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Adopted Alabama teen wants Bolivia to lift adoption restrictions

By Lisa Osburn • The Birmingham News • March 25, 2010

BIRMINGHAM -- In her Bible, Sophia Powers, 13, carries a picture of a baby girl.

One look at the little face, and the teenager's mind returns to the South American country of Bolivia.

Countries: Bolivia, United States of America

Seven Claim Adoption Agency Rolled Them

By MARIMER MATOS

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TAMPA (CN) - Couples trying to adopt children from Vietnam say the Little Pearls Adoptions Agency took $133,000 to "hold" children for them, then informed them it had a "license issue," and refuses to return the money. In the federal RICO complaint, the seven plaintiffs sued Debbie Fischer and Richard Feinberg, directors of Little Pearls, which formerly was known as "An Angelic Choice."

Little Pearls operates out of Tampa and South Pasadena, Fla., according to the complaint. The plaintiffs - three couples and a would-be mom - say the defendants took their money knowing that the adoptions couldn't be completed since the agency was not licensed.

Organizations: Little Pearls Adoption Agency

Persons: Richard B (Ric) Feinberg

Countries: United States of America

Founder of Ethiopian Children's Charity charged with sexual abuse of 6 Ethiopian children in U.S. court

Kennard, founder of children's charity, held without bail, ordered to hire attorney .

By Christopher Smart

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 03/24/2010

Countries: United States of America, Ethiopia

Organizations: Village of Hope - Ethiopia

Funding exclusion while promoting inclusion?

Events

Mar

2010

Funding Exclusion While Promoting Inclusion?

Organised by the European Coalition for Community Living in cooperation with the Open Society Institute-Brussels, this event will give participants the opportunity to consider the findings of research on the use of European Union Structural Funds in Romania and Hungary, and how it maintains the system of institutional care. Discussions include how Structural Funds can be better used to promote alternative services that enable disabled people to live and participate in the community as equal citizens.

The following questions will be addressed:

What are the human rights implications of using Structural Funds to maintain institutional care?
What are the main barriers to the development of community-based services?
How can Structural Funds be used to promote the development of community-based services for people with disabilities as alternatives to institutions?
What role can civil society play in this process?

ECCL carried out the research in cooperation with the Institute for Public Policy, Romania; and the Soteria Foundation, Hungary; with the support of the Open Society Mental Health Initiative.

For more information, please download the program below. A registration form is available on the European Coalition for Community Living website.

Location

Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre
Avenue du Boulevard 17
B-1210 Brussels
Belgium

Organizations: Lumos, European Commission, Open Society Institute - SOROS

Persons: George Soros

Din Malta,cu dragoste:povestea unui copil adoptat

Mar?i, 23 Martie 2010. 3 comentarii, 2 voturi

Din Malta,cu dragoste:povestea unui copil adoptat

Autor: Oana Cr?ciun

Florentina tr?ie?te de 14 ani în Malta, la peste 1.300 de kilometri de ?ara natal? ?i de familia care a abandonat-o din cauza s?r?ciei. Vine îns? în România an de an.

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Organizations: European Parliament, Amici dei Bambini

Countries: Romania, Malta

H.R.4986 - North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2010

To develop a strategy for assisting stateless children from North Korea, and for other purposes.

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Foreigners queue for Bulgarian patients sick children

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Foreigners queue for Bulgarian patients sick children

International adoptions have increased several times

Sofia. Nearly 1200 disabled children waiting to be adopted. The kids are diagnosed with severe physical and mental illness or high age. For 66 already given consent for adoption abroad, the procedure is for 21 open, 78 have submitted applications and the rest are still waiting. Data were exported to the National Conference for adoption. According to statistics, during the last year Ministry of Justice consented to the foreign adoption of 220 children aged 7 years and with health problems. International adoptions of children have risen at times. Many great is the desire of foreign adoptive parents to adopt Bulgarian children who have health problems. Said Justice Minister Margarita Popova. According to statistics, Americans are those who choose Bulgarian children who do not see, hear not, Down Syndrome or hydrocephalus. Bulgarians choose Swedes do with less severe disease. Older children usually go to the Italian families. At the conference attended the 5-year Elina, who is injured feet. Her adoption procedure started in November 2009 and ended on 22 March this year Her adoptive mother is from the USA. According to Deputy Minister for Daniela Mashev incorrect and incomplete reporting of medical information is difficult process of identifying suitable adoptive parents. There were also cases where it appears that the child has a disability only documents.

