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Fraud and deceit at the heart of Uganda adoptions to United States

By REUTERS

PUBLISHED: 19:19 GMT, 28 May 2015 | UPDATED: 19:19 GMT, 28 May 2015

By Tom Esslemont and Katy Migiro

LONDON/KAMPALA, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U gandan families have been bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their children to U.S. citizens and other foreigners for adoption, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.

Ugandan woman's agony as granddaughter 'sold' to Americans

Reuters By Katy Migiro and Tom Esslemont

14 hours ago

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A three-year-old girl who was offered for international adoption without her family's knowledge walks at her grandmother's home in rural Uganda .

Illegal baby sale, abortion ring dismantled in Colombia

AFP

May 28, 2015 4:11 PM

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Colombian police officers in Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela

In Morocco, strict adoption rules leave many orphans without hope

May 27, 2015 at 6:15 PM EDT

TRANSCRIPT

GWEN IFILL: We turn now to Morocco and a story about a government ruling that has left many children without families.

Special correspondent Kira Kay reports. Her story is produced in partnership with the Bureau for International Reporting.

Government bans child adoption

- Pratichya Dulal

KATHMANDU, MAY 27 - In order to curb child trafficking in the aftermath of the April 25 earthquake, the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) has banned child adoption. The ban implies to both international and local child adoption.

“Children are at high risk of becoming trafficking victims during disaster as they can be lured by traffickers with the prospect of comfortable life and better education. So we have banned child adoption for now,” said Radhika Aryal, joint secretary at the ministry.

According to Aryal, 59 children were rescued from traffickers in the last 30 days. Out of them, 19 children are from Dolakha, 45 from Dhading and 22 from Rukum. “These children are now in child welfare shelters and cases have been filed against the perpetrators,” said Aryal.

Your child is missing. Would you want their adoption to be easier?

OPINION

By Patricia Fronek

Posted 26 May 2015, 3:40am

A child lies sleeping

25 May 2015, 2.28am BST

Your child is missing. Would you want their adoption to be easier?

AUTHOR

Patricia Fronek

Senior Lecturer, School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University

L’ancien juge lyonnais Broaly condamné pour « abus sexuels d’enfants »

25 mai 2015 Source : Lyon Mag Réagir (9)

L’ancien juge lyonnais Broaly condamné pour « abus sexuels d’enfants »

Philippe Broaly a été condamné au Cambodge pour des « comportement indécent sur des garçons ».

Âgé de 50 ans, cet ancien juge du tribunal de commerce de Lyon, directeur bénévole d’une ONG œuvrant pour les enfants au Cambodge a été condamnée pour avoir commis des faits extrêmement graves. En effet, il a exploité sexuellement cinq garçons vivant au sein de l’organisation. L’homme a été condamné par la cour cambodgienne, à 14 mois de prison.

Portuguese gov't approves draft bill on child adoption

LISBON, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The Portuguese government on Thursday approved a draft bill on the adoption of children, setting a 12-month deadline to expedite the procedure.

Minister of Solidarity, Employment and Social Security Pedro Mota Soares said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting that the deadline will have to be 12 months at most to guarantee that the adjustment can be made more quickly to ensure that a family can really adopt a child.

Mota Soares said that the center of this bill is for the protection of children as well as shortening waiting time, reducing bureaucracy, supporting and simplifying the lives of families.

He said that the bill also aims at speeding up the process of securing consent from the biological family. The consent has to be made before a judge to ensure it is done correctly and in only one single step.