Doctors And Nurses 'Sold Hundreds Of Babies'

9:25am UK, Tuesday September 22, 2009

A baby-selling ring made up of doctors, nurses and welfare workers has gone on trial in northern Vietnam accused of selling more than 250 children for adoption.

US officials accuse Vietnam of failing to police its adoption system

The sixteen defendants are charged with "abuse of power and authority" and face up to 10 years in prison.

VICTIMS OF URUGUAY ADOPTION LAW: THE CHILDREN

Interview With President of Montevideo Institute of Bioethics

By Carmen Elena Villa

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, SEPT. 21, 2009 (Zenit.org).- This month, after having legalized the union of same-sex couples in 2007, Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow homosexual couples to adopt.

The law, which polls show is rejected by the great majority of Uruguayans, is an offense to human nature, according to Uruguayan lawyer Gustavo Ordoqui Castilla.

Creditors vote to revive Imagine adoption agency

Mon, September 21, 2009

By PATRICK MALONEY, LONDON FREE PRESS

The hundreds of families stunned by the collapse of an international-adoption agency have renewed hope today, after voting overwhelmingly to re-start the organization.

The Imagine Adoption creditors, which includes the would-be adoptive families, voted 248-20 at a meeting Monday to approve the agency’s proposed restructuring — a plan that will cost each family $4,000 but promises to finish a process some started as long as two years ago.

EU and Ethiopia Cooperation history

The European Union-Ethiopia development partnership formally started when Ethiopia signed the Lomé Convention in 1975. The EU opened its Delegation in Ethiopia in 1975 and has taken the lead in supporting Ethiopia's economic development both financially and technically. The European Union’s mission in Ethiopia is to eradicate poverty through sustainable development, democracy, peace and security. Since the cooperation started, the EU has allocated a total of 2.7 billion Euros for Ethiopia, excluding emergency aid.

The European Union provides funding to support Ethiopia through the European Development Funds (EDF). The latest allocation (10th EDF) of these funds provides some 644 million Euros for the country in areas such as transport, rural development, trade, gender, and environmental conservation.

The European Development Funds have been supplemented by support from European Commission budget lines. The most significant of these has been the food aid and food security budget line and in lines of credit from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

The latter provides loans to the private sector directly for commercially viable projects. Such loans to Ethiopia supported projects in the fields of telecommunications, aviation and energy. In addition, a global loan was provided to the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) for onward lending to small and medium sized enterprises.

September 18, 2009 - Joint Council is well aware of the grave issues relating to intercountry adoption in Ethiopia. Earlier this week, Joint Council initiated an immediate assessment of any possible violations by Adoption Service Providers. Pending review Joint Council will issue a public statement. Any action taken by Joint Council, based on its findings, will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

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The Catholic church sold my child

Unmarried mother Philomena Lee was forced to give up her son to Irish nuns, who sold him on to rich Americans. For decades she tried to find him. A chance meeting with Martin Sixsmith eventually uncovered the truth

Martin Sixsmith

The Guardian, Saturday 19 September 2009

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FG request interim Vietnam adoption agreement

19/09/2009 - 10:43:38

Fine Gael are asking the Government to introduce an interim adoption agreement to allow adoptions between Vietnam and Ireland.

The party are claiming that the Government is not helping 350 families in their efforts to adopt Vietnamese children.

A previous agreement between the two countries was allowed to lapse in May because of concerns, mainly from the US, over the adoption process in the country.

A young Chinese girl pines for her twin

Nine-year-old Zeng Shangjie asks her mother when she can see her twin sister, taken away by family planning officials. Shangjie and her mother believe the twin is in the United States.

Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption

By Barbara Demick

September 20, 2009

Orphanage managers arrested for selling children

The Tia Sang School in Bao Loc Town, Lam Dong Province

The president of an orphanage in the Central Highlands province of Lam

Dong has been arrested for further investigations into allegations the

children were being sold.

Life after institutional care: international round table

Bruxelles hosted the 9th of July 2009 a specific international round table on leaving care in Europe; the event organised by Amici dei Bambini is part of the project carried out in five European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Italy and France) whose aim is to increase the knowledge and mutual exchange of positive solutions for the social inclusion of young care leavers in Europe, a social category at high risk of social exclusion.

The fight against social exclusion is one of Europe's key social policy goals, with the European Commission seeking to build a better understanding of social exclusion across the EU and to spread good practice.

Building a more inclusive Europe was considered to be an essential element of the EU's ten year strategic goal of becoming "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion".

Within the above mentioned framework, the project implemented by the Association Amici dei Bambini (Italy) and involving partners' organizations from four more European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia and France), addresses as specific priority area the young care leavers at risk of social exclusion.