Participants of the second international conference on Children and Residential Care 15 May 2003

This document represents the agreements made at the Second International Conference on Children and Residential Care in Stockholm, Sweden, held from 12 to 15 May, 2003. The conference was sponsored by the Swedish Foreign Ministry and the Swedish International Development and Co-operation Agency (Sida). The document includes the principles and actions, regarding children and residential care, that were agreed upon by the participants at the conference.

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UNICEF Engages Edelman to Promote 50 Years of Celebrity Goodwill

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LOS ANGELES, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles office of Edelman, the

world's largest independent public relations firm, has been retained by the

U.S. Fund for UNICEF to promote the 50th anniversary of the Celebrity Goodwill

Framework for a Plan of Action Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Seeking Family-based Alternatives for Children who are Abandoned or at Risk of Abandonment Regional Seminar for Eastern & Central Europe Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 September - 2 October 1992

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Situation Report Dutch Embassy Cambodia

"Compliance with Hague Convention As noted in the preamble to the Hague Convention, States which are signatory to the Convention recognize that the child “should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding” and that “intercountry adoption may offer the advantage of a permanent family to a child for whom a suitable family cannot be found in his or her State of origin”.

Article 2(b) of the proposed law acknowledges this principle. However, Article 2(e) includes language which adds “or cannot be cared for appropriately”. Additionally, Article 45(2)(b) states that international adoption may be allowed only if “the child cannot be appropriately cared for by the public or private services for the special protection of the child.” Such provisions, which allow for children to be cared for in public or private institutions instead of being adopted internationally, would seem to conflict with the basic tenets of the Hague Convention, and may thus result in an inability to fulfill Article 62, which provides for the issuance of a certificate “indicating that the adoption complies with the norms set by the Hague Convention.”

Therefore, Ethica respectfully suggests that Article 2(e) be changed to remove the clause “or cannot be cared for appropriately”, and that Article 45(2)(b) be removed from the law entirely."

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Michel Reybier et Gérard Depardieu vendent leur pétrole cubain

Un début et une fin. La fin de l'aventure pétrolière pour Michel Reybier (ancien propriétaire des Jambons d'Aoste), Gérard Depardieu, Roger Zannier et quelques autres, et un nouvel essor pour une petite compagnie pétrolière qui monte : Maurel & Prom. Jean-François Hénin (gérant) et Frédéric Boulet (directeur général) de Maurel & Prom ont signé en fin de semaine dernière avec Michel Reybier, président du conseil d'administration de Peberinvest, un accord leur donnant une option d'achat sur les 66 % de Pebercan, que détient Peberinvest. Maurel & Prom, qui possède déjà 20 % de Pebercan, dispose d'un mois pour lever cette option et lancer alors une OPA sur le reste du capital.

Adoptieouders doen het ook nooit goed

Adoptieouders worden vaak met wantrouwen bejegend. Ze zijn óf te idealistisch, óf te kritisch en berekenend. `We doen het ook nooit goed.'

Esther Rosenberg

19 april 2003

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Say: Bye bye Korea, until later, when I have grown up

Eun-mi Postma - 04/04/03, 00:00

About four thousand South Korean children have been adopted over the last 35 years by Dutch couples, but last week the last batch adoptive babies left for Schiphol. Although South Korea is prosperous now, because of the rigid social conventions still many children are available for adoption. And South Korea would rather invest in the recovery of 'Overseas Koreans' than in social services that counteract that women give up their children for adoption.

Two boys and two girls. All four babies are about six months old and look very healthy. The girls in their red suits look sleepy, while the boys with their black eyes curiously followed all movements around them.

In the nursery at the South Korean Incheon airport they get one last bottle and a diaper just before the flight. Already early in their life awaits them a long journey that will change their life forever. These are almost certainly the last children from South Korea who are adopted by Dutch couples