Human trafficking NGO believes that the move is a step forward, but could have less than desirable consequences

Christian Wenande
May 10, 2013 – 14:22
Adoptions have dropped since revelations that ‘child harvesters’ were being used in Ethiopia to lure local families into putting their children up for adoption (Photo: Colourbox)

A new report from the parliamentary ombudsman to the national social appeals board, Ankestyrelsen, about adoption rules means that biological parents could gain the right to have contact with the children they’ve given up.

The report maintains that “the right for an adopted child and his/her biological family to maintain a family life established before the adoption by way of contact is protected” by the European human rights convention.

The report’s recommendations represent a massive change to how adoption terms are interpreted today.

“The statement is a breach of how the adoption process has been regarded until now, where parental rights over the adopted child have unequivocally belonged to the adoptive parents,” Lene Myong, an associate professor at Aarhus University who has researched cross-cultural adoptions, told Politiken newspaper. (more…)

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Adoption children’s home questioned (Pisingos)

Date: 2013-04-27

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Source: http://www.elespectador.com
Investigting mysterious donation in London for $ 3.4 million

With nearly half a century of tradition in child protection and adoption, cFoundation was suspended.
By: Hernández Quevedo Norbey

In order to help homeless children, in May 1968 a group of 22 couples decided to create Pisingos Foundation in Bogota. A laudable initiative which for more than four decades became the benchmark for protection of thousands of poor children and an international model for the adoption of infants. However, this week the philanthropic legacy was challenged because millionaires unholy financial dealings resulted in the loss of the operating license and the suspension of legal status for six months.

For several years were an open secret doubts persist about foster homes. First, infrastructure, and second, to rumors about dealings under the table when delivering children for adoption. Preference whiff of foreigners before the nationals.

In 2005 there was a bell. Several houses handed over to families making 383 foreign children. In exchange for donations received about U.S. $ 2.3 million went to accounts in Panama, Cayman Islands, New York and Colombia. Also last year the Attorney showed that several establishments adoption of Bogota, Cali and Medellin operated without control. (more…)

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DanAdopt attended the meeting

23 APRIL 2013
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As the Appeals Board should assess criticism of DanAdopt eligibility, the  adoption agency attended the meeting, said the local officials from the region.

By Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensency
- It’s crazy.

So clearly says Left’s social spokesman Eivind Vesselbo himself. Also he has been made aware that since Appeals Board, which oversees the area of  adoption, traveled to Ethiopia and met important sources and Dan-Adopt attended  the meeting.
- It is absolutely crazy and it shows how rotten the system is. It is an expression of the Appeals Board is too close to the two organizations, as it should supervise. Now we just stopped that municipalities must supervise themselves, and then it comes out here. It needs to change, says Eivind Vesselbo. (more…)

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Either she’s lying – or is important information lost

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Neither the Appeals Board or Social Security will answer why information about the men not in the confidential report, which the Minister has presented.

23 APRIL 2013 PM. 22:02

Social Affairs Karen Hækkerup: We are going to go the field of international adoptions through with a magnifying glass …
By Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen

- Minister of Social Affairs has a problem.

So clearly underlines the Liberal Eivind Vesselbo situation after the evening has come to light that important information about local officials information about the men in Ethiopia is presented to parliament.
Neither the Appeals Board or the Minister of Social Affairs will tonight answer why the important information about so-called of men, which was presented at a meeting of Asella in Ethiopia, not been included in the confidential report that the Minister of Social Affairs has produced.

According to the DR information was both Appeals Board and DanAdopt in February made aware of the serious problems between men, which is a violation of the Hague Convention Article 32
- We saw that there were listening to us. We explained the problems, but it was not taken seriously. Appeals Board just told us, that they should solve it all, but nothing happened, says Kedur Nurr as a civil servant of Asella in Ethiopia, where the orphanage, which is now closed, Enat Alem, lay. (more…)

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Danish TV – New Critics in Adoption Case

Date: 2013-04-23
Source: http://www.dr.dk

Arun Dohle (ACT)  interviewed

WATCH ONLINE  http://www.dr.dk

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AC International Child Support: The law must be changed

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10 April 2013

Organization AC International Child would have done international adoptions open, but it requires a change in the law.

