Ugandan woman's agony as granddaughter 'sold' to Americans

Reuters By Katy Migiro and Tom Esslemont

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A three-year-old girl who was offered for international adoption without her family's knowledge walks at her grandmother's home in rural Uganda .

Time to prey

Escaped traffickers are back in business luring quake survivors with promises of a better life for their children

Bhrikuti Rai in sindhupalchok

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'The child had been trafficked and should never have been placed for adoption:' US couple's dream of adopting child from Africa becomes nightmare

Emily and Matt Knudsen began the lengthy process to adopt a child from Africa only to find the boy may have been wrongfully taken from his family

The couple learned that the boy's mother 'actually, desperately, wanted to keep her son'

The couple has four children, two of whom are adopted from Guatemala

By REUTERS

Fraud and deceit at the heart of Uganda adoptions to United States

By REUTERS

PUBLISHED: 19:19 GMT, 28 May 2015 | UPDATED: 19:19 GMT, 28 May 2015

By Tom Esslemont and Katy Migiro

LONDON/KAMPALA, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U gandan families have been bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their children to U.S. citizens and other foreigners for adoption, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.

Government bans child adoption

- Pratichya Dulal

KATHMANDU, MAY 27 - In order to curb child trafficking in the aftermath of the April 25 earthquake, the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) has banned child adoption. The ban implies to both international and local child adoption.

“Children are at high risk of becoming trafficking victims during disaster as they can be lured by traffickers with the prospect of comfortable life and better education. So we have banned child adoption for now,” said Radhika Aryal, joint secretary at the ministry.

According to Aryal, 59 children were rescued from traffickers in the last 30 days. Out of them, 19 children are from Dolakha, 45 from Dhading and 22 from Rukum. “These children are now in child welfare shelters and cases have been filed against the perpetrators,” said Aryal.

In Morocco, strict adoption rules leave many orphans without hope

May 27, 2015 at 6:15 PM EDT

TRANSCRIPT

GWEN IFILL: We turn now to Morocco and a story about a government ruling that has left many children without families.

Special correspondent Kira Kay reports. Her story is produced in partnership with the Bureau for International Reporting.

25 May 2015, 2.28am BST

Your child is missing. Would you want their adoption to be easier?

AUTHOR

Patricia Fronek

Senior Lecturer, School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University

Portuguese gov't approves draft bill on child adoption

LISBON, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The Portuguese government on Thursday approved a draft bill on the adoption of children, setting a 12-month deadline to expedite the procedure.

Minister of Solidarity, Employment and Social Security Pedro Mota Soares said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting that the deadline will have to be 12 months at most to guarantee that the adjustment can be made more quickly to ensure that a family can really adopt a child.

Mota Soares said that the center of this bill is for the protection of children as well as shortening waiting time, reducing bureaucracy, supporting and simplifying the lives of families.

He said that the bill also aims at speeding up the process of securing consent from the biological family. The consent has to be made before a judge to ensure it is done correctly and in only one single step.

Letter/Report come from physical file - difficult to find! Or they did not want to find it.

While of course must be registered in electronic register - easy to find

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Here including reply

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=WQ&reference=E-2010-010915&language=EN

Parliamentary questions

6 January 2011

E-010915/2010