REMARKS BY USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJIV SHAH AT THE CHILDREN IN ADVERSITY NATIONAL ACTION PLAN LAUNCH

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Remarks as Prepared

Good afternoon. Thank you, Cokie, for your kind introduction and serving as our moderator this afternoon.

Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to reflect on the terrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, and remember the young lives lost. Over the past few days, I have felt—as I imagine many did—the particular anguish of a parent who sends his children off to school every day. And I have felt an even deeper desire to protect them from all that is violent and hurtful in our world.

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19 December 2012

By Chris Niles

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 - rape. Adoption of legislative rules to ban adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens will create controversy and difficult legal conflict, because such a rule directly contrary to a number of international and national laws, according to lawyers interviewed Tuesday rape.

The U.S. Senate on December 6 adopted the "Magnitsky Act" on visa sanctions against the Russians involved in the opinion of Congress, human rights violations. In response, the State Duma has prepared the "law of Dima Yakovlev", the first reading was adopted on 14 December. second reading scheduled for Wednesday , the third - on a Friday, and the entry into force of the law - in 2013.

The bill applies to U.S. citizens who have violated the rights of Russians, or were involved in the crimes against them. Second reading of the parliamentarians are going to amend the denunciations of the Russian-American agreement and the ban on adoptions by Americans.

Was contrary to the Constitution and the Code of the RF

Chairman of the Inter-regional human rights association "Agora" Pins Paul noted that the proposed rule prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens, infringing the rights of the child on the basis of nationality, directly contrary to the Constitution, the Family Code of the Russian Federation, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 and the Agreement between Russia and the United States on cooperation in the adoption of children, ratified this year.

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A ban on the adoption of Russian orphans by U.S. citizens can become one of the positive consequences of the notorious Magnitsky Act. In this case, Russia will finally cease to give away, or rather sell orphaned children to foreigners. For the time being, Russia remains one of the three donors that supply their children to the international adoption market.

State Duma deputies promised that the second reading of the bill, which will serve as a response to the Magnitsky Act, signed by U.S. authorities, will have a number of significant additions. In particular, U.S. citizens will no longer be allowed to adopt Russian children.

One of the reasons for this move is the fact that the agreement signed last year in June between the U.S. and Russia on cooperation in the field of adoption is practically not working. It was assumed that the Russian side would control the lives of its young citizens in foster American families. It does not happen still. Russia's Consular services learn about new tragedy that occurs to an adopted child, when the case already comes to court. Moreover, most sentences brought down against foster parents for abusing orphans are extremely soft and are often limited to suspended punishment.

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Anka's Two Mommies

High Court Takes On Same-Sex Adoption

By Dietmar Hipp

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A Conspiracy of Goodness

Posted by Neil Boothby, PhD, U.S. Government Special Advisor and Senior Coordinator to the USAID Administrator on Children in Adversity on Monday, December 17th 2012

Neil Boothby is U.S. Government Special Advisor and Senior Coordinator to the Administrator on Children in Adversity. Photo Credit: Columbia University.

I’ve found there are some things on which everyone can agree.

Children need strong beginnings – health, nutrition and nurturing care – to live their most productive lives;

(informal Google Translation)

Tricked for $ 3000, extremely poor mothers signed the transfer of custody of their children

From 1988 a child trafficking network operated in Jalisco, would have given 240 in illegal adoption

Great business that corrupts authorities; Find Foundation estimates there are 500,000 missing

Sanjuana Martinez

"Adoptionscentrum blundar för misshandel och korruption"

Igår, torsdagen den 13 december, gav Dagens ETC ut en artikel rörande den nuvarande situationen på barnhemmet med fokus på Adoptionscentrums respons på att fallet nu undersöks av Högsta Domstolen i Orissa. Trots att männen i ledningen nu står åtalde för bl.a barntortyr, så fortsätter den svenska barnrättsoganisationen att hävda att de har en annan bild. Detta trots att vi upprepade gånger har kunnat visa på att deras fortsatta samarbete med de män som nu står åtalade har förhindrat att en oberoende utredning kan ske på barnhemmet.

För barn och personal har detta inneburit två år av grova övergrepp.

Ni finner den fullständiga artikeln HÄR.

Adoptionscentrum fortsätter i artikeln att hänvisa till tidigare undersökningar som har varit fruktlösa. De hänvisar mer specifikt till den undersökning som gjordes av den lokala polisen våren 2011 och som vi flertalet gånger visat på är korrumperad. Detta baserar vi bl.a på följande bevis:

A few days ago, the prosecutor's office in Florence ordered the search of 25 locations of MISA branches in Bologna, Florence, Milan, San Benedetto del Tronto and Bari. The police descended not only on the yoga centers, but also on the homes of those involved, seizing computers, diaries and video recordings. The investigation would have been triggered by the complaints made by at least two possible victims of Bivolaru's disciples, following the experiences they had within the organization.

"Il secolo XIX" recorded (December 10, 2012) that the investigators interviewed 10 witnesses - possible injured parties. They are women and men between 20-30 years old who, according to the indictment, would have been brought into a state of psychological submission and then convinced to indulge in violent sexual practices, filmed without their knowledge. According to the teachings of the MISA courses, sexual practices are "necessary for spiritual evolution".

Although initially there were 18 suspects, the same source mentions that at the moment there are 20 people investigated in the investigation, students and instructors of the searched centers. Investigations are ongoing to determine the destination of the video recordings made without the knowledge or consent of the participants. Among the hypotheses is the fact that the respective films would have followed the same path as those from Miss Shakti 2001 and 2002, namely the circuit of films for adults.

Roberto Zambrenti who, together with Daniela Trogu, coordinates the Atman Yoga Center in Genoa, did not want to comment either on the articles that appeared recently in the Italian press, or on the complaints and criticisms brought to MISA on the www.exmisa.org forum. But he told the Italian press that he considered the investigation by the prosecutor's office in Florence to be unfounded: "It is the faithful copy of other judicial attacks that this school endures in different countries: it happened recently in Finland, and now it is happening here in Italy."  

The MISA press office stated as early as Friday, December 7, 2012, in a statement published on the sect's official website, that the investigations in Italy would be based on the complaints of "a chef of Romanian origin who lives in Italy and who wanted to take revenge because he was expelled from the Romanian yoga school".