Romania has agreed to extend the ban on international adoptions until 15 November following criticism from the EU that the system is still tainted by corruption. Romania has been told that it should reform its child welfare system before it can join the EU.

The Romanian government also came under pressure from the United States where thousands of families are waiting to adopt Romanian children. The US want Romania to liberalise international child adoptions. According to the French daily Le Monde, an internal memorandum written by the US Mission to the EU in Brussels directly connects the issue of child adoptions to Romania’s integration into NATO.

According to Le Monde, the Commission’s Directorate General for Enlargement responds to the US non-paper stating that “American experts are not well suited to Romania’s needs in this area”. “The United States are the only country in the world, apart from Somalia, which has not signed the UN Convention on Children’s Rights and the Hague Convention. The US has not developed the administrative capacity to apply this convention,” according to the Commission’s response.

The Romanian government is now preparing a reform of laws that will encourage domestic adoptions and place children in foster families or private child-care centres. Four draft laws, creating a new legal environment for child protection, are to be adopted.

POSITIONS

Adopted children may have been stolen from Thailand

April 19, 2002 at 05:00, Updated: September 23, 2007 at 14:00

For three years in the mid-1970s, over 900 adoptive children to Sweden from Thailand. Many of the children were taken to an orphanage in Bangkok, where it later turned out to be kidnapped children. When police raided the orphanage in April 1977, three of the 33 children who lived there stolen from the poor.

Sawitri Börjesson, now 25 years old and the mother of two children in Norrköping, adopted from Thailand, months before the police raid. She has researched his background and tried to find the biological parents in Thailand. The people who are like mom and dad in the adoption documents say they have not left out any child. They have also done a DNA test showing that they can not be related to Sawitri Börjesson. Sawitri Börjesson believe that the Swedish authorities have a major responsibility for the adoptions of children with false identity documents could be executed. - My rights as a human being has been violated and Board for Intercountry Adoptions is ultimately responsible, she says. Sawitri Börjesson has filed a police report about his own adoption with another adoptee woman, 27-year-old Malinee Murray. A preliminary investigation of suspected kidnapping has been initiated in collaboration with the Thai justice system. Yet, no one has suspected of crimes, says chief prosecutor Solveig Wollstad. Both Sawitri Börjesson and Malinee Murray appeared in the documentary film "Children at any price" as of yesterday evening broadcast on Swedish television. While working on the movie found journalists Per Lapins and Erik Sandberg evidence that at least 18 children have come to Sweden under a false identity. Malinee Murray, who now lives in Gothenburg, was proof that her identity is not true since she Thailand came in contact with a woman who has the identity indicated in her actions. Previously it was thought that her background was invented - now she knows that it is stolen. Malinee Murray came to Sweden with the organization Adoption Center. She keeps them and the authorities responsible for ensuring that she will never be able to find their biological parents. - I feel betrayed. I think it is shameful that the Adoption Centre has deliberately turned a blind eye to the children had false identities, she says. Adoption Center says today that in the 1970s knew that some of the kids really had other mothers than those who were quoted in the papers. Adoption Center believed that the true mothers had left Bangkok or unwilling to recognize motherhood, says Information Officer Annika Grünewald. - In retrospect, I feel we did wrong. We did not realize the risks, she says. After the police raid in Bangkok in 1977 ended almost adoptions from Thailand to Sweden and the rules were tightened. then-president of the State Board for Intercountry Adoptions, Gradin said today that the agency was not aware of the abuses in Thailand before they were discovered by the Thai police. - People had to put a stop to this as soon as possible, says Anita Gradin. 99F 08-13 54 12, bjorn.malmstrom @ svd.se Björn Malmström

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Adoptie kinderen uit Haïti via Flash gestaakt

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AMSTERDAM - Het adoptiebureau Flash mag geen Haïtiaanse kinderen meer naar Nederland halen. De gegevens van het bureau over de kinderen kloppen niet, zegt Justitie. Adoptie-ouders zouden verkeerd geïnformeerd worden over de leeftijd en achtergronden van de kinderen.

