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Vooruit MP Freya Van den Bossche is again calling for a temporary pause for intercountry adoptions. 'Only in this way can we tackle the difficulties.'

A screening of 12 adoption files from Ethiopia revealed last week that irregularities had occurred in at least some files: information on paper did not appear to correspond with reality. For example: parents in the country of origin had not voluntarily given up the children.

Flemish Member of Parliament Freya Van den Bossche (Vooruit) therefore repeats her plea for a temporary pause for intercountry adoptions. The expert panel appointed by the Flemish government already advocated this in September 2019. According to that panel, such a pause was necessary in order to thoroughly reform the intercountry adoption procedure.

Van den Bossche completely agrees with this. She has already interpellated the Ministers of Welfare about this several times, but neither Wouter Beke nor Hilde Crevits, both from CD&V, responded to that question. Beke said that he still saw a future in intercountry adoption and that you can also reform by doing. He gave the Flemish Center for Adoption (VCA) and the three adoption services two years to do so.

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Eva adopted Alex (10) from Colombia last year, but now makes a shocking discovery: “I cried when I read it”

A year ago, Eva landed in Zaventem with a Colombian boy. She drove home with Alex (10) very happy and since then she has cared for her adopted son with lots of love. Today the family's world is turned upside down, because Eva did a shocking discovery about Alex's history. “I am extremely angry and disappointed,” she says. “Why have the government and adoption agency been silent about this?”

At the table in her living room, Eva (31) nervously fiddles with the folders laid out in front of her. The pile is at least a foot high and contains documents that have recently shaken up her life. She waves her hands over her eyes, hoping her cheeks stay dry. “Sorry, but I'm getting emotional just thinking about it.” She fishes a small folder out of the stack, takes out one photo and holds it up in the air. I see a girl and a woman posing next to a cake. It's hard to believe that this innocent scene hurts Eva so much. And yet I see her cringe. To understand why, I have to take you to Colombia.

The CCB police arrested eight racketeers — seven women and one man — selling babies to childless couples for ₹8-10 lakh.

The Organised Crime Wing (OCW) of the Bengaluru City Police’s Central Crime Branch (CCB) has busted a child trafficking racket from Tamil Nadu and arrested a gang of eight — seven women and a man, their car driver.

The gang was apprehended when it was about to sell a 20-day-old baby boy to a childless couple in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in West Bengaluru on Friday, 24 November.

The CCB officials, who had credible information about the “deal”, had formed teams and were waiting near the Rajarajeshwari Nagar Temple on Friday evening for the gang members to make their move, a senior police officer told South First on Tuesday.

The CCB sleuths surrounded the car, in which three women and the driver were present with the baby, and rescued the infant.

NAIROBI — At the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when up to 12 million people were infected across sub-Saharan Africa, Nyumbani Children’s Home offered a refuge to Kenya’s dying children. Later, the institute, run by a Catholic charity, fought for the first batches of retroviral drugs for its sick toddlers.

Contributions poured in from American politicians, media personalities and celebrities. Former vice president Mike Pence praised the nun who ran it by name on World Aids Day in 2018 and hosted her at the White House. Congressional tours were frequent.

But behind the smiles and promotional tours, the privately funded orphanage allegedly concealed terrible secrets. In previously unreported claims, six former residents told The Washington Post there were multiple incidents of rape and other abuses of children by volunteers, caregivers and even other children. The U.S. Agency for International Development’s own previous investigation, following a whistleblower’s complaint, found abuse claims at the orphanage “credible,” according to court documents submitted by the orphanage’s Kenyan board in its efforts to oust its director. USAID did not directly support the orphanage, but funded two other associated programs.

One woman sent to Nyumbani when she was three years old said she was abused by a “brother” volunteering from a Catholic religious order when she was just hitting puberty. Like almost all the abuse victims who spoke to The Post, she spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her privacy.

“He was touching my private body parts,” she said. “He told me: ‘You don’t know how to kiss? Let me teach you. … You are a child, you do not know what to do.'”

Controversy Surrounding Angelina Jolie’s Adoption: Allegations of “Fake” Documentation Emerge

Adoption Scandal Unfolds

Angelina Jolie finds herself entangled in a dispute over alleged “fake” documentation related to the adoption of her eldest son, Maddox. The controversy centers around a local aid charity worker, Mounh Sarath, who claims to have signed official papers in Cambodia, officially declaring himself as Maddox’s father.

