Stolen Generations survivors from the Northern Territory are taking their fight for compensation to the courts, with legal firm Shine Lawyers preparing to file a class action against the federal government this morning.

Key points:

Stolen Generations survivors in the NT have never been compensated

Shine Lawyers will file a class action in the NSW Supreme Court this morning

Some survivors say compensation would mean proper recognition

Whether they were willing to adopt 5 brothers and sisters at the same time? Elise (37) and Klaas (43) were soon out. "These children needed each other terribly."

Elise: “The past seven years have gone way too fast. My oldest daughter Irma will turn eighteen this year. Efraín is sixteen, Rufino is twelve, Ishmael is eleven and Rosa is ten. Suddenly we only have adolescents in the house and that takes some getting used to. Not only because things can get quite explosive here with their Latino temperament, but also because as parents of teenagers you start the process of letting go. I find that difficult, because I feel I only just got them. I keep telling Irma, 'If you ever move out, please stay close to me.' ”

Always wanted

“I had a girlfriend at primary school who was adopted. Maybe that's why I already said that I wanted to adopt a child later. Although that idea had faded into the background when I married Klaas at the age of 21. Pregnancy was welcome, but we were still young and in no rush. It wasn't until years later that getting pregnant still hadn't worked out, and we turned to the doctor and ended up in the medical mill. We've made a number of IUI attempts, but to be honest, I had my doubts from the beginning. I reacted strongly to the hormone treatments and it felt quite unnatural to look forward to a child like this. After an information evening about IVF, I suddenly knew for sure: I am going to fill out adoption papers.

It has never been discovered why we could not get pregnant, so there is a good chance that a pregnancy was eventually successful. The fact that I was able to close this chapter so easily, I think, is because the desire to adopt children had subconsciously grown within me for a long time. Klaas and I are Christians and we do not believe in coincidence. We think God has led us to this choice. And I like that we can tell our children that adoption was not our last option, but actually the first. ”

STATEMENT OVER INDIA

4 maart 2020

In het werk van SOS Kinderdorpen staat het belang van kinderen altijd voorop. SOS Kinderdorpen is een wereldwijde kinderontwikkelingsorganisatie die in 136 landen en gebieden actief is met lokale medewerkers. In de landen waar wij werkzaam zijn, zijn we onderdeel van het nationale zorgsysteem en conformeren wij aan de nationale wet- en regelgeving.

SOS Kinderdorpen gelooft in de ontwikkeling van kinderen als voorwaarde voor een betere toekomst. Om zich te kunnen ontwikkelen tot zelfstandige volwassenen moeten kinderen waar ook ter wereld kunnen opgroeien binnen de veiligheid van een liefdevolle familie. Wij werken vanuit de visie dat een kind het beste kan opgroeien bij zijn eigen familie. Helaas is dit niet altijd mogelijk. Elk kind is anders en heeft andere behoeftes. Daarom is het belangrijk dat er verschillende zorgopties zijn, om tegemoet te komen aan de specifieke zorgbehoefte van het individuele kind. Voor kinderen die de ouderlijke zorg (tijdelijk) zijn verloren, en voor wie pleegzorg of andere alternatieve zorgvormen geen optie is, biedt SOS Kinderdorpen, in opdracht van de nationale overheid, opvang in een SOS familie. Dat doen we ook in India.

We zijn op de hoogte van de betwiste situatie waarin drie broertjes en zusjes zijn geadopteerd, die voorheen werden opgevangen in SOS kinderdorp Bhopal. We hebben hierover contact gehad met onze collega’s in India en kunnen het volgende hierover zeggen:

Whether they were willing to adopt 5 brothers and sisters at the same time? Elise (37) and Klaas (43) were soon out. "These children needed each other terribly."

Elise: “The past seven years have gone way too fast. My oldest daughter Irma will turn eighteen this year. Efraín is sixteen, Rufino is twelve, Ishmael is eleven and Rosa is ten. Suddenly we only have adolescents in the house and that takes some getting used to. Not only because things can get quite explosive here with their Latino temperament, but also because as parents of teenagers you start the process of letting go. I find that difficult, because I feel I only just got them. I keep telling Irma, 'If you ever move out, please stay close to me.' ”

Always wanted

“I had a girlfriend at primary school who was adopted. Maybe that's why I already said that I wanted to adopt a child later. Although that idea had faded into the background when I married Klaas at the age of 21. Pregnancy was welcome, but we were still young and in no rush. It wasn't until years later that getting pregnant still hadn't worked out, and we turned to the doctor and ended up in the medical mill. We've made a number of IUI attempts, but to be honest, I had my doubts from the beginning. I reacted strongly to the hormone treatments and it felt quite unnatural to look forward to a child like this. After an information evening about IVF, I suddenly knew for sure: I am going to fill out adoption papers.

