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.

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

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

19 decembrie 2014, 13:47

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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).

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American arrested on illegal adoption, human trafficking charges in Guatemala

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

JK Rowling: Isn’t it time we left orphanages to fairytales?

Millions of children are locked away in institutions. Forget pretty murals, just close these places down

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Gérard Luçon 17 décembre 2014 15:14

See how the adoption agencies do not agree with Independent Panel and want to replace it with the Hague version of subsidiarity

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Nepal

December 15, 2014

Notice: U.S. Delegation Visits Nepal for Update on Government’s Child Welfare System

Representatives from the Department of State and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) concluded a four-day visit to Nepal on November 19. The delegation was led by Ambassador Susan S. Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children’s Issues at the Department of State.

In August 2010, the Department of State and USCIS suspended processing of new adoption cases from Nepal involving children claimed to have been found abandoned because of concerns regarding the reliability of supporting documents, and because circumstances of alleged abandonments could not be verified by the U.S. government due to obstacles in the investigation of individual cases. The United States continues to process adoption cases from Nepal involving relinquishment by known birth parents. The visit’s purpose was to learn about the Government of Nepal’s current child welfare system and adoption procedures, and to demonstrate the U.S. government’s support for the Government of Nepal’s efforts to seek permanent solutions for children in need of families and safeguard the integrity of intercountry adoptions. (Note: The United States was the last receiving country to suspend adoption case processing in 2010.)

Conference about deinstitutionalization held in Belgrade

WP_20141208_09_18_41_ProConference „Advancing the process of transition from institutional care to community-based services in Serbia“ was held in Belgrade in Palace Serbia on December 8th 2014 organized by the European Expert Group on transition from institutional to community-based care and Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of Serbia.

Opening speeches were held by Mr. Aleksandar Vulin, Minister, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Djukic, State Secretary of Ministry of Health, Mr. John Halloran, Co-chair, European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care (EEG) and Mr. Holger Schroeder, Head of Cooperation of the EU Delegation in Serbia.

The conference was attended by the representatives of various institutions and organization from the sector of social and healthcare.

Dr. Monika Gabanyi, OPEN ARMS project team leader attended the conference accompanied with other project team members. Key project expert Dr. Jan Pfeiffer, member of EEG presented the key principles of Deinstitutionalisation process.