ONG et influences affairistes et politico-industrielles

De Julien Teil

Global Research, juillet 15, 2009

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http://www.mondialisation.ca/ong-et-influences-affairistes-et-politico-industrielles/14385

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'In the small classes we had to make a family tree. It was certainly in the best interests of my teacher, but it was really difficult for me,' says 20-year-old Ina Dulanjani Dygaard, who was adopted from Sri Lanka. She calls for more information for professionals about adoption

Ina Dulanjani Dygaard was only 49 days old when she was adopted from Sri Lanka. But even though her stay in her country of origin was short, it remains an important part of her story. It has, among other things, led her to get involved in associations where adoptees can meet.

"It is incredibly important that adoptees have a forum where they can meet and talk to someone who is just like them. We have some stories that many of our 'ordinary' friends may have difficulty understanding because they are about grief, illness and death," says Ina Dulanjani Dygaard.

Many of the conversations are about gaining certainty about where you come from, but the young people also talk about very ordinary things like problems with parents.

"Sometimes adopted teenagers have completely different deep issues with parents, which are about us being abandoned and experiencing culture shock."

In Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea and Lebanon, Danish embassies were involved in adoption cases, DR reveals in a new podcast.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Danish embassies and consulates around the world controversially helped adoption agencies complete adoptions of foreign children to Denmark.

Earlier today, DR reported how the Danish Foreign Service in the 1980s was involved in adoptions from Lebanon, which, according to experts, were completed through bribery and child trafficking.

But it's not just Lebanon that the state has been involved. The new podcast series 'Falske Minder' reveals that, according to experts, the Danish Foreign Service assisted the agencies with adoptions from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and South Korea.

Police found a lifeless newborn baby at an address in Sandved on Friday evening. The mother has been charged and arrested by the police.

A young mother in South Zealand has been arrested and charged by the police for killing her newborn child. 

This is stated by the police in a press release.

The woman was produced in a constitutional hearing at 10:30 a.m. at the court in Næstved. Here she is charged with having killed the child immediately after birth.

- It is a tragic case when a dead infant is found and the mother is charged with murder, says Susanne Bluhm, special prosecutor.

A young Swedish woman, whose biological mother is Vietnamese, has returned to Vietnam twice in search of the woman who gave birth to her 34 years ago before she was adopted and moved abroad.

Driven by an unwavering desire for a reunion, she holds onto the hope that one day, her efforts will lead to a miracle.

With tears in her eyes, Hoa, as she is called, recently shared her story with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, expressing her heartfelt wish to meet her birth mother.

01 October 2024, 18:30 - 21:30

Auditorium A2, Maison de la paix, Geneva

International adoption is currently at the heart of an unprecedented scandal: of the hundreds of thousands of babies adopted since the early 1950s, tens of thousands were stolen. In this documentary, we will join major investigative journalists, activists and researchers in South Korea, Sweden, France, Chile, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. With Christine Tournadre, Sonia Gonzalez (France). Produced by Anne Labro for Tangerine Productions, in collaboration with ARTE France, the CNC, RTS, Telewizja Polska, PROCIREP, the Ile-de-France region and Java Films.

This one-night-only film screening "International Adoptions: A Global Scandal" - parallel to the 27th session of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) (23 Sep to 04 Oct 2024) and co-organized by our Geneva Human Rights Platform with the CED, will explore the ongoing unprecedented scandal surrounding international adoption. The event will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session. 

As I thought about watching the 48 Hours investigative show on international adoption that ran Saturday night, I became anxious. Would their story be similar to the recent negative, sensationalized stories on international adoption that have wreaked havoc on the adoption policies in countries such as Russia and Democratic Republic of Congo? Would they even mention the tremendous number of successful international adoptions that have provided children in need with loving, permanent homes? My hope was they would choose to maintain a proper perspective as the show was being reported by Maureen Mahrer, a reporter who has herself been adopted. We in the adoption world are all too familiar with these stories and their focus on the rare unethical adoption practitioners when we know, in fact, the majority of adoption agencies have processes in place to fiercely guard the welfare of the children they serve and to ensure that adoptions happen in an ethical and transparent manner.

“Perilous Journey” examined two adoption stories, one from Guatemala and one from Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the adoption agency, Celebrate Children International, and the practices of Sue Hedberg, the agency’s Executive Director. It does not need to be said that everyone will agree that what transpired in Guatemala was horrific and we applaud the efforts of the adoptive parent in this story for her fortitude in finding the truth and finally uniting the birth mother with her children. I will admit that when birth mom and adoptive parent finally met, I had tears in my eyes. I am sure that everyone also celebrated when the Owen family was finally able to leave Congo with their two adopted daughters.

Although, shedding light on stories such as these may make for high TV ratings, they don’t accurately reflect the reality that the great majority of international adoptions and adoption agencies are ethical and that adoption can have a positive outcome for the growing number of orphaned children worldwide. The story reported little on the extreme poverty in Congo. No mention of the fact that Congo is listed as the poorest country on earth. As a result there are an estimated 1,000,000 orphans in Kinshasa alone and 5,000,000 in the entire country. International adoption is a much needed avenue for these children in need to find the forever families that they deserve. Due to the poverty in Congo, children die in orphanages from malnutrition and preventable diseases. The orphanage presented in this news story was not reflective of the majority of orphanages in Congo who struggle daily just to feed the children.

As quoted by Maureen Mahrer herself, “Adoption is an amazing, wonderful opportunity for all parties when done correctly.”* I will state unequivocally that the majority of adoptions and agencies are doing international adoption correctly. As a Hague Approved international adoption agency, MLJ Adoptions has an exhaustive list of safeguards in place to ensure ethical adoptions. These include:

• Requiring all of our staff both domestic and international to submit criminal/abuse background checks prior to employment;
• Requiring our domestic and international staff to submit an Affidavit of Ethical Practices (a document that explicitly states the ethics that the individual will uphold while working in adoptions); 
• Obtaining reputable references for all adoption agency staff and foreign providers; 
• Travelling to our program countries on a regular basis to develop, monitor, and provide oversight of procedures and processes; 
• Training for domestic and international staff regarding the proper ethical considerations when working in international adoption and the consequences of unethical practices (termination of employment, criminal prosecution, halting of international adoptions in foreign program, changes in laws, etc); 
• Monthly monitoring for foreign supervised providers and continued quality improvement in all programs based upon observations, additional information and client feedback. 

There is a subject that seems to fascinate Indians. That of these children adopted elsewhere who come back to find their biological family in India 20, 30 years after the adoption. And there is one that regularly makes ink flow because it seems to them surely more crunchy than the others. It is that of this 37 year old man born in Pune (India) and adopted quickly (at 2 months!!!) by a German couple.

Arun believes that his biological father is the brother of an Indian minister, that he is the product of an adulterous affair and that he was taken away from his biological mother at birth. He therefore wants to find his biological mother, and files a lawsuit to this effect in India.

Arun, I met him on the English-speaking forums on Indian AI. He had anti-AI positions, had been involved in anti-Indian AI activities and regularly uttered hurtful and insulting words about AI ("International adoption IS child trafficking".). In short, he was regularly kicked off the forums and came back with fake pseudonyms to cause trouble. We could feel a tortured mind, sad to death, despite loving parents, a wife, children...

Despite his extreme positions on AI, his story touches me. Interestingly, he managed to get a DNA test from the biological son of his alleged biological father (I wonder if it was with his consent!!!) which would prove 90% that he is right about his father. In addition, the minister's brother would have played an important role in his adoption (which one??). But despite everything, the Indian justice system seems to be ruling against him.