DanAdopt forced to stop adoptions from Ethiopia

Ministry of Social Affairs has decided to close the DanAdopt adoptions of children from Ethiopia, because there are doubts about whether the agency dissemination of adoptions from the African country is ethically and legally defensible.

AT. 14:10

DR News korrepondent in investigative journalism, Line Gertsen, is here with an Ethiopian woman who has given up for adoption a child. © DR

Written by: Lars Nielsen Brøndum

DENMARK 5TH APRIL 2013 KL. 14.46 UPDATED 5TH APRIL 2013 KL. 15.10

Haekkerup stop controversial adoptions from Ethiopia

DESPAIR. Mashos parents regret four years after the adoption bitterly that they gave their children away. Here they try unsuccessfully to get DanAdopt help to see the lack of reports on their children.

DanAdopt may no longer adopt children from the African country.

OF NIELS HOLST

DanAdopt forced to stop adoptions from Ethiopia

Ministry of Social Affairs has decided to close the DanAdopt adoptions of children from Ethiopia, because there are doubts about whether the agency dissemination of adoptions from the African country is ethically and legally defensible.

AT. 14:10

DR News korrepondent in investigative journalism, Line Gertsen, is here with an Ethiopian woman who has given up for adoption a child. © DR

Written by: Lars Nielsen Brøndum

DENMARK 5TH APRIL 2013 KL. 14.46 UPDATED 5TH APRIL 2013 KL. 15.10

Haekkerup stop controversial adoptions from Ethiopia

DESPAIR. Mashos parents regret four years after the adoption bitterly that they gave their children away. Here they try unsuccessfully to get DanAdopt help to see the lack of reports on their children.

DanAdopt may no longer adopt children from the African country.

OF NIELS HOLST

EL will have independent oversight of adoption agencies

Unity will have in place an independent monitor to keep an eye on adoption industry and combat cheating.

Never again will parents who lost their children to adopt Danish families, tricked or forced to give the children. Therefore, the establishment of an independent regulatory body to inspect adoption industry.

How Sounds of Unity List Social spokesman Pernille Skipper, after Ministry of Social Affairs has today closed down DanAdopt adoptions of children from Ethiopia.

ALSO READ Social puts halt to adoptions from Ethiopia home

Adoption Association supports prohibiting DanAdopt

It's just as well that DanAdopt adoption processes are examined, so any errors are provided think President.

5th April 2013 kl. 18:50

If adoptions company DanAdopt have done something wrong in adoption case of the Ethiopian girl Masho and other children, it is only good that Social Karen Haekkerup (S) has now closed for DanAdopt adoptions of children from Ethiopia.

The opinion of the chairman of the association Adoption and Society, Jens Damkjær.

Valentin Nas

Here is my translation of this newspaper article:

Draft law by NGOs for the legalization of international adoption, endorsed by a Liberal senator

by Aurelia Alexa

BUCHAREST, 4 April 2013, 19:57

Nigeria: 32 Pregnant Teenagers Rescued From Baby Factory

4 APRIL 2013

Not less than 32 pregnant teenagers have been rescued from a maternity home at Umuzuo, Osisioma local government area of Abia State.

Investigation has revealed that the victims were induced to sell a baby boy for N100, 000, while a girl goes for N80, 000.

Investigation further showed that the owner of the maternity home, in turn sales the baby boy for N450, 000, and a girl for N400, 000.

More adopted Russian kids at risk: Texas parents suspected of abuse

Published time: April 03, 2013 11:41

Two teenage Russian girls have been removed from their adoptive parents and placed in a foster family as Texan authorities begin a probe into suspected threats and possible sexual abuse.

The investigation was confirmed by the Texas Department for Family and Protective Services, Russian news services reported. According to officials the incident took place in the town of Silsbee.

Russia’s Investigative Committee - tasked with oversight in especially important and resonant cases – said on Wednesday that it was starting its own probe in connection with the reports of violence against adopted Russian kids.

The 'sex pest' Lib Dem MP and the vulnerable mother whose cry for help Clegg ignored

Mike Hancock MP has been the subject of many complaints from women

Constituent alleges ‘improper sexual advances’ when she sought his help

She says that he is 'a liability to women'

By BARBARA DAVIES