Written by: Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen

Chairperson Pia Brandsnes from AC International Child Support says now that adoptions from cultures as the Ethiopian should be open:
- What you have shown stresses that Ethiopia is a good example of a country where a family will never feel that they are not related to their own child – regardless of what they have signed. And therefore we believe that it is an obvious idea to make adoptions open, but it requires a change in the law, says the chairman. (more…)

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Adoption: We were instructed to lie in court

Date: 2013-04-09
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Police have investigated Danish adoption agency’s methods in Ethiopia.

AT. 20:42
Alemsthay Degefu adopted her baby to Denmark, but she told BBC News how DanAdopt Ethiopian partner orphanage ENAT Alem, instructed her to lie in court, so the adoption could go through.

Written by: Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen

Hitherto secret documents reveal now that the two major Danish adoption organizations DanAdopt and AC International Child Support in Ethiopia have been police checked for cheating with children’s papers for adoptions to go through.
Alemsthay Degefu had her baby  adopted to Denmark, but she told DR News how DanAdopt Ethiopian partner orphanage ENAT Alem, instructed her to lie in court, so the adoption could go through.

- From the Kebele up the Court  ENAT Alems people followed me and said what I had to say, and what I had to say, she says.

Several biological mothers who have given up for adoption children to Denmark, told BBC News that they were pressured to lie in court so adoptions could be approved. (more…)

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UNICEF: Child harvesters is a known phenomenon

Source: http://www.dr.d
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Adoption agency DanAdopt refused Sunday to know about the word ‘children harvest’, although it is a common phenomenon.

8 April 2013

Gimma Kebele worked for DanAdopt’s now closed orphanage in Ethiopia, ENAT Alem. Beside the job as a night watchman, he earned money to find suitable families and convince them that they should be adopting their children.
Written by: Nikoline Vestergaard

It is a well known phenomenon when Ethiopian orphanage pays for men to go door to door to collect children for adoption. Those between men are known as the so-called child harvesters.
So says children’s organization UNICEF.

Sunday evening adoption agency DanAdopt denied knowledge of children harvests, in spite of that organization back in November last year after an inspection trip to Ethiopia wrote in a statement that they are aware of the phenomenon. (more…)

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Ethiopian orphanage used ‘child harvesters’ to find children

Source: http://cphpost.dk
Ray Weaver
April 8, 2013 – 15:05

DanAdopt’s closed orphanage used an intermediary to convince families to put their children up for adoption

This woman said she had no idea her children would never return when she allowed them to be adopted in Denmark (Screen Shot: DR/ 21 Søndag)
Adoptions from the the Enat Alem orphanage in Ethiopia were recently halted by the social and integration minister, Karen Hækkerup (Socialdemokraterne), based on reports of children being deprived of food, basic care and medical treatment at the facility. Now new reports have surfaced that the home used ‘child harvesters’ to lure local families into putting their children up for adoption at Enat Alem in violation of the Hague Conventions.

A local man, Gimma Kebele, told the DR News programme ’21 Søndag’ that he worked at Enat Alem and that, along with his duties as a night watchman, he went around local villages visiting families in an attempt to persuade them to put their children up for adoption. Kebele says that he has been involved in 145 adoptions at Enat Alem. (more…)

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Adoptions: Used false death certificates

I have used fake death certificates of biological parents of Ethiopian adopted children who have come to Denmark.

08TH APRIL 2013 KL. 21:34

By: Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen

Ethiopian adopted children have come to Denmark, in which were used fake death certificates for the biological parents. The children’s parents have been declared dead in order to get the adoption to go through. That recognizes DanAdopt now to DR News.

- When there is a registry office in Ethiopia, and it only requires the meeting of three witnesses who say that a person’s death for a death certificate, then it is a very difficult system to have to do, says Senior in DanAdopt Mette Garnæs to DR.

The problems are known

According to Ethiopian law, the biological parents sign and testify if they are to be adopting a child, while a death certificate of the parents, conversely, leads to a quick and easy original separation process. Therefore, it has repeatedly been shown that false death certificates were made for biological parents. (more…)

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