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Outcry over archbishop's abortion comments

Outcry over archbishop's abortion comments

(AFP) – 6 hours ago

MONTREAL — Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec, has provoked a firestorm of criticism from politicians and feminists by strongly condemning abortion, even when pregnancy is the result of rape.

Pauline Marois, leader of the Parti Quebecois, said she was "completely outraged" by Ouellet's remarks, and accused him of trying to reverse the results of battles waged for 40 years, Radio-Canada reported.

Ouellet has faced harsh criticism since remarks he made Saturday before an anti-abortion conference in Quebec.

Stephen Harper
Canada

INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION CENTRAL AUTHORITIES MEETING

INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION

CENTRAL AUTHORITIES’ MEETING

18–19 May 2010

Communiqué to CEOs

The Commonwealth, State and Territory Central Authorities for Intercountry Adoption held their biannual meeting in Canberra on 18–19 May 2010. A representative from the New Zealand Central Authority also attended. Officers from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, along with a representative from the National Intercountry Adoption Advisory Group (NICAAG) attended some sessions of the meeting. Separately, on 17 May 2010, all Australian Central Authorities participated in meetings and a formal lunch with a visiting delegation from China.

New Zealand, China, Australia, India
Australian Afrian Children's Aid and Support Association (AACASA)

The Secret is Out – Jennifer was Trafficked as a Child

The Secret is Out – Jennifer was Trafficked as a Child

March 18, 2010
Filed under: Immigration Law

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The approximately 700 pages of documents that I received in response to the Freedom of Information Request filed with USCIS on Jennifer Haynes’ behalf have turned out to be a gold mine of information. The biggest nugget of them all was the Indian baptismal certificate that we found buried among all the other paperwork. The certificate contained the names of Jennifer’s biological mother and father and as a result thereof she has been able to find her family!! Unfortunately for Jennifer, her mother died in 2006 before Jennifer was deported to India and before they could be reunited. Before she had the chance to meet just one more time with the daughter that we now know was sold out from under her.

As the result of the information on the baptismal certificate, Jennifer met up with her long-lost brother, and learned from him that her biological mother originally placed her at an orphanage so that she could receive the education, food and shelter that she was too poor to afford. She also learned that her mother never intended to give her up, but that when she came back for Jennifer a short while later Jennifer had already been “sent” to the US to be adopted. As traumatic as that must have been for her, thankfully her mother died without ever learning that Jennifer had in fact been given to a couple that abused her and then gave her up only 9 months later to another family who also abused her. She was also spared the knowledge that Jennifer was thereafter shunted around to dozens of foster care families before finally being deported back to India because her immigration formalities were not completed. From Jennifer’s brother we also learned that her father never recovered from the shock of having lost his daughter and unfortunately became an alcoholic as the result of this emotional trauma.

Although we do not yet have any proof, it is our firm belief that Jennifer was, indeed, trafficked to the United States. In other words, that she was sold like chattel. Nothing else can explain away so many of the facts that we have uncovered in these documents. For example, the owner of the orphanage to whom Jennifer had been entrusted by her mother, appeared in court and testified that Jennifer had been abandoned and had no family – clearly a lie. And then she also appeared before the court as the “attorney” for the prospective adoptive father. In other words, Clarice D’Souza took it upon herself to decide that Jennifer should be sent to the US, lied to the court in order to obtain the requisite order for Jennifer to leave India, and then “appeared” as the adoptive father and told the court that “he” would abide by all the applicable obligations to Jennifer if he was allowed to take her to the US. Indeed, there is absolutely no evidence that the adoptive father ever traveled to India or ever even met Jennifer, let alone Clarice D’Souza who vouched for his suitability as an adoptive father. And to top it all off, Jennifer was actually flown into the United States by two unknown adults, hired by the orphanage for the sole purpose of accompanying her to the United States and turning her over to her adoptive father.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Or in this case, if it smells like child trafficking and looks like child trafficking, then it probably was.

ACT CASE Jennifer Haynes

MOI pushes legal changes to better protect children

MOI pushes legal changes to better protect children
2010/05/17 20:48:01
Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Revisions to the Children and Youth Welfare Act are needed in order to better protect the well-being of minors, Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah said Monday.

Since the welfare law was promulgated in 2003, both the general social situation and family structure in Taiwan have changed significantly, necessitating changes to the statute, Jiang said at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan's Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee.

"Amendments have therefore been drafted to provide more concrete and comprehensive protection of the rights of children and adolescents," Jiang told lawmakers.

The amendments drafted by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) focus on two major areas -- more strictly regulating media operators and Internet service providers and establishing better adoption and foster care mechanisms to prevent illegal human trafficking, Jiang said.

Noting that the news media and the Internet have emerged as major information sources, Jiang said they should be subject to tougher rules to protect local youngsters from exposure to pornography or other inappropriate materials.

With handsets, palm games and video games becoming ever more popular among teenagers, Jiang said, it is necessary to revise the welfare law to authorize stricter management of video game software, including subjecting it to a rating system.

A self-discipline mechanism should also be developed to better insulate minors from exposure to unsuitable Internet content, Jiang said.

Once the draft amendments clear the Legislature, Jiang said, the central and local governments should cooperate closely to craft a more comprehensive protective system for minors.

On the improvement of the adoption system, the MOI-drafted amendments stipulate that only legally established foundations as well as public- or private-run child shelter organizations are eligible to serve as intermediaries in adoption cases.

