Column Ina Hut: 'Tackle human trafficking, the moral of the debate!'

The youth movement Exxpose wants to make punishment for sex in the Netherlands punishable. With the petition 'I am priceless' that was offered to the House of Representatives on Wednesday 10 April, they hope to stimulate both the social and political debate about this. 40,000 people have now signed. Exxpose refers to the so-called "nordic model". Then both sex buyers and third parties who earn from prostitution are punishable. People in prostitution are not punishable and help is offered.

According to Exxpose, evaluations of countries where this model has already been introduced show that by tackling the demand for prostitution, fewer people will start buying sex, the country will become less attractive to traffickers and fewer people will be exploited in prostitution.

Although it is commendable that these young people are concerned about the fate of (potential) victims of human trafficking, it strikes me that in the debate about prostitution and human trafficking two things are often confused. Similarly here. On the one hand the abuses in prostitution, prostitution in relation to human trafficking. On the other hand, the moral judgment about prostitution / sex work: Love and sex belong together ... It would only be your daughter ...

Beyond the polarization

Some ask me about the adoption process, some are curious about bonding, and others wonder how to reveal the adoption to their extended family.

Personally what warms my heart is when people discuss special needs adoption or older child adoption with me.

As an adoption counsellor, I have the humble privilege of talking to a wide spectrum of adoptive families both before and after the adoption. Some ask me about the adoption process, some are curious about bonding, and others wonder how to reveal the adoption to their extended family. Personally what warms my heart is when people discuss special needs adoption or older child adoption with me. Not too long ago, a couple who have biological sons talked to me about adopting a daughter with special needs. The line between personal and professional blurred as I counselled them and also shared stories of my own daughters’ adoptions (one with a special need).

A few weeks after the counselling session, the couple went ahead and adopted a five-year old girl who was in the special needs category due to an amputated leg. When this beautiful girl was a baby, the cruel inhumanity that millions of girls face in our country had caused her to lose one of her legs. After that, she was raised in a children’s shelter who took care of her and put her in the legal adoption pool.

This is no small feat.

European knowledge center Aftercare Adoption in Venray

The Nazorg Adoptie association wants to establish a European knowledge center in Venray that will deal with help to adopters, adoptive parents and distance parents. On Friday, June 21, an international symposium on follow-up care at adoption takes place in Venray. The Dutch association has a strong Venray interpretation: the chair is Anne-Marie Goossens from Venray, one of the board members is Puk Heijnen-Poels from Oostrum. Both have been adopted.

For adopters (nationally and internationally), adoptive parents and distance parents, much is regulated by law when it comes to the preliminary process to come to an adoption. However, after the actual adoption has taken place, the support and guidance will lapse. "Nothing has been regulated by law how it will go with the adopted children and their adoptive parents once they have been 'placed'," explains Anne-Marie Goossens. "In short, there is no statutory aftercare for adopted persons and their adoptive parents. Practical and scientific research shows that there is a great need for regulated aftercare. A disproportionately large number of adopted persons, adoptive parents and distance parents rely on assistance. Adopted persons have assistance. four to five times more often than not adopted residential care needed. "

Dutch:

De vereniging Nazorg Adoptie wil in Venray een Europees kenniscentrum vestigen dat zich gaat bezighouden met hulp aan geadopteerden, adoptieouders en afstandsouders. Op vrijdag 21 juni vindt in Venray een internationaal symposium over nazorg bij adoptie plaats. De Nederlandse vereniging heeft een sterke Venrayse invulling: voorzitter is Anne-Marie Goossens uit Venray, één van de bestuursleden is Puk Heijnen-Poels uit Oostrum. Beiden zijn geadopteerd.

Patricia and Aaron Pearson were overjoyed when, after four years of trying, they finally conceived their daughter Emma.

But they always dreamed of giving her a sibling. Since pregnancy had been such a struggle, and they knew there were children out there that needed a home, they turned to Choices Adoption and Pregnancy Counselling Agency on Vancouver Island.

The couple spent $12,000, underwent numerous background checks, had a home study and took part in an education course. They were registered in the domestic adoption program and on the wait list for a South African adoption when they received an announcement from Choices last week.

The e-mail informed them Choices was closing as of May 31, staff were working to find another agency to take on the Pearsons’ file and they would be in touch, Patricia Pearson said.

“We were pretty shocked. It seemed to come out of the blue. We hadn’t had any indication that they were struggling financially or that this was a possibility,” she said.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019

IAC 459 - 461

The following referrals were issued in IAC Session 459 which was held on April 11, 2019:

1) Dutch dossier from May 2012 referred a female child aged 2 years and 2 months with features in health status.

2) French dossier from October 2013 referred a male child aged 5 years and 4 months with a family history

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA)-- Around Arkansas, certain adoptions could now be criminalized as human trafficking thanks to a bill heading to the Governor's desk.

This bill aims at helping expecting moms and stop adoption crimes from happening right here in Northwest Arkansas.

An attorney in Rogers says he's personally worked with women who have been taken advantage of through the adoption process and fell target to empty threats of jail time and deportation if they didn't cooperate.

"It's a tough road to walk along when you have no support," said Michaela Montie, the Executive Director of the non-profit Shared Beginnings.

Montie is the mother of three adopted children.

How Europe's biggest child trafficking gang escaped justice

New homes are being built in Tanderai, allegedly financed by the proceeds of human traffickingNew homes are being built in Tanderai, allegedly financed by the proceeds of human trafficking CREDIT: PETRUT CALINESCU

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Adoption in the country has, for a long time, remained an emotive issue.

It has often been steeped in suspicion and matters have not been helped by a moratorium on inter-country adoptions (adoption of a Kenyan child by foreigners who live outside the country) placed by the government.

The objective of the moratorium effected on November 26, 2014, was to enable the government to intervene and conduct a comprehensive audit of the policy and legal frameworks, processes, procedures and players involved in the practice of adoption.

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For many Brazilians today, the dictatorship is seen as something to be commemorated. Rosângela's story must oblige us to never forget. Español

Rosângela Paraná felt a shiver surge through her body as she watched the protesters gather, their signs reading: “Congratulations, military. Thanks to you Brazil will never be Cuba”, or “There was no coup, only popular uprising”.

For Rosângela and many other Brazilians who were victims of the military dictatorship, especially the more than 20,000 victims of torture and family members of the 434 murdered or forced into dissappearance, the protests in favour of the dictatorship last Sunday are a chilling reminder that the ghosts of the past have yet to be appeased.

Paraná recounts her story, fearing what Brazil has become today: “I feel incomplete. Everything that happened to me was a product of human wickedness, and that’s terrifying”. She was kidnapped as a baby, and illegally adopted by a family with links to the military in 1963. Her adoptive father falsified her birth certificate and never revealed anything about her biological parents.

She is one of 19 cases that have recently come to light, due to the investigative work of Brazilian journalist, Eduardo Reina. His work tells of the kidnappings of babies and children of left-wing activists that were later adopted illegally by military families. Only now in 2019, 34 years after the fall of the dictatorship, these stories are becoming public knowledge..

The viewers of the last police call from Rostock received the most astonishing information in the credits: 850 children and young people from Germany are currently being housed in foster families abroad. Is that correct?

Berlin. More than seven million viewers watched the Rostock “Polizeiruf 110” on Sunday. The investigators' new case entitled "Child Welfare" was a tough one: it involved the murder of a private children's home operator and the placement of German foster children in EU countries such as Poland.

The astonishing information in the credits: 850 children and young people from Germany are currently being housed in foster families abroad.