Source: http://www.blick.ch Trotz Überbevölkerung tobt zwischen den Industrieländern ein Konkurrenzkampf um Waisenkinder – Paare haben es zunehmend schwer, ein Kind zu finden. Immer stärker mischt sich die Politik ein, doch die Schweiz hat nicht viel mitzureden. Ein exklusiver Report über Interessen und Hintergründe in der Welt der Adoption. Publiziert: 08.09.2013 Voraussetzungen für eine Adoption Der Weg… Read more »
Category: Switzerland
Der Kampf um die Waisenkinder
Source: http://www.blick.ch Trotz Überbevölkerung tobt zwischen den Industrieländern ein Konkurrenzkampf um Waisenkinder – Paare haben es zunehmend schwer, ein Kind zu finden. Immer stärker mischt sich die Politik ein, doch die Schweiz hat nicht viel mitzureden. Ein exklusiver Report über Interessen und Hintergründe in der Welt der Adoption. Publiziert: 08.09.2013 Voraussetzungen für eine Adoption Der Weg… Read more »
Albtraum Adoption
Source: http://www.medientipp.ch 22.5.2013 | 22.55 | SF1 23.3.2013 | 05.10 | SF1 Senkenesh und Hussen leben in Äthiopien und haben fünf Kinder. Als sie die Diagnose Aids bekommen und ihnen ein Arzt sagt, sie hätten nur noch fünf Jahre zu leben, beschliessen sie schweren Herzens, ihre beiden jüngsten Kinder zur Adoption freizugeben. Gert und Henriette in… Read more »
Terre des hommes will no longer be organizing adoptions
Source: http://www.trust.org Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:16 GMT Source: Member International adoption has been a part of the activities of Terre des hommes since the early 1960s. But from Edmond Kaiser and the first children arriving by their dozens, for whom adoptive families were sought urgently, to the complexity of today’s procedures, international adoption has come… Read more »
Spread of ‘baby boxes’ in Europe alarms United Nations
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk UN says hatches in which unwanted newborn babies can be left contravene children’s rights to know and be cared for by parents Sunday 10 June 2012 United Nations is increasingly concerned at the spread in Europe of “baby boxes” where infants can be secretly abandoned by parents, warning that the practice “contravenes the… 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 »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.
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.
