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 In less than two weeks after the threat was issued the case against Sister Eliza was withdrawn on the advice of the Attorney General in time for the Cardinal to attend a Christmas festival held under the President’s patronage at Temple Trees on December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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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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Nepal comes to terms with foreign adoptions tragedy

28 September 2011

By Thomas Bell
Kathmandu

Hundreds of parents in Nepal are struggling to come to terms with the fact that their children have been adopted by Western couples without their consent.

Adoptive parents pay thousands of dollars in fees and “donations” to orphanages and government officials who process their cases, creating what many observers describe as an incentive for widespread abuse.

Fraud in international adoption became so rife that several Western governments suspended adoption from Nepal in 2010.

“Many of the documents turned out to be false,” explained one diplomat. “When we tried to investigate, we were either blocked by the Nepalese government or we were unable to confirm anything we had been told.” (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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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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Adoption is back in business at home

Sunday, July 10, 2011, 13:11

Rashi Aditi Ghosh/ Zee Research Group

Adoption is back in business in India. The adoption levels within the country more than doubled in the last four years. In contrast, adoption of kids born in India abroad has registered a sharp fall. But nobody is losing sleep over that. (more…)

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Pictures of hope

Last updated: 2/25/2011 13:00 
Cao Thi Thu (R) and Cao Thi Hong with pictures of their missing children allegedly stolen for adoption to Italy from Vietnam’s Ruc community.

Cao Thi Thu (R) and Cao Thi Hong with pictures of their missing children allegedly stolen for adoption to Italy from Vietnam’s Ruc community. (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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