Russia, U.S. discuss treaty on child adoption
19:31|07/ 04/ 2009

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Science and Education Ministry is in talks with the United States on a bilateral treaty to specify the responsibilities of U.S. parents who adopt Russian children, the minister said on Tuesday.
The treaty, if signed, would oblige U.S. parents to show more responsibility when raising adopted Russian children. Russia has already concluded a similar treaty with Italy.
"The United States has for the first time shown its interest by requesting documents on this bilateral treaty," Andrei Fursenko said. "They are ready to study it."
The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has asked Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to speed up the process of concluding bilateral international treaties on child adoption following the death of 18-month-old Dima Yakovlev, who was adopted by a U.S. couple.
The boy died on July 8, 2008, when his adoptive father, Miles Harrison, left the boy shut in his car for nine hours during 50-degree Celsius (122-degree Fahrenheit) heat.
The minister also said that Russia should as soon as possible ratify the Hague Adoption Convention, which it signed on September 7, 2000.
"We think that the convention should be ratified - it poses no threat to our children, on the contrary, it defends their rights to a greater extent," Fursenko said.

Israeli patient: We'll sue Romania for damages

Israeli woman accuses Romanian police of brutal treatment during raid on Bucharest fertility clinic, says investigators stole money, valuables from Israeli detainees before releasing them. Israeli consul general: We're handling case. Romanian doctors' association slam Israeli colleagues, saying they are comparable to doctors at Auschwitz
Daniel EdelsonPublished: 07.21.09, 13:30 / Israel News

Yarden (not her real name) was being treated at the Sabyc fertility clinic in Bucharest when the Romanian police raided the place, arrested the Israeli doctors who run it and held dozens of doctors and patients for questioning.
 
In a conversation with Ynet Tuesday, Yarden, 44, said that not only were she and the other patients humiliated by the local police, but money and valuables were also stolen from them at the police station. They now plan to sue Romania for damages.
 
According to Yarden, "They opened up bags and took everything that was inside, whether money or mobile phones. Some people lost 4,000-5,000 euro." She said that she wrote to the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Consulate General in Romania, asking for help with getting the money back, but hasn't heard from anyone.

 
Yarden also complained about what she described as the Romanian police's "brutal treatment," that included "beating, shoving, cursing and threats." Police investigators, she said, made her and the other Israelis sign forms in Romanian without the presence of a lawyer.
 
"We demanded to call the consulate, but they refused. They said people who refuse to sign the forms will have to stay here for two weeks," she recounted.
 
Israeli Consul General in Romania Lily Ben Harush told Ynet she intends to meet with all those who were arrested and look into the allegations. "We will talk to the local authorities and try and establish what happened with the money and phones… if it turns out that illegal acts took place, we will act
accordingly," she promised.
 
Yarden also accused the health authorities in Israel of getting the patients involved in the affair. "We went there because the State sent us and because there aren't enough eggs in Israel. We didn't know we were doing something illegal," she stated.
 
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said Tuesday Israeli health services will be investigated for any involvement in the Romanian egg trafficking affair.
 
However, Litzman stressed that his office has full faith in Israel's sick funds.
 
'Comparable to Auschwitz'
Meanwhile, the Romanian doctors' association is accusing the Israeli doctors involved in the human egg trafficking affair of endangering dozens of Romanian women in order to harvest and sell their eggs, according to a report Tuesday in the Romanian daily newspaper Evenimentul Zilei.
 
Head of the doctors' association, Colegiul Medicilor, Dr. Vasile Astarastoae made grave accusations against his Israeli colleagues and those running the Sabyc clinic where the allegedly illegal embryo implantations took place.
 
"The doctors from this clinic are comparable to doctors from Auschwitz," said Astarastoae. "They used misfortunate people, sold their organs for money, and showed complete contempt for humanity. Why didn't they have the courage to do this in Israel?"
 
The newspaper reported that investigators claim the clinic's doctors swindled their clients, most of whom are Israeli and German. According to them, the clients sought "blond intelligent" twins, and instead were implanted with eggs taken from poor young girls, most of then Gypsies, in exchange for money.
 
Women also to be indicted
Head of the National Agency for Transplants Dr. Victor Zota said to the newspaper that he authorized the clinic, mentioning that the go ahead for performing implantations was issued only last week. 

According to him, he was unaware of any illegal activities taking place at the Sabyc clinic. "Nothing aroused suspicion that they were harvesting eggs and paying for them. I believe that 15 to 20 women were gathered in the middle of the night, when they performed the procedures. They apparently called families from abroad for fertility treatments. It was a real industry," he said.
 
Legal authorities in Romania claim they have been investigating the case for about three months following a complaint issued by a young couple. Police investigators said to the newspaper, "Three Romanian doctors are being implicated in the affair, and hundreds of women will also be indicted for selling their own eggs."
 
