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Change to adoption law and increased funding of ASF welcomed by Adoption UK

Published: 14.01.16

Adoption UK welcomes today’s announcement that the Government will change legislation so courts and local authorities always pursue adoption when it is in a child’s interest. Change to adoption law and increased funding of ASF welcomed by Adoption UK

A fundamental change to the law will make prioritising lifetime stability for vulnerable children with a loving family a legal requirement. The number of decisions for adoption have almost halved over the last two years.

Adoptie uit het buitenland afschaffen, is vluchten voor onze verantwoordelijkheid

Lorin Parys is Vlaams Parlementslid voor de N-VA.

05 januari 2016

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December 31, 2015

Alert: Recent Developments Related to Intercountry Adoption from Uganda

The Department has received information from prospective adoptive families currently in Uganda regarding reports that Ugandan government officials have visited prospective adoptive families and asked to review their dossiers. The Department is gathering more information about these reports and will post an update on our website as more information becomes available.

Any U.S. Citizen in Uganda who is concerned for his/her personal safety, should contact the Embassy’s 24/7 Duty Officer at +256 414 259 791 or, if calling from a local number, 0414 259 791. Additionally, in an emergency, U.S. citizens overseas may contact the Department of State’s Duty Officer at: 1-888-407-4747 (toll free) or if calling from outside of the United States: (202) 501-4444. Please note that these numbers are for emergency situations. If U.S. citizen prospective adoptive families in Uganda are contacted by Ugandan authorities, they may contact the U.S. Embassy at KampalaAdoptions@state.gov during regular business hours, or the Embassy Duty officer after hours.

Zeventien adoptiekinderen in juridisch vacuüm

Adopties uit Oeganda: ‘Alsof we ons schuldig maken aan kinderhandel’

02 januari 2016 | Veerle Beel

Waar is het misgelopen met de Vlaamse adopties in Oeganda? In een verhoorkamertje van het Belgische consulaat botsten de eerste Vlaamse adoptieouders al op een weerbarstige Belgische diplomate. ‘De Oegandese rechter steunde onze adoptie voluit, maar de Belgische diplomate beschuldigde ons van kinderhandel.’

Het is begin 2014 als Jan en Maaike naar Oeganda mogen vertrekken om hun twee adoptiekinderen op te halen. De ouders willen niet met hun echte naam in de krant om de privacy van hun kinderen te beschermen. Ze behoren tot de eerste drie Vlaamse gezinnen die in Oeganda adopteren, drie ‘proefdossiers’. In Oeganda geeft een rechter hen het wettelijk voogdijschap over de kinderen met het oog op een latere adoptie in België.

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image of Uganda's flagUganda

December 31, 2015

Alert: Recent Developments Related to Intercountry Adoption from Uganda

The Department has received information from prospective adoptive families currently in Uganda regarding reports that Ugandan government officials have visited prospective adoptive families and asked to review their dossiers. The Department is gathering more information about these reports and will post an update on our website as more information becomes available.

Gov’t secures $5m to restructure Social Welfare Dept

Posted Jan 03, 2016 at 3:52am

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Ghana’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has commenced processes to restructure and reform the operations of the Department of Social Development, formerly known as Social Welfare Department.

LETTER FROM MONTANA — From the October 2013 issue

Cold War Kids

The international dispute over Russia’s orphans

By Irina Aleksander

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Date: 06/08/13

Romania: finally reopen international adoptions. Ai.Bi. accredited: Who can adopt a child Romanian?

romania openness toAfter eight years of waiting and silence, finally gets good news from Romania.

The Central Authority of Romania (ORA) has decided to reopen international adoptions closed from January 1, 2005 (when it entered into force the Law 273/2004 on the legal regime of adoptions), and examine new dossier from September 2013 .

This great opportunity will cover, however, exclusively couples Romanian or Italian-Romanian residents in Italy (or other foreign country), which can then be taken in their country of origin. The new law on international adoptions, which came into force in April 2012, it reopens the possibility of adopting in Romania to those couples in which at least one of the spouses is of Romanian nationality.

VS bieden Belgische homo's adoptiekans

Bijna overeenkomst met een Amerikaanse staat over samenwerking

08-12-15, 06.00u - (JBR)

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1 Lieven Vandendriessche (r.) is met zijn Amerikaanse man Jeff Tallyen sinds de zomer van 2009 de trotse vader van Maya en Ella, twee meisjes uit Amerika. ©© Delia Vermant

Binnenlandse adoptie is weer mogelijk

18-12-15, 06.44u - Sara Vandekerckhove

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Mannen of vrouwen met een onvervulde kinderwens zullen zich binnenkort opnieuw kandidaat kunnen stellen voor binnenlandse adoptie. De algemene stop die van kracht was, wordt opgeheven door een nieuw decreet.