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Ireland ratified the Hague Convention in 2010, which regulates intercountry adoption on a global basis

Ireland ratified the Hague Convention in 2010, which regulates intercountry adoption on a global basis

Romanian adopters not allowed to choose child based on race

Published August 17, 2016 Associated Press

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BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian authorities say families who want to adopt a child will no longer be able to make a choice based on the child's ethnicity.

Gabriela Coman, head of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of the Child and Adoption, presented a new adoption law Wednesday. She said ethnicity has been eliminated as a criteria for adoption.

The 88-year-old priest decided to return to the United States for health reasons and after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. A defender of the tribal north of the country, he has published hymns and prayers in the Garo language. He founded at least 30 schools to give children an education.

Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Thousands of Catholics and tribal Garo greeted Fr Eugene Eduard Homrich, a 88-year-old missionary of the Holy Cross, who left Bangladesh yesterday after 60 years of work in the country.

On 12 August, parishioners organised a party in a church in Pirgacha, Tangail district (northern Bangladesh). In greeting him, a young Catholic said, "I thank you Father because you have sacrificed yourself for the Garo people. May God bless you and be with you, always. Thank you so much."

Fr Eugene Eduard Homrich was born in Michigan in 1928 and arrived in Bangladesh in 1955. After learning the Bengali language, he served for three years in the diocese of Dhaka, an ethnically Bengali area. In 1959 he moved to JalchatraPparish, diocese of Mymensingh, where he remained until 1992. He was then sent to Pirgacha Parish, in the same diocese, and stayed there until now.

A few months ago, Fr Eugene received death threats from radical Muslims. For this reason, and because of his health, he decided to return to the US.

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After working for the welfare of local Mandi (Garo) and other ethnic minority people for 57 years in Madhupur upazila of Tangail, Father Eugene Homrich is returning to his home country USA.

Homrich, the parish priest of Saint Pauls Darmopalli, a mission at Pirgachha in Madhupur upazila, left for Dhaka on Saturday morning and he is supposed to fly to the USA today.

Born in Michigan City in USA in 1928, Father Homrich came to Madhupur in 1959 and started preaching Christianity alongside arranging education and healthcare for the ethnic minority people in Madhupur Garh region after establishing Jalchhatra Mission.

He gave shelter to many freedom loving people during the 1971 Liberation War and after the country's independence, he was given recognition as a freedom fighter.

A farewell function for Homrich was organised at Saint Pauls Darmopalli, about 20 kilometres from the Madhupur upazila headquarters on Friday.

Record Group 263: Records of the Central Intelligence Agency

Records of the Directorate of Operations

By Paul B. Brown

IWG Historical Research Staff

The CIA file on Wilhelm Krichbaum is a lengthy one consisting of one folder of redacted photocopies. The redactions are small and primarily involve deletions of names of CIA employees or sources, and some foreign government information (FGI) is redacted as well. Some documents with potentially useful data (i.e., photocopies of data cards citing MGLA messages) are poor copies, although they may be the best available from poor microfilm.

Relinquished

Jayanti was born in 1995 in Nagpur, a city in India. Jayanti's mother was only 21 years old when she got her. She then gave her up because she was unmarried and in India you are only allowed to have children if you are married. Furthermore, Jayanti has very little information about her biological mother and nothing about her biological father at all, because he probably doesn't even know about her existence. Jayanti was first taken to the children's home in Nagpur. Here she also got her name from a social worker. The name Jayanti means: Victorious.

Adoption

As soon as there was talk of adoption, Jayanti was taken to the Bal Anand children's home in Bombay. When she was 1.5 years old, she flew to the Netherlands together with three other girls. This was done under the supervision of two Wereldkinderen employees. Jayanti was adopted by Sjaak and Astrid. Jayanti: “These are two incredibly sweet and caring people who I really see as my parents.” After a while, Jayanti's parents separated and her father got a new wife and her mother got a new husband. She also got a sister. The divorce was difficult for Jayanti at times, but she can't imagine never meeting them.

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Two sign agreement to improve child adoption

REBECCA QUAICOE DUHO (MRS) 10 AUGUST 2016

Nana Oye Lithur (4th left), Minister of Gender, Children & Social Protection, speaking during the signing of the MoU. Picture: NII MARTEY M. BOTCHWAY

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Notice: Illien Adoptions International, Inc.

August 10, 2016

The Council on Accreditation (COA) has cancelled the accreditation of Illien Adoptions International, Inc. COA is the Department of State’s designated accrediting entity for adoption service providers under the Hague Adoption Convention (Convention), the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 and the Intercountry Universal Accreditation Act (UAA). The cancellation is due to COA’s finding that Illien Adoptions International, Inc., failed to maintain substantial compliance with the accreditation standards in accordance with 22 CFR Part 96.27. For more information regarding this cancellation please refer to the information on substantiated complaints and adverse actions on the Council on Accreditation’s website.

As a result of this cancellation, Illien Adoptions International, Inc. must cease to provide all adoption services in connection with intercountry adoption cases. Please note that this cancellation affects Illien Adoptions International, Inc.’s ability to provide adoption services in both Convention cases and non-Convention cases subject to the UAA. Persons with an open case with Illien Adoptions International, Inc., should contact the adoption service provider directly to find out how the cancellation will affect their adoption services.

The cancellation is effective August 5, 2016, and is permanent.

Situation of adopted children from Uganda

03.August.2016 · Posted in APO-OPA

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders regrets the method used by the Flemish Centre for Adoption (Kind & Gezin), which reported this morning in a press release that the Belgian Embassy in Kampala (Uganda) refused an entry visa to nine parents, who wanted to leave with ten adopted children from Kampala to Belgium. He regrets especially that those nine parents are caught up in that situation.

The Flemish Centre for Adoption should take into account the applicable legal rules in Uganda.

The Embassy in Kampala received so far only for four of those ten children a visa application. Those were, according to the existing procedures concerning visa applications, timely forwarded for further processing to the Immigration Office (DVZ/ODE). DVZ/ODE is the competent authority that can take a decision in these matters. But the final decision for departure to our country lies in the hands of the Ugandan government.