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Haiti - France : Presentation of the Legion of Honor to Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin

Haiti - France : Presentation of the Legion of Honor to Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin

17/05/2017 10:28:42

Haiti - France : Presentation of the Legion of Honor to Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin Tuesday, at a ceremony at the Residence of France, the French Ambassador in Haiti, Elisabeth Beton Delègue, presented the the National Order of the Legion of Honor to Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin, Director General of the Institute of Social Welfare and Research (IBESR).

This ceremony took place in the presence ofMartine Moïse, First Lady of the Republic of Haiti, as well as Roosevelt Bellevue, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and many personalities.

At the head of the IBESR since 2011, Villedrouin has demonstrated her commitment to strengthening child protection and this institution. Her many accomplishments include the opening of IBESR offices in each department, the creation of a national database of children in vulnerable situations, the census of orphanages in the country and the establishment of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.

Belgium: International adoption banned Families stranded in Ethiopia

International adoption banned Families stranded

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By Tesfaye Getnet - May 17, 2017

The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs has prohibited international adoptions after Parliament’s recent endorsement of the National Child Policy, which took five years to make.

After the ban, many children whose adoption were under process have been returned to their orphanages and the ministry has notified embassies in Addis Ababa not to issue visas to children in adoption cases; according to Solomon Asfaw, Public Relations Head at the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs.

Fiom hands over assistance to local professionals

As a national organization, how do you make the transition from providing assistance to sharing knowledge? And how do you ensure that the help to your target group is properly adopted? Fiom had to make this rigorous change and did so in collaboration with Movisie.

Fiom has been a specialist in unwanted pregnancy and parentage questions since 1930. When it comes to women who are unplanned pregnant, the organization is all about ensuring that women can make informed choices about their future. 'We guide these women through decision aids. Regardless of whether they ultimately choose to terminate the pregnancy, raise the child themselves, give it up for adoption or foster placement. The point is that they can make a choice that will allow them to move on in their lives, 'says Ellen Giepmans, director of Fiom.

Cut back on subsidy

In 2013, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport made significant cuts to the subsidy to Fiom. 'We have gone from a subsidy of 5 million euros to 2 million euros,' says Giepmans. 'The decentralization of aid was the main reason for this. Every year, we coached about two thousand women in their selection process. This aid had to be turned over to local contractors. At the same time, Fiom was also commissioned by VWS to develop primarily as a knowledge organization. As a result, the emphasis was mainly on sharing expertise with professionals by making information available in databases, providing training and advice. Fiom was able to make this change in the following three years. The organization asked Movisie to collaborate in this process. 'Especially because Movisie has a lot of knowledge of the local social domain. We wanted to set up training courses to guarantee Fiom's knowledge to ensure that this specialist care provision runs smoothly locally. Something Movisie has a lot of experience in, 'says Giepmans.

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Debate in Belgian Parliament about adoptions congo

Commissievergadering

Commissie voor Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Gezin

‹ Vorig onderwerp

Volgend onderwerp ›

dinsdag 16 mei 2017, 13.59u

"Belgium has long been aware of suspicious adoptions from Congo"

"Belgium has long been aware of suspicious adoptions from Congo"

(Google Translation)

Edited by: FT

5/16/17 - 18u06 Source: Belga

Our reporter and photographer Kurt Wertelaers Benoit Freine went to Congo in late April and spoke among others with Suriya and Usman, the biological parents of Zakiatyu in our country in an adoptive family lives. © Benoit Freine.

Adoption Alert—Update on Suspension of Adoptions from Ethiopia

Ethiopia

May 16, 2017

Adoption Alert—Update on Suspension of Adoptions from Ethiopia

U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa has been informed that the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWA) will resume its processing of intercountry adoption cases, but that it will only issue denial letters. This will apply to all intercountry adoption cases, regardless of their stage in the process or the nationality of the adoptive parents. To date, the Ethiopian government has not provided the Office of Children’s Issues or the Embassy any formal communication regarding the suspension of intercountry adoptions.

