The adoption of foreign children to the lowest in 30 years in France

01/03/2015

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In ten years, four times less foreign children were adopted in 2014, said Saturday the Quai d'Orsay. In France, 20,000 candidates for adoption in France have a valid file.

Just over a thousand foreign children were adopted in 2014 by French parents, four times less than a decade ago, said Saturday the Quai d'Orsay, confirming a report in Le Figaro .

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European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care receives “Innovative Practices 2015” award

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EEG highlights the need of community-based care and identifies the risks of institutional care for persons with disabilities

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Two adopted Congolese children arrive in the Netherlands

News item | 26-02-2015

Two adopted Congolese children arrived in the Netherlands yesterday to join their adoptive parents. They are a two-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The children form part of a group of thirty adopted by Dutch couples, with some of them already waiting almost three years to depart from Congo. These two children required specialist medical assistance which they are to receive in the Netherlands.

In September 2013, the Congolese government decided to suspend all international adoptions, even if the procedure had already been completed. The reason for this were signs of child trafficking and so-called 'proxy adoption', where a child is adopted in the new country by different parents. Congo has explicitly stated that the Netherlands was not involved in this in any way.

Secretary of State Teeven from the Ministry of Security and Justice traveled to Kinshasa last December to discuss this matter with the Congolese authorities. There Teeven was given an assurance that the government would look into the files of the two children needing additional medical assistance as a priority. This eventually led to the two children arriving in the Netherlands.

November 1981. A police detective squad bursts into suite number 338 of the luxurious Camino Real Hotel in Guatemala City. They're dressed in plain clothes. They arrest four Canadian women who are about to take five Guatemalan children back to their home country. One of the women arrested was going to adopt a new born baby. Another was going to adopt a three year old boy and was also going to take a 20-day-old baby with her to be adopted by a Canadian couple. The other two women had the same intentions: each of them were going to take a baby back to adoptive parents in their home country. The Police takes the children to the Elisa Martínez national orphanage while it investigates what it believes to be a child trafficking ring. On November 24th, at 10 am, the Police arrests Edmond Auguste Mulet Lesieur in his office.

Edmond Mulet belongs to a family that has produced a number of high profile journalists and diplomats. Today, he is one of the most highly respected and admired figures in Guatmalan society. In 2013, he was awarded the Doctor Mariano Gálvez Order by the university of the same name that he graduated from and in 2011, Prensa Librenewspaper named him "Person of the Year." Mulet, 63, speaks slowly and clearly and is a man of delicate manners who won a seat in Congress on three occasions, served as President of Congress, Guatemalan ambassador to the United States and the European Union and also served as director of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Since he was appointed UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations in 2007, he has become the highest-ranking Guatemalan diplomat in the UN.

However, in 1981, Mulet was a young lawyer, in his thirties, who was launching his career in politics and intended to run for a seat in Congress as a National Party for Renovation (Partido Nacional Renovador, PNR) candidate in the forthcoming congressional elections . Also I was part of an international adoption ring called Les Enfants du Soleil / The Children of the Sun .

A few years earlier, in 1977, a change in Guatemalan law made it possible for adoption proceedings to be carried out by a notary. As a result, from the early 80s onwards, the adoption industry began to take off and became a highly profitable.

As Guatemala gained a reputation for being a country where it was easy to adopt a child, the demand for Guatemalan children grew in Europe, the United States and Canada. The sums that adoptive parents were willing to pay for a Guatemalan child also began to increase. The fact that 50% of the Guatemalan population lived below the poverty line and that the armed conflict had left thousands of orphans and vulnerable infants created the ideal conditions for the adoption business to flourish. Lawyers were eager to get their hands on the business.

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International adoption. Moldova: finally operating the new law. Ai.Bi. credited. Authorized institutions declined from 25 to 16

From Eastern Europe comes good news for international adoption. Despite the crisis that is gripping some years this form of reception, there are signs of cloudy horizon which can offer a bit 'more concretely in the recent past in a renaissance of an institution such as international adoption.

In mid-February 2015, in fact, is the news of the re-accreditation of Friends of Children as organization entitled to work in Moldova for the adoption of children orphaned or abandoned by Italian couples. A result achieved thanks to the historic commitment Ai.Bi. in the ex-Soviet country widely recognized by the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family of Chisinau. To communicate to Ai.Bi. the re-accreditation for a year was the same Moldovan Minister in office at the time of signing the relevant document, Valentina Buliga, upon examination of the report by Ai.Bi. on activities in the previous year: a document required to obtain the extension of accreditation for 2015.

A similar authorization was given by the Ministry Moldovan 15 other authorized bodies including 10 Italians, three Americans, a Swiss and a Spaniard. Overall, however, is reduced from 25 to 16 the number of entities authorized to operate in Moldova.

