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Rupert Wolfe Murray ianuarie 2, 2017 Opinie, Societate/Life

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31/12/16

This is the time of year for greetings, congratulations, optimism and hope. I’ve sent my Christmas cards, eaten my roast ham and welcomed in the New Year. But something is missing.

Brabants echtpaar veroordeeld voor illegale adoptie

Een echtpaar uit Uden is door de rechtbank in Den Bosch veroordeeld voor illegale adoptie. Het in Spanje verblijvende stel moet 20.000 euro boete overmaken aan Unicef en krijgt een voorwaardelijke celstraf van 3 maanden.

Redactie 30-12-16, 15:46

Het paar woont al 3,5 jaar in Spanje met het kind en onttrekt zich zo aan het Nederlandse recht. Volgens de rechtbank heeft het er alle schijn van dat de twee de regels proberen te omzeilen bij de adoptie van een Roemeense baby: ,,Dit is buitengewoon laakbaar."

De straf komt bijna overeen met de eis van de Officier van Justitie. Die eiste twee weken geleden een boete van 30.000 euro die overgemaakt moest worden naar Unicef. De verdachten lieten zich toen vertegenwoordigen door een advocate. Het stel kan zelf niet meer internationaal reizen, omdat hun paspoorten zijn verlopen.

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DECEMBER 20 2016

Adoptions in Australia fall to record low levels in 2016

Felicity Caldwell

Only 278 adoptions were finalised in the past year – the lowest number on record – according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

It was a fall of 5 per cent from the 292 adoptions in 2014-15 and of 74 per cent from the 1052 adoptions 25 years earlier, in 1991-92.

The first president of the Soros Foundation spits where he lied. Alin Teodorescu and Jewish, American, Hungarian and PSD "drugmakers"

Alin Teodorescu, the first president of the Soros Foundation and the Social Dialogue Group (at the same time), mocked: spitting on Jews, Americans, Hungarians and PSDs. That's where he's been lying for about 30 years.

In a sad post on GDS's blog "22", Alin Teodorescu is crying on the shoulder of "Colonel Comrade" Rodica Culcer, saying: "Now you accuse me of not responding to a group of drug addicts who have a TV channel at hand and who have tried to make George Soros the culprit for all the evil of the earth. We have lived, close or remotely, such campaigns in Romania, Russia, Hungary, China and Ukraine. There will be others that I do not know directly. "

Let's note: the campaigns in Romania, Russia, Hungary, China and Ukraine, Teodorescu knows them directly. There were others but ... he did not hear about them.

Ditamai, the sociologist has not heard, as he says, of the recent campaign in the United States of America, where the elected president, Donald Trump, said that if he seizes Soros, he breaks his legs.

KOLKATA: CID officials investigating the baby trafficking racket operating from Kolkata and the two adjoining Parganas said they have now have proof that even adoption centres were part of the trafficking racket. CID sources said that among the 50 “workable” leads received so far from various complainants ever since the baby trafficking racket news became public, there have been three specific complaints against a Prafulla Kanan based Special Adoption Agency (SAA) close to Habra.

The local Child Welfare Committee too has now informed the CID that they were forced to stop the SAA from functioning in 2015 and lodge a case at Habra police station after the SAA officials sent a child for adoption without completing basic formalities. “There was a particular case where a man killed his wife and the child was sent to the centre. Without anyone’s knowledge, this child was put up for adoption,” said a source. A final decision on a separate probe on adoption agencies are now being mulled at Bhawani Bhawan, claimed sources.

Meanwhile, even as the CID has begun recording the statements of crucial witnesses in the baby trafficking racket that has witnessed 20 arrests so far, it seems it has found a legal solution to a tricky question. As of now, it has been decided by the top brass not to book any one of the five odd sets parents who had reportedly “paid” the trafficking gang in order to “adopt” the child.

“Adoption is a long and lengthy process. One of the key factors is whether the babies were orphans or whether their biological parents had permitted them to adopt their parents. Unless we trace the real parents or they appear before us willingly, we cannot go ahead and slap charges against them. Hence a decision on this – including whether we can use their testimonies in court to bolster our case - will be taken later after we get the DNA tests of the rescued babies completed,” said an investigating officer adding that the time to record their statements in court under CrPC 164 was yet to arrive.

CID officers said that now that most of the main gang members of one such module has been nabbed, they will be concentrating on establishing the entire modus operandi of the gang. “Just like the foster parents, there are a chunk of other people – nursing home nurses, staffers, ambulance drivers and even some doctors – who knowingly or unknowingly helped the gang. But then, we are dealing with them on a case to case basis. Too many arrests might lead to the big players managing to wriggle away,” commented a senior officer at Bhawani Bhavan.

Adoption Alert

December 16, 2016

European Adoption Consultants, Inc. Temporarily Debarred.

The Department of State temporarily debarred adoption service provider, European Adoption Consultants, Inc. (EAC) from accreditation on December16, 2016, for a period of three years. As a result of this temporary debarment, EAC’s accreditation has been cancelled and it must immediately cease to provide all adoption services in connection with intercountry adoptions. The Department’s decision was made pursuant to the debarment authority in the adoption accreditation regulations (22 CFR Part 96), which implement the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 and the Universal Accreditation Act of 2012. The Department found substantial evidence that the agency is out of compliance with the standards in subpart F of the accreditation regulations, and evidence of a pattern of serious, willful, or grossly negligent failure to comply with the standards and of aggravating circumstances indicating that continued accreditation of EAC would not be in the best interests of the children and families concerned.

According to its website, EAC operates intercountry adoption programs in Bulgaria, China, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Honduras, India, Panama, Poland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ukraine. Please note that this temporary debarment prohibits EAC from providing intercountry adoption services in both Hague Convention and non-Convention countries. Families working with EAC who have intercountry adoption cases in progress may wish to contact the Council on Accreditation (COA) for information about case transfer and information about other accredited adoption service providers who may be able to assume handling of adoption cases. Updated information will be posted to this web site as it becomes available. Questions may be submitted to Jayne Schmidt at COA at haguesupport@coanet.org (subject line: EAC) and to the Office of Children’s Issues at adoption@state.gov.

Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Terre des hommes has been protecting displaced children in a Damascus suburb. They receive psychological support as well as material and financial aid.

Years of conflict have left many children traumatised and suffering from stress. “The younger children have never known a life without bombings, violence and suffering. In the bigger cities, hiding in the cellar has become a way of life”, reports Catherine Hallé, desk officer for Syria.

Our activities are designed to protect children and contribute to their well-being. In groups or individually, we let the children express what they have experienced in games or by playing with puppets. With professional support, they develop the strength they need to deal better with the emotional and social challenges they face. Some children with severe difficulties are referred to specialists, e.g. psychiatrists or language therapists.

The Tdh team in Syria also provides food, hygiene articles and financial support to pay the rent or purchase urgently needed medicine. Particularly vulnerable children and their families receive additional support in winter.

Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, Terre des hommes has been providing humanitarian aid to thousands of children who have fled to Lebanon and Jordan, as well as to those who have risked their lives trying to reach Europe.