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European Parliament demands action on EU-wide recognition of adoptions

Today, the European Parliament adopted a report (533 +, 41 -) demanding the automatic recognition of domestic adoption orders across EU Member States. The report stipulates that the recognition should happen without discrimination, including on the basis of the parents’ sexual orientation.

<20160606PHT30695_width_6001-254x254.jpg>The report highlights that the lack of provisions for the recognition currently cause significant problems for families, which move from one Member State to another. The other Member State may not recognise parents’ parental rights, which exposes them and the children to all sorts of legal risks.

The report highlights that refusing to recognize an adoption order, as countries can do through a ‘public order’ argument, may never lead de facto to discrimination prohibited by Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This article prohibits discrimination, including based on sexual orientation.

MEPs call for automatic cross-border recognition of adoptions

Press Releases PLENARY SESSION 02-02-2017 - 12:01

To protect adopted children’s best interests, MEPs have urged the EU Commission to require all EU countries to recognise each other’s adoption certificates automatically. Their resolution, voted on Thursday, proposes a European Certificate of Adoption to speed up the automatic recognition process.

Couple Claims Adoption Agency Embroiled Them in Child-Trafficking Scheme

February 1, 2017ELLEN ROBINSON

(CN) – A Greenville, South Carolina, couple claim they were duped by an adoption agency into believing the Ugandan children they planned to adopt had been relinquished by their mother, only to find themselves enmeshed in a human-trafficking scheme.

In a complaint filed in the Greenville County Court of Common Pleas on Jan. 27, Tyler and Allie Sloan say they contacted defendants European Adoption Consultants and Debra Parris, the director of its African adoption program, in December 2014, and after a preliminary meeting, were accepted to participate in the defendant’s program.

As recounted in the complaint, 14 months passed, and then, in February 2016, Parris told them two children were available for them to adopt: a 7-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy.

RPD asks about adoption centers closed

Published: 01/02/2017 Updated: 02/01/2017, 11:02

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Why closed centers authorized to carry out adoption procedures abroad, and whether as a result of this decision has not been tampered interests and rights of children? - asks the Ombudsman for Children Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy El?biet? Rafalsk?.

EDITORIAL BOARD RECOMMENDS

"Improve intercountry adoption system, don't stop it"

31 Jan 2017

File: Adoption

Today, Secretary of State for Security and Justice Dijkhoff presented his policy response to the report 'The future of the chain for intercountry adoption' by consultancy firm Andersson Elffers Felix (AEF), and the advice 'Reflection on Intercountry Adoption' of the Council for Criminal Justice and Youth Protection (RSJ). The RSJ advised in November last year to stop intercountry adoption. Defense for Children - ECPAT believes that the State Secretary should implement a number of strong changes in the adoption chain, but sees no improvement in the proposed adjustments on a number of fundamental points.

Defense for Children - ECPAT welcomed the RSJ report and recognizes the identified bottlenecks in adoption. In particular the influence of financial incentives on adoption and the problems with applying the subsidiarity principle. Strengthening child protection systems in the countries of origin of adopted children is most consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Kenyan family reveals Danish couple in adoption of girl were duped

SUNDAY JANUARY 29 2017

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An adopted child with his new family. Cabinet issued an indefinite moratorium outlawing all inter-country adoptions of Kenyan children. FILE PHOTO

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Bedford family stranded in Poland after adoption process goes wrong

by Valencia Jones & Ashley AnnSunday, January 29th 2017

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Polen: alleen christenen mogen nog adopteren

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EKKE OVERBEEK, WARSCHAU en POLEN– 1:38, 28 januari 2017

monopolie De katholieke kerk gaat vanaf nu als enige in Polen adopties regelen. Alle andere organisaties moeten stoppen.

Vanaf 1 februari heeft de rooms-katholieke kerk in Polen het alleenrecht om buitenlandse adopties te regelen. Voortaan komen alleen praktiserende christenen in aanmerking voor het ouderschap.

In Pakistan, police have busted a child trafficking ring. They ran a black market for babies. Doctors, nurses and the clinics themselves had a hand in it. But many of the children will never return to their real parents.
 

After the birth of her son, Nusrat Khela Orakzai was overjoyed. The Pakistani woman and her husband now had two sons and two daughters. Perfect, they thought. But the happiness only lasted three days. The newborn was taken to a clinic in the nearest larger city, Peshawar, because of jaundice - and kidnapped from his hospital bed.

"If he had died, I could go to his grave and cry. That would be easier - but like this..." says Orakzai and bursts into tears. Since that terrible day a year and a half ago, not a moment has passed when she hasn't thought about her son. 

The family hasn't given up looking for the boy. The little one probably fell into the hands of baby traffickers - not an isolated case in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a poor province in northern Pakistan : the police are looking for hundreds of missing children there.

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