ROMFILATELIA SUPPORTS SERA ROMANIA FOUNDATION THROUGH A POSTAL STATIONERY FOR A NOBLE CAUSE – “EVERY CHILD DESERVES A FAMILY!”

On Monday, October 24th, 2016, the Romanian Athenaeum hosted the anniversary event 20 years of activity SERA Romania Foundation, which marked two working decades of this nongovernmental institution, serving to protect the children in need.

The event included a series of moments which guaranteed an exceptional evening, based on a noble cause “Every child deserves a family”: the anniversary charity symphonic music concert, having the famous American pianist Alan Gampel as special guest, the photo exhibition dedicated to the work of the foundation, the philatelic moment of presenting the dedicated postal stationery and a cocktail which ended the evening successfully.

The host of the evening, Mr. Bogdan Simion, Executive Director of SERA Romania Foundation, had several special guests: Mr. Dragos Pislaru, Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection for the Elderly, Ms. Arielle de Rothschild, President of the Board of Directors of the CARE France Foundation, Ms. Michele Ramniceanu, Board Member of the CARE France Foundation, members of the Chamber of Deputies, of the Diplomatic Corps, including H.E. Ms. Tamar Samash, the Israeli Ambassador to Bucharest. There were also representatives of the General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection, guests from the business environment, as well as institutional partners of the foundation.

In order to support the activity of the Foundation, as well as celebrating its anniversary of 20 years of existence, Romfilatelia joined the festive moment by designing a postal stationery with a fixed stamp, wishing to be a loud voice for those causes that deserve to be heard.

‘I felt abandoned’: children stolen by France try to find their past, 50 years on

For decades, children from Réunion island in the Indian Ocean were removed to repopulate rural areas of France

Jessie Moenner

Jessie Moenner, pictured in the Réunion capital, was one of many hundreds of children taken from their families to live in France. Photograph: Vidhi Doshi

Vidhi Doshi

UNICEF Condemns Liberia Failure To Address Inter-Country Adoption

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Horrific Abuse Allegations Shock Denton as Texas Falls Under Scrutiny to Protect Kids

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2016 AT 4 A.M. BY CHRISTIAN MCPHATE

John and Georgiana Tufts

“I don’t want to talk about bad guy,” the 5-year-old told Cook Children’s Hospital psychologist Phillip Breedlove.

Her adoptive parents, John and Georgiana Tufts of Denton, told one of her peer’s parents that she came from an abusive family in Poland. But in late August, police in Denton were interviewing her

Working Group on illicit practices in adoption: Ms. Mia Dambach and Professor David Smolin both represented ISS General Secretariat. The Working Group referred to a number of resources ISS has developed, including the Grey Zones study, Responding to Illegal Adoptions and a Guide for Prospective Adopters as being extremely valuable for implementing in practice the goals of the working group. Together with UNICEF, ISS emphasized the need to ensure that the environment creating illicit practices was addressed as well as the needs of past victims. ISS looks forward to continue the collaboration with the working group to further develop tools.

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HCCH | Meeting of the Working Group on illicit practices in adoption

Hague Conference on Private International Law - The World Organisation for Cross-border Co-operation in Civil and Commercial Matters

A woman has complained to the Hassan police that her child was forcibly taken away from her by a specialised adoption agency in the district and has demanded that she get her child back.

Shwetha (24), said that she had delivered a baby boy on February 11. Three days after the delivery, Dr. H.K. Phalaksha, a paediatrician, who runs Thavaru Public Charitable Trust, the adoption agency, took her baby away and forcibly put him up for adoption. “I had not signed the papers that the doctor brought. In fact, he took my thumb impression, though I could have signed my name,” she said.

Shwetha’s husband had passed away three years ago. She was in a live-in relationship with another person, with whom she had the baby. The complainant has also accused V. Geetha, Deputy Director, Department of Women and Child Development, Veena and Jayashree – both counsellors at a women’s care centre, where Shwetha had stayed during her pregnancy, of a role in the alleged abduction.

The mother met the Superintendent of Police in Hassan on Friday. The police have called in Dr. Phalaksha and the others for an inquiry. So far, nobody has been arrested.

Doctor denies allegation

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a human rights organisation, has voted to reject a proposal to introduce international guidelines on surrogacy and children's rights...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a human rights organisation, has voted to reject a proposal to introduce international guidelines on surrogacy and children's rights.

It voted 83 to 77 against a draft recommendation to create 'European guidelines to safeguard children's rights in relation to surrogacy arrangements', prepared by rapporteur Professor Petra De Sutter, a member of the Flemish Green Party.

The report included proposals to ban 'for-profit' surrogacy as well as recommending that the Council of Ministers work with the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) on private international law issues concerning children born through surrogacy arrangements, including legal parenthood.

Distinct from the European Union, the Council of Europe was set up in 1949 by various European states, including the UK, to promote democracy and human rights. While it has itself no law-making power, it performs an advocacy role and campaigns on rights issues. Its parliament includes MPs from national parliaments across the European Union, Turkey and Russia. 

Hemlata Momaya Named Recipient of Congressional 2016 Angels in Adoption Award

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Hemlata Momaya, Indian American founder of the Bal Jagat adoption agency in Long Beach, Calif., with her 2016 Angels in Adoption Award certificate. (photo provided)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hemlata Momaya was recently named the 2016 recipient of the 2016 Angels in Adoption Award by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute here.

October 13th"Italian Associations trafficked children» The shocking report in Parliament

Silvia Della Monica, vice president of the International Adoptions Commission at the hearing

MPs ask: there are Italian associations involved in child trafficking , there have been trafficking in minors with Congo? "There were, unfortunately there were" replies the Commission Vice-President for International Adoptions (Cai), themagistrate Silvia Della Monica: "Families are desperate . And they come to us asking the government to be helped. " It is one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing of Wednesday afternoon before the House Judiciary Committee. A confrontation that lasted over two hours, an hour longer than planned, in which Della Monica has also denounced the campaign of aggression and delegitimization fielded by the Aibi (repeatedly cited) of Marco Griffini, 69, famous entrepreneur of solidarity. He has confirmed the "Espresso" said the investigation "Italian children Thieves" : "The investigation published Espresso brings serious facts of which the Commission for international adoptions is fully aware. The attempt to trivialization or even negationist attitude does not reflect the priority of clarity and support Parker ' inescapable cleaning action which must be brought to the end and that I intend to bring to the bottom, because of my official duties , of my personal history. But mainly because of the protection of the Italian government. "

THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION

"I understand that families are lost in the face of what they have suffered from some entities: a particularly entity that is under investigation by the Commission and also under criminal investigation for a very serious facts, facts very serious. I interrogherei also: but if these facts are true, and the Commission for adoptions took note of the serious facts, it is right that we can move forward in a system of this kind? "Asks Silvia Della Monica to the deputies:" I do not we're just talking about the Congo. we are talking about very serious events that occurred in other countries . Recently the European Court of Human Rights has intervened with regard to the situation in Bulgaria, where it comes to abuse by pedophiles "of children adopted through Aibi then in Italy.

Inquiry on adoptions: the prosecutor asks 4 indictments

The suspects are the leaders and representatives of a non-profit organization, the Association Heron, who was based in Albuquerque and offices in the province of Bergamo, Pisa and Rome

A preliminary hearing in the courthouse has been scheduled for next February 2

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