'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENT

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

01/22/2019

TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary "Amy's will" is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication

Movie Report: Amy or Tigist? - An adoption story

Katrine W. Kjær is a document instructor and known for the film "The Adoption's Prize" (2012).

It is about the 4-year-old Masho and her 2-year-old little brother who are adopted away from Ethiopia to a family in Holbæk. The project does not go very well. Masho can't fall because the connection between child and adoptive parents fails and she ends up being sent to orphanages.

The fact that the case is so far from a single case of harassment is documented by a number of other adoption examples. One of them, Katrine W. Kjær has chosen to make another movie and given it the title "Amy's Will".

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Do you remember Amy? Now the girl who shook the adoption system is back

Ten years ago, Denmark was shocked by the story of the adoption child Amy. A new documentary shows how it went since the girl who never really fell. But the film is strongest when it also dares to show that we may not always be able to return to what we come from.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family!

The quote, which I saw on a friend's bulletin board, remembered me under the new documentary about Amy Steen, who, against her will, was adopted to Denmark as a 9-year-old. For, of course, it is beautiful to begin world peace by loving the people who brought us here. But it's never that simple.

Amy Steen was born in Ethiopia, but adopted as the biological mother thought she was going to die from AIDS. In Denmark, an adoptive family was ready, but the match was never good, and in time Amy moved to a foster family. It was from here she was removed in 2012, because the adoptive family thought it was best with more "professional frames". I never think I forget the pictures of the pixelated officials holding the screaming and fighting child from the "Adoption Prize".

Amy feels she was bought and sold as a commodity when she was adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark

When Amy was 15 years old, she found out that you were paying money when adopting a child. She asked, "Isn't it just human trafficking with a finer word?"

She's split. She feels like a man divided into two. Amy Rebecca Steen is Ethiopian, but has lived in Denmark half of her 20-year-old life. Her mother and older sister, her grandfather and the rest of her family live in Ethiopia. Her little sister lives in Næstved at the adoptive family, where she herself lived the first year and a half of her time in Denmark before moving to a foster family because her adoptive parents did not power her.

"When I was 15 years old, I found out that you pay money when you adopt. And I remember I asked if it's not just human trafficking with a finer word? "

Amy and her sister were adopted through the agency DanAdopt in 2009, and in 2013, the agency was deprived of the right to convey adoptions from Ethiopia, because the National Board of Appeal considered that there were doubts as to whether the adoptions were ethically and legally justifiable. Several Ethiopian women told then that they felt pressured to adopt their children.

Do you remember adopting Amy, who was forcibly removed? Here she is today

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Amy, who was forcibly removed as a 12-year-old, is current in a new documentary. In the video you can see Amy explaining how she has it today and see a clip from the new documentary where Amy gets forced back in 2012. Show more

Amy Steen became famous in 2012 when she was forcefully removed from her foster family, and the violent scenes since then went around the country.

Originally, Amy Steen was adopted from Ethiopia and has for many years struggled with the system to allow her to see her biological family. Today, however, everything has changed.

TV premiere of Amy's will

TV PREMIERE. Ethiopian girl Amy was adopted to Denmark as a 10-year-old. In Katrine W. Kjær's documentary 'Amy's Will', we follow Amy, as as a teenager she decides to actively go against the Danish authorities and return to her biological family. Watch the film on TV 2 on Thursday 24 January at. 20:00.

January 22, 2019

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When Amy was 10 years old, she and her little sister became adopted to Denmark and left their mother and older sister in Ethiopia. However, Amy has never settled in her new Danish family. She is afflicted by grief after the loss of her biological family, and she wants her adoption abolished.

five nuns of St Catherine's Home have been transferred from the shelter for inflicting physical and mental abuse on the inmates; after a year-long inquiry on the matter following mid-day's report

The 95-year-old St Catherine’s Home in Amboli came under scrutiny last year after some inmates filed an FIR alleging mental and physical abuse; (left) mid-day’s report on April 10, 2016, on the abuse

The 95-year-old St Catherine’s Home in Amboli came under scrutiny last year after some inmates filed an FIR alleging mental and physical abuse; (left) mid-day’s report on April 10, 2016, on the abuse

The inmates of St Catherine's Home, Amboli, have finally got some sense of justice. Over a year after mid-day reported the mental and physical abuse of some inmates of this home, a state committee has come down heavily on the shelter for brushing aside the allegations.

Its 35-page investigation report has confirmed that the allegations of abuse are true and recommended that the five nuns-cum-caregivers named in an FIR filed last year be transferred.

Congress has ratified a measure eliminating a lengthy court procedure in adopting children. File/Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

MANILA—Congress has ratified a measure eliminating a lengthy court procedure in adopting children.

In a statement Saturday, the Senate said the “Simulated Birth Rectification Act of 2018” aims to fast-track adoption and “grants amnesty and allow the rectification of the simulated birth of a child where simulation was made for the best interest of the child, and that such child has been consistently considered and treated by the person.”

“Birth simulation” refers to the tampering of the birth record to make it appear that a child was born to a person who was not the child’s biological mother.

Under the Domestic Adoption Act, however, penalties are due those who cause fictitious registration of the birth of a child.

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Bhavana Jaiswal is in Thane to get engaged.(Praful Gangurde/HT)

For 28-year-old Bhavana Jaiswal, growing up in an orphanage turned out to be better, she says, as she might not have become the person she is today if she had stayed with her parents.

Today, she works in Poland as the project head of a multinational company. Jaiswal is in the city to get engaged to Andres Schaufelberger, 33, a Swiss national.

“I was seven and my sister Priyanka was six when our father left us. My mother could not raise us and sent us to Ma Niketan - Society of the Helpers of Mary orphanage in Thane. My brother was merely two years old at the time and therefore stayed with my mother,” says Jaiswal.

European parliamentarians break the Nicholson monopoly on international adoptions

Bucharest Daily News - 8 March 2006

In spite of the general belief among Romanians that the European Union fully supports the law banning international adoptions, Bucharest Daily News found out a significant number of EU lawmakers fight a tough battle to persuade both the European Commission and the Romanian government that such adoptions are a viable alternative for orphaned children.

Among those fighting the battle is the EP's rapporteur on Romania, Pierre Moscovici. Still, their voices remain unheard in Romania. Why there's only one voice speaking on the subject on behalf of the entire European Union, no one knows But some of the MEPs accuse Baroness Emma Nicholson, the driving force behind the ban, of carrying a personal crusade against international adoptions, following the experience she had with an Iraqi boy she took care of for years.

If one would stop every meter on the most crowded street in Bucharest to ask random people if they think Romanian orphans should be up for adoption by foreign parents, the answer they would invariably receive would be "Yes," "Why not?" and "They should be that lucky!"