The draft amendments also provide that in the event of adoption, local adoptive hopefuls should be given priority over foreign candidates.

The legislative committee completed the first review of draft amendments regarding child adoption Monday, but had yet to screen the new restrictions on media and Internet content providers. (By Ho Meng-kuei and Sofia Wu) enditem/ls

http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201005170033

 

Taiwan

Case against Pune-based NGO official for child trafficking

Case against Pune-based NGO official for child trafficking

Press Trust Of India

New Delhi, May 17, 2010

First Published: 20:11 IST(17/5/2010)

Last Updated: 20:14 IST(17/5/2010)

Preet Mandir

Adoption racket? Karnataka hospitals 'selling' babies

Adoption racket? Karnataka hospitals 'selling' babies

Seethalakshmi S, TNN, May 17, 2010, 02.38am IST

 

BANGALORE: Couples waiting for adoption have now found an easier route to get their bundle of joy. They book their request with a hospital which, in turn, happily sells an abandoned child for a price.

The Karnataka Child Protection Commission has been receiving some complaints about hospitals illegally selling children for adoption, while the Adoption Coordination Agency (ACA) has stopped getting children from hospitals.

The agency, which is the official body for finally placing children for adoption, has asked the government to book hospitals for trafficking if children are given away without following procedures and legalities as per the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956.

"Not just that, families/parents who take children directly from hospitals can be booked for kidnapping. Even if it is family adoption, it must be cleared by the Child Welfare Committees. Every rule must be followed," says ACA chairperson Aloma Lobo.

KCPC chairperson Nina Nayak has written to the health and women and child welfare departments to ensure that hospitals compulsorily surrender abandoned children to adoption agencies. "We have been receiving complaints about nursing homes and hospitals involved in illegally handing over new-born babies of unwed mothers to couples wanting to adopt children."

A nursing home in Hanumanthnagar is said to have demanded Rs 20,000 from a registered agency to hand over an abandoned baby. Shockingly, when the agency visited the hospital, the child was missing and the hospital said it didn't have any child.

Again, last month, a hi-tech hospital in Udupi had kept 19 children for over a year. A week after they were questioned, all children had left the hospital. On investigation, the commission found that one of the hospital authorities had floated an NGO to place the children up for adoption. "During inquiry, they confessed that mothers who preferred not to take low-weight birth children or children born out of wedlock often sold them to the hospital for huge sums of money," says Nina Nayak.

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Nina Nayak
India

Geld darf nicht im Vordergrund stehen

Pflegeeltern - wer, wie, was

Geld darf nicht im Vordergrund stehen

Wer kann ein Pflegekind bei sich aufnehmen?

Pflegeeltern müssen körperlich und seelisch belastbar sein, das Alter der Pflegeeltern und das des Kindes sollte dem natürlichen Altersabstand zwischen Eltern und Kindern entsprechen. Wer ein Pflegekind aufnimmt, muss über ausreichend Wohnraum verfügen und materiell so abgesichert sein, dass er nicht auf das Pflegegeld zur Absicherung des eigenen Lebensunterhaltes angewiesen ist. Wer sich in der Bereitschaftspflege engagieren will, braucht viel Erfahrung in Erziehungsfragen. Eine pädagogische Ausbildung kann von Vorteil sein.

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Wariness and uncertainty as Haiti adoptions resume

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Wariness and uncertainty as Haiti adoptions resume

By DAVID CRARY - AP National Writer

Officially, Haiti's international adoption process is back in business.

Yet U.S. adoption agencies remain wary and uncertain, while families may face years of limbo as they seek to adopt children orphaned by the January earthquake. Some had been to Haiti and met children before the quake, others eagerly started from scratch afterward.

Haiti
Kentucky Adoption Coalition, God's Littlest Angels

Haiti: Paris wants to accelerate the adoption of children

Translation from French:

Haiti: Paris wants to accelerate the adoption of children

Keywords: Adoption, Children, HAITI, Nadine Morano

Delphine Chayet

17/05/2010 | Updated: 20:31 Reaction (37)

France, Haiti
Bernard Kouchner

Hurenbock-Kinder

Sextourismus

Hurenbock-Kinder

Ihre Väter waren Sextouristen, ihre Mütter sind Prostituierte. In den Slums, in denen sie leben, werden sie behandelt wie Aussätzige. Eine Reportage von den Philippinen.
Von Wolfgang Bauer

"Er ist fett", sagt Noriel, 11. Der Junge hält sich das Bild ganz nah vor die Augen. Das Foto zeigt einen Fremden. "Er ist alt und hässlich." Auf seinem Kopf wachsen nur noch wenig Haare. Der Hals ist dürr und faltig. Die Brille hängt schief auf der Nase, trunken stiert der Mann zum Bildrand hinaus. Wie eine Puppe hält er eine zierliche Filipina im Arm, in Slip und knappem BH, auch sie schaut ins Leere.

"Er hat meine abstehenden Ohren", sagt Noriel, "meine große Nase." Er hat einen ähnlich hellen Hautton wie der Fremde. Die Kinder in der philippinischen Provinz rufen ihn "den Milchfisch". Er ist dem Mann auf dem Foto nie begegnet, und doch ist ihm der Mann vertraut. Noch einen Moment hält der Junge das Bild in den Händen, den Kopf schief gelegt, nachdenklich, bevor es seine Mutter wieder wegsperrt, in einen Koffer mit Vorhängeschloss.

South Korea, Philippines
Martin Caminada
University Amsterdam
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