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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Investigating alleged illegal adoption of tapatías children

Georgina Vallejo
Thursday, March 31
(Google translation)

Lucero and Estela, eight and seven years old, were assigned to an Italian couple.

The president of the Human Rights Commission of Jalisco (CEDHJ), Felipe de Jesus Alvarez Cibrian, confirmed that the defense agency has already begun the investigation regarding the alleged illegal adoption of two girls tapatías by an Italian couple. The complaint was filed by the Foundation for Stolen and Missing Child CA (Find) on the grounds that the State Council on the Family (CEF) of DIF Jalisco, violated several laws to ensure that the sisters Lucero and Estela Perez Velez could be candidates adopted in record time. (more…)

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Cambodia: towards the opening of adoptions

Source: http://www.aibi.it 
Date: 18-03-11
Informal translation from Italian:  

It took just over a year after the entry into force of the new law on international adoptions in Cambodia, which was approved in December 2009 by the National Assembly, the legislative body that regulates the country’s laws on adoptions.

The new law was designed to ensure compliance with the terms of the procedures envisaged by the Hague Convention , to which Cambodia has acceded in 2007. (more…)

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Romania detains two Italians for child trafficking

10 March 2011 | 14:06 | FOCUS News Agency
Home / Southeast Europe and Balkans
Bucharest. Romanian authorities have detained two Italians for child smuggling and using a false identity after they allegedly tried to illegally take a Romanian newborn to Italy, prosecutors said Thursday, AFP informs. (more…)
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The French adoption ambassador inspired by Americans

Source: http://www.france-amerique.com 
Informal translation:
Anaïs Digonnet, March 17, 2011 

Traveling to Washington and Atlanta in late February, Jean-Paul Monchau, France’s ambassador in charge of international adoptions has met his U.S. counterpart and a specialized service provider. Objective: To follow the example of professionalism in American adoptions. 

I first went to Washington where I met my counterpart, Ambassador Susan Jacobs, who handles matters relating to child protection and international adoptions. 

It is important to exchange information on adoption procedures in place for example. In Atlanta, I met members of the organization Illien Adoptions International, which, in some cases, does adoption of American children to foreign countries. (more…)

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After nearly five years of searching, a village in Quang Binh is finally getting answers about the fate of 13 children

Date: 2011-02-06


A Ruc mother in Quang Binh Province holds up photos of her two children. She claims a local center sent them out of the country without her consent. (more…)

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EOCO probes sale of kids at orphanage

Source:http://news.myjoyonline.com  
Thursday, 27 January 2011 Attorney-General, Martin Amidu

The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) has begun investigations into allegations of child trafficking at the Hohoe Christian Orphanage.

The Deputy Executive Director of the EOCO in charge of Operations, Mr Charles Nii Adama Akrong, told the Daily Graphic that his office had reports that the Founder and Executive Director of the orphanage, Mr Nicholas Koku Azakpo, was allegedly engaged in the sale of the children at his orphanage to wealthy buyers in Europe and America. (more…)

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Adoption, national or international?

 

Author: Oana Craciun
23 January 2010 – informal translation

Wednesday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution by which it sent the European states a clear message to encourage adoptions, both domestic and international, so that abandoned children to grow up in families, not centers. 
  
The Resolution comes after a petition from the Italians, that specifically called to unblock international adoptions so that Romanian children could be adopted. That, given that Romania banned since 2003-2004, before the adoption law, the possibility for foreigners to adoption Romanian children without parents. (more…)

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International Adoptions: Coordinating by the EU of the Rules

Date: 2011-01-19

 Informal translation: 

 It ‘s the first significant step toward European Adoptions. With the approval of the Resolution on International Adoption by the European Parliament today international adoption enter fully the responsibility of coordination by the ‘European Union.This is a significant success of Italian MEPs (Roberta Angelilli, Luigi Berlinguer, Patrizia Toia, Sonia Alfano, Luigi De Magistris, Silvia Costa, Lorenzo Fontana, Oreste Rossi, Claudio Morganti) to whom I extend our thanks and the two Italian organisations Friends of Adoption and Amici dei Bambini.who supported them. (more…)

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Mandir: After phone threat, FB messages disturb complainant

DECEMBER 19
 
OVER a month after advocate Anjali Pawar-
Kate, director of voluntary organisation Sakhee
and the main complainant in the alleged Preet
Mandir adoption racket approached Sahakarnagar
police over telephone threats believed to be
from a member of a South African adoptive family,
she’s now troubled by derogatory messages on
Facebook, posted in the community ‘Against
Child Trafficking’ on FB, by some other international
adoptive families. (more…)
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