Claude Griscelli and his lawyer at the opening of the Mediator trial at the Paris court in September 2019 (Photo Luc Nobout. IP3)

by Eric Favereau

published on September 15, 2020 at 6:21 p.m.

In the Mediator file, there is of course the central aspect of "industrial crime" , as Dr Irène Frachon called it at the origin of her revelation, but there are also other aspects, in particular that around the intensive lobbying that Servier was doing to impose its anorectic drugs, fighting against obesity. At the Paris Criminal Court, this week, it is a small extension of the great trial (which formally ended at the beginning of July, deliberation expected at the end of March) which is being played out, with a judgment on the “influence peddling” aspect. folder.

And since Monday, we are witnessing a marvel of human comedy. Because this story is a jewel, a textbook case, with all that is necessary of small arrangements between powerful. There is a great doctor there, a renowned ex-senator and, of course, a senior official in the pharmaceutical industry. All three are accused of having j ...

Simandou: Rio Tinto riposts to Beny Steinmetz's attack on the Polge de Combret affair

Rio Tinto, which is in dispute with Beny Steinmetz over the loss of its mining rights on blocks 1 and 2 on the Simandou iron ore project, has been stung by an attempt by the Israeli businessman to bring up another affair involving alleged bribery on its part for mining rights on blocks 3 and 4 at Simandou.

Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz.

Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz. ©Avimagen777/CC BY-SA 4.0

On 12 August, lawyers from law firm Kobre & Kim representing Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz, wrote to judges at a New York Southern District court about an article published in the Financial Times on 28 July. Steinmetz has started discovery proceedings at the court in an attempt to obtain documents held by Australian mining group Rio Tinto and Brazil's Vale.

Today the court ruled in the case of Dilani Butink, born in Sri Lanka and adopted in the Netherlands. Butink found out during a trip to Sri Lanka in 2015 that her birth papers are incorrect. Butink sued because she believes the state and adoption agency that brokered her adoption made serious mistakes. Today the judge ruled that she has been late. The case is barred after twenty years. According to Defense for Children, this is a disappointing statement with major consequences for other adoptees and also for children who are still internationally adopted.

Limitation period

According to the judge, the limitation period started when, among other things, Butink's papers in Sri Lanka were forged. That means that within twenty years after that, she should have held the state and the adoption agency liable. According to Defense for Children, this is unreasonable. A baby or young child cannot claim to have been unlawfully adopted and often cannot go to court themselves. In addition, in cases of potentially faulty intercountry adoptions that are reported to the Children's Rights Helpdesk of Defense for Children, we see that adoptees are now twenty, thirty or forty years old if they find out that the adoption file is incorrect, or if they have their biological parents found and it turns out that they never wanted to give them up. According to Defense for Children, the statute of limitations should not start from the moment of improper adoption, but from the moment an adoptee finds out that there have been irregularities.

Immediately go to court

The judge also indicated that Butink could have held the state and the adoption organization liable earlier, now that she found out in 2015 that her papers were incorrect. Reports of irregularities had also appeared in the media before. In practice, Defense for Children sees that an adoptee does not immediately go to court. First, an attempt is made to obtain information from the country of origin, from the adoption organization in the Netherlands and from the Ministry of Justice, the central adoption authority. Here, adoptees often get no action after many referrals. It takes some time. It often also takes some time for an adoptee to investigate the full extent of the wrongful adoption. In addition, it is often emotionally difficult for adoptees, because their identity seems to be incorrect and the adoption story is faltering. Time is also needed for the full meaning of the wrongful adoption to become known. It is therefore very understandable that Butink only later gathered sufficient information and courage to go to court for these reasons. It is not reasonable to say that she should have done this earlier.

According to the National Institutes of Health, in 2013, five doctors conducted a study at the University of Minnesota on the suicide rate of adopted children versus non-adopted children. The study showed that adoptees were almost four times more likely to commit suicide.

And the number of suicides by adopted Korean children is four times the national average, says Manchester resident Moses Farrow, a licensed marriage and family therapist who practices in Glastonbury.

