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Christianity becomes a driving force in adoptions

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July 03, 2009 5:00 PM

MARK BARNA

The Gazette

Swaziland International Adoptions Halted.

March 1, 2010. Swaziland International Adoptions Halted. We have been informed by the Department of State that on February 24, 2010 the government of Swaziland informed the U.S. government that no international adoption cases will be processed until the Department of Social Welfare finished its reassessment of adoption procedures. The only grandfathered cases are those already in process in the Swazi High Court. Swazi officials have not released an expected completion date for this review.

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Leihmutter-Drama

Leihmutter-Drama

Deutsche Eltern kämpfen in Indien um ihre Zwillinge

Von Hasnain Kazim, Islamabad

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Deutschland verweigert indischer Leihmutter die Einreise

Deutschland verweigert indischer Leihmutter die Einreise

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Neu Delhi/Ulm. Seit zwei Jahren kämpft eine deutsche Familie darum, ihre in Indien geborenen Kinder nach Deutschland bringen zu dürfen. Weil eine Leihmutter die Buben ausgetragen hat, verweigern die Behörden ihre Zustimmung.

Es ist ein nicht enden wollender behördlicher Albtraum, mit dem das Ehepaar aus Bayern wohl nicht gerechnet hat: Seit zwei Jahren streitet das Paar mit den Behörden darum, seine in Indien geborenen Zwillinge nach Deutschland holen zu dürfen. Doch die deutschen Behörden wollen den Kindern keinen Pass ausstellen. Das Problem: Eine Leihmutter hat die Jungen geboren. Dies ist aber nach deutschem Recht verboten. Indien - wo Leihmutterschaft legal ist - hält die Kinder wegen ihrer Eltern für deutsche Bundesbürger. Reisedokumente für sie gibt es deshalb auch in Indien nicht. Die zweijährigen Buben sind somit staatenlos. Nun drängt die Zeit, denn dem Vater, der seit der Geburt bei den Kindern lebt, droht nach Ablauf seines Visums die Abschiebung - ohne die Zwillinge.

Gestern äußerte sich der 47-jährige Kunsthistoriker, der anonym bleiben will, gegenüber der ARD. Die rechtliche Lage in Deutschland hätten er und seine Frau gekannt, sagte der Mann. Weil die Kinder im Ausland zur Welt kamen, habe er darin aber kein Problem gesehen: "Wir haben eine Woche nach Geburt der Kinder mit der Botschaft telefoniert und denen gesagt, dass es eine Leihmutterschaft ist." Die Botschaft habe daraufhin mitgeteilt, dass man die Familie nicht unterstützen könne. "So saßen wir dann allein in einem fremden Land fest."

Future of the Ethiopia–Australian Intercountry Adoption Program

Future of the Ethiopia–Australian Intercountry Adoption Program

The Attorney-General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, has decided to lift the suspension of the Ethiopia–Australia intercountry adoption program. The program will recommence accepting new referrals of children in need of intercountry adoption and matching these children with prospective adoptive parents as at 6 April 2010.

The Ethiopia–Australia program was suspended in November 2009 due to concerns that Australia could no longer conduct intercountry adoptions in Ethiopia in a manner consistent with its obligations under the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption.

In January 2010 an Australian delegation travelled to Ethiopia to discuss the current suspension with the Ethiopian Government and to investigate options for the future of the program. The delegation obtained additional information about the requirement for Australia to provide development assistance and how this might be done in a manner consistent with the Hague Convention. The visit also provided the Department with an enhanced understanding of the practical challenges facing the program.

Information gathered during the delegation visit was incorporated into the Department’s formal review of the program, which has been underway since June 2009. The Department received over 400 submissions about the program, which were also considered in the review process.

Caution About Pursuing an Adoption in Nepal

Adoption Alert

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Bureau of Consular Affairs

Office of Children’s Issues

Caution About Pursuing an Adoption in Nepal

State sees no loopholes in adoption

State sees no loopholes in adoption

POST REPORT

KATHMANDU, FEB 06 -

The government and representatives of organisations working for children have said that the survey report, which claims to have found loopholes in the adoption process, is far from truth.

They have urged the Hague Conference on Private International Law, which prepared the report, to substantiate its claims.

Interview Prachanda Raj Pradhan

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African Governments urged to adopt Hague Conventions on Children

African Governments urged to adopt Hague Conventions on Children

23-02-2010

PRESS RELEASE

AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS URGED TO ADOPT

HAGUE CONVENTIONS ON CHILDREN

Baby broker: Mrs Tang sells newborns to the orphanage next door

Baby broker: Mrs Tang sells newborns to the orphanage next door

Byline: Simon Parry

IT IS seven weeks since I held in my arms a baby boy called Hoang outside an orphanage in northern Vietnam where he was offered to me for $10,000, and the look in his mother's eyes as she reluctantly handed him over still haunts me.

Beneath the watchful stare of a 'baby broker' providing her with bed and board and a cash payment in return, Hoang's 28-year-old mother seemed torn between instinct and duty as she slowly gave up her first-born child.

Married in her teens, this woman from a poor mountain village had tried for years to conceive success. When she finally fell pregnant, she decided to give her infant away for adoption because her husband had a mistress and she feared she would be left to raise the child alone.