Additionally, the Prime Minister’s Office is holding government-wide, minister-level meetings with various Ethiopian government ministries throughout the month of May. Due to those meetings, high-level officials in relevant ministries have been unresponsive to requests for meetings with U.S. government officials. The Office of Children’s Issues and the Embassy will urge the Ethiopian government to release additional information following the conclusion of those meetings. We will also continue to urge the Ethiopian government to allow continued processing of cases that were in progress prior to the April 21 suspension.

Suspect Congolese child adoptions: Belgian parents bring civil claims

Suspect Congolese child adoptions: Belgian parents bring civil claims

Tuesday, 16 May 2017 15:35

Several adoptive parents who adopted from the Congolese orphanage, Tumaini, have decided to take civil action within the ambit of the criminal case.

As The Brussels Times has recently reported, this revolves around kidnapping children and human trafficking. These parents wish to collaborate with investigators and the Belgian authorities.

This was indicated yesterday (Monday) by the barrister Georges-Henri Beauthier, who represents two of the families. This confirmed information which had already appeared in Le Soir.

Unicef NL position paper RSJ Report

drafted by Iara de Witte, DCI

Last modified: Jolijn van Haaren (Unicef)

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Number of new child adoptees in Korea falls to record low in 2016

Number of new child adoptees in Korea falls to record low in 2016

Published: 2017-05-13 11:04

Updated: 2017-05-14 09:41

The number of new child adoptees in South Korea reached a record low last year, data showed Saturday.

According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of new child adoptees stood at 880 in 2016, falling 17 percent on-year.

Adopted children granted right to inherit property

Adopted children granted right to inherit property By Kwamboka Evelyn | Updated Sat, May 13th 2017 at 09:00 GMT +3 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Children abandoned by their parents in hospitals or on streets have a right to inherit property belonging to those who adopt them, the court has ruled. “....once the adopting order is made it will be final and binding during the life time of the child, and the child shall have a right to inherit their property. The applicants shall not be able to give up the child owing to any subsequent unforeseen behaviour or other changes in the child,” Justice Aggrey Muchelule who heads the Judiciary’s Family Division, ruled recently. The new parents, who are expected to take care of the adopted children as their own, are also expected to assume parental rights and duties immediately the court allows them to adopt them. The rights include changing their names by adding the adoption parents’ surname and the court adoption order is entered in the register by the registrar General. The Director of Immigration is also authorised by the court to issue the child with a passport. The judge made the decision in a case in which a couple who had lived 13 years without a child applied to be allowed to adopt a baby. ALSO READ: President Uhuru signs Movable Property Security Rights Bill into law The baby had been given up for adoption at a children’s home by his mother after he was born at Nyeri Provincial Hospital. The matter was reported to the police and the baby formally committed to the home by the magistrate’s court in Nairobi. The home is said to have made efforts to trace the mother in vain but managed to get consent from the minor’s grandmother. Child’s best interest The home declared the child for adoption three years later and the couple took him in before getting their own baby. A report presented in court by a person it had appointed to study the couple’s home showed they were financially and emotionally able to raise the baby. In another case, the court allowed a single woman to adopt a baby who was found abandoned in Nairobi’s Komarok area in 2012. A report from Kayole Police Station dated October 8, 2015 showed the baby’s biological parents could not be traced and on December 9, 2015, the baby was placed in the care of the woman aged 58 before being declared free for adoption. ALSO READ: CS Matiang'i: School property destroyed in poll violence The Director of Children’s Services is said to have visited the home and established that the woman was able to take care of the baby. A report on reasons why the child stands to gain if adopted by the woman was also tabled in court. “The child was in court during the hearing and appeared to have bonded well with the applicant. She was jovial and clearly seemed to trust the applicant. She regarded her as her parent. The applicant’s family members are aware of the proposed adoption and support it,” said Judge Lydiah Achode who handled the case. In Kericho County, Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi allowed a couple to adopt a baby abandoned at a tea estate in 2013. The baby had been committed by the Kericho magistrate’s court to the care of a centre operated by a church in Nakuru and freed for adoption in 2015 before being put in the couple’s care and custody.

Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001239478/adopted-children-granted-right-to-inherit-property