In this article we present a brief history and recent statistics of child abandonment and adoption in Romania. After a rise in international adoptions in the 90s, a moratorium on adoption was established and in 2004 international adoptions became virtually impossible. Based on statistics of the Romanian National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights and Adoption, we noted that since 2004 international adoptions were rare, whereas domestic adoptions remained relatively stable with about 1,000 adoptions each year. To date, not all potential adoption placements are realized. We conclude with reflecting on possible changes to improve child welfare in Romania.

Keywords: Romania, domestic adoption, international adoption, child welfare, child abandonment

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1 WP-28071-2018

The High Court Of Madhya Pradesh

WP-28071-2018

(APORVA SHARMA Vs CENTRAL ADOPTION RESOURCE AUTHORITY MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND

CHILD DEVELOPMEWNT GOVERNMENT OF INDIA)

Between 1980 and 2000, around 14,000 children from destabilized countries such as Sri Lanka or Lebanon were adopted in Switzerland. While the adoptive parents believed that all was right, the Swiss authorities knew that many documents were wrong.

In fact, in many cases there was a real baby trade - children were stolen from mothers, documents were forged. The adoptions took place mainly through controversial placement organizations - also in Switzerland - which responded to the great demand for childless couples. And the Swiss authorities did nothing about it. In March 2019, “DOK” showed how such a baby trade with adopted children for Switzerland came about in Sri Lanka during the civil war of the 1980s - the babies of that time are still looking for their birth parents today. In this report, the Sri Lankan babies of that time today as adults demand an apology from the Swiss government - and access to their dossiers, some of which are still inaccessible to them today. The film “International Adoptions - A Swiss Scandal” shows that adoptions were also carried out in a questionable manner with many other countries, for example in Lebanon. An even more perfidious approach came into play there during the civil war: doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - making it practically impossible to find the birth parents today. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things. Doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - so it is now practically impossible to find the birth parents. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things. Doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - so it is now practically impossible to find the birth parents. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things.

Dad, mum, brush your teeth

TRANSFER IN THE WEST IS THE ONLY CHANCE FOR LIFE WITH FAMILY FOR MANY INDIAN CHILDREN. BUT ADOPTIONAL COUPLES MUST LEAD A SOMETIMES OF BURDEN AGAINST BUREAUCRACY

Shy, Jegan points to the crumpled photo in his brown hand. Then he breathes, "Dad, Mum." The man in the picture is holding a blonde woman in his arms, the little Indian's finger moving on the paper: a laughing boy and a girl with cheeky pigtails driving a white motorboat, Jegan looks questioningly "Brother," remembers Sister Paulina, "Brother and Sister."

The six-year-old speaks Tamil, he can barely speak English. German not at all. He could already learn his first words for months Schwäbisch, if there were not the hurdles of bureaucracy: Since September 2003 Monika and Ulrich Kippelt from Alfdorf fight in Stuttgart for the adoption of the Indian orphan. The story of Jegan and his new parents is a drama with great feelings, disappointments and hopes and an uncertain ending. It shows how difficult foreign country options are - and how important.

In India, for example, Jegan had little chance. Although his unmarried mother had given him immediately after birth in an orphanage in southern India Kerala, and male babies are usually the easiest to convey. But when the doctors found a chronic thyroid disease in the child, it was clear that there would be no Indian adoptive parents: the cost of the drugs are too high. Therefore, Jegan moved to Chennai as a two-year-old to the Franciscan nuns in the baby home Saint Thomas Mount, which has the state license for adoptions in the West. Decisive condition: They must have been rejected three times by Indian couples.

Pieter Omtzigt’s motion regarding whistleblower Roelie Post has been unanimously approved by de Dutch Parliament.

The Dutch parliament will request First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, to come up with a decent solution.

Part of the Omtzigt motion is also to address the child trafficking problem within intercountry adoption.

We are awaiting further steps to be taken by the Dutch Parliament towards the European Commission.

#unitedwearestronger

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GAYA: Five persons, including the director and two women staff of a government-funded adoption centre at Lakhibagh in

Bihar’s Gaya district (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gaya-district), were arrested on Saturday on charges of child

abuse. The accused have been booked under Sections 6 and 9 of Pocso Act and Sections 34 and 120(B) of IPC and sent to jail.

Unclaimed and abandoned children were kept at the centre run by an NGO, ECOVIK. It has now been sealed and its 13 inmates

shifted to other facilities located in Munger and Nalanda (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nalanda) districts, Gaya SSP

PATNA: The Bihar government on Saturday closed an adoption centre in Gaya after a US-based couple complained that a child adopted by them from there in August this year was physically abused.

A case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has also been lodged and five persons have been arrested, officials said on Sunday. They said all 13 children from the centre have been shifted to other centres.

“Following the allegations made by the US couple, we have been asked by the CARA [Central Adoption Resource Authority] to get the medical examinations done of all other children at the Gaya adoption centre and submit a report by end of September,” said Rajkumar, the director of Bihar’s social welfare department.

CARA works under the Union women and child welfare ministry and deals with inter-country adoption.

The US-based couple had adopted the five-year-old girl on August 17 from the social welfare department centre being run by a non-government organisation in Gaya. All the 13 children who lived there are all below six.

NEW DELHI: More than a year after the case of illegal trafficking and alleged selling of babies at shelter home

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/shelter-home) run by Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi came to light, the National

Commission for Protection of Child Rights has received statements of two former inmates which shows that they were survivors

of sexual abuse when they were brought to the shelter home but no police case was registered.

The NCPCR (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NCPCR) feels that prima facie it appears that it may be a violation of

The eye and the hand

Adopt me

Marie-Laure is 50 years old, is hearing and lives in Paris. In 2011, without her really explaining it, she decided to learn

the sign language. Sasha is deaf, and spent the first 6 years of her life in an orphanage in India without sign language. After a long adoption process, Marie-Laure's life meets that of Sasha. One walks towards the other, sometimes with difficulty and fragility. Both build, on a daily basis, the link that will make them a mother and a son. A film by Jean-Philippe Urbach. School of Turenne 52-54 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris. Kindergarten Tel. 01 48 87 28 44 Fax 01 83 98 03 85 Mail: ce.0751416g@ac-paris.fr Composition of classes 6 classes (PS, MS, GS) and 1 class LSF-F multiage (PS to GS). Elementary School Tel. 01 42 71 16 29 Fax 01 42 77 64 97 Mail: ce.0752327x@ac-paris.fr Composition of classes 11 classes (CP, CE1, CE2, CM1, CM2) and 1 class LSF-F multiage (CP to CM2) . Pediatrician Jean-François Chicoine Consultation at the Air France International Vaccination Center. www.vaccinations-airfrance.fr/ Official website for adoption procedures: www.adoption.gouv.fr/ Authorized Bodies for Adoption (OAA) www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/adopter-al-etranger / the-players-of-the-adoption-international / operators-the-l-international-adoption / organizations-authorized-to-the-adoption-oaa /

Directed by: Jean-Philippe Urbach