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Meeting US Embassy

Hello -

Ethica will have a representative at an upcoming meeting required of
all U.S. adoption agencies at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa. The
notice is below. We are not sure if there will be time allowed for
Q&A, but we'd like to collect any questions that the community might
have. Please send them to ethica@.... Thank you!

Meeting notes will be posted on the Ethica website (www.ethicanet.org)
as well as on our email news list (ethicanews@yahoogroups.com).

--
Linh Song, MSW
Executive Director
Ethica

Adoption Agencies Meeting
U.S. Embassy
Tuesday, February 10th from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m.

The Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy, Addis Ababa will host a
meeting February 10th at the Embassy to discuss issues relating to
inter-country adoptions. All adoption agencies registered with the
Government of Ethiopia that refer children to American citizens are
requested to send a representative.

This is a mandatory meeting. All agencies must send a representative
or else their interviews will be suspended until brought into
compliance. Please RSVP by Tuesday, February 3rd. No need to include
every attendee's name, just that your agency will be coming.
Attendance will be taken at the meeting.

(Contact information redacted.)

Subjects to be discussed are the following:

New Schedule: Consular staff will introduce a new interview schedule
for all agencies. Agency representatives will be given personalized
appointment schedules. This is an important change that all agencies
need to be present for.

Medical, Paperwork and Correspondence Issues: Consular staff will
discuss some technical issues relating to medical results, paperwork
and correspondence. There is an important addition to medical reports
that all agencies need to be aware of.

Ensuring Accountability and Honesty: Consular staff will discuss case
studies regarding ethical and accountable conduct by agency employees
and lessons that can be learned through them.

Please arrive early enough to pass through the Embassy security and be
seated by 2:30 p.m. Note that all cell phones will need to be left at
the security office when you enter the Embassy.

Organizations: Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MOWA), US State Department, U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia, Ethica, Inc.

Letter from Ethica from Trish Maskew

June 6, 2003

Dear Readers,

Some who read our paper on the Child Trafficking Standard of Evidence may be familiar with my background as an agency representative and my role in advocating for cases during the Cambodian adoption crisis. The Cambodia crisis was, in many ways, a life-changing situation for me. Those events led to much contemplation on the current state of adoption, which in turn led to the formation of Ethica itself. For those familiar with the details of the situation, it may seem odd that I so adamantly fought for the clearance of those cases only to find myself writing 18 months later about the difficulty of proving child trafficking.

In the fall of 2001, I was employed by an agency as a program coordinator for Viet Nam and Cambodia. While none of the first 12 Cambodia families whose adoptions were investigated were my clients, I became involved early on as the co-chair of the Joint Council Cambodia caucus. The failure of the Immigration Service to conduct adequate investigations was well known in the adoption industry, and over the years I had seen many families bring their children home after months-long appeals that proved the inadequacy of the investigations. <!--

Organizations: Ethica, Inc.

Countries: Cambodia

Persons: Trish Maskew

Children's House Adoption Programme at a Glance - 2002

Programs At A Glance

Click on country flag for complete information on that program

Program	Ages of children at referral	Parents age to adopt an infant	Program Fees	Parents required to travel	Approx. travel cost	Length of stay in the country	Approx. time Dossier to child referral	Approx. time from notify to travel	Program Director
Bolivia	Infants 6 months and older	Married only 25-50	$11,000	both parents	$3000 +	3-5 weeks	6-8 months	2-3 weeks	Kathy Syndergaard
Bulgaria	Infants not available 2 years and older	Single or Married age flexible	$14,500	one parent must travel for 1st visit Escort Ok	$1,800 Sing. $2400 Marr.	5 days 1st visit trip Escort available	8 months	2-4 weeks	Fred DesChenes
Cambodia	Infants 3 months and older	Sing.40-50 Mar.25-55 Sing.Men may apply	$11,500	one parent	$2,500 +	1 week or less	1 week	4-8 weeks	Trish Maskew
China	Infants 6 months and older mostly Females	Sing.or Mar. 30 -55	$14,840	one parent	Included in the program fee (includes both parents)	10-14 days	11 months	4 weeks	Stefani Ellison
Ecuador	Infants 6 months and older	Sing.30-40 Marr.30-40 40-60 ok older child	$17,500 * includes parents boarding	both parents	Included in program fee	3 weeks	6 months	3 weeks	Kathy Syndergaard
India	Infants 6 month and older	Single or Married Infants 40 child 50	$13,750	one parent	$1,200 +	one day	6 months	2 months	Lisa Anderson
Guatemala	Newborn and older	Single or married flexible ages	$19,500	no Escort available	$1,500+ (both to travel)	3-4 days	5-6 months	2-4 weeks	Kathy Syndergaard
Kazakhstan	Infants and older	Sing. or Married 25-45	$17,000	both parents	$3000 + ea	3-4 weeks	3-6 months	6-8 weeks * children may not leave country under 6 mo.	Ruth Boro
Marshall Islands	Newborns and older	Sing. or Marr. 21 Christian	$13,500	both parents	$3,000 +ea.	3-5 days	6 months- 1 year	4-6 weeks	JoAnn Vesper
Moldova	Infants 6 months and older	Sing .or Married 21-45	$16,000-$18,000	one parent	$1,300 +ea.	2-3 weeks	3 months	1 month	Deborah Price
Peru	Infants 6 months and older	Sing. 30-45 older child Marr 25-55	$13,000	both parents	$3000+	3 weeks	5-8 months	2 weeks	Kathy Syndergaard
Romania	Infants 6 months and older	Single or married 25-50	16,000-18,000	Escort available	$1,200 +	5 days	2-3 months	4-8 months	Deborah Price
Russia	Infants 3 months and older	Couples under 45 * 25 year difference in age of child	$17,000	both parents	$3,000 ea Requires two trips	15 days	6-8 weeks	4 weeks	Ruth Boro
Vietnam	Newborns and older	Sing. or Married up to 55 * minimum 20 yr. difference to parent	$14,500	one parent	$2,500 +	2-3 weeks	6-7 months	2-4 months	Trish Maskew

