American arrested on illegal adoption, human trafficking charges in Guatemala

Published December 18, 2014Fox News Latino

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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Stop adoption of children from abroad

The Netherlands must stop the adoption of children from abroad. The right of children to grow up in a family in the country of origin should be unconditionally paramount. This advises the Board of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (RSJ) Wednesday to the Cabinet.

"A child is always better off in a family than in a home and it is very important that a child has continuity of upbringing," said juvenile court Jolande Calkoen, who is a member of the RSJ Wednesday in Trouw. "So that it remains in an environment where it knows the culture, the social environment and the language."

The Council examined the request of the government on how prospective adoptive children can best be protected. The RSJ finds that adoption offers many benefits to the individual child, but feels that too much insoluble risk are sticking in its entirety to the system. The RSJ does emphasize in the report that adoptive parents and agencies did nothing wrong.

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’Stop adoptie kinderen uit buitenland’

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Nederland moet stoppen met de adoptie van kinderen uit het buitenland. Het recht van kinderen om in het land van herkomst in gezinsverband op te groeien, hoort onvoorwaardelijk voorop te staan. Dat adviseert de Raad voor Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming (RSJ) woensdag aan het kabinet.

„Een kind is altijd beter af in een gezinssituatie dan in een tehuis en het is heel erg belangrijk dat een kind continuïteit van opvoeding heeft”, stelt kinderrechter Jolande Calkoen, die lid is van de RSJ woensdag in Trouw. „Dus dat het in een omgeving blijft waar het de cultuur, de sociale omgeving en de taal kent.”

A Beautiful Dream for India

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Robin Munro Comment

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Meet Jim De, Holt’s new India country director! From caring for foster children in his childhood home, to finding families for children orphaned by the 2004 tsunami, to greeting Holt adoptive families at the Delhi airport, he has always followed his life’s passion — advocating for his country’s orphaned and abandoned children.

It was 2:00 a.m. and 7-year-old Jim De sat awake in his home with his mother. She changed a baby’s diaper while he held another one in his arms, feeding her a bottle of formula. Tonight was their turn for “night duty,” a task in which they stayed up all night to care for the 30-40 children living in the care center that the De family ran out of their home. Jim and his mother were on night duty about once a week — and he loved it!

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COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT MONTENEGRO 2012 PROGRESS REPORT accompanying the document COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL 2.2. Human rights and protection of minorities (See also Chapter 23 – Judiciary and fundamental rights) Observance of international human rights law As regards international human rights instruments, Montenegro signed the third optional protocol to the convention on the rights of the child in February and ratified the Hague Convention on protection of children and cooperation in respect of inter-country adoption in March, to prevent children being sold for adoption. Nevertheless, the Constitution (Article 20) is not yet in line with Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), in relation to safeguarding the right of an effective remedy before the national authorities for violations of rights under the convention. Montenegro has not yet started the ratification process for the Convention on Reduction of Statelessness. Its implementation of international human rights standards needs to be stepped up and the national legislation brought into line. {COM(2012) 600 final}

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‘I felt abandoned’: children stolen by France try to find their past, 50 years on

For decades, children from Réunion island in the Indian Ocean were removed to repopulate rural areas of France

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Jessie Moenner, pictured in the Réunion capital, was one of many hundreds of children taken from their families to live in France. Photograph: Vidhi Doshi

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UNICEF Condemns Liberia Failure To Address Inter-Country Adoption

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Opschorting interlandelijke adopties vanuit de DR Congo

Gisteren maakte de Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie, de heer K. Dijkhoff, bekend dat er besloten is de adopties vanuit Congo op te schorten.

Ongetwijfeld zal dit bij veel adoptiefouders en vooral bij de nog wachtende aspirant adoptiefouders emoties veroorzaken.

Parliamentary questions

21 June 2007

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WRITTEN QUESTION by Ashley Mote (ITS) to the Commission

Subject: Safeguards against external psychiatrists

European Commission appoints senior managers in its Legal Service, Secretariat-General and Health department

The European Commission today appointed Ms Laura Pignataro Nolin to the position of Principal Legal Adviser “Team - European Civil Service Law” in the Legal Service of the Commission, as of 16 June 2016; Mr Giovanni Fracchia as the Commission's Mediator in the Secretariat-General, starting date to be determined later; and Ms Paola Colombo to the position of Director for Health and Food Audits and Analysis in the Health and Food Safety department (DG SANTE), as of 1 August 2016. Ms Pignataro Nolin, Italian, joined the Commission from academia in 1992. She has worked in the Commission's Legal Service since 1995, representing the Commission in hundreds of court cases and working on countless pieces of EU legislation. She is currently Legal Adviser dealing with internal market and environmental issues. Mr Fracchia, Italian, joined the Commission 1990. Medical doctor by education, he worked on a variety of topics in the area of medical research and health policies. Mr Fracchia has extensive management experience: he first became Head of Unit in 2003 and was briefly an Acting Director in 2008. He is currently the head of the European Commission's medical service. Ms Colombo, Italian and a trained veterinarian, joined in the Commission in 1995. Until 2002, she worked on policies tackling different animal diseases and drafting relevant legislation. In the mid-2000s, she gained political experience as a member of former Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding's private office. Since 2007, she headed the Management and Resource Unit of the European Political Strategy Centre of the European Commission, the successor of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. (For more information: Alexander Winterstein - Tel.: +32 229 93265; Andreana Stankova – Tel.: +32 229 57857)

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