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Organizations: Nordic Adoption Council, European Commission

Etiopien Nyhedsarkiv

18-08-2009

Besøg af Dinkinesh Hadgu

I forbindelse med eskorteringen af et barn, har vi den fornøjelse at få besøg af vores kontaktperson Dinkinesh Hadgu (Dinkai) fra d. 7. til den 10. september. Vi glæder os til at se hende igen og tale om samarbejdet med de forskellige børnehjem i Etiopien.

Dinkai kommer kun på kort visit, da hun skal nå hjem og fejre det etiopiske nytår den 11. september.

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Organizations: Danadopt (Danish Society for International child care)

Persons: Dinkinesh Hadgu

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Name: Sadeem

Country: Pakistan

City: islamabad

Age: 29

Email: sadeemshargeel@yahoo.com

Persons: Sadeem Shargeel

Joint Council on Intl Children's Services speaks out on CDC's TB policy for adopted children

August 13, 6:31 PMInternational Adoption ExaminerCathy Doheny

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Countries: United States of America

Organizations: Joint Council on International Children's Services

Huge global demand for kids’ adoption but…

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Countries: Philippines

Adoptions moving along at Imagine

570 News 2009-08-12 05:06

A lawyer involved in the Imagine Adoption bankruptcy says the adoptions are moving along, and the children are being taken care of.

Ted Giesbrecht volunteered his services to help stabilize the transition home in Ethiopia, and help families get their children home to Canada. He says if the home was not stabilized, the agency would have lost its licence here and in Ethiopia, which means the adoptions would not have happened.

Giesbrecht says the adoption of 17 children to 13 families has been completed and all but one of the families are already back in Canada. He says there are 19 families who's cases are being processed and 14 more files being reviewed by the High Commission in Ethiopia.

Organizations: Imagine Adoption

Countries: Canada

Ghana official takes tour of local adoptive homes

Submitted by the Tribune on August 12, 2009 - 7:33am. News

Mark Reimers

Tribune reporter

Cody, adopted by Sam and Maria Hansen-Quine of Lynden, meets Ebenezer

Countries: Ghana, United States of America

Adoption irregularities: Preet Mandir denies charges; hearing on Sept 24

Expressindia » Story Adoption irregularities: Preet Mandir denies charges; hearing on Sept 24 Font Size -A +A Nisha Nambiar Posted: Sep 12, 2009 at 0134 hrs IST Print Email To Editor Post Comments Most Read Articles Related Articles Jet strike off, sacked pilots back on boardI am with Percept, IOS can do what it wants:...China objects to Dalai visit to Arunachal Pr...India run out of steam, lost top spotMamata flags off 2 new trains, takes a dig a...Get news on the go with Valley’s SMS network Pune The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) wants to re-investigate the case against Pune-based adoption agency Preet Mandir. Two years ago it gave a clean chit to the agency. Till now it has cleared the agency of irregularities in foreign adoptions twice. Preet Mandir authorities, however, maintain that the allegations are baseless and have said it will respond after the CBI files an affidavit for re-investigation. “We have been given the clean chit twice. We will wait for the affidavit to be filed by the CBI and we we will reply once we get a copy of the affidavit,” said spokesperson of Preet Mandir Y V Krishnamurthy. On Thursday, the CBI told the Bombay High Court that they would submit a fresh report after another probe as they felt that their earlier inquiries on the adoption agency were ‘incomplete.’ The next hearing is on September 24. The CBI gave a clean chit in October 2007 and in July last year the High Court gave a nod to foreign adoptions. Additional solicitor general Darius Khambatta said there was a need for further investigation. The division bench of Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice A R Joshi asked the CBI to file an affidavit stating that they require further investigation. The CBI admitted there were “defeats and lapses” in the earlier investigation reports. Anjali Pawar Kate, director of Sakhi, a Pune-based child rights organisation, and Advait Foundation, another NGO, had filed the writ petition against the adoption agency in 2007. In 2007, the court had issued a stay on foreign adoption activities and had demanded a CBI inquiry. The stay was lifted after the CBI gave a clean chit in October 2007. Kate said she was happy that the case has been taken up again. At present, the agency is engaged in both domestic and foreign adoptions as they have been issued fresh licences. The domestic licence was renewed in July 2007 and is valid till September 2010 while the licence for foreign adoptions was renewed last year and is valid till 2011.

