Nepalese parents claim their children adopted in Spain - Whistleblowers NGOs in the delivery of children with local family
ANA ROJAS GABRIELA - New Delhi - 03/03/2009
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On the death of her husband, Nirmala Thapa, Nepali, 35, was forced to surrender their three youngest children to a juvenile facility. He offered to take care and educate them while recovering from its economic strangulation. But when he tried to retrieve them, discovered they had been given for adoption to a Spanish family. It is one of the cases recorded by CWIN, a Nepali NGO for the protection of children.
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"She has spent three years trying to return them to their children, but is very difficult: she signed a letter in which the power was down, but cheated because he can not read," said Madhav Pradhan, director of CWIN. Pradhan said that his NGO Thapa helped to report the case to the District government in Kathmandu. Your organization has supported five other Nepalese families to claim seven children who were adopted by the Spanish. In his view, "in Nepal most international adoptions have become irregular.
A study last year by UNICEF and the Swiss NGO Terre des Hommes (TDH) said that poor regulation favored the sale, abduction and trafficking of children, and an industry that thrived in that "it takes more account of the economic benefit the welfare of minors. " Adoptive parents paid $ 25,000 (about 20,000 euros) per child. The center Director recognizes that often fools "poor people in rural areas saying they take their children to boarding school in Kathmandu, and then become available for adoption to foreigners." Seven out of nine parents signed the letter in which he yielded to their children without understanding, the report said.
UNICEF and TDH not clear what percentage of children brought to Spain was in this situation, but that "the irregularities are not uncommon. Up to 80% of guys could have stayed in Nepal "and be reunited with family," said the delegate from TDH, Joseph L. Aguettant.
Spain is the country that has adopted Nepalese from 2000 (681 of 2314 delivered). Of these, about 170 arrived last year. Sources of the Embassy of Spain in New Delhi say their role has been to give the passport to children if the documents are in order.
The Spanish consulted by this newspaper say they knew that their adopted children had biological parents, but in Nepal there as poor families who believe their children will be better abroad. "My daughter is big enough to express their wishes and wanted to be taken: his mother had been widowed and could not keep all their children," says Jose Luis (name). Mary (another nickname) has parents who met her daughter when they went to the Ministry of Justice to corroborate the second time they wanted to give the child up for adoption. "It was a poor family that was relatively happy and peaceful farming that could proceed in a better position. Everything is transparent," he says. The Spanish respondents agree on the rightness of the process. Also, the ideal is that the biological parents could stay with their children, but that it is "utopian" in a very poor country.
But advocates for children's rights take the opposite view: "It is arrogant to think that just because we are rich we are taking a better future. Children are always better with your family and if not, in their country. We are not opposed international adoption, but should be a last resort, "says the representative of TDH. This matches the UNICEF representative in Nepal, Joanne Doucet. "It should promote domestic adoption," asks. However, only 4% of children stay with local families. The secretary of the Ministry of Women and Children do not understand the position of UNICEF and TDH: "Many children will be better off," he says.
Meanwhile, in child care centers and orphanages in Nepal there are about 15,000 children, many of whom have parents and they got there by fraud or coercion. The irregularities were multiplied since 2000, when an orphanage lost its monopoly and its workers "created their own children as business centers," says the manager of TDH. In these places the children live in appalling conditions.
As for Nepalese children are in Spain and that "there are orphans in the strict sense of the word," experts say there is little possibility of a return to his country. "Now is too late. After the adoption has been declared are Spanish citizens," laments the delegate from TDH.
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Giving children adopted by foreigners is a good deal for the orphanages in Nepal. According to conservative figures from UNICEF and the Swiss NGO TDH reported these practices centers around two million dollars (1.5 million) in 2006 alone. And it could be much more, because the centers adopters pressured to give more money after being fond of the child.
The Spanish respondents denied having been extorted. "I saw nothing shady in Nepal, but, as elsewhere, there could be evil people who get rich with this. The fault lies with the families that will be taken forward with the checkbook," says an adoptive mother.
Since January this year, the Government of Nepal has introduced new regulations to the process as a result of pressure from workers for children's rights. Now children can only be placed for adoption through registered sites, and the Ministry of Women and Children assigned children to families. Still, advocates for the rights of children are pessimistic. "The situation is uncertain: the centers are still operating traded and could cater for children who are themselves accredited," said the delegate from Nepal TDH, Joseph L. Aguettant.
Another serious concern is that "the directors of the centers are the ones who decide what children are adoptable and yet are those who receive the money so we should consider to give them more orphaned children in international adoption," says Joanne Doucet Unicef.
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