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."

Tuesday, 27 August, 2002, 13:20 GMT 14:20 UK

Brussels whistleblower quits in despair

Paul van Buitenen

Paul van Buitenen says nothing has changed

A European official whose whistle-blowing revelations sparked the resignation of the entire European Commision has quit, after declaring that nothing has changed.

Twijfels bij rol stichting in adoptie uit Haïti

De Gelderlander: 15 augustus 2002.

Advocaat P. Baur heeft het ministerie van Justitie gevraagd een onderzoek in te stellen naar het optreden van de Nijmeegse stichting Flash, erkend bemiddelaar in adoptie. Volgens Baur gaat Justitie bekijken of het bureau bij de afwikkeling van de adoptie van kinderen uit Haïti alle zorgvuldigheid in acht neemt.

Aanleiding is de adoptie van twee Haïtiaanse jongetjes door een Nijmeegs gezin. De jongens blijken nooit te hebben gewoond in het kindertehuis waar zij geacht werden vandaan te komen. Ze zouden gewoon bij hun ouders hebben geleefd en door hun vader via het kindertehuis ter adoptie zijn aangeboden.

Volgens de adoptie-ouders vertonen de kinderen grote gedragsproblemen omdat ze graag terug willen naar hun moeder.

Nadendla Manohar, son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nadendla Bhaskara Rao, has been remanded to judicial custody till August 28 for his alleged connection with the child adoption racket in the state, which was busted in April 2001.

Manohar, who is general secretary of the Sparsh Welfare Association, a voluntary organization running a children's home near Somajigudda in Hyderabad, and Jaleel Hussain, president of Sparsh, were produced before the metropolitan magistrate by the Crime Investigation Department of the state police on Friday.

Their bail applications have been posted to August 19 for hearing and their plea for medical assistance has been referred to the jail superintendent.

The CID had filed charges against the seven persons accused in this particular case of the adoption racket under sections 120(B), 341, 372, 419, 420, 465, 468, and 471 of the Indian Penal Code as well as various sections of the Orphanages and Charitable Homes Act.

The police had registered a first information report on June 8, 2001, at the Punjagutta police station on a complaint from M Eswar Rao, project director of the district women and children's welfare (WCW) department.