Farrow, a Korean American who was adopted in 1980 at the age of 2, recently joined the Gide Foundation as leader of its mental health task force. The Gide Foundation is a nonprofit organization started in May that focuses on adoptee education and the mental health of Korean American adoptees. Gide’s founders are Derek Fisher of Durham, North Carolina, and Jodi Gill of Oregon City, Oregon

The Gide’s first project is a mental health guide for people who will reunite with their birth families. For future mental health projects, Farrow will lead the mental health task force.

Farrow received his master’s degree in human development and family studies at the University of Connecticut with a concentration in marriage and family therapy.

Adoption Justice: Issues of Records and Identity

Corruption has many shapes and the higher one gets, the more blatant and at the same time subtle it becomes.

No one would really accept if tobacco companies make public health policies.

In the area of child adoption, however, society accepts this.

Let´s have a closer look.

Players:

Corruption has many shapes and the higher one gets, the more blatant and at the same time subtle it becomes.

No one would really accept if tobacco companies make public health policies.

In the area of child adoption, however, society accepts this.

Let´s have a closer look.

Players:

In the Netherlands, gay couples have been able to adopt children from abroad for over ten years, and foster children were already placed in the home of loved ones of the same sex in the last century. Adoption is still in its infancy in Catholic Croatia, or even in tiny baby shoes. But the first foster children have now been placed.

Gay couple has two foster children after a long and hard fight against the system, prejudice and discrimination. Thank you guys! ”, Writes a young Croat on social media.

Because it is indeed a special moment for the country. After a long legal battle, two foster children have been placed with a gay couple for the first time in Croatia. It is an important step for the gay community in predominantly Catholic Croatia, says Daniel Martinovic of the Rainbow Families interest group that released the news. In the eighties of the last century, foster children were already placed in the same-sex house in the Netherlands.

Now there is a shortage of foster parents in our country and more and more foster grandparents are called upon, such as foster grandmother Ilja, whose life has changed completely. She was recently even in the Etos to buy condoms. You can read her story here.

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Jyoti (36) uit Deventer werd slachtoffer van gesjoemel met adoptie in India: ‘De priester weet veel meer’

Jyoti Weststrate (36) was een jaar of 2, al sluit ze niet uit dat ze ouder was, toen ze bij haar biologische ouders in India werd weggehaald en werd ‘geschonken’ aan een priester. Ze belandde in Zutphen, waar vragen over haar oorsprong al een leven lang op antwoord wachten. Nu, woonachtig in Deventer, probeert ze misstanden binnen internationale adoptie aan de kaak te stellen.

Niek Verhoeven 05-09-20, 16:00 Bron: de Stentor

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,,Ik heb uren naar die boogjes in de muren van de kerk zitten kijken. De marmeren treden en de priester die in een wit gewaad door de ruimte liep, kan ik me ook nog herinneren. Mensen zeiden dat zo’n herinnering niet kon, omdat ik nog zo jong was. Maar ik ben bij mijn moeder weggehaald, dat vergeet je nooit meer. En toen ik veel later die priester ontmoette en hij hetzelfde verhaal vertelde, toen wist ik het zeker.”

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court, comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy, on Thursday adjourned a habeas corpus petition filed by M Kavitha Reddy seeking directions to produce her daughter before the court.

The counsel appearing for the petitioner complained that her daughter was taken away by the Child Welfare Committee on the grounds that the adoption was illegal. He pointed out that no orders were passed by the Child Welfare Committee but with the aid of the police, the petitioner’s daughter was taken away.

He submitted to the court that the biological mother of the minor had abandoned her when the child was 2 months old and her present address was not known. The father of the minor daughter had expired in an accident. The child was with the paternal grandparents and that they had given her in adoption to the petitioner who was a distant relative of the child. The panel directed the petitioner to implead the grandparents and confirm the authenticity of the adoption deed. Court posted the case to next week.

State police functioning irks panel

The same panel came down heavily on the state on the functioning of the State police in giving instructions to public prosecutors. It directed the Advocate General to examine the same and issue necessary instructions to the public prosecutors. The panel was dealing with a habeas corpus case filed by Pagidi Ravi who sought the release of Pagidi Sashi who was detained under the Preventive Detention Act.