Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic confirmed on Friday that the children from the Congo, who were adopted in Zambia by four Croatian couples subsequently arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, had Croatian documents.

“An investigation is being conducted. The children have Croatian documents that were issued based on appropriate decisions by Croatian institutions,” said Bozinovic at the Police Academy.

He added that at the moment several Croatian departments are cooperating and exchanging information in coordination with the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry (MVEP), which is in charge of taking care of Croatian citizens outside the Republic of Croatia.

Eight Croatian citizens have been detained in Zambia for more than three weeks due to suspicion about the validity of documents for adopting minor Congolese children, MVEP confirmed last Saturday.

Four couples from Croatia were arrested in Zambia on 7 December on suspicion of human trafficking, Croatian media reported last week, adding that the couples intended to adopt children from the Congo.

THE HAGUE - Council member Sebastian Kruis of the Hague PVV is happy that his personal adoption file is correct. Last year he met his biological mother in Colombia. This was preceded by a considerable period of doubt, Sebastian told the Vrijmibo program on Den Haag FM.

'Misconduct with international adoptions forced me to check whether my own file was correct,' says Sebastian. 'Because I said that in the media at the time, it was also a big stick for me personally to actually do it. Very often people asked about it because they had read that interview in AD Haagsche Courant earlier this year. And sometimes I tend to put personal matters on the back burner. Because of that interview I had made my wish an obligation: that it finally had to happen for me this year.'

Earlier this year, Sebastian went to Colombia: 'I went there in April to check whether it was correct. And then I met my mother within a week. She knew essential personal things about me, which was very special. It actually went so fast that I didn't feel like I had time to think about it. It happened to me and that suits me too. But it is a special story and I am also happy that the file is correct. She left me in the hospital after two days. She knew where I was born, she knew my name and how old I was.

"Parents too often in suspect's bench"

Sebastian thinks that people often think too negatively about adoption: 'The most important lesson is that adoption is not always wrong. She lived on the street in Medellin and was a drug addict for 40 years, just like my father. Growing up on the street in such a situation is not a good situation. And that is why international adoption is often just a real solution. And of course: other countries are also developing, so the numbers of children are smaller. But it was nice at the time that people wanted to adopt children who would not get it right in their own country. I sometimes have the idea that parents are sometimes placed in the suspect's bench.'

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Fiom is the center of expertise in the field of unwanted pregnancy, distance & adoption and related questions. We offer information and help with unwanted pregnancies, information and aftercare in the field of adoption and guide people in their search for biological family in the Netherlands and abroad. We also manage the KID-DNA Database, which enables a match between a donor child and an anonymous donor.

The starting point of working at Fiom is the right of self-determination of unwanted pregnant women, the right of a child to know where it comes from and to grow up while retaining its own identity. In addition, we recently started with the establishment and design of the Expertise Center for Intercountry Adoption . We do all this with approximately 85 passionate employees from our offices in 's-Hertogenbosch and Houten and from our home workplaces.

Fiom has the Dutch representation of the International Social Service (ISS) network in its organization. ISS is an international social work organization with headquarters in Geneva and a network in more than 100 countries. Within Fiom, the ISS department, with the help of its international network, is involved in international searches for first- or second-degree relatives of the seeker (both adoption-related and non-adoption-related).

For team ISS we are looking for a

Liz (48) is three months old when she is adopted from Germany by Dutch parents. Two years ago, she met her birth mother for the first time. “She had no regrets,” she said very firmly and without emotion. 'Didn't I end up well?'”

Liz: “We were going to fondue that night, I was looking forward to it all day; it was my favorite food. 'We have to tell you something. You're adopted," my mother said. Her best friend was a psychotherapist, she had insisted that my parents should tell me the truth. I was seven and had no suspicions until that point. I was an only child and white, just like my parents. There was no reason to think I wasn't their child. The message really came like a bolt from the blue.

After the high word was out, my mother continued to fill the dishes. An immense sadness overcame me; I didn't know how to behave. It suddenly felt like I was visiting my own house. All this time I was lied to. My parents had always been firm about lying; you do not do that. That basic value suddenly vanished. I was also so angry at my birth mother. Who would throw away their own child? I found my new truth so painful that I rationally decided it just wouldn't be there. I did tell my best friends at school the next day, but after that I didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Two weeks later my mother asked if I understood what she had told me. I understood that very well, but I wanted to think about it as little as possible. My parents are honest and sincere, and while they didn't handle everything right, they did it with the best of intentions. My mother was infertile and they were on the long waiting list for adoption in the Netherlands. A cousin in Germany had an unwanted pregnant colleague. He mediated, and that is how I came to the Netherlands.”

Curious about my roots

The confirmation is the second to occur in less than a week, bringing the total number of identified children to 132.

DNA tests have confirmed that a man was snatched from his mother as a baby during Argentina’s last military dictatorship and was illegally adopted by a family in a northern province, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

The case, the second announced in less than a week, has increased the total number of successful identifications to 132.

The activist group Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo did not release the latest person’s full name, identifying him only as Juan Jose, 46.

During Argentina’s bloody dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, military officials carried out the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners who were often executed without a trace. The children were then illegally adopted by other military officers or allied families.