Attila Somfalvi and Meital Yasur-Beit Or contributed to the report
 
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3749895,00.html

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No Adoption in France for Algerian/Moroccan Children

by Gilles Cuniberti on February 6, 2009

Children from Algeria or Morocco may not be adopted in France. This is because under French law, the law of the child controls the issue of whether adoption is possible at all. Thus, children from countries where adoption is unknown are unadoptable. As there is no adoption in Islam, children from countries such as Algeria and Morocco may not be adopted.

The rule is not new. It is the result of a statutory intervention of 2001, which has amended the Civil Code.

Article 370-3 of the Civil Code now provides:

Hillary Clinton: Adoption law changes make process easier

March 17, 2000

Web posted at: 9:49 a.m. EST (1449 GMT)

WASHINGTON -- Adopting children is now easier and more affordable than many Americans may believe, thanks to recent changes in adoption law, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday while a guest on CNN's Larry King Live.

Mrs. Clinton was among several guests on the program who urged Americans to take advantage of the streamlined adoption process in an effort to find homes for a vast number of foster children.

Adoptions from Africa are wrong, Kreviazuk says

Victoria Times ColonistJune 23, 2009

Celebrities such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie are making a mistake by adopting African children, says Canadian pop singer Chantal Kreviazuk.

Kreviazuk--who plays a fundraiser in Victoria today for War Child Canada--said she believes Madonna and Jolie are well-intentioned, but the celeb adoption trend is merely a Band-Aid solution to a complex problem.

"It's traumatic; the(adopted African children) never truly feel they belong. They always wonder where their siblings are," Kreviazuk said in an interview from Los Angeles.

SCANDAL ROM?NO-GERMAN PENTRU O FETI?? "ADOPTAT?" DIN TIMI?

Copil sechestrat de 3 ani, cu acte false

Un scandal diplomatic este pe cale s? izbucneasc? între Ro mânia ?i Germania, din cauza unei feti?e de 3 ani, care este ?inut? ilegal în Germania, înc? de la vârsta de 4 luni. În timp ce autorit??ile ?i presa german? caut? ?api isp??itori în Ro mânia ?i încalc? legile europene privind circula?ia ?i g?z duirea minorilor români în alte ??ri UE, autorit??ile române dau din col? în col?, promi?ând c? feti?a va fi readus? acas?, de?i familia german? la care locuie?te refuz? s? o predea.

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-- Procurorii DIICOT au inceput o ancheta intr-un dosar de trafic cu ovule la clinica Sabyc din Capitala

Conducatorul clinicii, fiul sau, medici amandoi, si o angajata a clinicii au fost arestati, ieri, pentru 29 de zile de Tribunalul Bucuresti. Alte doua persoane, doi medici israelieni, Natan Levit, care este si profesor universitar in tara sa, si Ziskind Genia, au primit interdictie de a parasi Romania. Duminica procurorii DIICOT au perchezitionat clinica Sabyc si au ridicat zeci de persoane pentru audieri.

Clinica privata Sabyc era monitorizata de cateva luni de anchetatori. Ieri, conduca torul clinicii, Harry Miro nescu, fiul sau, Yair Miron, si Cecilia Borzea au fost retinuti de procurorii DIICOT si ulterior arestati preventiv- sub aspectul savarsirii infrac tiunilor de constituire a unui grup infractional organizat si de organizarea traficului de celule de origine umana in scopul obtinerii unui folos material (infractiuni prevazute de art. 7 din Legea 39/2003, respectiv art. 158 din Legea 95/2006). Potrivit anchetatorilor, Harry Mironescu, in calitate de medic specialist ginecolog si conducator "de facto" al clinicii Sabyc, a pus bazele unei activitati infractionale in scopul obtinerii de sume mari de bani, prin incalcarea prevederilor legale care reglementeaza procedura prelevarii si transplantului de organe, tesuturi si celule de origine umana in scop terapeutic. El a beneficiat de sprijinul fiului sau, in calitate de asociat unic al clinicii private, precum si de conexiunile pe care le avea cu medici din Israel, specialisti in aplicarea teh­nici lor de reproducere asis tata, invinuitii Natan Levit si Genia Ziskind, precum si cu alte persoane.

Anchetatorii arata ca Ceci lia Borzea indeplinea formalitatile ce presupuneau asigurarea cazarii medicilor si racola direct sau prin per soane interpuse tinere dispuse sa fie supuse trata men tului de stimulare ova riana si prelevare de ovocite.

Grupul avea drept scop, pe de o parte, identificarea unor cupluri, din strainatate, dornice de a fi beneficiarele tehnicii de reproducere uma na asistata din cauza dificultatilor de a procrea pe cale naturala, iar, pe de alta parte, racolarea unor persoane de origine romana (majoritatea de etnie roma, cu varste cuprinse intre 18 si 30 de ani) care, in schimbul unor sume de bani cuprinse intre 800 si 1000 lei, con simteau sa doneze ovocitele necesare realizarii tehnicii de fertilizare "in vitro" si, implicit, sa se supuna proce durii medicale ce implica stimularea ovariana pe cale artificiala si recoltarea ovoci telor. Ulterior, la grup au mai aderat si alte persoane iar fata de 22 din acestea procurorii au inceput urma rirea penala.