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Politieke partijen willen stop op adoptie uit Bulgarije

Politieke partijen willen stop op adoptie uit Bulgarije

- 18 Okt 2015 in Reporter

De PvdA, SP, D66 en ChristenUnie vinden dat de adoptie van kinderen uit Bulgarije moet worden stopgezet totdat er verder onderzoek is gedaan. De partijen stellen dit naar aanleiding van de uitzending van Brandpunt Reporter van vanavond, waarin verschillende betrokkenen vertellen dat de adoptieprocedures in Bulgarije niet altijd goed worden gevolgd. Sinds 2010 kwamen ruim 80 Bulgaarse kinderen naar Nederland.

Geen enkele bij adoptie betrokken instantie in Bulgarije, zegt goed te kunnen controleren of adopties volgens de regels tot stand komen. Volgens betrokkenen gaan er daardoor kinderen naar het buitenland terwijl ze familie hebben in Bulgarije die voor ze wil zorgen. Dit mag niet volgens de Bulgaarse én internationale adoptiewetten.

Bulgaarse sociaal werkers, hulpverleners en een mensenrechtenadvocaat vertellen in Brandpunt Reporter dat kinderen te snel bij hun ouders worden weggehaald, vaak vanwege armoede. Vervolgens belanden de kinderen in een tehuis. Als ouders geen procedure starten, komen de kinderen automatisch beschikbaar voor adoptie. Maar veel ouders weten dat niet en het wordt ze ook niet verteld, zo blijkt uit de reportage.

Paul Redmond tells us what he has learned about St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin.

ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS Pelletstown and later as Saint Patrick’s Mother and Baby home on the Navan Road, Dublin 7, it was originally a public workhouse and probably designated a ’special institution’ exclusively for single mothers in 1904.

It was converted for such usage in 1906 by George Sheridan at a cost of £11,000. Pelletstown was owned and financed by the Poor Law Guardians and the Dublin Union (i.e the state), and run on their behalf by the Sisters of the Daughters of Saint Vincent de Paul (later called the Daughters of Charity).

Saint Patrick’s was by far the largest of the nine Mother and Baby homes in terms of the numbers who passed through and approximately 9,000 to 12,000 women and girls went through its doors. It was also a massive ‘holding centre’ in it’s own right for unaccompanied babies and children. It was certified for 149 beds for unmarried mothers and 560 cots/beds for babies and children.

Babies and children who passed away were sent for burial to the national Angel’s Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in north Dublin. There are two periods when exact numbers of deaths are known and rough estimates from other years would indicate that at least 2,000 and possibly above 3,000 babies and children died during its 81 years of operation on the Navan Road.

The home was closely associated with Saint Kevin’s Hospital in Dublin city centre now known as Saint James.

Problems with the agreement between Social Welfare Society, Inc. and Adoptionscentrum

ARTICLE IN PRESSIAN: IS IT TIME TO WITHDRAW SWS’S LICENSE

One of SKAN’s most important tasks is to publish different kinds of texts and arts to raise awareness about adoption.

Our latest article was just published in the Korean magazine Pressian. You can read ??? ?? ??, ?(?)? ?(?)? ?? here.

We would like to thank our friends Chang Seon and Pastor Kim at KoRoot for help with the translation.

While this article mostly was written to inform Koreans about the situation, we also got an English version. We would like to thank our advisor Kate Mun for the proofreading. You can access the article in pdf. Social Welfare Society is breaking the law – final Pressian (1)

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Orphanages run by Mother Teresa foundation to close down?

Orphanages run by Mother Teresa foundation to close down?

Friday, 9 October 2015 - 8:55am IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI

The survey to be done by the Women and Child Development Ministry will identify those child care homes, which are not complying with the revised guidelines of the Juvenile Justice Act, one of which includes orphanages run by the Mother Teresa Foundation, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Thursday

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Government will soon conduct a comprehensive survey to create a database of all registered child homes in the country, aiming to trace such institutions not complying with the law.

Scandalo Kirghizistan, cinque persone iscritte nel registro degli indagati

Scandalo Kirghizistan, cinque persone iscritte nel registro degli indagati

di Sara De Carli 07 ottobre 2015

Il sostituto procuratore della Repubblica Daniela Pischetola, a Savona, ha chiuso l’inchiesta sull'associazione Airone. Cinque persone sono accusate di associazione a delinquere finalizzata alla truffa. Sono 21 le famiglie coinvolte, che ora chiedono anche risposte istituzionali

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Il sostituto procuratore della Repubblica Daniela Pischetola ha chiuso l’inchiesta che ha coinvolto l’associazione Airone di Albenga. Cinque nomi sono stati iscritti nel registro degli indagati: la presidente dell’associazione, Silvia La Scala, la vicepresidente Orietta Maini; la collaboratrice Inna Troukhan e i kirzighi Alexander Angelidi e Venera Zakirova. L’accusa è di associazione a delinquere finalizzata a truffa. «Siamo in attesa di conoscere la data della prima udienza, parteciperemo come parte offesa», spiega Pierfrancesco Torrisi, avvocato esperto in adozioni internazionali, che rappresenta una della coppie truffate, la prima a sporgere denuncia. «Queste persone risponderanno personalmente delle accuse, il sostituto procuratore non ha indagato solo il presidente in qualità di rappresentante legale», sottolinea Torrisi. «Ci sono troppe cose che non tornano e tutti sapevano. Non si tratta solo di essersi fidati della persona sbagliata».

Adoption or trafficking? Fears grow for Uganda's 'orphans'

Adoption or trafficking? Fears grow for Uganda's 'orphans'

Agence France-Presse on Oct 5, 2015 @ 5:04 AM

When Agatha Namusisi, 64, let her grandson leave Uganda for medical treatment abroad, she assumed he would return, but more than a year later she says he has disappeared.

"They are nowhere to be seen," Namusisi said of the seven-year old boy and his Ugandan carer who travelled together to the United States in May last year, after an Arizona-based Christian charity arranged for surgery to correct his crippling spinal deformity.

The case is just one example of international adoption gone wrong through misunderstanding, negligence or even criminality, a trend that has Ugandan lawmakers worried, with a 400 percent increase in orphans going to the US alone between 2006 and 2013.

Cameron's flagship children's policy 'faces crisis' as adoption figures fall

Cameron's flagship children's policy 'faces crisis' as adoption figures fall

Prime minister’s promise to speed up process falters as figures show drop in children being matched with families

Barnardo’s is concerned about decline in children being put forward for adoption.

Barnardo’s is concerned about decline in children being put forward for adoption. Photograph: I Love Images/REX Shutterstock

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Joint Council’s Closure: What Went Wrong?

Joint Council’s Closure: What Went Wrong?

Insights from an insider about what we can all learn from Join Council's mistakes.

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By Jennifer Mellon on October 01, 2015

Moved to Washington, District of Columbia

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28 September 2015 · ·

Moved to Washington, District of Columbia

28 September 2015

for 4 years working at the European Commission Delegation as Development Counselor