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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Recalling the pain of forced adoption

Date:2011-03-02
Source:http://www.swissinfo.ch
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch

They came for her one day in the café where she worked – two policemen and a woman from the authorities. “It’s a nice day,” they said, “we’re going for a drive”.
For the next 16 months Michèle Gillard would be in “administrative care”, her rights as a free citizen temporarily suspended.

Until 1981, young people who stepped out of line could be deprived of their freedom without trial or any means of appeal. A recommendation from the guardianship authorities was often enough to seal their fate. (more…)

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Court rules on adoption by grandparent

Source: http://worldradio.ch 
Wednesday, 22 September, 2010, 13:29

Unless a child has no ties with their biological parents, adoption by the grandparents must remain an exceptional circumstance. (more…)

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The International Adoption Working Group urges better adoption process

This article was published on the website www.thehimalayantimes.com
 2010-02-24

KATHMANDU: The ad hoc International Adoption Working Group (IAWG) on Wednesday urged the Government of Nepal to act swiftly to strengthen the adoption process. (more…)

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La boîte à bébés, boîte à controverses

Date: 2010-02-13

La boîte à bébés de l’Hôpital régional d’Einsiedeln (SZ) vient de recueillir un cinquième nouveau-né depuis sa création en 2001

Il y a trois semaines, un nourrisson était déposé dans la boîte à bébés de l’Hôpital régional d’Einsiedeln, dans le canton de Schwytz. C’est le cinquième nouveau-né recueilli par ce biais depuis l’ouverture voici neuf ans de l’unique Babyklappe de Suisse. Une installation qui ne cesse depuis 2001 d’alimenter la polémique sur fond de campagne pro- et anti-avortement. (more…)

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Zwei Kinder sitzen in Chile fest, weil ihre Adoptiveltern nach dem Erdbeben sofort helfen wollten.

Source: www.blick.ch 
Von Romina Lenzlinger | Aktualisiert um 00:48 | 07.02.2010

Eigentlich sollten Talia* (1) und Samu* (3) heute Nachmittag im Flugzeug nach Zürich sitzen. Doch jetzt stecken die Geschwister aus Haiti mit ihrem Schweizer Adoptivvater in Chile fest – weit weg von ihren leiblichen Eltern in Port-au-Prince und weit weg von ihren vier älteren Geschwistern. Aber auch Tausende von Kilometern entfernt von ihrem neuen Zuhause im Kanton Zürich. (more…)

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Adoption: neuf enfants haïtiens sont arrivés en Suisse

19:50 29.01.2010

Neuf enfants de Haïti sont arrivés jeudi à Zurich aux fins d’adoption, a indiqué le Département fédéral des affaires étrangères. Ils ont rejoint leur future famille après un examen médical.

Ces enfants étaient destinés à l’adoption avant le tremblement de terre du 12 janvier. Il ne manquait que la décision finale. Le fait que ces neuf cas étaient “suffisamment documentés” a permis une procédure accélérée, a précisé Georg Farago, porte-parole du DFAE. (more…)

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RĂPIREA COPIILOR ROMÂNI ÎN STRĂINĂTATE

Traficanţi de copii în ţara Cantoanelor

20 decembrie 2009 – 16:11
 
Fetiţa răpită în noaptea de 18 spre 19 octombrie dintr-o clinică de distrofici din Timişoara a fost găsită tocmai în Elveţia. Iniţial a existat suspiciunea că părinţii au înscenat răpirea fetiţei pentru a o duce în Franţa, ţară în care îşi câştigă existenţa. Ulterior, Poliţia română a urmat mai multe piste, însă nici una nu a condus la găsirea minorei răpite. Vineri, conform unor surse din Poliţia elveţiană, fetiţa a fost găsită în familia unei doctoriţe din Elveţia. Doctoriţa a fost deja reţinută de către Poliţia elveţiană sub acuzaţia de trafic de minori, pentru că micuţa avea deja acte şi identitate noi, elveţiene. (more…)
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Uncovering a hidden past

Adopted 48 years ago, Christiane Weideli finally finds out where her birth family came from
BY DARAH HANSEN, VANCOUVER SUN NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Christiane Weideli looks over photos from her childhood in her Vancouver home.
Photograph by: Jenelle Schneider, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Sun
Christiane Weideli holds a photo in her hands of a gorgeous fair-haired baby girl in a white wool coat. (more…)

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