Date: 2013-04-27 [GOOGLE TRANSLATION] 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…. Read more »
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Slovakia: Adoptions to Italy halted
Source: http://spectator.sme.sk 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… Read more »
Gandhis vs a Swedish nurse: The murky secrets of international adoptions
Source: http://be.bing.com by FP Staff 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… Read more »
India: Family Secrets
Source: http://www.openthemagazine.com 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 BY Mihir Srivastava EMAIL AUTHOR(S) Tagged Under | adoption | birth | foster parents BELONGING THE QUEST Arun Dohle, in his foster father’s lap
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,… Read more »
NGOs up in arms against inter-country adoptions
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com 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… Read more »
Made in Colombia – The other face of adoption (Part 1)
8 April 2012
UN bashes Swedish children’s rights
Source: http://www.thelocal.se 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,… Read more »
Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions
Date: 2011-06-05 Source: http://www.independent.co.uk 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…. Read more »
China’s government trafficking babies from poor families
Date: 2011-05-15 Source: http://www.youtube.com
