Adoptions, new interrogations throughout Italy Melissa Satta cancels the campaign with Aibi

Melissa Satta has suspended its cooperation with Aibi-Friends of Children

Launch of the interrogations of the Guardia di Finanza for the scandal on international adoptions . These days witnesses were heard in various offices, from Lombardy to Sicily. Detectives are investigating the institutional relationships of Marco Griffini, 69, founder and president of "Aibi-Friends of Children" [Amici dei Bambini] , the association of San Giuliano Milanese authorized by the government to do international adoptions: in particular the delays in the complaint related to a network of pedophiles that raped and exploited children of an orphanage in Bulgaria for the production of pornographic films, and then adopted in Italy through Aibi.

When those children had complained, it was ignored by Griffini, which for this serious omission and for the delays in the protection of children has also been censured by a Juvenile Court . The facts date back to 2012 and 2013. The Financial Police is investigating the contacts of the president of Aibi with some members of the Commission for international adoptions, the government’s supervisory body, in its composition at the time when it had as deputee the child magistrate Daniela Bacchetta, until now foreign to the alleged offenses. The investigative departments have so far questioned doctors, psychologists and officials of the Ministry of Justice which have dealt with the case.

After the scandal on adoptions in the Congo, where Aibi is involved also, also showgirl Melissa Satta has suspended her advertising partnership with the association. This was announced by the lawyers of Marco Griffini, Stephen Pope and Marco Squicquero. The notice of cancellation of Melissa Satta goes back to last summer, "Mrs. Stefania Castaldi, the intermediary agency in the relationship between Aibi and spokesperson of Melissa Satta ," they know the Griffini lawyers, "he communicated in writing to the association and to dependent Chiara Angeli’s relations officer with companies and partners for the fund-raising activities, the desire not to proceed with the planned campaign for the period from 17 September to 3 October 2016 and, more generally, the desire to suspend the collaboration pending developments in the situation by explaining how, before proceeding with any promotional activities, it was "important that the situation is clear. '"Even UNICEF, after the scandal in Congo on adoptions, canceled their funding to Aibi of over 245,000 Euros.

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Court of The Hague

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21-07-2016

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La France va suspendre les adoptions d’enfants en RD Congo

24 novembre 2016 à 17h34

Par Jeune Afrique

Le Quai d'Orsay a annoncé jeudi sa décision, motivée par "les irrégularités constatées dans les dossiers d'adoption". Elle prendra effet à compter du 13 décembre 2016.

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jubilareIm Rahmen des diesjährigen Patronatsfestes ehrte die Bruderschaft auch 3 Mitglieder, die bereits seit 25 Jahren der Bruderschaft angehören.

Als erster empfing Michael Kollberg aus der Hand des Brudermeisters die silberne Ehrennadel. Eigentlich hätte Michael Kolleberg die Auszeichnung bereits im letzten Jahr erhalten müssen, konnte jedoch wegen einer schweren Erkrankung die Auszeichnung nicht entgegen nehmen. Um so mehr freuten sich seine Schützenbrüder, dass er in diesem Jahr wieder mit dabei sein konnte.

Ebenfalls für 25-jährige Mitgliedschaft ausgezeichnet wurden Günther Kreutz und Gian Mario Candrian.

The scholarly work backing a Dutch board's recommendation to ban all foreign adoptions has been attacked as 'unscientific'. Does that argument hold water?

A local women feeds orphaned children at the Pouponniere of Mbour, Senegal. Joe Giddense/Press Association. All rights reserved.

On 1 November 2016, the Netherlands’ Raad voor Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming (RSJ – in English, The Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles) issued a report (in Dutch) advising the Dutch minister of security and justice to ban all foreign adoptions. Among their reasons for coming to this conclusion were documented illegalities and unethical practices in the intercountry adoption system, as well as scholarly literature that argues that intercountry adoption can lead to greater institutionalisation of children and/or disrupt the development of robust child protection systems in the children’s countries of origin.

Several faculty members of the Leiden University Knowledge Centre for Adoption and Foster Care (ADOC) immediately criticised the RSJ report. Marinus (Rien) van IJzendoorn in particular questioned the quality of the research on which the RSJ report based their decision. This included one of my own articles, Addicted to Orphans: How the Global Orphan Industrial Complex Jeopardizes Local Child Protection Systems, which I co-authored with Karen Smith Rotabi.

The ways that van IJzendoorn’s blog distorts our article’s argument deserves a personal response. It also raises crucial issues about what constitutes ‘quality research’ and the uses/objectivity of ‘science’, particularly when it comes to social justice and protection for children. Whether or not one agrees with the RSJ recommendation, these issues should also be critically addressed in the debate.

Who's really profiting from international adoptions?By Fusion | November 8, 2016

Often adoption starts out with good intentions, but the desire to adopt internationally can lead to the exploitation of some of the world’s most vulnerable children. In this episode of The Traffickers, Nelufar Hedayat learns that money meant to care for children who are being adopted doesn’t always end up in the right hands.The Traffickers airs Sundays at 10 PM on Fusion.

GOOD INTENTIONS, SAD EFFECTS 11/9/16 4:30 PM

How international adoption creates a market for child trafficking

By Sarah McClure

International adoption is often presented in the U.S. as a morally justified way of helping poor children around the world. But there’s a criminal side of this business that makes victims of everyone, from families in America who pay tens of thousands of dollars in adoption fees, to those in developing countries who are conned into giving up their children.

In Episode 1 of Fusion’s new investigative series The Traffickers, correspondent Nelufar Hedayat travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she finds herself at the intersection of international adoption and child trafficking. Here, seeming acts of kindness can be easily derailed by fraud and corruption.

In the area of social inclusion and protection, the adoption of amendments to the social welfare law, the family law and the draft law on financial support for families with children are still pending.

On rights of the child, the national plan of action for children expired in 2015. The National Council on the Rights of the Child remained inactive. Ensuring more effective coordination of the child protection system should be prioritised and efforts made to ensure uniform implementation of policy. Administrative data are still not disaggregated to enable monitoring of vulnerable groups, particularly Roma and children with disabilities. There is a need to

organise assistance to children living and/or working on the street on a local level. Violence against children remains a serious concern. A new national strategy for the prevention of and protection of children from violence still need to be developed. There is a need to align the legal framework and statistics with international standards on child abuse. Children with disabilities in large institutions face particular difficulties as regards access to education.

Additional mechanisms need to be put in place to secure full implementation of the legislation regulating juvenile offenders and child victims in criminal proceedings. Prevention programmes and programmes for reintegrating juvenile offenders into the community are only available in large cities and are funded on a project basis. Better protection for child victims who testify in criminal proceedings should be ensured through the provision of units for child victim protection.