Rwanda

July 2, 2012

Notice: The Hague Adoption Convention Enters into Force for Rwanda

On July 1, 2012 the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Convention) entered into force for Rwanda. However, the Government of Rwanda has notified the U.S. Embassy in Kigali that the current suspension on intercountry adoptions will remain in effect until the country has a fully functional Convention process in place. The Government of Rwanda believes implementation will take several months.

We caution adoption service providers and prospective adoptive parents that important steps to ensure intercountry adoptions from Rwanda comply with the Convention must take place before intercountry adoptions between the United States and Rwanda resume. Adoption service providers should neither initiate nor claim to initiate adoption programs in Rwanda until the Department of State notifies them that the Government of Rwanda has lifted its suspension on intercountry adoptions and that Rwanda’s procedures meet the requirements of the Convention.

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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.

'Huge rise' in newborn babies subject to care proceedings

By Sanchia Berg

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There has been a "huge" rise in the number of newborns who are subject to care proceedings in England, according to figures compiled for the first time.

Adopties uit Ethiopië stilgelegd

Vandaag om 09:22 door Veerle Beel

Na problemen in Oeganda en Marokko, worden nu ook adopties uit Ethiopië stilgelegd. Daardoor staan 18 gezinnen in de kou.

De beslissing is vermoedelijk vanwege één dossier genomen, een dossier van een kind dat in augustus naar ons land kwam. Alleen de moeder had het kind afgestaan. Ze zei dat ze weduwe was, maar er zijn nu vermoedens dat de vader nog zou leven.

Kind en Gezin, de Vlaamse centrale autoriteit inzake adoptie, heeft daarop besloten een extern onderzoeker ter plaatse aan het werk te zetten. Die moet nagaan of er iets is misgegaan en moet ook alle lopende dossiers aan een extra controle onderwerpen. Tot dat gebeurd is, zal de federale autoriteit inzake adoptie, die onder Justitie valt, geen enkele adoptie uit Ethiopië goedkeuren. Het onderzoek zal weken zo niet maanden in beslag nemen.

Green street to international adoptions - 2009-03-13 15:23 On 19 March the Ministry of Justice and organizations-facilitators will hold a joint conference at Sheraton Hotel

Eliana Mitova

It is expected that the conference to be held on 19 March at Royal III Hall, Sheraton Hotel, by the Ministry of Justice and the Association of Licensed Organizations will grant a green street to international adoptions. Ilonka Raychinova, Chairperson of the International Adoptions Council and Deputy-minister of Justice will personally familiarize the audience with the main aspects of this issue. Her report has been expected with great interest by all involved parties, because for four years now international adoptions have been almost a topic under taboo in the Bulgarian society. Directors of homes for bringing up abandoned children will discuss the disastrous effect of the institution on the development of growing-up children. Specialists in the field of law will present the new Family Code (not discussed yet on second reading), which is the basic document in relation to international adoptions implementation. Judge Mariya Georgieva, of Sofia City Court, whose experience in related procedures is extremely valuable and useful, will also render her standpoint from this conference rostrum. The painful topic of placing children with special needs (i.e., children with severe health problems) will also be brought to light. Representatives of foreign central authorities, involved in adoption abroad, will share the difficulties they encounter in the dialogue with their Bulgarian partners. In order to take part in the conference, some adoptive families from abroad will arrive together with their children. The open discussion will enable the presentation of opinions, which may be extremely useful for the future of international adoptions.

Defrosting after ice age

The conference to be held on 19 March is a sign that the ice age in international adoptions (known also among informed people as the Ganev-Kalauzka age) has come to an end forever. For some four years, Margarit Ganev, former Deputy-minister of Justice, has in practice blocked international adoptions, reducing them to some 100 adoptions annually. He explained his actions as depending on some European requirement, which, you see, has imposed that Bulgaria should perform no more than 100 procedures per year. The “requirement” turned out to be just mere talk, however it virtually deprived hundreds of abandoned Bulgarian children of the chance to have families. As a result of this misanthropic policy, adoptive parents from abroad, broken-hearted and disappointed with so much waiting for, withdrew their dossiers and went to other countries. The international adoptions system practically collapsed. The present team of the Ministry of Justice is still fighting the terrifying consequences of such collapse.