Persons: Trish Maskew, Deborah Price aka Debbie Price

Organizations: Children's House International

CHILD-HUNGRY UTAHNS FIGHT RED TAPE

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E-Mail Lynn L. Wetterberg Romania Update

I was in Romania last week and met with Bogdan Panait, the Secretary of the Romanian Office of Adoptions. I only have a few tidbits of information, but thought I would share.

1) Mr. Panait reiterated the typical party line that only those with Romanian citizenship can adopt. We all know that.

2) The Office of Adoptions would like to work directly with the adoption agencies who apply. They do not want to work with foreign representatives, especially lawyers.

3) There are three agencies in the United States and one agency from Canada that have been licensed to work in Romania. We all know that the Romanian Co-Chair, Debbie Price’s agency is one. Are the other two of you on this listserv?

4) No other agencies have applied as of this date.

Organizations: Joint Council on International Children's Services (JCICS)

Countries: Romania

Persons: Lynn Wetterberg

Record of informal meeting on de-institutionalisation and transfer to community-based care

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Organizations: European Expert Group on transition from institutional to community-based care, De-institutionalisation, De-Institutionalisation of children in Public Care and Promotion of the social and family reinsertion, European Commission

Persons: Margaret Tuite

Subject: Informal interservice meeting on de-institutionalisation/transition to alternative or community care - standards

From: TUITE Margaret (JUST)

Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:46 PM

To: TUITE Margaret (JUST); PARASKEVAS Marie-Anne (EMPL); TOTH Gabor (EMPL); HORKA Hana (SANCO); LISMANIS Ioannis (EMPL); PANAGOU Effrosyni (EMPL); ORTH Martin (EMPL); REKERTA Kestutis (EMPL); COTONE Annelisa (JUST); PAPAMICHALOPOULOU Lina (JUST); PECCHINI Annachiara (EMPL); DE SADELEER Katja (ELARG); URMOS Andor (REGIO); STAVINOHA Marek (JUST); ROMANOVIC Aleksandar (JUST); SCHEFTLEIN Juergen (SANCO); FAZI Elodie (EMPL); ADAMAITE Linda (EMPL); BENEDYKTOWICZ Artur (EMPL)

Subject: Informal interservice meeting on de-institutionalisation/transition to alternative or community care - standards

When: mardi 14 février 2012 10:00-11:00 (GMT+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris.

Persons: Margaret Tuite

Organizations: European Expert Group on transition from institutional to community-based care, EuroChild, SOS Villages (SOS Kinderdorf), Lumos, De-institutionalisation

Margaret Tuite requests Roelie Post's help, and orders the book Romania for Export Only

Was contacted by Margaret Tuite.

She got a request from World Vision about Romania. And asked me for input.

I informed her that the COM had kicked me out. Not my problem that they lost the institutional memory.

If she wants my input, please send a formal request to me.

Interview Margaret Tuite: dont know about Independent Panel

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Persons: Margaret Tuite

Organizations: Independent Panel of Family Law Experts of the EU Member States

Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them

by Matthew Rothschild

The Progressive, January 1988

Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory is called

Ae Ran Won