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" Bulgaria has shown that it is possible to fight the market for children without close international adoptions , "said Krassimira Natan, Lawyer and representative staff Ai.Bi. in Bulgaria, speaking at the Conference "Challenges in adoption procedures in Europe" held Tuesday, December 1 at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg.

The Bulgaria is a country that, unlike Romania, has chosen to promote adoption of a policy geared to transparency and rigor, thus avoiding the extreme decision to block international adoptions. After a period of gradual slowdown, the government in Sofia has decided, at the end of 2007, to give a new impetus to international adoptions. He did so from a change of the members of the Central for adoptions and intensifying the number of sessions of the body, introducing new criteria for the combination of adoptable children with prospective adoptive families, creating an ad hoc regulation for children with "special needs" (ie, belonging to ethnic minority health problems or over the age of seven years).

Organizations: 2009 Conference: CHALLENGES IN ADOPTION PROCEDURES IN EUROPE - Strasbourg, Amici dei Bambini

Countries: Romania, Bulgaria

Persons: Krassimira Natan

Ukrainian kids, new victims of Israeli 'organ theft'

Thu Dec 3, 2009 2:35PM

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An international Israeli conspiracy to kidnap children and harvest their organs is gathering momentum as another shocking story divulges Tel Aviv's plot to import Ukrainian children and harvest their organs.

The story brings to light the fact that Israel has brought some 25,000 Ukrainian children into the occupied entity over the past two years in order to harvest their organs. It cites a Ukrainian man's fruitless search for 15 children who had been adopted in Israel. The children had clearly been taken by Israeli medical centers, where they were used for 'spare parts'.

Countries: Ukraine, Israel

JCICS Stake Holders Initiative

Joint Council on International Childrens Services - Stakeholder initiative

Submitted by Kerry and Niels on Fri, 2009-12-11 14:29.

On December 3, 2009, the Joint Council on International Children's Services (JCICS) presented to its members a proposal to change the organization. It seems, if nothing changes, JCICS will have to close is doors somewhere in the year 2010.

The proposed plan is confidential and intended for JCICS members only, but was leaked to the internet earlier today. Since it contains interesting information about the workings of JCICS, we decided to republish it on PPL's website.

The document establishes two distinct problems JCICS is facing. First of all the trade association of adoption service providers is in dire straights and needs to seriously cut back its activities to remain financially sustainable. The document is not all that specific how financial sustainability can be achieved without eliminating their core activity "advocacy, awareness and public policy initiatives".

Organizations: Edelman PR, Joint Council on International Children's Services

Introduction of a draft resolution entitled “Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children” (A/C.3/64/L.50).

II. Consideration of proposals

A. Draft resolution A/C.3/64/L.50

6. At the 40th meeting, on 10 November, the representative of Brazil, on behalf

of Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala,

Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Portugal, the Republic of Moldova,

Organizations: (UN) Guidelines on Children without Parental Care

Woman hopeful as adoption agency revived

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 12:58 PM AT Comments4Recommend6

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A New Brunswick woman says her dream of adopting two children from Ethiopia has been revived along with the international adoption agency she had been dealing with.

Debbie Thomas, of New Maryland, was one of hundreds of people who had filed mountains of paperwork and paid thousands of dollars to Ontario-based Imagine Adoption when the company suddenly shut down last summer, leaving them in the lurch.

Countries: Canada

Organizations: Imagine Adoption

Adoption row: No progress report on Jennifer Haynes

2009-12-01

By: Mayura Janwalkar

Mumbai: After spending more than a year without an identity in India, the case of Jennifer Haynes, 28, who was deported to India 20 years after her foreign adoption, may be set in motion.

The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the inspection of the progress report filed with the court after Haynes's foreign adoption was allowed in 1989.

As a procedure, the foreign adoption agency that processes the adoption of a child is supposed to file a progress report of the child with the court from time to time until the child attains adulthood.

But Haynes's advocate Pradeep Havnur said, "We have examined the records pertaining to Haynes's adoption. Neither the Indian adoption agency nor its American counterpart has filed any progress reports in all these years since her adoption."

Additional solicitor general DK Khambata told the court that the Central Adoption Regulation authority too has called upon the Americans for International Aid and Adoption, the agency that processed Haynes's adoption in 1989 for the progress reports filed by it.

Haynes was deported to Mumbai in July 2008 owing to incomplete formalities at the time of adoption as a result of which she did not gain American citizenship in spite of having been adopted by an American family and lived there for the past 20 years.

Justice Ranjana Desai and justice Mridula Bhatkar will hear the case on December 10.

Organizations: ACT CASE Jennifer Haynes

Adoptive Parents Worry Their Babies Were Sold

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009

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Over the last several years, numerous reports have revealed that kidnapping, coercion, fraud, and money have also played a role in how some of these children ended up in orphanages.

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Countries: China

When adoption failed, woman set up orphanage

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Persons: Ana Morales

Countries: Guatemala