Adoptions to Italy raise questions

Alleged Misconduct Prompts Slovakia To Change Its Intercountry Adoptions Policy

29 Jul 2013Michaela Terenzani - Stanková Politics & Society

DOZENS of children born in Slovakia each year, unwanted by their own families and unable to find an adoptive family in their home country, have been fortunate enough to find new parents through intercountry adoptions. While there are not enough intercountry adoptions to generate much public interest, such adoptions recently became a hot-button issue, with some media outlets pointing out that the practice may have been conducted as a sort of business by some state officers in the past.

The Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth (CIPC), the office under the Labour Ministry responsible for facilitating intercountry adoptions in Slovakia, has recently undergone a series of changes, starting with the replacement of the centre’s director. Labour Minister Ján Richter appointed new director Andrea Císarová in July 2012, after signs of misconduct emerged within the CIPC, previously led by Alena Mátejová.

Illegal adoptions in Poland

Baby on sale

Jul 26th 2013, 12:57 by N.O. | WARSAW

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I am 37 years old and pregnant with my third child. I am looking for a couple which will support me during my pregnancy. After the birth I will give up my child’s custody. I am unemployed and have no healthcare insurance. I cannot afford the costs of a doctor and therefore I am looking for someone who can help me. I would like to get in touch only with dedicated couples as I want to give my child to a lovely family that will give the child everything that I cannot.

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How can scientists act ethically when they are studying the victims of a human tragedy, such as the Romanian orphans?

An orphanage in Craiova, Romania in 1994. Photo by Michael Carroll

Virginia Hughes is a science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her blog, Only Human, is published by National Geographic.

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Preet Mandir adoption racket: Court rejects J K Mittal's discharge plea

- Mubarak Ansari

Tuesday, 23 July 2013 - 08:30 PM IST

Tags: Preet Mandir adoption racket, J K Mittal, Central Adoption Resource Agency

PUNE: A special CBI court recently rejected the discharge plea of J K Mittal, the then chairman of the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA), from his alleged involvement in 'child adoption racket' run by city-based Preet Mandir.

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CARE France célèbre les 10 ans de sa fusion avec SERA : visite de Philippe Lévêque, Directeur Général de CARE France, en Roumanie

Philipe Lévêque, directeur général de CARE France, s'est récemment rendu en Roumanie pour évaluer les avancées des programmes mis en place par CARE et SERA dans ce pays. Lors de ce voyage, il a rencontré le Secrétaire d'Etat roumain Codrin SCUTARU.

CARE France et SERA Romania œuvrent pour l'amélioration du système roumain de protection de l'enfance

Depuis 10 ans, CARE France et SERA Romania (créée en 1996), collaborent pour protéger les droits des enfants et développer les services sociaux en Roumanie.

Gago = Head of Cabinet DG EMPL

Selmayr = Head of Cabinet DG JUSTICE

Le Bail = Director General DG JUSTICE

Mordue = Head of Cabinet DG ENLARGEMENTT (NEAR)

Korte = Director General (acting) DG ENLARGEMENT/NEAR

Esplora il significato del termine: A MELEGNANO

Il presidente della Onlus: 800mila euro

per gli appartamenti invece che per i bambini

Accusato di appropriazione indebita dalla Finanza. Denunciati anche due dipendenti del centro dati di cui era titolare

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Latvia's progress in the transition from institutional to community-based care

“With so much depressing news about declining growth and rising unemployment I had the very pleasant experience as the new co-chair of the European Expert Group to participate in a very active seminar last week in Riga at which the European Commission, central, local government and NGOs expressed their commitment to a major investment programme announced by the Secretary of State to transfer a thousand persons with intellectual disabilities out of long stay institutions and into community care. Social investment is alive and kicking in Latvia; this is a big issue across Europe but slowly the tide is turning…” John Halloran, ESN Chief Executive

On 28 June the European Social Network’s (ESN) Chief Executive John Halloran participated in a national training seminar on the use of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation in Riga, Latvia. The training seminar was organised by the Ministry for Welfare in cooperation with the European Expert Group on Transition from Institutional to Community Care (EEG) and the European Commission.

The aim of the seminar was to gather national stakeholders (public authorities, EU fund managing authorities and civil society organisations) in order to take stock of the state of play of de-institutionalisation in Latvia and to look at the way forward for the future. Representing local public social services in Europe, ESN’s contribution to the seminar was to bring the local government perspective into the dialogue with the European Commission and national authorities.

Separated as babies in 1972 due to family poverty, the brothers are together again after a chance encounter in a crowded city.

Image:The twins together after 41 years. Pic: Chen Zhi, Huaxi Metropolis.

Twin brothers who were separated as babies have been reunited after more than 40 years following a chance encounter in China's Sichuan province.