May 10 2011]
By Liu Linlin
Alleged child trafficking involving family-planning officials in Hunan Province stunned the nation on Monday.
Over the last 10 years, family-planning “enforcers” in Shaoyang have seized at least 20 children from Longhui county, who were born outside their parents’ birth quota, and dispatched them to a local children welfare center, according to media reports. (more…)
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…)
Bhubaneswar, Mar 26 (PTI) Identifying trafficking of women and children for the purpose of commercial and sexual exploitation as an organised crime, DGP Manmohan Praharaj today opened up an Integrated Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (IAHTU) at the crime branch headquarters in Cuttack.”Trafficking in persons, particularly women and children for various purposes such as commercial sexual exploitation, forced labour, forced marriage, domestic servitude, adoption and begging is an organised crime,” Praharaj said. (more…)
Zwolle-Lelystad, March 7, 2011 – The Family Court of Zwolle-Lelystad has ruled on March 4 in the case of the Indian couple. The Indian couple’s request for a DNA test to determine that a boy adopted by Dutch parents is their biological son, was dismissed by the Court.
Kidnapping
The Indian couple was robbed in 1999 of their son when he was two years old. He would be with the adoptive parents in the Netherlands. These adoptive parents would have adopted their son would in good faith and take care of the now 12-year-old boy since many years. (more…)
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…)
11 January, oral questions – Fake adoption papers and parents who under false pretentions relinquish their children. Arib (PvdA) aks clarity about these ‘horrible’ adoption practices in Ethiopia. According to minister Opstelten (Justice) there is no reason to interfere: “Each signal of child trafficking is reason for investigation.” (more…)
Netherland – Broadcast Brandpunt KRO – 9 January 2011
Pour 318 enfants haïtiens, une nouvelle vie commence. Adoptés par des familles françaises, 114 sont arrivés le 22 décembre 2010 à bord d’un premier avion affrété par le gouvernement. A la veille du Noël, le 24 décembre, 90 autres enfants seront rapatriés. Tous bénéficient d’une procédure d’adoption spéciale mise en place par la France et Haïti.
Ils ont attendu onze mois. Pour les parents adoptifs, ce sont « les plus belles fêtes de Noël que l’on puisse s’imaginer ». Enfin réunis, ils peuvent tenir leurs nouveaux petits dans les bras. Le pédopsychiatre Pierre Lévy-Sousson comprend l’émotion que suscite ce rapatriement accéléré. Néanmoins, il critique sévèrement le processus. Selon lui, l’arrivée de ces enfants haïtiens qui d’ailleurs ne sont pas des orphelins, ils ont toujours leurs parents, s’est faite dans la précipitation. (more…)
Amsterdam – The Council for Child Protecction this month has blocked the adoption procedure of Robert M., the main suspect in the Amsterdam Child Abuse Case.
De verdachte en zijn man, ook verdachte in de affaire, kregen geen zogenoemde beginseltoestemming. Een woordvoerder van de raad bevestigde dat dinsdag.
De woordvoerder benadrukt dat het besluit van de kinderbescherming is gevallen net voordat de zedenzaak aan het licht kwam. Een motivering voor de beslissing wilde hij niet geven. ”We zijn altijd terughoudend met informatie over specifieke procedures en nu extra.”
Als aspirant-ouders tot adoptie willen overgaan, volgt een uitvoerige en vaak langdurige procedure. Het paar krijgt bijvoorbeeld veel informatie.
De Raad voor de Kinderbescherming, onderdeel van het Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie, doet verder onderzoek naar de situatie van de potentiële ouders. Volgens de woordvoerder wordt daarbij gekeken naar de huidige situatie, de relatie, de omgeving en ook naar vaardigheden voor het ouderschap die al aanwezig zijn of mogelijk kunnen worden ontwikkeld.
”Dat doen we zorgvuldig, ook omdat het hier gaat om te adopteren kinderen, en die zijn vaak kwetsbaar.”
De raad kan uiteindelijk een beginseltoestemming geven, waarmee de procedure kan worden voortgezet. In dit geval is die toestemming er niet gekomen. Over de reden wil de woordvoerder dus niets zeggen. De aanvragers kunnen in beroep, maar dat is in dit geval niet gebeurd, aldus de zegsman van de Raad voor de Kinderbescherming.
EC false report first international reactions
Autor: MIRCEA OPRIS 6 decembrie 2010
A member from the Socialist Party of the Dutch Parliament and a member of the European Parliament want an investigation, after Jurnalul National revealed a fake report issued by the European Commission on adoption and children’s rights. The Dutch Member of Parliament also send in Questions to the Dutch Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs & Justice in Holland. (more…)
