Finding Farideh

Op eenjarige leeftijd werd Eline Farideh Koning geadopteerd door een Nederlands echtpaar. Maar haar hele leven zal ze verlangen naar haar Iraanse, biologische ouders die ze nog nooit heeft ontmoet. In de documentaire 'Finding Farideh' gaat ze naar hen op zoek. Kijk de docu hier: bit.ly/findingfarideh

Eline Farideh Koning wordt op eenjarige leeftijd geadopteerd door een Nederlands echtpaar, maar haar hele leven lang verlangt ze al naar haar biologische ouders. Ze besluit een oproep te plaatsen in een Iraanse krant. Er reageren drie families. Lukt het Eline haar biologische ouders te vinden? Ontdek het in 'Finding Farideh'.

In gesprek met Eline Farideh Koning

‘Cultuur zit in je DNA, je draagt een andere geschiedenislijn met je mee’

Mumbai: In a unique case of adoption, the Bombay High Court last week hailed a Ghatkopar-based couple for adopting a seven-month-old girl child. The HC said the couple must be appreciated for adopting a girl child despite already having a daughter.

A bench of Justice Girish Kulkarni appreciated this 'approach' of the couple, saying it should set as an example for the 'patriarch' society.

The judge personally met the adoptive parents in his chambers and interacted with them especially because of the 'motivation' letter, they annexed to their plea, describing why they were motivated to adopt a child.

“I had an interaction with the adoptive parents and more particularly on reading their motivation letter. It appears that the adoptive parents were quite determined right from the beginning to have another child in adoption,” Justice Kulkarni said.

“They had accordingly visited several adoption homes and had studied on their future plans to take another child in adoption. They were also motivated by a book titled as Bal Anand (Umang), which was received by them from Bal Anand Ashram,” Justice Kulkarni noted.

The Spanish company Almirall will test the drug, which targets psoriasis

The genetics testing company 23andMe licensed the rights to a drug it developed in-house to a Spanish pharmaceutical company, Bloomberg reported. This is the first time that the company has directly sold a product it created using the genetic information collected from users.

23andMe has already shared genetic data with pharmaceutical companies. GlaxoSmithKline has the exclusive rights to use its data for drug development, and purchased a $300 million stake in the company in 2018. But those drug companies use the company’s data to create their own drugs. In this case, 23andMe identified a drug candidate and conducted animal studies on that drug internally before selling it. The Spanish company, Almirall, will take the product through human trials.

“We’ve now gone from database to discovery to developing a drug,” Emily Drabant Conley, 23andMe’s vice president of business development, told Bloomberg.

The company’s repository of genetic and health data is a gold mine for drug development because researchers can look for relationships between particular genes and health outcomes and target them with therapeutics. The company has genetic data on around 10 million people, and it says around 80 percent agreed to let their anonymized data be used for research, including drug research. The terms of service say that customers who agree to let their data be used will not see any financial benefit, even if that data helps develop a blockbuster drug.

G.S. Kulkarni, J.:— This is a foreign adoption petition wherein the petitioner, Bal Asha Trust, Bal Asha Dham, Anand Niketan, Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai-400011, a recognized adoption agency alongwith the co-petitioners Mr. Fabil Maria Parodi and his wife Mrs. Elena Nerozzi, both of whom are Italian nationals having their address at Corso Roma 9-15121 Alessandria (AL), Italy, are before the court praying that male minor “Yuvraj” born on 15 July 2012 be granted in adoption to the proposed adopters.

2. Minor Yuvraj was admitted in Additional Observation Home, Mankhurd on 26 July 2017 and thereafter on the same day as per the Safe Custody Memo issued by Child Welfare Committee, Mumbai City-I, (for short ‘CWC) as per the provisions of Section 36(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 was transferred to the petitioner.

3. Thereafter, on an inquiry as undertaken as per Section 38 of the Juvenile Justice Act by an order dated 10 April 2019, the CWC declared minor Yuvraj legally free for adoption. A certificate to that effect is placed on record. The proposal for adoption in question by the adoptive parents was also considered by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), New Delhi by issuing a No Objection Certificate dated 13 September 2019 to this adoption as per Adoption Regulation 2017 and Article 17(c) of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and cooperation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption 1993.

4. Insofar as the adoptive parents are concerned, they are Italian nationals residing at address noted above. They have been married for past 16 years (Date of Marriage 18 May 2003) with no biological children. The adoptive parents have however, already adopted two sons aged 15 years and 11 years from Italy and China respectively. The citizenship certificates of the adoptive parents, consent letters and health reports are placed on record, also a family photograph and passport copies of the adoptive parents are also placed on record.

5. Insofar as the health of the adoptive parents is concerned, a report dated 10 September 2019 records that both the adoptive parents enjoy good physical and mental health and are not affected by any psycho-physical pathology and as a result both of them are healthy with a strong constitution.

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From: Helpdesk Adoptie Fiom

Date: Thu 9. Jan 2020 at 19:29

Subject: Nieuws van Fiom

To: info@againstchildtrafficking.org

Duty of investigation

Soul traffickers (Investigation of suspicions of fraudulent adoptions between Guatemala and Belgium)

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Detailed research by the Adoption Authority shows that there were 4,989 inter-country adoptions approved in Ireland, between January 1991 and September 2019.

In the first decade under examination, from January 1991 to October 2010, there were 4,282 inter-country adoptions from 33 countries. The vast majority of the overall figure, therefore, took place in the years to October 2010.

And, 83% of these children came from just five countries – Russia, Romania, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia.

Steep decline

From November 2010 to September 2019, there were 707 intercountry adoptions from 23 countries – comparatively a steep decline in numbers.

SALT LAKE CITY — The feeling of anticipation was eating through Belle Barbu.

It was Nov. 14, 2019. The 25-year-old Washington, Washington County, resident had traveled to Italy and was moments away from meeting her birth family.

The last time Barbu’s birth parents had seen her was the day she was born in a Romanian hospital. But even after their baby girl vanished, the family never stopped praying or believing that God would bring her back to them.

Belle Barbu was recently reunited with her parents about 25 years after she was kidnapped from a Romanian hospital. Operation Underground Railroad

The special reunion, decades in the making, was made possible with the help of Operation Underground Railroad.

"Soul traffickers" investigates suspicions of fraudulent adoptions between Guatemala and Belgium

"Where do I come from? Who am I? Who is my birth mother? It’s all on file but… it’s not true"

When Sophie pronounces this sentence, she is 30 years old. It is at this age that the landmarks on which she has relied since she was a child, collapsed.

Sophie left her native Guatemala in 1984 and has lived with her adoptive mother in Belgium ever since. A story of successful and assumed adoption: Viviane never hid anything from her daughter.

Sophie has been leafing through her adoption file since she was a child, and she has written many letters in an attempt to find her biological mother. In vain.