple, regardless of their nationality to adopt children in India. (more…)

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NCPA raid on charity: Why the furor?

Source: http://www.asiantribune.com
Sun, 2011-12-11 00:51 — editor
Sri Lanka

By Janaka Perera

Colombo, 11 December, (Asiantribune.com):

The National Child Protection Authority’s raid on Prem Nivasa, the Catholic-run Charity at Rawathawatte, Moratuwa has apparently disturbed a hornets’ nest. Is this the only organization in Sri Lanka that law-enforcement agencies have raided following complaints?

There is no doubt a controversy surrounds the allegations made against the charity. But have not people (both members of the laity and clergy of other religions too) been arrested before on suspicion or on complaints made regarding child abuse or other offences. Some have been arrested, some acquitted and others convicted – among them Buddhist monks.  But have Buddhist prelates and Buddhist organizations protested against such arrests?.  Did they hold media conferences and threaten to boycott state functions? (more…)

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Tamil Nadu kids given away in adoption scam

Nov 19, 2011 – Pramila Krishnan | DC | Chennai

Five children from Tamil Nadu were given in adoption to five foreign couples violating adoption norms with the help of NGO Guild of Service (GoS), in Chennai.
The state social welfare department has decided to revoke GoS’ licence. It was found to have given 202 children in adoption, including 54 to foreign countries, during 2006-10. And it was found to have received huge sums as donations. (more…)

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Government expected to pass strict laws regarding adoption of children

November 10, 2011 1:11 am TWN, The China Post news staff

The China Post news staff–The Legislature is expected to pass a law tomorrow to impose stricter regulations on child adoption, a newspaper reported yesterday.

The proposed revisions to the child welfare law address concerns over buying and possible human trafficking arising from Taiwan’s lax regulations, the United Evening News reported. (more…)

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UNICEF report on trafficking out of Humla to the Michael Job Center in Tamil Nadu

Date: 2005

This report was suppressed by Unicef and was now made available on ‘scribd’.

Full report HERE

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South Africa tightens rules for foreign adoptions

Date:  2011-10-14
15:03 AEST Fri Oct 14 2011
In the wake of Madonna’s adoptions in nearby Malawi, and a commercial surrogacy boom in India, South Africa is laying out stricter rules for foreigners looking to make families here.

Last month a court in Pretoria set out guidelines for foreigners looking to hire a surrogate mother in South Africa. In 2010, a new child welfare law made it tougher for foreigners to adopt.

The overall message is that children born in South Africa are better off in their own country, and foreigners need to show a commitment to living here if they want to use South Africans to help them make a family. (more…)

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Chinese orphanages buying babies for foreign adoption, investigation finds

Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au
From:         NewsCore
October 14, 20114:30PM

CHINESE orphanages may still be buying babies and offering them for foreign adoption, Sky News discovered in an investigation.

It follows a series of scandals linking China’s foreign adoption program to baby trafficking and the illegal confiscation of children.

Since international adoptions began in China in the early 1990s, more than 100,000 children have been adopted by foreign nationals. Adoptive couples are told by the Chinese authorities that the babies they adopt are either orphaned or abandoned.

But an undercover investigation by Sky found more than one government orphanage that would happily buy a baby that could have been kidnapped. (more…)

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Court orders El Salvador to investigate children’s disappearances

October 10, 2011 | 4:22pm
REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY — Human rights advocates are hailing an international court decision ordering the government of El Salvador to fully investigate the cases of hundreds of children who disappeared during the nation’s civil war three decades ago.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San Jose, Costa Rica, found rights violations in the cases of six youngsters who vanished after being taken away by soldiers in 1981 and 1982.

One of the six children, Gregoria Contreras, 4 years old when she disappeared, was reunited with her family many years later after being tracked down by a Salvadoran group, the Assn. for the Search for Missing Children, also known as Pro-Busqueda. The group’s enduring search for children who went missing during the conflict was chronicled earlier this year by The Times here. (more…)

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