It has never been discovered why we could not get pregnant, so there is a good chance that a pregnancy was eventually successful. The fact that I was able to close this chapter so easily, I think, is because the desire to adopt children had subconsciously grown within me for a long time. Klaas and I are Christians and we do not believe in coincidence. We think God has led us to this choice. And I like that we can tell our children that adoption was not our last option, but actually the first. ”

At a press conference on January 18 this year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in made statements about adoption, which has shaken adoptees and adoptive families around the world.

According to online media coverage, the president said adoptive parents should have the option to cancel an adoption within a certain time period and possibly be able to swap the child for another.

With good reason, adoptees and adoptive families have been both shocked and outraged by such statements by the head of state in a country that has carried out thousands of adoptions for more than six decades and still carries out hundreds of adoptions - national and international. Korean opposition politicians and the Korean public have also promptly criticized President Moon, who is also a former human rights lawyer, for using these statements to reduce adoptees to a commodity that can only be returned or exchanged.

The president's spokesmen have tried to calm the anger by saying that the president has been misunderstood and misunderstood, and that he instead believed that foster families should be allowed to change their minds before a formal adoption. The many outraged adoptees and adoptive families do not believe this explanation is adequate, and a petition has been launched to demand a clear denial and an unequivocal apology.

Adoption & Samfund also believes that the statements - as they appear in the media coverage online - are criticisable, but also incomprehensible, and we have approached the Korean Embassy in Denmark to get an official indication of whether the said statements are actually comprehensive for the Korean government's view of adoption.

As adopted, the photo album from childhood often has empty pockets, and the first memories are marred by gaps. Jeanette Søm Munk knows all about it. She was left as an infant and later adopted to Denmark. Now she helps people in the same situation

When Jeanette Søm Munk was a child, she did not like being alone. In fact, she was so afraid to spend the afternoons after school with herself that she always had playmates with her home.

She also could not bear to go on holiday outside the country's borders. For all that was new and uncertain terrain frightened her. And with good reason. Jeanette was left on a stepping stone in Iran's capital, Tehran, when she was just a few weeks old.

Or at least that's what she's been told. Jeanette does not know when she was born. That she can celebrate her birthday on November 11 every year is thanks to a doctor who set an approximate date of birth when she arrived at an orphanage in the city of millions.

- I have always sought security, both as a child and as an elderly person. And even though my parents have been amazing, I have always felt a little different. When you can not say exactly when and where you come from, you feel hollow inside. That's why I have always made sure to surround myself with many people - because think now if I were to be alone again. If there were many around me, there would always be at least one left with me, says Jeanette, who was adopted by Danish parents when she was eight months old.

Bilagsoversigt

Bilag 1:

Ankestyrelsens retningslinjer for den fremtidige håndtering

af mistanke om ulovlige forhold i adoptionssager

Bilag 2:

The National Board of Appeal has uncovered the historical adoption mediation cooperation with Chile in the years 1978 to 1988.

In the report, the National Board of Appeal concludes that, in the National Board of Appeal's assessment, it cannot be rejected that the adoption mediation from Chile to Denmark through AC Børnehjælp in the period 1978 to 1988 has been associated with illegal behavior in Chile.

You can read the full report here

The investigation has taken place in continuation of a number of inquiries from adult adoptees from Chile who suspected that illegal actions had been taken in connection with their adoptions. The National Board of Appeal conducted an initial review of information about the adoptees who had approached the board. The National Board of Appeal then assessed that there was sufficient basis for assuming that the adoption agency from Chile could be associated with illegal behavior, and that there was a basis for initiating a general coverage.

On the basis of the National Board of Appeal's assessment, Minister of Social Affairs and the Elderly Astrid Krag asked the National Board of Appeal to initiate a general coverage of adoptions from Chile to Denmark.

PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate found to be responsible for falsifying at least 200 birth records in the country has been uncovered by the National Registration Department (NRD).

NRD director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the department nabbed two men, both in their 60s, who are believed to be key members of the syndicate which has been operating since 2009.

“Our investigation and enforcement division caught a man, who is a doctor at a private clinic in Putrajaya, on Monday (April 19). The other suspect is believed to be an agent and he was caught at his home in Melaka on the same day.

“With the arrest of the two suspects, the NRD is able to partially cripple a syndicate involved in falsifying birth records which we have been tracing since 2009, ” Ruslin said at a press conference at the NRD headquarters here Tuesday (April 20).

For a fee of between RM8,000 and RM20,000, the syndicate will help parents to adopt a child but register them as their own biological children.

PUTRAJAYA: A fee of between RM8,000 and RM20,000 is the price range to illegally adopt a child.

A decade-old syndicate, operating out of a maternity clinic in Petaling Jaya, has been falsifying birth documents, which will help declare a couple as the biological parents of an adopted child.

The syndicate has been uncovered by the National Registration Department (NRD), following the arrest of two men in their 60s, who are a doctor and an agent.

“The doctor will sign a false LM01 birth registration form, which will claim the couple are the child’s biological parents.

“The agent acts as a runner to help the parents register the child’s birth at the NRD, ” department director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh (pic) said.