Russian children's rights ombudsman wants to end foreign adoption

Russian children's rights ombudsman speaks candidly about his mission to abolish foreign adoption and end Russia’s role as an international “donor of orphans.”

Anna Nemtsova, special to RBTH

February 19, 2013

Russian children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, 47, is a man with a controversial mission: to end once and for all the American adoption of Russian children. In an interview with Anna Nemtsova, he said he wants to end foreign adoption entirely. Three years ago, when he was appointed ombudsman for children’s rights, he declared that foreign adoption was “shameful” for Russia. In early February, Astakhov was appointed adviser to the president.

18/02/2013 - Italian vice foreign minister on EU-Central Asia water conference in Kyrgyzstan

Category: Politics, Analyses & Opinions

Published on Monday, 18 February 2013

Written by Giorgio Fiacconi, TCA publisher

BISHKEK, February 18 (TCA) — During the 4th EU-Central Asia High Level Conference on Environment and Water organized in Bishkek last week by the European Union within the framework of the Platform for Environment and Water Cooperation of the EU-Central Asia Strategy, The Times of Central Asia had the opportunity to speak with Marta Dassu, vice minister of foreign affairs of Italy and co-chair of the conference together with Patricia Flor, EU special representative for Central Asia.

3-year-old Russian boy killed by American adoptive mother in Texas

Published: 18 February, 2013, 17:57

Edited: 18 February, 2013, 22:24

After being brutally beaten by his American adoptive mother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian diplomats have said.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the death of Maksim Kuzmin at the hands of his adoptive American family.

Algeria postpones trial of suspected child traffickers

The criminal court in Algiers on Sunday postponed the trial of 13 people, including French-Algerians, suspected of trafficking an unknown number of Algerian children.

The case involves the alleged kidnapping of Algerian children, who were taken to Saint Etienne in France and given up for adoption in return for money.

Judge Omar Ben Kherchi postponed the trial because six defendants, including French citizens of Algerian origin, did not appear in court. Seven defendants did appear.

Algerian security services busted the alleged child-trafficking ring in 2009.

ALGÉRIE / FRANCE - Article publié le : dimanche 17 février 2013 - Dernière modification le : dimanche 17 février 2013

Algérie : treize personnes jugées pour trafic d'enfants vers la France

Les auteurs d'un trafic d'enfants algériens vendus à des familles françaises devant la justice algérienne, le 17 février 2013.

REUTERS/Pawan Kumar

Par RFI

Plight of Missing Children

Seeking Justice

City based NGO will bring to notice tragic tales about the lives of a large number of missing children at an international conference on adoption from February 19

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Spain offers Rabat change their adoption law to recognize Islamic guardianship

The Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, so is that 58 Spanish families with orphans Moroccan allocated for months to get them out of the country

Morocco international adoptions closes

Six Moroccan NGOs demand that the Spanish can again take

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Date: 02/13/18

After the establishment of the database on adoptable minors in Italy, a new challenge: European Adoptions

How many families of European countries go abroad to adopt a child, and could do so in Europe, that is, at home, without spending considerable long and bureaucratic absurd stays abroad?

But above all, how many minors living in communities and educational institutions in the various European countries may find a family in any country in Europe, if we consider that only in Italy there would be 2,300 children currently adoptable?

After the news from the Ministry of Justice of the signing of (February 15) the executive decree activatingf the database of adoptable children and adoptive couples available - which is now awaiting publication - opens in a new challenge to associations for the defense of children's rights.