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Katja blows the whistle in 2014 CDR - refused further involvement in child rights

CDR 2014:

Since the month of September; I started having back pains. The doctor considered this linked to my work and ordered me to interrupt work (sick leave), which lasted two months. Since September; I also expressed to my Head of Unit my wish to no longer work on Montenegro, and that I wanted to be transferred to another job inside DG ELARG (or outside). This because I discovered that the IPA financing in the field of child protection; especially where it concerns de-institutionalisation, given to Montenegro since 2011 did not really serve to reform the child protection system, but created a situation where children had a tendency to leave the country (in the context of intercountry adoption) rather than to remain in alternative care (return in the family of origin, foster care). This situation was even more difficult because the project did not target the creation of family-type homes, which do not exist in Montenegro.

Well conscious of similar problems in the past in Romania (which the demand for children had created a market in children) as responsible for the rights of the child in the Romania Team of DG ELARG in 2004-2005, I did not want to work with the Montenegrin authorities in this context which contributed to a "legalised" traffic in children. Especially because during the pre-accession of Romania, an Independent Panel of Experts on Family Law, established by the Commission, had concluded that in the case of Romania in 2004, intercountry adoption cannot be considered as a measure of child protection but has to be, if all, an exceptional measure.

This approach hs been also confirmed by the note about the lessons learned about the rights of children in Romania addressed by DG ELARG to DG JUST in 3013 (Ares(2013)3769525).

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Robak worked on CHIFF

Linda is a part of the Executive Working Group

Committee Member, created to draft and help pass

the bi-partisan Federal legislation “Children In

Families First,” and is Executive Director of

abandoned children’s international advocacy

Teeven returns from Congo without adopted children

Teeven returns from Congo without adopted children

Posted on Dec 23, 2014 by Janene Van Jaarsveldt

State Secretary Fred Teeven (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Jos van Zetten)

State Secretary Fred Teeven of Security and Justice returned from Congo empty handed. He was there to pick up children adopted by couples in the Netherlands.

Congo still refuses to let the 30 adopted children go to the Netherlands, the Volkskrant reports. Teeven only got a promise that the adoption process does not have to be started again. Teeven traveled to Congo to negotiate for the Dutch couples. In some cases they have been waiting for two years for a child that they have adopted.

A man who ripped off an international adoption agency is scheduled for sentencing in February

Dec 21, 2014

Sentencing date set in adoption agency fraud case

By Brian Caldwell

KITCHENER — A man who ripped off an international adoption agency is scheduled for sentencing in February.

Rick Hayhow, 50, pleaded guilty last month to one count of fraud involving almost $87,000 in personal expenses charged on a corporate credit card to Imagine Adoption between 2007 and 2009.

Link-up of child-care institutions on cards

Link-up of child-care institutions on cards

Pune Mirror | Dec 20, 2014, 02.30 AM IST

Link-up of child-care institutions on cards

CARA secretary Veerendra Mishra was in the city to conduct a meeting of adoption agencies in Maharashtra

By: Kaumudi Gurjar

Aproape 1.000 de copii au fost p?r?si?i în spitale în primele nou? luni ale anului

Aproape 1.000 de copii au fost p?r?si?i în spitale în primele nou? luni ale anului

19 decembrie 2014, 13:47

deIoana Nicolescu

Un num?r de 925 de copii au fost abandona?i, în primele nou? luni ale anului, în maternit??i, sec?ii de pediatrie sau în alte sec?ii de spital, iar 807 dintre ei au fost externa?i, arat? Autoritatea Na?ional? pentru Protec?ia Drepturilor Copilului ?i Adop?ie (ANPDCA).

Trei fra?i pre?colari, abandona?i de mam? la o familie din Ciocani. Po...

American arrested on illegal adoption, human trafficking charges in Guatemala

American arrested on illegal adoption, human trafficking charges in Guatemala

Published December 18, 2014Fox News Latino

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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions.