German hopes to find her mother

Stanley Pinto, TNN | Mar 23, 2013, 06.48 AM IST

MANGALORE: Chaya Maria Schupp was six when she was adopted by a German couple. At 36, she still yearns to know who she really is, and find the woman who gave birth to her but gave her up, and why. Chaya suspects something amiss.
A resident of Dieburg, 30km from Frankfurt in southern Germany, Chaya has been trying to track her biological mother for years. Now, she is a little more hopeful of meeting her, thanks to the Karnataka high court’s directive to the government to provide all assistance in her long and arduous quest. All she knows is that Ullalholds the key.

Chaya told TOI from Germany: “It’s wonderful; I’m very excited by this verdict . I thank the judge for passing this order so quickly, understanding my turmoil and state of mind. It has rekindled my hope of finding my biological mother . I know police have a lot of power and they will help me.” (more…)

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Scourge of Child Trafficking

Date: 2013-03-02

Indian bi-lingual magazine.

Cover Story is about “Foreign Adoptions” in India and story is rooted in recent 19th Feb Press Conference organised by Against Child Trafficking (ACT) and HAQ Centre for Child Rights. Page 14 to 18.

Full article in English HERE

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India: Family Secrets

15 September 2012

Cross-border adoption: the trauma of knowing one was given away at birth and the travails of trying to find out why

BELONGING
THE QUEST Arun Dohle, in his foster father’s lap
THE QUEST Arun Dohle, in his foster father’s lap (more…)
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Spread of ‘baby boxes’ in Europe alarms United Nations

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
UN says hatches in which unwanted newborn babies can be left contravene children’s rights to know and be cared for by parents
Sunday 10 June 2012 

United Nations is increasingly concerned at the spread in Europe of “baby boxes” where infants can be secretly abandoned by parents, warning that the practice “contravenes the right of the child to be known and cared for by his or her parents”, the Guardian has learned.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which reports on how well governments respect and protect children’s human rights, is alarmed at the prevalence of the hatches – usually outside a hospital – which allow unwanted newborns to be left in boxes with an alarm or bell to summon a carer.

The committee, a group of 18 international human rights experts based in Geneva, says that while “foundling wheels” and baby hatches had disappeared from Europe in the last century, almost 200 have been installed across the continent in the past decade in nations as diverse as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic and Latvia. Since 2000, more than 400 children have been abandoned in the hatches, with faith groups and right-wing politicians spearheading the revival in the controversial practice. (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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Gestohlene Kinder- Auslandsadoption in Indien

Date: 2011-12-20


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„Ich bin ein gestohlenes Kind“

AUSLANDSADOPTIONEN
VON
ANTJE HILDEBRANDT
29. NOVEMBER 2011
CHRISTIAN WEISS/RANDOMHOUSE

Hat ihre Adoptionsgeschichte von Indien nach Deutschland aufgeschrieben: Anisha Mörtl
Anisha Mörtl war elf Monate alt, als sie zu deutschen Adoptiveltern kam. Jetzt hat sie ihre Autobiographie geschrieben. Sie entlarvt den schönen Schein der Auslandsadoptionen (more…)

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Baby farm in Moratuwa raided

November 23, 2011, 10:02 pm

By Jayantha Silva

Acting on a tip-off, Probation and Childcare Services and the police yesterday raided a baby farm at Rawathawatte, Moratuwa.

Police told The Island that the raiding party had arrested the person running the baby farm and another person identified as the go-between for the prospective buyers and the baby farm. (more…)

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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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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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