Slovakia: Adoptions to Italy halted

Missing Documentation Led To Suspension Of Adoptions

25 Mar 2013
Roman Cuprik Politics & Society

ADOPTIONS of Slovak children to Italy were put on hold on February 19, due to what Slovakia identified as missing post-adoption reports on the fate of 72 Slovak children adopted by Italian families. The moratorium will remain in effect until all of Slovakia’s terms are met by the Italian side. Meanwhile, Italy, the country with the highest demand for international adoptions from Slovakia, has promised to supply by April 15 the missing reports on 72 of the 269 children adopted over the past 10 years, Labour Ministry spokesperson Michal Stuška told The Slovak Spectator.

Slovak Labour Minister Ján Richter halted the adoptions on the heels of a visit to Italy on February 13 by Andrea Císarová, the head of the Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth (CIPC), a branch of the Labour Ministry, to discuss the missing adoption reports. Císarová met with representatives of the Italian Commission for International Adoptions (CAI) and inquired about 117 post-adoption reports. However, she was only able to access a few of them, according to the Sme daily.

Slovak MPs began looking into documentation on the adoption of Slovak children in September 2012, after disputed cases of inter-country adoptions emerged, Sme reported. The impetus came primarily from the highly charged case of the Boór brothers, who were originally taken away from their parents, who at that time lived in Great Britain, by British social services. (more…)

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Moscow to create database of Russian children with foreign families – Lavrov

Source: http://rt.com/politics
Edited time: March 22, 2013 19:37Share on Tumblr

Russia is working on a database on all Russian children adopted by foreigners says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Moscow will push for a US response to its requests into suspected cases of abuse of Russian kids in adoptive American families.

Lavrov addressed MPs on Friday after a string of scandals regarding Russian kids adopted by American families. In one of the most recent developments, three-year-old Maksim Kuzmin died in Texas at the end of January. Although US prosecutors have not laid any charges on Maksim’s adoptive parents due to the lack of evidence, Russia has launched its own investigation.

The minister said that when a Russia kid is adopted by an American family – or any other foreign family – in most cases they lose their Russian names. (more…)

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After the establishment of the database on adoptable minors in Italy, a new challenge: European Adoptions

Date: 02/13/18

How many families of European countries go abroad to adopt a child, and could do so in Europe, that is, at home, without spending considerable long and bureaucratic absurd stays abroad?
But above all, how many minors living in communities and educational institutions in the various European countries may find a family in any country in Europe, if we consider that only in Italy there would be 2,300 children currently adoptable?
After the news from the Ministry of Justice of the signing of (February 15) the executive decree activatingf the database of adoptable children and adoptive couples available – which is now awaiting publication – opens in a new challenge to associations for the defense of children’s rights.

We know that when, thanks to the Lisbon Treaty in force since December 2009, the promotion of the protection of children’s rights was officially included in the objectives of the European Union, the treatment of children in each of the Member States is no longer only an internal affair. The European institutions are in fact called upon to play a key role in promoting the protection of these rights, among them are those of the vulnerable group of abandoned children and therefore adoptable. (more…)

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Adoption and Pedophilia: A Chilling Affair

12 January 2012

Translation from Italian, originally published in L’Espresso

English Translation: HERE

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International adoption in free fall

Source: http://www.west-info.eu

by Roberta Lunghini – 01.09.2013 | Comments | Print |
-22.8 %
In Italy, between 2011 and 2012, international adoptions decrease by 22.8% over the previous year. For a total of 3,106 foreign minors who have been authorized to enter our country. Russian Federation (749 children, 24.1% of the total), Colombia (310, 10%), Brazil (270, 8.7%), Ethiopia (233, 7.5%) and Ukraine (225, 7.2%) are, as in 2011, the top five countries of origin of children adopted by the Italian families. These are some of the provisional figures released by the CAI (Commission for International Adoptions).

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Ghana To Streamline Inter-Country Adoption

Source: http://news.peacefmonline.com
4 June 2012

Ghana is to reform its adoption system with the establishment of a Central Authority (CA)at the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) to receive a list of all adoptable children to be entered into a national database.

The CA as part of its mandate would receive all applications for inter-country adoption, enter all eligible applicants for adoption into a register as well as other functions necessary to ensure that the adoption process is carried out in a truthful and transparent manner.

To give impetus to the reforms the DSW has submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare for onward submission to the Cabinet for approval of the creation of the CA, which would serve as a launch pad for Ghana to sign on to the Hague Convention of Inter-Country Adoption.

Ghana, together with Nigeria, DR Congo, South Africa, Mali, Cote d’ Ivoire, Morocco, Uganda and Burkina Faso are countries in Africa that have high international adoption rates. (more…)

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NGOs up in arms against inter-country adoptions

Concerned over the alleged violation of fundamental rights of children, two children’s rights non-governmental organisations (NGOs), viz Thane-based Advait Foundation and Pune-based Sakhee have filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court asking for a complete ban on inter-country adoption of children.

The PIL, to be heard by the bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai, claims that the country lacks proper law for protection of the rights of children up for adoption and, hence, parliament be directed to enact proper laws and amend the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986.The date of hearing is not yet fixed.

Thus, the petitioners through their lawyers Shekhar Naphade, Amit Sharma, Kunal Cheema and Rahul Jain, have claimed that the present laws governing adoption of children in India are not in consonance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children, 1989.

The Central government and Central Adoption and Resources Authority (Cara) have been made respondents in the PIL.
In their petition, the NGOs alleged that corruption and malpractices in the form of children allegedly being sold were rampant in inter-country adoption schemes. They claimed that children to be adopted are at times kidnapped from their biological parents.

Citing recent cases of blatant violation, the petition stated that in many states, cases are running against adoption centres for their alleged involvement in fraudulent and illegal activities.

Anjali Pawar, director of Sakhee, said that Maharashtra alone accounts for more than half of all inter-country adoptions taking place in the country. “Cases against five adoption agencies have been registered for allegedly demanding money for adoption,” she said.

The petition prays for access to all documents related to inter-country adoption in order to assess the extent of the problem in the country.

US, Europe residents lead in adoption
As per the data made available by the Central Adoption and Resources Authority (CARA), 593 children were adopted in the inter-country adoption schemes in 2010.

Majority of the children were adopted by people either in the US or Europe.

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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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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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