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

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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Adoptions to square one: the budget Silvia Della Monica

of Sara De Carli October 12, 2016

The Justice Committee in the afternoon there was the hearing of the Vice President of CAI, Silvia Della Monica. LIFE also mentioned: "It is not the gospel." First part

He was supposed to last an hour, a hearing of two full hours. Intense. Surprising in a sense. finding investigation in the framework of the laws on the status of implementation on adoptions and foster care, the room Judiciary Committee has played in the afternoon the hearing of Silvia Della Monica, vice president of the Commission for international adoptions. This is the last scheduled hearing. "I would have ended with the hearing of Minister Woods, several colleagues have requested the intervention of the vice president, she has given its availability," he explained the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Donatella Ferranti (PD).

unacceptable aggression

Press release

Didier Reynders welcomes agreement Ugandan government for departure adoption children

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders announces that the Ugandan government has given its approval for the departure of four adoption children to Belgium. This decision allows for the Ugandan children to leave Kampala soon with a humanitarian visa to our country, together with their parents.

The Minister thanks the Ugandan government for this decision, and in particular President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who he met on 22 September in the margins of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. During his meeting with the Ugandan President, Minister Reynders mentioned the case of these four adoption children.

Didier Reynders is happy that the parents will soon be able to return home together with their children. Too long they lived in uncertainty.

GOOIK 08/10/2016 - 04u13

POLEN WIL DAT GEADOPTEERDE JONGEN (7) TERUGKEERT NAAR VADERLAND

"We worden zelfs van ontvoering beschuldigd"

Lieven Boelens samen met zijn adoptiezoontje Michiel. - Foto Mozkito

Lieven Boelens samen met zijn adoptiezoontje Michiel. - Foto Mozkito

Deze Vlaamse adoptieouders worden beschuldigd van kinderdiefstal en dreigen hun zoontje opnieuw te moeten afstaan

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Dirk Coosemans

Adoptiepapa Lieven Boelaert en zoon Michiel

Child Rights Activist Raises Alarm Over Missing Adoption Register, Accuses Delta Govt Of Child Trafficking

Mr. Aghogho, who issued a 15-day ultimatum to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking-in-Persons (NAPTIP) to produce the missing adoption register without delay, also accused the Delta State government of child trafficking and racketeering.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKOCT 06, 2016

Ighorhiohwumu Aghogho, a child rights activist and proprietor of the duly registered Explosive Academy in Abraka, Delta State, a special school for the correction of children who are beyond parental control, has raised the alarm that the Delta State children’s adoption register is missing.

Mr. Aghogho, who issued a 15-day ultimatum to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking-in-Persons (NAPTIP) to produce the missing adoption register without delay, also accused the Delta State government of child trafficking and racketeering.

On October 20th, at 13:00-15:00 in Grotiuszaal (A051 KOG) the advanced International Children’s Rights program and the Leiden Institute of Immigration Law will co-organize a lecture by Ms. Margaret Tuite, the European Commission Coordinator for the Rights of the Child.

The lecture is part of the monthly meeting tradition of the International Children’s Rights program, and will focus on the on-going European refugee crisis, and its implications for children ‘’on the move’’.

Ms. Tuite will introduce the work of the European Commission in relation to child refugees and asylum seekers in Europe, both accompanied or unaccompanied by their family members. She will present the particular issues relating to children in the European migration and refugee context, addressing, among others, figures and data collection, child detention, and access to justice. Following the lecture, there will be a Q&A session, to enable students to raise questions and other relevant topics for discussion.

This is a unique opportunity to learn more on the European refugee crisis, receive a first-hand account on the activities of the European Commission in that regard, and reflect on the issue from a child-centered approach.

Students from the International Children’s Rights program, the Dutch Child Law program and students of the European Migration law course are invited, but the lecture is also open to other students that wish to join. If you plan on coming, please send your registration to Ms. Vera Versluis (Email: v.c.blankestijn@law.leidenuniv.nl).