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Romanian President: Country’s Adoption Law Will Not Change During My Term Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday in Brussels that the country’s law on adoptions will not change, “at least” not during his term, regardless of the lobby in favor of change made “in Brussels and elsewhere.” A petition for the reopening of international adoptions in Romania was dismissed on March 23 on the request of Romanian MEP Victor Bostinaru, unanimously backed by the European Parliament's Petition Committee. Bostinaru argued at the time that, before accession, the European Union itself requested that Romania ban international adoptions and the move was welcomed by the European Parliament and European Commission. He added that any attempt to put this topic back on the agenda of EU institutions, or to pressure Romania must be speedily and firmly rebutted.

Minister Ojha in CIAA soup

KANTIPUR REPORT:

KATHMANDU, APR 22 - Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Sarba Dev Ojha and other officials at the ministry are under scrutiny of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on charge of misusing money collected for Child Rights Fund.

The CIAA has taken the original documents relating to the newly-established fund and blocked its bank account (001010102) at Nepal Investment Bank Limited (NIBL). The account has Rs 11,343,960.

"Procedures followed while establishing the Child Rights Fund and opening the bank account were illegal," said a CIAA source.

Woman linked with illegal adoptions is deported from the U.S.

POR CORALIA ORANTES Guatemala

Lawyer Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía arrived in Guatemala Thursday after being deported from the U.S. Valle is linked with various illegal adoption cases through her involvement with the Asociación Primavera.

Valle Flores arrived around 1 pm and police transferred her to the fourth criminal court of first instance where she gave her declaration.

The lawyer was captured in Houston, USA, and a warrant had been ordered for her address by the sixth criminal court of first instance on October 2nd, 2009.

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CIAA freezes Minister Ojha's relief fund, bank account

Kathmandu,

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) today directed Nepal Investment Bank to freeze the account of the financial relief fund being operated by Minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare Sarvadev Ojha.

Suspecting misuse of the fund after initial inquiry, the anti-graft constitutional body seized the related file of the fund and froze the bank account.

A Long Way From Home

After two years, prospective parents hoping to adopt children trapped behind bureaucracy and chaos in Kyrgyzstan are running out of hope.

By Laurie Rich Salerno | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Apr 21, 2010

When the news broke about Torry Ann Hansen, the Tennessee woman who pinned a note on her adopted son and sent him alone on a plane back to Russia, Pennsylvania pediatric nurse Ann Bates composed a one-word e-mail from her Moscow hotel room. It said: "Seriously?"

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Adoption Extremes Hurt Children

My friend Meghan has been in Uganda for almost 11 weeks. Away from her 2 year old daughter and husband here in Louisiana, she is there trying to adopt 4 year old Moses. When she went to Uganda 11 weeks ago she knew she would be there at least 3 weeks, that is how long it was taking at the time to get the paper work done. She was willing to pay that price of being away from her family that long because she knew there was a little boy named Moses who had been in the orphanage for almost 4 years, and he was meant to be her son. She had met him and spent time with him on a previous trip to Uganda. She fell in-love with him and him with her.

But on week two of her stay in Uganda, something catastrophic happened on the other side of the world, the earthquake hit Haiti and hundreds of thousands of people died. The world mourned with Haiti and focused on this small island that was now so desperate for the worlds attention. A huge humanitarian effort was launched, the media covered every aspect of the tremendous loss and destruction. Thousands of orphans started being spotlighted on the news all around the world..

..and 10 American's decided to "help" 30 Haitian orphans by illegally taking them across the border from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.

Security Risk Anthony Lake to Head UNICEF | Print | E-mail

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM F. JASPER

FRIDAY, 23 APRIL 2010 14:00

Anthony Lake, the controversial adviser on foreign policy and national security for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, is scheduled to take over as executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on May 1, replacing Ann Veneman, who has held the post since 2005.

President Obama's nomination of Lake in March to head the UN agency received almost no publicity, in sharp contrast to President Clinton's stormy nomination of Lake in 1997 to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Lake was forced to withdraw from consideration for the CIA role when this magazine and other opponents of the nomination exposed his subversive record and it became clear that his Senate confirmation hearings would get very messy.

Ewa and Vincent Welland thought their prayers were answered difference. last year when, after the death of their premature newborn Care-son in 2001 and years of unsuccessful attempts at having anteed. children, their application to adopt a child was accepted by the government of Nepal.

In May, the Kamloops couple " were expecting to welcome home an orphaned Nepalese " girl they have been calling "Pumpkin."