Baku-Four children might be adopted by foreigners this year

Vasila Mohsumova

By Tahmina Pashayeva

The State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs (SCFWCA) informed that till march, 2011 four foreigner families have been applied to adopt a child. The sector director of the Committee Vasila Mohsumova said that those foreigners’ documents will be checked, if they do not have any problems at that time it will be given a positive response to the foreign families:

“The figures have been changed comparing from the previous years: six children in 2007, two children in 2008, two children in 2009 and two children were adopted by foreigners in 2010”.

SYNDICATED ORDERED TO PRISON IN CASE OF ILLEGAL ADOPTION

Guatemala, March 29, 2011. The Fourth Court of First Instance Criminal Court overturned the order of freedom in favor of Marvin Bran Joshua Galindo, accused of participating in illegal adoption procedures, and ordered his immediate arrest by manipulating a witness to declared in his favor.

The decision of the judiciary is derived from the request of the Special Prosecutor Unit Support CICIG UEFAC-prosecutors, who sought to revoke the alternatives that were awarded to Bran Galindo to regain their freedom after being linked to process of trafficking and conspiracy.

Among the means of conviction that the Public Ministry (MP) introduced the measure is highlighted in a statement from the witness, who stated that the accused gave him a manuscript in which the guidelines said that she had declared for ex blame him the accusations.

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In a second hearing and the same process, the said court added the crime of conspiracy to Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía, syndicated processes involved in illegal adoptions. This is in addition to trafficking and use of forged documents, for which he was prosecuted to the first statement.

As syndicated apologized for failing to appear at the hearing for alleged ill health, the judge ordered that he have a medical report to determine the veracity of his apology, and it is found otherwise the judge indicated that preventive detention would be ordered.

In this case there are nine persons indicted for his alleged involvement in adoptions handled illegally.

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Madonna sued by charity workers over scrapped Malawi school

Raising Malawi's decision to drop plans for $15m elite academy for girls cost workers their jobs, claims lawyer

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By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Saturday March 26 2011
Madonna has abandoned plans to build a boarding school for 400 girls in Malawi despite having spent $3.8m (€2.7m) on the project.

The singer and her co-founder, the charity Raising Malawi, cancelled plans to complete the school amid reports of mismanagement.

The charity has high-profile supporters including the actors Tom Cruise and Gwyneth Paltrow, as well as Kabbalah Centre International, the Jewish mystical organisation to which Madonna belongs.

"A thoughtful decision has been made to discontinue plans for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls," Michael Berg, a co-founder of Raising Malawi, said. Madonna said she was intent on continuing the charity, which is now being run by a caretaker board that includes the singer and her manager.

Crisis

"There's a real education crisis in Malawi, 67pc of girls don't go to secondary school," she said.

Troubles with the school surfaced in October, when Philippe van den Bossche, the boyfriend of Madonna's former personal trainer, departed as executive director.

Madonna commissioned a report by the Global Philanthropy Group, which, according to its chairman Trevor Neilson, found a "startling lack of accountability" on the part of the management in Malawi and America.

Both Mr Van den Bossche, and Anjimile Oponyo, a former UN Development Programme worker who led the project in Malawi, were heavily criticised.

It was alleged that there was no land title for the intended site of the school in Lilongwe and that building work had not begun, despite Madonna's attendance at a "ground-breaking" ceremony.

Mr Neilson said he had advised the performer that starting a school from scratch was not the best use of her funds. He recommended providing money to existing educational schemes run by non-government organisations with expertise in the field.

Madonna's connection with Malawi began when she adopted a child from there in 2006, and then another in 2009. (© Daily Telegraph, London)

- Mike Pflanz in Nairobi

New Life Adoption Agency closing

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Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - For two weeks, hopeful parents to-be have been left wondering what will happen after learning by email that the new life adoption agency in Syracuse plans to close. Some have invested money in the agency and waited months for a child.

Friday afternoon, the agency sent families a second email, informing them that adoption files will soon be transferred to another agency. The message doesn't specify which agency, when, or if the closure will delay their adoptions. It's the most information the agency has released since the closing was initially and unexpectedly announced.

African adoptions drop as economic crisis bites

International adoptions by Americans have decreased sharply due to the economic crisis and increased regulation imposed after high-profile celebrity cases, agency officials said.

Angelina Jolie and her adopted daughter Zahara, who was originally from Ethiopia Photo: GETTY

By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi 9:00PM GMT 25 Mar 2011

In 2004, American families adopted almost 23,000 children from around the world, but by 2010 that figure had more than halved to 11,058, according to US State Department figures.

Published: Friday, March 25, 2011, 9:33 AM Updated: Friday, March 25, 2011, 9:44 AM

By Charley Hannagan / The Post-Standard

Syracuse, NY -- The board of directors of the New Life Adoption Agency has notified families that the agency is closing.

The Syracuse agency was founded in 1991 and has arranged adoptions of children from China. The agency sent an email March 12 that it was closing. The email says the board of directors is working on a plan to close the agency and will email families once the plan is finalized.

“Due to the reduction in staff, we no longer have the ability to respond to emails or phone calls in a timely manner as we did in the past,” the email said.