Bogdan Ivanescu este noul presedinte al Asociatiei Romane a Bancilor Acreditate de Celule Stem 23 octombrie 2013, ora 15:27, autor(i): Andreea Radu Aboneaza-te la: RSS Newsletter Trimite prin: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Bogdan Ivanescu-ARBACS.jpg Asociatia Romana a Bancilor Acreditate de Celule Stem (ARBACS) are un nou presedinte - Bogdan Ivanescu (foto), care conduce compania Stem Sure, una dintre cele trei banci membre fondatoare ARBACS.

Acesta il inlocuieste la conducerea Asociatiei pe Tudor Panu, director general Cord Blood Center Medical, care a condus ARBACS in perioada aprilie - septembrie 2013.

Cei trei membri preiau conducerea Asociatiei prin rotatie, la fiecare 6 luni. Mandatul doctorului Bogdan Ivanescu a inceput in octombrie, urmand ca, din aprilie 2014, stafeta sa fie preluata de catre doctorul Dorin Pirciog, director general al Biogenis.

Noul presedinte ARBACS isi propune continuarea politicilor din timpul mandatului doctorului Tudor Panu, precum si consolidarea parteneriatelor incheiate cu autoritatile competente ale statului.

"Ca presedinte al Asociatiei, voi viza in continuare informarea corecta si completa a viitorilor parinti, prin actiunile specifice ARBACS, in baza codului de etica pe care l-am lansat oficial in iunie, anul acesta?, a declarat doctorul Bogdan Ivanescu, presedinte ARBACS.

Police ignore judge’s order, to help Latvian family escape British social workers

Foreign authorities have little regard for our increasingly notorious 'child protection' system

Lord Justice Munby, the head of the family courts Photo: BRIAN SMITH

Christopher Booker By Christopher Booker 28 Nov

Over the past three years, mounting alarm has been expressed by the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and various eastern European governments at the readiness of Britain’s social workers to seize an ever-growing number of children from foreign parents working in the UK for what they consider to be wholly misguided reasons. Foreign government figures show, for instance, that these include 1,000 Polish children; and the number of Latvian families reporting the removal of their children has risen from seven in 2012 to 40 in 2013 and 89 in 2014.

Senegal

March 5, 2012

Alert: Suspension of New Applications to Adopt

The Government of Senegal has announced that it is temporarily suspending all new intercountry adoptions while it focuses on implementing the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (the Convention). The Convention entered into force for Senegal on December 1, 2011.

U.S. Embassy Dakar officials met with Senegalese adoption officials on February 9, 2012, to clarify which cases would be included in pipeline processing. The Government of Senegal has stated that transition cases where an adoption dossier was filed with Senegal prior to December 1, 2011, will be allowed to finish under the previous “orphan” process. However, the Government of Senegal will not accept dossiers for new adoption cases until Senegal finishes implementing the Convention.

Wereldkinderen legt de experimentele adoptieprocedure in Senegal stil. Geheel buiten de procedure van onze organisatie om heeft een aanvrager een kind uit Senegal meegenomen. Omdat het onduidelijk is hoe de aanvrager het kind Nederland binnen heeft gekregen, doet het ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie momenteel onderzoek.

Wereldkinderen zet daarom per direct alle lopende aanvragen on hold en heeft de direct betrokkenen daarover geïnformeerd. Adoptie is een goede manier om een kind te helpen, maar uitsluitend als dat in het belang van het kind is en volgens een betrouwbare en transparante procedure verloopt. Juist over de legitimiteit van de adoptie mag geen twijfel bestaan.

Wereldkinderen beschouwt deze illegale overkomst dan ook niet als adoptie en distantieert zich nadrukkelijk van deze zaak. Totdat volstrekt helder is hoe dit buiten Wereldkinderen om heeft kunnen gebeuren, leggen wij alle procedures in Senegal stil.

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