Adoption children’s home questioned (Pisingos)

Date: 2013-04-27

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Source: http://www.elespectador.com
Investigting mysterious donation in London for $ 3.4 million

With nearly half a century of tradition in child protection and adoption, cFoundation was suspended.
By: Hernández Quevedo Norbey

In order to help homeless children, in May 1968 a group of 22 couples decided to create Pisingos Foundation in Bogota. A laudable initiative which for more than four decades became the benchmark for protection of thousands of poor children and an international model for the adoption of infants. However, this week the philanthropic legacy was challenged because millionaires unholy financial dealings resulted in the loss of the operating license and the suspension of legal status for six months.

For several years were an open secret doubts persist about foster homes. First, infrastructure, and second, to rumors about dealings under the table when delivering children for adoption. Preference whiff of foreigners before the nationals.

In 2005 there was a bell. Several houses handed over to families making 383 foreign children. In exchange for donations received about U.S. $ 2.3 million went to accounts in Panama, Cayman Islands, New York and Colombia. Also last year the Attorney showed that several establishments adoption of Bogota, Cali and Medellin operated without control. (more…)

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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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Gandhis vs a Swedish nurse: The murky secrets of international adoptions

by 10 September 2012

Why are the descendants of the Father of the Nation trying to keep an Indian adoptee from finding out who was her birth mother?

Mihir Srivastava’s cover story for Open Magazine about the tangled web of international adoptions tries to shed light on many dark family secrets but the story of Rebeckah Saudamini Arnes, a 34-year-old nurse from Sweden sticks out because of the Gandhi name.

Arnes was adopted by a Swedish couple but when she tried to find out about her birth mother she hit a roadblock. Her adoption was facilitated by Arun Gandhi, the Mahatma’s grandson and later by Tushar Gandhi, his great-grandson through the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation. (more…)

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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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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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Made in Colombia – The other face of adoption (Part 1)

8 April 2012


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UN bashes Swedish children’s rights

Published: 8 Oct 11 11:11 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/36622/20111008/
For the fifth time, Sweden has been criticised by the UN‘s Committee on the Rights of the Child for not having introduced their children’s rights convention as Swedish law.
Sweden signed the convention in 1990, and an added protocol on child trafficking in 2006.
For the first time, the UN committee in Geneva has now investigated how well the Swedish government has followed the protocol on protecting children against trafficking, prostitution and child pornography. (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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China’s government trafficking babies from poor families

Date: 2011-05-15
Source: http://www.youtube.com

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