NGO Coalition: Social Development Minister arrest revealed unprecedented corruption in issues of international adoption

01/08-2012 08:18, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency , by Julia KOSTENKO

Social Development Minister arrest revealed unprecedented corruption in issues of international adoption. Coalition of Civic Initiatives for Social Security System Reform (NGO Coalition) published official letter on it.

NGO representatives accuse deputies’ intrusion to police work. 24.kg news agency had reported earlier that Social Development Minister Ravshan Sabirov was released in accordance with Bishkek City Court decision after deputies’ guarantees.

According the official letter corrupted schemes exist and were built in regulations and decrees as regulation’s inactions on foreign adoption organizations’ accreditation. “Corrupted connections between public officials responsible for children’s adoption have been revealed recently. In such circumstances citizens and public bodies should help police in the international adoption investigation. Instead, deputies are interfering to the investigation, influence on sentences and almost “replace” court’s decisions,” explained the Coalition members.

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Summary

This report presents the findings of the National Research Study on the Service Response to Past Adoption Practices.

The aim of the study was to strengthen the evidence available to governments to address the current service needs of individuals affected by past adoption practices, including the need for information, counselling and reunion services.

In particular, the study has targeted a wide group of those affected by past practices, including mothers, fathers, adoptees, adoptive parents (and wider family members); and professionals currently working with affected individuals.

Findings from the Senate Inquiry into the Commonwealth Contribution to Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices were also taken into account.

I am an adopted child. I also am a mother of a beautiful adopted baby girl.My life story is like a beautifully woven tapestry. I was born on the 19th of April 1972 in Dallas, Texas, USA. My birth mother was an 18 year old , Caucasian woman with lovely blond hair. My birth father was a handsome African American man. I have never seen them or spoken to them -that's how my file at the adoption centre described my parents. 

I was given up for adoption the day I was born. I was placed in a loving and caring foster home when I was nine months. My foster parents , Ginger and Fred Beamis were my family for four years. I had four foster siblings who I still keep in touch with. I loved them immensly, but I always knew that I was not there to stay -that’s the nature of foster care. 

Since I was a bi-racial child the adoption agency found it difficult to find me a permanent home. My foster mother worked in a day care center. One day a beautiful young Indian woman walked into the center looking for a job. Her name was Jayashree Chattterjee. Little did we know that on this day a new chapter in our lives would begin; I found a mother in Jayashree and she a daughter in me. My parents, Jayashree and husband, adopted me when I was 4 ½ years old. My brother Rohit was born one year later and so in a year I had a new mother, father and a new baby brother. 

When I was nine years old my parents divorced and Rohit and I moved to India with my mother. In a short time my mother married a wonderful man named Arun Thiagarajan.By the time I was 11 years old my mother had another son Shiva and after ten months she had another son Nikhil. So by the time I was 12 I had an enormous family . 

I grew up with the love of so many people. Not only did I gain a family, I gained a country as well. Nobody looking at me would ever guess that I am not Indian. God has been so good to me that I really felt the need to do the same for another little girl. And that brings me to my daughter Tara. My husband Ram and I got married on the 11th of October 1997 . 

The accreditation of foreign organizations for adoption Kyrgyzstan citizens
canceled in the republic

The accreditation of foreign organizations for adoption Kyrgyzstan citizens
was canceled in the republic. The Ministry of Social Development informs.

Reportedly, the order for cancellation of previous decisions on the
accreditation of foreign organizations for Kyrgyzstan children adoption was
canceled. According to officials, the decision was taken “in order to eliminate
violations and, in response to the protest of the Prosecutor General”.

The order states: to terminate the force of accreditation certificates for
international adoption of children without parental care of the following
foreign organizations:

Kyrgyzstan has temporarily banned international adoptions

26.07.12 11:15

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Kyrgyzstan has suspended the activities of all the previously accredited foreign organizations involved in international adoption. The corresponding order was signed on July 23, said today, July 26, the Ministry of Social Development.

SEDESOL previously accredited to provide services for international adoptions from Kyrgyzstan had ten foreign organizations.

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Ted and Maxine Holt were married in Columbia on April 28, 1962, at The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The couple moved back to Massachusetts in 1963 to be close to family and then moved back to Columbia in 1979.

Mr. Holt worked at The Tennessee Knitting Mills, Arduini Manufacturing and delivered newspapers for The Daily Herald until 2002 at age 80.

Mrs. Holt was a homemaker, but she was also was employed by Kay’s Dress Shop, owned by Kay and Ray Adams, and AA Auto Insurance. They are both devoted, active members of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Columbia.

The couple’s three children, Ms. DeeAnn Johnson of Madison, Ms. Trish Maskew of Silver Springs, Md., and Mrs. Rachel (Dan) Bovee of Columbia hosted an anniversary celebration in their honor at Christy’s Café on 6th Street in Columbia on Saturday, April 28.

Present at the occasion in addition to their daughters were their grandchildren, Patrick Maskew, Meghan Maskew of Silver Springs, Md., and Nicholas Bovee of Columbia; Maxine’s sisters, Madeline Richards of Eliot, Maine, and Ruth Foisy of York, Maine; Maxine’s niece, Jennifer DeForest of Marlborough, Mass.; and Ted’s niece Mrs. Dottie (Larry) King of Columbia.

A child-friendly adoption policy is paramount

.July 20, 2012

Several lawmakers from the Chamber of Deputies, this week, took the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion to task over the fate of Rwandan orphans adopted by foreign nationals.

The major issue that the parliamentarians had was that children who are taken to other countries by their adoptive parents risked losing touch with their Rwandan culture and heritage. 361 adopted Rwandan children are currently living in various nations including the United States, France, Belgium and Italy.

Are the children, very often very young, helped to understand where they are from? Are they given opportunities to meet fellow Rwandans? Or are they simply assimilated into the nation their foster parents come from? The MP’s certainly have genuine concerns that must be addressed. These questions must be answered as soon as possible; especially because the policy of the Rwandan Government is to gradually phase out orphanages, preferring children to be raised in foster homes.

Rwanda: Adoption Policy Questioned

BY JAMES KARUHANGA, 19 JULY 2012

MPs want the government to closely monitor Rwandan children adopted by foreigners and consequently taken abroad.

Speaking on Tuesday, several legislators questioned the country's policy on child adoption, saying children who are taken to other countries by their adoptive parents risked losing touch with their country's identity and heritage.

Official figures indicate that, from 2006 up to 2009, up to 263 Rwandan children were taken to several countries, including the United States, France, Belgium and Italy. In total, there are 361 adopted Rwandan children abroad, according to statistics from the National Children's Commission.