Date: 2011-05-15
Source: http://www.youtube.com
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China’s government trafficking babies from poor families
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
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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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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CBI files chargesheet in Preet Mandir case
Source: http://www.punemirror.in
It contains names of 114 witnesses, 168 documents against accused
Vijay Chavan
Posted On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 06:03:07 AM
The Special Crime Branch of the CBI on Tuesday filed an 87-page chargesheet against six accused including trustees of Preet Mandir and then chairman of Child Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) for their alleged involvement in illegal child procurement racket and extorting money from the parents. (more…)
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Ethiopia to Cut Foreign Adoptions by Up to 90 Percent
Source: http://www.ethiopian-news.com
March 5th, 2011
Peter Heinlein, VOA
Ethiopia is cutting back by as much as 90 percent the number of inter-country adoptions it will allow, as part of an effort to clean up a system rife with fraud and corruption. Adoption agencies and children’s advocates are concerned the cutbacks will leave many Ethiopian orphans without the last-resort option of an adoptive home abroad.
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women’s, Children’s and Youth Affairs has issued a directive saying it will process a maximum of five inter-country adoptions a day, effective March 10. Currently, the ministry is processing up to 50 cases a day, about half of them to the United States.
A copy of the directive provided to VOA says the reduction of up to 90 percent in cases will allow closer scrutiny of documents used to verify a child’s orphan status. (more…)
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Spanish mother reunited with daughter she was told had died at birth
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
Case is latest in growing scandal over babies allegedly stolen by doctors and sold for adoption over several decades
Case is latest in growing scandal over babies allegedly stolen by doctors and sold for adoption over several decades
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 February 2011
Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco (left) gives a certificate to a family in Madrid in 1942. For many years, parents were awarded for having large families. Baby-stealing is alleged to have begun during Franco’s long rule. Photograph: AP
A Spanish mother has been reunited with her daughter four decades after being told the child had died at birth. (more…)
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Spanish judge rejects ‘baby-theft’ probe
Date:2010-02-01
Source:http://www.france24.com
General Francisco Franco ruled Spain from 1939-75. Spain’s attorney general’s office has rejected a demand that it open a national probe into allegations that newborn babies were stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for decades under a policy approved by Franco’s dictatorship.
AFP – Spain’s attorney general’s office on Tuesday rejected a demand that it open a national probe into allegations that newborn babies were stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for decades under a policy approved by Franco’s dictatorship. (more…)
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Hundreds of Spanish babies ‘stolen from clinics and sold for adoption’
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
The families of 261 babies who disappeared in Spanish hospitals over five decades call for an investigation
The families of 261 babies who disappeared in Spanish hospitals over five decades call for an investigation
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 January 2011 18.56 GMT
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 January 2011 18.56 GMT
Hundreds of Spanish babies were stolen from their parents by a secret network of doctors and nurses and sold for adoption, according to a petition filed in Madrid.
The families of 261 babies who disappeared in Spanish hospitals over five decades called on the attorney general to open an investigation into the scandal, after presenting evidence from former employees at maternity clinics and parents who admitted illegally adopting babies. (more…)
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The 30,000 lost children of the Franco years are set to be saved from oblivion
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk
Pressure is growing to illuminate the fate decreed by the Spanish dictator to the families of his Republican enemies
Pressure is growing to illuminate the fate decreed by the Spanish dictator to the families of his Republican enemies
By Alasdair Fotheringham, Sunday, 2 January 2011
“Did my child die or was he kidnapped?” is something no parent should ever have to ask, and still less so when the kidnappers are the government. But that is exactly the question hundreds of Spanish families are currently demanding that their courts resolve for once and for all about the so-called “lost children of General Franco”. They were already estimated to total around 30,000, and now, it appears, there may be many more. (more…)
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Spanish adoption delight for English couple
Source: http://www.theolivepress.es
January 1, 2011
January 1, 2011
A BRITISH couple had the perfect Christmas present when the Spanish authorities overruled a forced adoption order in the UK.
Valencia social services decided to give the couple’s 10-month-old baby Daniel back, despite Suffolk council insisting they were psychologically ‘unfit’. (more…)
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