In the 80s and 90s, Henri Tiphagne was a lawyer in the FFIA adoption cases

had in South India. His wife Cynthia served for a time as FFIAs

contact person. Since the mid-90s, Henri has built up

the human rights organization People's Watch in Madurai,

South India. FFIA Aid has been supporting Sudhanthra for many years, which is a

India

Adoptions have been taking place since the 60s from India. During the 70s, some children came to Sweden privately and the rest through AC. One of the private routes was our Poona contact, when Eva Minton placed children with the help of SOFOSH and Dipika Maharaj Singh. That contact came to FFIA during the mid-80s.

The FFIA's first authorization in 1979 was for the Juvenile Court in Mumbai (Bombay). It was about children who were placed partly in state orphanages and partly in private orphanages, but who were responsibly sorted under the court. The court assigned us children who had been fully investigated and declared abandoned, usually foundlings.

FFIA received 90 children from the Juvenile Court during the years 1980 - 1985.

A judgment of the Supreme Court of India in 1985 changed and systematized the adoptions. It was regulated how the orphanages should handle children who were placed with them from the courts. After this time, children of this category came directly from the orphanages.

Rebecca Trimble received a rare and long-awaited Christmas present this year. On December 15, the Senate unanimously passed a private bill for Trimble. The bill was introduced by the late Don Young and passed the House unanimously on June 7. President Joe Biden signed it into law today. The bill allows Trimble, who was inadvertently brought into the U.S. illegally by her adoptive parents when she was only days old, to remain in the country indefinitely.

Private bills, which benefit a specific individual or corporation, are extremely rare. Since 2008, 160 private relief bills have been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Just 22 have passed the House, and only two have been signed into law. The last one signed into law before Trimble’s was in 2012. A private bill for Trimble passed the House during the last Congress but did not make it through the Senate, requiring the process to start over.

On February 10, 2020, Trimble received a letter from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) informing her she has 33 days to leave the country. At the time she was living in Bethel with her husband John, an Army dentist, and their two children.

Trimble, who was born in Mexico, was adopted by an American couple when she was a baby. She was raised in the Pacific Northwest and grew up believing she was an American citizen. But in 2012 when she tried to get a REAL ID, the nightmare started. The government said her adoption had not been performed legally, and because she had voted in 2008 she had broken the law.

The Landmine broke this story in March of 2020. Four months later, the New York Times did a featured story on Rebecca’s situation. This Landmine article explains the long and arduous process the Trimble family has faced over the last ten years.

As we already wrote, four couples from Croatia were arrested in Zambia, and eight people have been in custody for more than three weeks on suspicion of human trafficking after they planned to adopt children from the Congo. One child is one year and three months old, and the other three are three years old, and it is suspected that those arrested had forged documents.

Guitarist of Cold beer and the town hall Mozemo

Among those arrested are 44-year-old Damir Magi? (44) and his wife Nadica Magi? (45), guitarist Hladni piva, Zoran Suboši? (52) and his wife Azra Imamovi? Suboši? (41), employee of the Constitutional Court, Zagreb veterinarian Ladislav Perši? (42). with her husband Aleksandra (40) and LGBTIQ activist and councilor Mozemo, who was born under the name Dalija Pintari? (45) and her partner Ivona (36), so the question arises why the media hide their identities, even though the Zambian media reported the police report with their full names and surnames. In fact, Jutarnji list initially published the names, but after someone intervened, it decided to hide them.

Dalija Pintari? was originally a lesbian, and then she decided to make the so-called "gender surgery" and "becoming a man", therefore she changed her name to Noah Pintari?, and then to Noah Kraljevi?. She could therefore be, after the first man in a women's prison, the first case of a woman in a men's prison.

Dalija Pintari? and Noah Kraljevi? were declared LGBTIQ person of the year

Zambia: according to information from Zambian portals, among the 4 couples who were arrested at the beginning of the month, there is also an LGBTQ activist, DP, former co-president of the Trans Aid association, now the kolekTIRV association . She became known to the Croatian public for advocating transgenderism and presenting her personal "transition" to the male gender and changing her name to NP, and then to N.K.

The Zambian media published the names and surnames of all those detained and the children who were with them. Jutarnji list announced yesterday that the 52-year-old guitarist of Hladni piva is among those detained.

Eight Croats were arrested on December 6 and detained in Zambia, a country with 19 million inhabitants in southern Africa. They were arrested at Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport with four children aged between one and three. They were taken to the police station on the basis of a report, and because of the suspicion that they brought four children to Zambia from the Congo with falsified documents, writes Zambia News. The authorities there suspect trafficking in people, that is, children . The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the four married couples have been detained in Zambia for 16 days. They were visited by an employee of the Croatian consular office of the Croatian embassy in Pretoria.

Narod.hr sent an inquiry to the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy about the couples detained in Zambia - whether they are registered as potential adoptive parents in the Republic of Croatia and about the validity of the child adoption procedure in accordance with the laws and the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and international conventions. In a separate question, we asked for information about a possible procedure in Croatia for the couple NK and I.K, that is, two female persons, one of whom underwent the transition to the male gender and, according to some media, came to Zambia to adopt a child from the Congo. We will publish the Ministry's answers to these questions as soon as we receive them.

Zambia and the Congo: international adoption and the Convention