The State has discontinued a case in which eight Croatian nationals were charged with attempted child trafficking on the Zambian territory after they allegedly adopted four juveniles from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last December.

Meanwhile, Zambian authorities have ordered the eight discharged Croatians to leave the country within 48 hours.

State advocate Mahape Libakeni, who made the application on Monday morning, stated that the matter was discontinued pursuant to section 88(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code chapter 87 of the laws of Zambia.

“This matter was coming up for continued trial, however the people are discontinuing it,” he said in the Ndola Magistrates Court.

In response, lawyers from the Legal Aid Board representing the eight Croatian nationals did not object to the application from the state.

Pétition en faveur des familles victimes du moratoire roumain sur les adoptions

Plusieurs eurodéputés, emmenés par les Français Claire Gibault et Jean-Marie Cavada (démocrates libéraux), ont lancé une pétition dans laquelle ils demandent que les autorités roumaines reviennent sur les refus qu'elles ont opposés à quelque 1 000 familles.

Par Rafaële Rivais

Publié le 04 juillet 2006 à 13h57, mis à jour le 04 juillet 2006 à 13h57

Temps deLecture 3 min.

Madison Zoey Vettorino

Madison Zoey Vettorino

Feb 12, 2020

Adoptees in New York Gain Access to Sealed Birth Records

By Jennifer Borjes

A three-part series coming to Amazon Prime Video will unpack the extraordinary story of a former Flintshire couple who made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic when they paid more than $10,000 to adopt twin baby girls.

Three Mothers, Two Babies and A Scandal will launch exclusively on Prime Video on Friday, November 18.

It will hear from the three of the women at the heart of an internet baby adoption scandal: Judith, Vickie and Tranda, speaking together for the very first time.

Judith and Alan Kilshaw paid $12,000 to adopt twin baby girls from a young American mother, Tranda.

Global outrage ensued. The Kilshaws stood accused of buying the babies online and the new World Wide Web appeared to facilitate a global baby trade.

While families across the country prepare to gather for Christmas, Michael Hickey is facing another festive season forbidden from meeting his mother.

He is one of thousands of adopted Australians barred from contacting biological family members under so-called "contact vetoes".

Adoption lobby groups are fighting for an end to the vetoes, arguing they were "cruel" and "outdated".

Mr Hickey was adopted out as a newborn in Perth in 1960 when unmarried mothers were shunned and often pressured into giving up their babies.

He knew from a young age he was adopted and tried to find his biological mother when he was in his 30s.

On October 5, 2022, the Racines&dignité group filed complaints with the public prosecutor for the opening of a judicial inquiry into the main actors who participated in our forced exodus without the consent of our biological families. We publish the letter addressed to Mrs BECCUAU so that our request is taken into account vis-a-vis these crimes against humanity.

For the attention of Mrs Laure BECCUAU, Public Prosecutor of Paris

Madam Prosecutor,

We have the honor to inform you that we are a group of victims born in Romania in the 1960s. We created the Roots&Dignity group in order to denounce the establishment of a trade in children and violations of human rights. child of which we have been the object.

We are :

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Bill, providing for the adoption of both boys and girls, was approved by the Lok Sabha on Friday.

Mr N. C. Chatterjee (Hindu Mahasabha) called the Bill a communal one. “ It is wrong for a secular State to single out Hindus alone for this kind of legislation.” he said.

Adoption of girls was something unheard of in Hindu society from the days of the Vedas. The Bill defied the directive principles of the Constitution.

The chapter on maintenance was capable of more than one interpretation. Lawyers had already pointed out that some of the provisions could not be enforced.

Mrs Sushama Sen (Cong.-Bihar) did not agree with Mr Chatterjee that the Bill violated the Constitution On the contrary, she said, it sought to implement the provision conferring equal right to men and women. She congratulated the Minister on giving Hindu women their rightful place in society.

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March 25, 2004

Rally for Intercountry Adoption

{posted with the permission of Hannah Wallace}

There is a very important rally being held in Washington, D.C. on Monday and Tuesday, March 29 and 30, on behalf of the children of Romania, whose opportunity to be adopted may be permanently denied. While Romania and Guatemala are worlds apart, the insidious influences of the E.U. anti intercountry adoption proponents, along with the misguided principles of UNICEF, is affecting every country of world, and is condemning many children from Third World Countries to death, or lives without hope.

I urge everyone who cares about preservation of adoption opportunities for children to TRY to attend these two rallies. Details and contact information is below,

As the European Union has expanded eastward, hundreds of thousands of children have been turned into orphans in all but name. They grow up without their parents, who have no choice but to work in rich, Western European countries for a lack of job options back home.

Nicoleta's mother is happy to see her daughter. "How did math go?" she asks. "Good," her daughter responds. "I'm going to tutoring again later. The teacher said he'll pick me up. Have you cooked anything?" "No, but I'm about to make something to eat," the mother says.

Nicoleta stares at the screen of her smartphone. The two of them are separated by 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles). They're talking over WhatsApp. Ileana Tanase, 37, is calling from London. The 14-year-old Nicoleta is sitting on her bed in her room in Scarisoara, a small town in the county of Bacau in eastern Romania.

They talk for a few minutes about school, food, work and the weather. In the next room, Nicoleta's younger brother Andrei is playing a game on his phone. The 11-year-old doesn't like to talk on the phone; he's a bit introverted. "Kisses," Nicoleta's mother says. "Give Andrei and grandma and grandpa a kiss for me." "I will. Bye, mommy;" the daughter days. Then they both hang up.

Daily conversations over WhatsApp, rarely longer than a few minutes. That's been Ileana Tanase's relationship with both of her children for the past three years. A relationship held together by shaky videos and hastily typed messages punctuated with emojis. It's the digital simulation of a normal life.