Dr. Eric Agstner
Drei neueste Urteile aus Indien, Deutschland und den Niederlanden
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Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions
Date: 2011-06-05
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk
Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world
By Laurie Penny
Sunday, 5 June 2011
In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing. They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising that they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned. (more…)
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The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti.
‘Outside it is a sunny day. Then you step inside the walls of an orphanage and realise that the children there have been exposed to rapes, severe beatings, emotional and mental trauma,’ she said. It was even more disturbing, she added, than the damaged children she came across amid the deadly mayhem of Darfur.
But perhaps the most troubling thing is that these tragic scenes in Haiti are not unusual. In dozens of places around the world, unregulated orphanages have become a boom business trading off Western guilt. Our desire to help is backfiring in the most dreadful fashion. (more…)
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Musiol zu Auslandsadoptionen: Lizenz zum Kinderhandel abschaffen
Date:2010-02-02
Source:www.ots.at
Utl.: Österreich ist säumig bei der Umsetzung von internationalen Übereinkommen
Wien (OTS) – “Derzeit werden in Haiti Kinder auf illegale Weise
ihren Eltern entzogen, um der Adoption zugeführt zu werden. Solche
Adoptionen können auch in Österreich passieren”, stellt die Familien-
und Verfassungssprecherin der Grünen, Daniela Musiol, fest. (more…)
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Kinder als Exportschlager
Source: www.wienerzeitung.at
Von Thomas Schuler
Auslandsadoptionen sind oft ein Deckmantel für Kinderhandel. Besonders schlimm war (und ist zum Teil noch) die Situation in Rumänien. Die ehemalige EU-Beamtin Roelie Post kämpft massiv dagegen an. (more…)
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Dunkle Kinder in weißen Familien
Source: diepresse.com
20.01.2009 | 18:24 | GÜNES KOC (Die Presse)
Nicht nur Stars wie Madonna adoptieren afrikanische Kinder. Auch in Österreich haben viele Paare den Wunsch nach einer „bunten“ Familie. (more…)
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Das Geschäft mit der Adoption
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Adoption agency in child kidnap probe
January 09, 2008
Article from: Agence France-Presse
VIENNA’S prosecutor is investigating a local adoption agency amid allegations that it may have brought “stolen” children to Austria, the national press agency APA has reported. (more…)
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