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AMSTERDAM - The Flash adoption agency is no longer allowed to bring Haitian children to the Netherlands. The data from the agency about the children is incorrect, says Justice. Adoptive parents would be misinformed about the ages and backgrounds of the children.

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The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport received three complaints in the spring from parents who had adopted a child from Haiti via Flash. The parents suspect that the children are older than the adoption agency states. One child also has behavioral disorders that may indicate abuse. The department then called in the inspectorate for youth assistance and youth protection for an investigation. After examining 26 files, he concluded that the information provided by the institution about the children is incorrect.

Chairman P. van Loon of the foundation that the adoption agency falls under, says that his agency meets all the requirements set by the government. Since Flash was founded in 1993, the agency has brought about 150 children to the Netherlands. “We also notice that the ages of the children sometimes do not match what is stated in the birth certificate. We have always said that to the parents. Now two parents have complained, one of which has two children. Before that, we have always had good reports from the inspection. Now we would have too little insight into what our contacts are doing in Haiti. ''

Professor Hoksbergen, professor of adoption, knows one of the duped parents. “I have read the correspondence between the parents and the foundation. Such an organization must take a critical look at the information it receives from Haiti. When parents are expecting a baby and they have a child of more than two and a half years, that is a different story. It can hurt the adoption process. ''

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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS: Edelman Brussels hires director

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BRUSSELS: Edelman Brussels has hired Teemu Lehtinen as director of public affairs to boost the practice. Lehtinen previously worked at Brussels-based PA firm EPPA as deputy national manager. Edelman is hoping to extend its PA work into campaigning and policy management alongside providing institutional advice.

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ROMPRES - 17 septembre 2002

Rencontre entre le Ministre pour l'Intégration Européenne et le Directeur Général des Affaires Juridiques au Conseil de l'Europe.

1er janvier 2007, c'est une date réaliste pour l'adhésion de la Roumanie à l'Union Européenne, a déclaré Guy de Vel, directeur général des Affaires Juridiques au Conseil de l'Europe, commentant les déclarations du commissaire européen Gunter Verheugen, lors d'une rencontre qu'il a eu mardi avec le Ministre de l'Intégration Européenne, Madame Hildegard Puwak, relate MIE.

Au cours des discussions le Ministre pour l'Intégration a présenté la manière dont se déroule le processus d'adhésion de la Roumanie à l'Union Européenne, mettant en évidence le fait que les progrès enregistrés seront présentés dans le Rapport Annuel de la Commission Européenne, de même que le rôle des autorités roumaines dans les débats en ce qui concerne le futur de l'Europe.

Certains aspects concernant le rapport sur les standards du Conseil de l'Europe (CE) ont été abordés, de même que l'acquis communautaire en vigueur et les toutes dernières préoccupations du CE en ce qui concerne les adoptions internationales, la cybercriminalité, la lutte contre le terrorisme, les droits fondamentaux de l'Homme.

INHOFE, NICKLES ANNOUNCE CAMBODIAN ADOPTIONS CAN PROCEED

Those Seeking Adoptions Can Complete Process

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Tulsa) and Don Nickles (R-Ponca City) announced today that the Immigration and Naturalization Service will allow American families who were in the process of adopting Cambodian children to move forward with their adoption requests. Many families were in the process of adopting children from Cambodia last year when an INS suspension on adoptions from that country interrupted the process.

“This is the right decision for these families who have been left in limbo for these last nine months,” Nickles said. “I am particularly delighted that this decision will now allow the Rudolph family from Oklahoma to proceed with their adoption. I wish them all the best in this endeavor and commend them and all adoptive families for their willingness to open their homes and hearts to children from around the world who have no family to call their own.”

Jonathan Scheele: Romania - a regional model in child protection

Romania is about to become a regional model for the way it approaches the

issue of child protection, Jonathan Scheele, the head of the European

Commission Delegation to Bucharest, said during a press conference on

Tuesday at the end of the social campaign, "An Orphanage is not home."