$1.5 million database for orphans and potential parents: Dealing with corruption in orphanages

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Orphanages and adoption has become a sore spot of the child protection in Kazakhstan for a number of reasons. In spring 2014, a Kazakh lawmaker Dariga Nazarbayev suggested closing down all 184 institutions involved in the care of orphans including orphanages, youth houses, group homes and Dom Malyutki orphanages for babies. The ultimate goal behind Nazarbayeva’s suggestion was ensuring that all 32,362 registered orphans and social orphans eventually have families.

But to realize Nazarbayeva’s idea, major changes are required in Kazakhstan’s adoption system. As the conventional wisdom goes, adoption of a healthy child from an orphanage is close to impossible thanks to heads of local orphanages and other officials involved in the process of adoption. Adoption of a child with health issues, too, is not an easy thing to do in Kazakhstan. The conventional wisdom would have turned into some sort of an urban legend, if it had no facts to back it up. Earlier, Deputy Prosecutor General Andrey Kravchenko talked about key problems in the Kazakhstani adoption system.

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06 March 2015 19:07

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European adoption. Patricello (EPP): "Establish a European Agency to handle adoptions among the various states of the old continent." The proposal presented by Ai.Bi.

European adoption. Patricello (EPP): "Establish a European body to handle adoptions among the various states of the old continent." The proposal presented by Ai.Bi.

In the European Parliament we talk of international adoptions. Merit of the Italian deputy Aldo Patricello, member of Forza Italy and member of the EPP. MEP urges the European Commission to adopt "a new proposal for a Regulation establishing a European body that deals with managing, according to the procedures and rules to be established by that regulation, adoptions intra".

The European agency would be responsible to manage, coordinate and facilitate the whole procedure. Explains Mr Patricello: "I think, therefore, that a European directing could be an effective solution to bring order among the different systems of procedure that govern the processes of adoption. Greater integration also depends on the awareness of our rights related to the concept of citizenship: the EU can and should facilitate the exercise of such a right. This is not, of course, to change the existing rules - says MEP Molise - but rather to prepare a homogeneous path and more effective for all EU citizens who wish to adopt children born in European territory and who often have to extricate themselves, with many difficulties including the complicated bureaucratic procedures that are different from country to country. "

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Young boys watch a television at an orphanage in Phnom Penh

Young boys watch a television at an orphanage in Phnom Penh. The Ministry of Social Affairs announced earlier this week that they would welcome the restart of international adoptions in Cambodia. Sovan Philong

New step towards adoptions

Wed, 4 March 2015

Sarah Taguiam and Sen David

3 Mar 2015 The Herald (South Africa)Tanya Farber and Poppy Louw Free 1ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslateKIDS’ BURGER MEAL

THE adoption system in South Africa is in a state of crisis. Hamstrung by bureaucracy, missing documents and inefficient court processes, the system is working against matching children with suitable parents and has resulted in fewer children being adopted year on year.

Since 2004, when 136 adoptions took place through Joburg Child Welfare, the number has dropped to only 50 adoptions taking place last year.

“[This is] a really big decrease,” adoption supervisor at Joburg Child Welfare, Pam Wilson, said.

Nationally, according to a report by the National Adoption Coalition South Africa, adoptions saw a decrease of about 50% from 2 840 in 2004 to 1 448 last year.

Parliamentary questions

3 March 2015

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Würselen. „Du bist eine großherzige, solidarische Persönlichkeit!“ Mit diesen Worten würdigte der Präsident des Europäischen Parlamentes, Martin Schulz, die Verdienste einer Parteifreundin, die mit ihm gemeinsam die Sozialdemokratie in Würselen seit Jahrzehnten prägt: die Würselener Landtagsabgeordnete Eva-Maria Voigt-Küppers.

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