Countries: Sweden, Bulgaria, Italy, United States of America

Paper orphans (The Kathmandu Post):

Anita Krishnan

MAR 23 -

I have had opportunities to work with institutionalised children, and somewhere a question that always hung silently was: “what end does institutional care hold for the children?” Not that I left it to silence. As a student I talked about it, among friends we discussed it and once I even wrote a paper on the topic. Though it still bothers me, in the last few months I have hardly given it any consideration.

Recently, Terre des Hommes International Federation screened a film called ‘Paper Orphans’, which traces the practice of inter-country adoption and it raises questions not only about the adoption process in the context of Nepal, but also raises concerns about protection of children and institutionalising them at large. Shown in the film is the reality of a mother, Badoma Sharki, from rural Humla who sent her son to urban Kathmandu in order to receive a good education — her son, Kishan, never returned. Rather, her son had been adopted by a Spanish woman who believed (as she had been told and legally verified through official documents) that the boy’s entire family was dead, which in reality was far from the truth. The adoption process was carried out through an orphanage that has been running on the grounds of protecting the rights of children.

As Joseph Aguettant, delegate to Nepal for Terre des Hommes explains, here in Nepal, orphans are ‘manufactured’. Kishan and many others like him who are not actually orphans are manufactured as orphans on paper, and based on that, their fate unfolds. Who do we blame for this — the poor parents who aspire to see their child receive an education and a good upbringing in urban Nepal, the new parents who travel to Nepal to adopt a child to call their own, or the children themselves who don’t have a clue to how their life has been reshaped? Or how about blaming the system, the unfathomable laws or perhaps even oneself for not being able to see such situations as they actually are or having the courage to respond to it? Where is the answer?

Child protection is a matter of serious concern. The concept of foster care has not found firm grounds in Nepal in the way that it has in Western nations, but does that mean we should leave the lives of our innumerable children in limbo? Adoption is not a bad idea, but when it is carried out it should be clear that we have to find a family for a child, not find a child for adoptive parents, especially the way it is being done in the present scenario. In Nepal, we strongly believe in family ties and the importance that family plays in a child’s upbringing and such acts just cannot be overlooked. We cannot allow the tradition of paper orphans to take root.

Organizations: Terre des Hommes Switzerland, Education Centre for Helpless Children (ECHC), Nepal, Helpless Children Protection Home (Rani Bari, Kathmandu) (HCPC), Bal Mandir, Nepal

Countries: Nepal

Supreme Court will hear the case of illegal adoptions of Russian children by the British ...

04/23/2010

At the same time ... with consultation of the delegation from the United States with the Russian authorities on adoption

Russia has continued to increase degree perturbations associated with frequent tragic fate of Russian children adopted by foreigners. Business can reach a moratorium on adoptions by foreigners young Russians. The situation is so serious that is going to Moscow delegation from the United States for consultations with the Russian authorities on adoption.

Along with the advice of Americans held before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the complaints of relatives of illegal adoption of Yekaterinburg boy asking him to reconsider the decision on adoption, a married couple from the UK. Adoption took place on forged documents of consent to the adoption of relatives.

Countries: Russia

Duped by Indian adoption agency, US family cautions couples

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By Sugandha Pathak

New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) US-based Desiree and David Smolin were elated when they adopted two girls from Hyderabad. But their happiness was shortlived. Within weeks, the couple discovered that their two lovely daughters were not orphans, but victims of child trafficking.

That was 12 years ago. The Smolins now operate a website, in which they have catalogued international adoption injustices and offer advice to adopting parents, based on their own experience.

Organizations: ACT CASE Smolin