Die verschwundenen Kinder von El Salvador

Source:  http://derstandard.at 
29. August 2011 23:29

Viele Bürgerkriegsopfer wurden von Militärs für Adoptionen im Ausland entführt
San Salvador – Das verknitterte und vergilbte Schwarz-Weiß-Foto hütet Raúl wie einen Schatz. Es ist das Einzige, was er von seiner Mutter noch hat. Als Raúl vier Jahre alt war, brachte seine Mutter ihn und den um ein Jahr jüngeren Jorge in einem kirchlichen Kinderheim in Sicherheit vor den Wirren des salvadorianischen Bürgerkriegs. Mit sieben erfuhr Raúl, dass seine Mutter tot war.

Sie war in den kirchlichen Basisgemeinden aktiv, die vom Militär als Zuarbeiter der Guerilla verdächtigt wurden. 1992 endete der Bürgerkrieg in dem mittelamerikanischen Land. Raúl war 15, er und sein Bruder blieben Kriegswaisen. Rund 75.000 Menschen starben im Bürgerkrieg, mehr als 8000 gelten immer noch als verschwunden, darunter 871 Kinder. (more…)

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Indo-french baby trade commission

French man, Indian woman booked for taking infants out of the country with fake documents; cops say it’s part of a larger scam

Abhijit Sathe
Posted On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 03:44:18 AM

The Mumbai Police is searching for a 22-year-old woman believed to be the key in a large scam involving the trafficking of infants from India to countries where commercial surrogacy is illegal. (more…)

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Salvadoran group dogged in search for children missing years ago in civil war

Source:  http://www.bellinghamherald.com  
POSTED: Sunday, Jul. 24, 2011

 By KEN ELLINGWOOD - Los Angeles Times

GUARJILA, EL SALVADOR Her name is Milagro, or it was before her mother’s heart broke into a million bits.

The girl was 4, dark-toned and skinny. On the day soldiers took her away, she wore a violet dress with short sleeves and tiny pleats. She had no shoes.

“They took my girl and said, ‘Go, old lady!’ ” recalled her mother, Enma Orellana. The woman ran in fear, looking back just once, when the girl cried, “Mama!”

That was 29 years ago, when El Salvador waged war with itself and left hurts that have never healed. In the turmoil, more than 800 children disappeared, often into the hands of Salvadoran soldiers who used brutal tactics to battle leftist rebels and sympathizers.

The youngsters, including some whose parents had died, often ended up in orphanages under made-up names. Many were funneled by unscrupulous lawyers into a lucrative international adoption market or kept by the same military officers who took them. At least 400 remain missing. (more…)

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Libya: 105 Children Kidnapped in Misrata Orphanage

Source: http://www.mathaba.net
Posted: 2011/07/13

From: Mathaba

World silent as Libyan children abducted and disappear abroad to unknown fate

TRIPOLI (mathaba)—“Libya´s Social Welfare minister Ibrahim Sharif has denounced that 53 young girls and 52 boys were kidnapped from the Misrata Orphanage,” said Telesur TV special envoy to the Northern African nation, Rolando Segura. (more…)

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L’adoption internationale : une priorité qu’on veut nous imposer

Date: 2011-06-27
Haïti: Cet article est dédié à tous les parents haïtiens qui jusqu’à ce jour gardent l’espoir de retrouver leurs enfants séparés d’eux à la suite du tremblement de terre du 12 janvier 2010.

Quelques jours après le tremblement de terre de 2010, un journaliste étranger écrivait : l’adoption internationale n’est pas une aide humanitaire. Suite au tremblement de terre, en effet, l’adoption internationale a dominé l’actualité internationale ; aujourd’hui encore elle semble être le thème central de ceux-là qui prétendent oeuvrer pour la protection et le bien-être des enfants. (more…)

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Babies just another commodity

Source: http://m.nzherald.co.nz
18 June, 2011
In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.

They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising parents they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned.

Between 2001 and 2007, hundreds of Nepali children with living parents were falsely listed as orphans and adopted by high-paying Western couples a world away. (more…)

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Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions

Date: 2011-06-05

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

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk 
By IAN BIRRELL
10th April 2011

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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Une demande d’adoption en France ne peut s’appuyer sur un acte notarié non légalisé dans le pays d’origine

Date: 2011-04-06

Par un avis rendu le 4 avril 2011 (n°11-00005P), en conformité avec les conclusions de l’avocat Général, Odile Falletti, la Cour de cassation a estimé qu’était sans effet devant les juridictions françaises, un consentement par acte authentique non légalisé, donné à l’étranger par les parents biologiques en vue de l’adoption plénière de leur enfant en France. (more…)

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Teodor Baconschi: Government’s position is firm, Romania will not resume international adoptions

3 April 2011
Source: Romania for Export Only
Commenting on Wikileaks, the Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister reconfirmed Romania’s commitment to no not resume the export of children.

From Hotnews.ro 
 
Baconschi
Photo: Agerpres
The Romanian Government’s position not to allow the resumption of international adoptions remains firm, although there is ”lobbying” from several European countries and the U.S., said Foreign Minister Baconschi on Sunday to Pro TV, according to Mediafax. (more…)

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