Former detainee in polisario jails, Fadel Breika, denounced before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), in Geneva, the trafficking in human beings prevailing in the camps of Tindouf, under the control of separatist militias, on Algerian territory.

Speaking on Thursday, under the interactive dialogue with the UN rapporteur on human trafficking, as part of the 50th session of theUNHRC, Breika pointed to Algeria’s complicity in Polisario’s human rights violations and illicit trafficking.

The separatist militia “prevents the establishment of any human rights framework that is able to monitor and report on trafficking of human beings,” Breika said, denouncing the assignment of the camps’ management to these separatist factions, which “prevents the establishment of any human rights framework capable of monitoring and accounting for trafficking in human beings in the camps.”

He noted, in this sense, that human trafficking is one of the lucrative activities for separatist militias who use, without scruples, these camps as a business.

“The polisario camps are a sad example of the exploitation of human beings by armed separatist militias.”

WAGENINGEN - Lotte van Dijk (23) from Wageningen is critical of Rob Marrevee's candid story about his two adopted sons from Ethiopia. “My fear is that, with all the attention that is now being paid to his story, this will become the new image of adoption.” She would like to let her positive experience speak.

The adoption of children from abroad has long been under discussion. It was even temporarily banned, but in April the cabinet announced that 'intercountry' adoption will be possible again.

Rob Marrevee from Nijmegen is an adoptive father, but now wonders aloud whether you should adopt children. He and his wife adopted two biological brothers from Ethiopia over twenty years ago. When his eldest son was 18 years old, he said to his father: 'I would rather have stayed there than been adopted'. Rob now thinks it's time to tell the other side of what he calls "the adoption fairytale."

See also: Rob adopted Ethiopian brothers: 'I would not have done it with knowledge of now'

'Adoption is not a nightmare either'

Pediatrician Jan DV seemed an impeccable man, but has now been caught for the second time with child pornography

With candy as bait, Jan DV (50), a pediatrician by profession in Zedelgem in West Flanders, tried a few months ago to lure a boy. After a complaint, a house search followed and the discovery of child pornography on his PC. What no one knew was that the impeccable father – who also runs a charity project with street children – already had a much older secret in the village.

"Do you want some candy?" With those words Jan DV (50) tried a few months ago to lure a boy from the neighborhood into his car. The boy managed to escape and immediately alerted his parents. His father then went to the police, who went looking for an unknown child molester.

Finally, the investigators came to Jan DV. He is known in the area because he has been running a doctor's office for decades in Veldegem, a sub-municipality of Zedelgem, with his wife, who is also a trained pediatrician. The two have three children and enjoy an impeccable reputation.

Benefactors with a big children's heart

A 50-year-old pediatrician from Veldegem, West Flanders, is in prison on suspicion of possessing child pornography and voyeurism. The investigators tracked down the doctor after a complaint about a man who had tried to lure a boy into his car, Het Laatste Nieuws reported. Striking: the man was already caught twenty years ago in possession of child pornography, but was suspended.

The news hit like a splinter bomb in Jan DV's immediate vicinity. For them, 'Doctor Jan' is unspoken. Married, father of three children and a reputable pediatrician. He runs a practice with his wife - also a pediatrician. Recently, the doctor's wife is on her own. Her husband is imprisoned in the prison of Bruges. Patty 't Jonck of the public prosecutor's office West Flanders confirms that the man was arrested last week on suspicion of possession of child pornography and voyeurism. “Last Friday the council chamber of Bruges extended his detention by a month,” says 't Jonck.

According to multiple sources, the doctor killed himself. He is said to have tried to lure a boy into his car with candy last year. The police then started an investigation and eventually arrived at the doctor from Veldegem, a sub-municipality of Zedelgem. During a search of the house, the investigators seized, among other things, computers. These have been turned inside out in recent months and the investigators are said to have bumped into files with child pornography.