Claimed Paternity and Power of Attorney

Mounh Sarath, 51, asserts that he not only signed adoption papers but still holds power of attorney over Maddox. The Sun on Sunday was shown an adoption document filed in August 2003 with a court in Battambong province, confirming the court’s recognition of Sarath as Maddox’s father. Sarath expressed his discontent, stating,

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Arun -

I hereby request you to remove immediately from YouTube the video of the interview I did with you in January 2021, as well as from any other medium on which you may have posted it without my consent or knowledge.

TVR Cultural brought them, on November 25, Mihaela Olaru's dialogue with lawyer Elena Bustea, arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration attached to the Court of Commerce and Industry of Romania, recorded in the "Portrait of Excellence" show.

"She is an emblematic personality of the Romanian lawyer, a landmark of our times, a lawyer with grace and an oratorical talent that you rarely meet, she is the president of the "Association Centrul Avocatilor Mediatorii", a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee of the International Union of Lawyers for Romania Paris 1927, insolvency practitioner, arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania, evaluator and vice-president of the National Union of Mediators from Romania, honorary consul of the Republic of Ecuador in Romania – the story behind a lawyer aristocrat ", is the presentation that Mihaela Olaru, host of the show "Portret de excellence", gives to her guest, lawyer Elena Bustea.

Bustea told Mihaela Olaru that " the profession gave me the greatest satisfaction in life ." I am blessed because God gave me this chance to be able to enter this profession and to be able to do it with this passion that I have shared all my life. And now, after so many years, when I'm in the gym and have to plead, I have the same emotions as at the beginning. (...) After 1989, we lawyers had to reinvent ourselves. A great professional satisfaction was when the opposing party, who had lost the case in front of me, asked me after a few years to represent them in another case".

At the same time, the lawyer Elena Bustea told, in "Portrait of excellence", also about the history of her family and about the hardships she went through under the communist regime.

" I come from an Aromanian family that comes from the Pindus mountains. I proudly say that these mountains are in my DNA. My family was persecuted, had to leave northern Greece and settled in Durostor county, in Quadrilater. When the population exchange took place, my family had to leave again and settled in Bucharest.

Investigations have been launched by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on an organized criminal group who are involved in selling Sri Lankan infants to foreigners for adoption.

The CID stated that they had received a complaint on the infant trafficking abroad racket from a Norwegian citizen of Sri Lankan origin on which they launched the investigation.

The Criminal Investigation Department had informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis on Thursday (23) about this illegal selling racket of Sri Lankan infants to foreigners for adoption, CID sources said.

According to what was revealed, the organized gang of criminals has been carrying out this operation of infant trafficking abroad from Kandy to sell for adoption to foreigners which has been presented with relevant facts to the court by CID and a probe has been initiated on this case. After considering the facts presented by the CID, the Colombo Chief Magistrate has ordered the CID to immediately carry out an investigation, apprehend all the suspects involved in the racket and produce them in court.

The adoption center is Sweden's largest mediator of international adoptions. Now the association has been denied continued adoption mediation from Madagascar and Panama. 

Adoption centers are no longer allowed to mediate adoptions from Madagascar and Panama.

Ea Kristine and Snorre Bakken's hope for a new family member may be dashed. Again.

The case in summary

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- Ea Kristine and Snorre Bakken from Vinje have been waiting for several years to become adoptive parents, but a public investigation could lead to a complete halt in adoptions until 2025. - Serious errors and shortcomings have been uncovered in connection with adoption to Norway, and
a committee must examine adoptions from abroad.
- Children's Minister Kjersti Toppe (Sp) will make the final decision on a possible suspension of adoption when she receives the case, which will be handed over to her ministry before Christmas.
- Organizations and families who want to adopt experience great anxiety because of the uncertainty.
- The Bakken couple agree that the adoption process should be strict, but find it difficult to understand that an investigation could lead to a complete halt in all adoptions to Norway.
- In Norway, there are three approved organizations that mediate adoption from abroad.

The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by NRK's ​​journalists before publication.