Countries: India

Organizations: Preet Mandir, ACT CASE Preet Mandir

Mendoza podría volverse punto de venta de bebés

08:30 | MENDOZA | La cercanía de nuestra provincia con Chile sería propicia para el tráfico ilegal, informó el titular de la Fundación Adoptar. Escuchá el audio.

Detuvieron a un supuesto "doctor" y a un policía por la venta de bebés

12 DE AGOSTO DE 2009

Ruiz explica la situación de Mendoza

Countries: Argentina, Chile

ACT mail - Better Care Network (Bep van Sloten) about Draft Guidelines

From: Roelie Post <roelie.post@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:10:38 +0200
Subject: Re: FW: Guidelines and ICA
To: Bep van Sloten <bepvansloten@ziggo.nl>
Cc: hilbrand westra <uai.hwestra@gmail.com>, Arun Dohle <arun.dohle@gmx.de>

Bep,

I'll write in English so that I can copy in Arun.

These guidelines are changing the intention of the UNCRC. I refer to the
Unicef Implementation Handbook that describes that there was NO agreement on
the US/French proposals to include adoption as a necessary care option,
because it was considered that there are also other ways to find permanency
for a child (I am quoting by head, as I am on holiday and do not have the
Handbook here - which unfortunately is not available online!).

For example, article 160 places adoption as a preferred option, or Kafala,
and makes all other options secundary.
By not especially referring to article 21b (adoption MAY be considered as
LAST option), the guidelines do not contribute to clarity on the ica issue
and leaves all possible options open.

*160. Should family reintegration prove impossible within an appropriate
period or be deemed
contrary to the child’s best interests, stable and definitive solutions,
such as kafala of Islamic law
or adoption, should be envisaged; failing this, other long-term options
should be considered,
such as foster care or appropriate residential care, including group homes
and other supervised
living arrangements.*

In fact, by making adoption the first option after family re-integration,
the Hague Convention then makes ica the second step - and thus bypasses
fostercare or other suitable manners of care. Hereby we are allowing a
demand driven children market, where private agencies mediate children for a
lot of money and we make local child protection dependent on money of
foreign adoption agencies.

The Guidelines fit perfectly in the worldwide pressure to allow intercountry
adoptions from any country, the US recently setting the example. As we know
this has nothing to do with the rights OF children but with the right to
have children...

For more on this you may read my recent article published by the Dutch
Ministry of Justice
http://www.icasn.org/resources/research/The%20Perverse%20Effects%20of%20the%20Hague%20Adoption%20Convention%20by%20RPOST.pdf

Best regards,
Roelie

2009/8/12 Bep van Sloten <bepvansloten@ziggo.nl>

> Roelie en Hilbrand,
>
> Onderstaande reactie kreeg ik van Nigel dus zoals je ziet worden we steeds
> meer benieuwd wat jullie exacte bezwaren zijn.
>
> Die zou ik dan met referentie naar de relevante artikelen moeten krijgen
> zodat we hier goed op kunnen anticiperen ook in de lobby voor de adoptie van
> de Guidelines in the UNGA.
>
>
>
> Groeten,
>
> Bep
>
>
>
> Hi, Bep.
>
>
>
> Just to note that the only reaction to the Guidelines I have had from
> pro-ICA quarters was in fact resolutely negative - principally because the
> "extremely problematic" Gs make no explicit mention of the intercountry form
> of adoption and "refer to foster care as 'family-based' and smaller group
> homes as 'family-like'... While the guidelines do take into account the
> recent consensus in favor of permanency, they indicate that intracountry
> foster care is the preferred solution (as compared to intercountry
> adoption)" and "fail to discuss the best option for permanency when there is
> little prospect of family reunification or domestic adoption: this is
> extremely worrying."
>
>
>
> That is in an article ("The Missing Link", 2008, footnote 37) by Sara
> Dillon who works a lot with the infamous Elizabeth Bartholet at Harvard. She
> later wrote to me that I could "not persuade me to like the draft
> guidelines, I'm afraid."
>
>
>
> So indeed it would be most interesting to know the precise reasons for
> which ACT fears the Gs might be exploited by pro-ICA advocates.
>
>
>
> All good wishes as ever.
>
> Nigel
>
> --
> *****************************************************
> Nigel Cantwell

Persons: Bep van Sloten, Nigel Cantwell

Organizations: (UN) Guidelines on Children without Parental Care, Better Care Netwerk (BCN) - NL, Subsidiarity