The investigators would also have secretly found recordings of patients he examined. Remarkable: well twenty years ago, Jan DV was also under investigation for possession of child pornography. The man then got the favor of the suspension. That means that the doctor admitted the facts and received no punishment in return. Legal sources confirm this, but no one wants to give details about the old and the new file. The question is how it is possible that Jan DV - despite the fact that the court considered the facts proven at the time - could continue to work as a pediatrician in the following years. Until yesterday, the Order of Physicians knew absolutely nothing about the judicial history of doctor Jan DV

CHILDREN'S HOME

There are lots of conversations driven on the impact of intercountry and transracial adoption and many times I see these driven by people who have little to no first-hand experience of this very complex topic. I have seen long conversations (usually lacking nuance) from both people of colour and white people sharing perspectives without actually asking adoptees their perspectives, focusing on centering their views vs those they claim to understand. There is a problem with this because we see it time and time again in diversity and inclusion work. From people making assumptions on what other groups of people need based on their own personal thoughts and experiences, to tech solutions being created without truly listening to those who it affects. Listening vs speaking over is key - it helps us challenge bias, put friction in before decision making and enable us to truly reach people of all backgrounds.

As a transracial adoptee (the situation in which a family adopts a child of a different race), this is my experience, and mine only.

From Sri Lanka to Ireland

I was adopted at three weeks old by a white Irish couple from rural Ireland. This decision was taken because my parents tried for many years to have biological children, and even with IVF, unfortunately/fortunately this wasn’t possible. On their final round of IVF, they met a nurse who knew a couple who had also had similar problems and adopted from Sri Lanka. So, she made the connection.

I am 31, and was adopted in 1991. Adoption (and certainly intercountry adoption) is complicated. I want you to consider how the advancement of technology will have made this more streamlined. No longer do you need to have copies of forms sent to you by post, fill them out by pen, posting them half way across the world and wait for weeks for them to arrive, no less the time waiting for a response. This process took my parents approximately six years to do.

"What? Doctor Jan in prison?” In the Indian children's home that the detained pediatrician co-founded at the time, they were greatly shocked and worried. Not that they think the Belgian did wrong things there. “Jan was like a father to the children here.”

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Armenia's adoption fraud: foreigners pay up to 25 thousand euros for a kid

A 50-year-old pediatrician Jan DV from Veldegem (Zedelgem) is in prison on suspicion of voyeurism and possession of child pornography. This is confirmed by the public prosecutor's office of West Flanders, department of Bruges. His arrest was already extended on Friday by the Bruges council chamber. Police tracked him down when, according to well-informed sources, he tried to lure a boy into his car with candy.

The suspect was arrested by the police early last week after a complaint had started the ball rolling. Jan DV is said to have tried to lure a boy into his car with candy. After that, house searches were carried out in his home and his doctor's office in Veldegem, a sub-municipality of Zedelgem. Child pornography was found in his home. That's what knowledgeable sources say.

After interrogation, the pediatrician was arrested by the Bruges investigating judge on suspicion of voyeurism and possession of child pornography. On Friday he appeared for the first time before the council chamber in Bruges. The council chamber decided that in the interest of the investigation, the suspect must remain in prison for at least one month longer.

It is striking that twenty years ago an investigation was already underway against the man into possession of child pornography. Jan DV then pleaded guilty, but was not punished. He has remained active as a pediatrician for the past twenty years. His wife is also a pediatrician. In the past they also set up a children's home in India where dozens of children were cared for.

LONDON: British couples adopting children in Pakistan have been left stuck in the country due to visa processing delays caused by the sudden Ukraine refugee crisis, the Guardian reported.

The British newspaper found that Home Office visa delays were part of “wider failings” in processing, with families seeking adoption around the world prevented from returning to the UK.

One Briton, stranded in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, since November, told the paper: “It’s 37 degrees here, there are shortages of gas and water, and the electricity goes off for several hours a day. I’m afraid to go outside because of the kidnapping risk and political instability here.

“I’ve been here since November. Getting our baby took three weeks, then we applied for her visa on Jan. 18. Initially, the Home Office told us it would be 12 weeks — that was 21 weeks ago.

“My older son misses nursery, my husband is at work in the UK, my father is sick and I can’t be with him, and my employer wants to know when I’m coming back.

Cases involving adoption of children are now administrative instead of judicial proceedings and should be filed before the National Authority for Child Care (NACC) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and not with the trial courts.

Adoption cases now pending before the trial courts should be withdrawn first before they can be transferred to NACC for resolution, the Supreme Court (SC) said.