Opening Doors roundtable on EU funds for de-institutionalisation 24-02-2015 Children in Alternative Care - Opening Doors for Europe's Children - Eurochild events - Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign will organise on the 24th February in Brussels the event "Are EU funds opening doors for Europe’s institutionalised children?". With this event, Eurochild & Hope and Homes for Children aim to facilitate the discussion on how the European Union and national civil society organisations can work together to accelerate progress on deinstutionalisation reforms. Opening Doors will present its review across eight Member States on deinstutionalisation and respect for the partnership principal in European Structural & Investment Funds-partnership agreements and operational programmes. We will also look at lessons learned from other EU funding programmes. The event will be hosted by MEP Mairead McGuinness and will feature interventions by Members of the European Parliament, the European Commission and Opening Doors' national coordinators. When: Tuesday 24 February 2015, 14:00 – 16:00 Where: Social Platform (Square de Meeûs 18, B-1050 Brussels) To find out more about de-institutionalisation and the campaign click here. For more information, please contact Aagje Ieven.

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Head of UN Occupation Force in Haiti, Edmond Mulet, Ran Child Trafficking Network in Guatemala

By Dady Chery

Global Research, March 07, 2015

Haiti Chery 24 February 2015

Theme: Law and Justice

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Il y a un an, Matthieu Evers a retrouvé la trace de sa mère de naissance, mais elle refuse d’entrer en contact avec lui.

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Dutch adoptee afraid time running out in search for birth parents PUBLISHED : Sunday, 22 February, 2015, 5:04am UPDATED : Sunday, 22 February, 2015, 8:54am Alice Woodhouse alice.woodhouse@scmp.com Follow SCMP SCMP Most Popular Viewed Shared Commented . China executes mining tycoon Liu Han, who had links to ex-security tsar Zhou Yongkang China ‘not ready to win wars’ despite PLA modernisation, says US report Rude awakening: Chinese tourists have the money, but not the manners A maid's tale: The story of one woman’s struggle to become a domestic helper Corrupt mainland drug firms 'fuelling crystal meth scourge', says UN official We recommend Lifestyle 16 Feb 2015 What Kanye West gets right, and what he gets wrong Comment 21 Feb 2015 Time to challenge power of the rich News 21 Feb 2015 Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in hospital with… Lifestyle 10 Feb 2015 Five beverages that rehydrate the body better than any sports drink News 22 Feb 2015 PLA pilot scheme extends family reunion privileges to… News 22 Feb 2015 Hong Kong's biggest pro-Beijing party preparing for new blood News 22 Feb 2015 Hong Kong needs marine upgrades to lure luxury yachts, expert warns Comment 22 Feb 2015 Hong Kong's unwanted HK$1,000 banknote is the money launderer's… Videos 11 Feb 2015 Topless protesters jump on former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn's car at… Comment 11 Feb 2015 Why banker's 'leaving Hong Kong' blog jars with so many people Lifestyle 16 Feb 2015 If you go out with wet hair, will you catch a cold? Videos 28 Jan 2015 How noodles spice up China-Japan tensions Lifestyle 03 Feb 2015 Yang Fudong's Australia exhibition marks a move into digital… Property 04 Feb 2015 Making microflats liveable is simply a matter of good design Comment 20 Feb 2015 Smaller club of airlines taking passengers for a ride PROMOTED My First Class Life 01 Dec 2014 Rich List: The 20 Wealthiest Criminals Ever PROMOTED The Dodo 13 Feb 2015 Hospital Bends Rules To Let Woman Say Final Farewell To Her Dog Recommended by Verhagen with adopted dad. Photo: SMP A Dutch woman adopted in Hong Kong in the 1960s has turned to the Sunday Morning Post for help to find her birth parents after attempts to trace her roots through official channels failed for a second time. Anita Verhagen, now 48, was adopted at 10 months old in 1967 by a Dutch couple living in Shouson Hill. She was born in Tsan Yuk Hospital on June 4, 1966, to 24-year-old Lo Siu Ngor, who lived at 4 Marsh Road, Wan Chai. The girl's name at birth was Mei Chong. Despite living a happy life in the Netherlands, she has wanted to trace her birth parents for as long as she can remember, as she feels something is missing. "It's almost like having a scar on your soul, you're not complete," she said. Her latest attempt to trace them through the Red Cross - which offers help to adoptees trying to find their origins - failed to provide new leads and she was told that the case had reached the two-year time limit and was now closed. "I understand that organisations like the Social Welfare Department or Red Cross have to work through the proper channels, but that doesn't always lead to a solution," Verhagen said. Verhagen as a baby. Photo: SMP Hundreds of children were adopted from Hong Kong by families from overseas in the 1960s, but records from the time are patchy. The welfare department said: "It would not be uncommon for the adopted person [to be] unable to locate his/her birth parents." In the late 1990s, an earlier attempt by Verhagen to trace her roots through the International Social Service in Hong Kong brought up a surname for her possible birth father, Harrimount, who served in the British Army in the city. Harrimount was a 27-year-old soldier at the time of Verhagen's birth and it is thought her mother worked in the barracks. Records show her birth mother was a domestic worker for European families and was originally from the mainland. She was forced to give up her baby as she was unmarried and had financial difficulties. Verhagen is worried time may be running out. "We see movies and they find their birth parents but they've been in the grave for the past two months. That would be an absolute horror," she said. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Time tight in search for birth parents

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