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No reconsideration of adoptions from Ethiopia


No reconsideration of adoptions from Ethiopia

Press release | 18-02-2010

There is no reason to reconsider the existing adoption relationship between Ethiopia and the Netherlands. This opinion was submitted in a letter to the Lower House of Parliament by Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin. The accredited bodies for adoption Stichting Afrika and Vereniging Wereldkinderen will resume adoptions from Ethiopia.

In September 2009, the accredited bodies (licensed organisations providing intermediary services for adoption) Stichting Afrika en Vereniging Wereldkinderen decided to temporarily halt the procedures for new applications for adoption from Ethiopia and to conduct further investigation into the files of children in the current adoption procedure. The reason therefor was that the factual background of some children adopted from Ethiopia was not in accordance with the information that was included in the files.

Subsequently, a delegation from the Ministry of Justice and the accredited bodies involved visited Ethiopia in November 2009, during which visit they spoke with various agencies, including Ethiopian Ministries, the embassies of the US, Italy and France, and UNICEF. The aim was to obtain insight into the adoption procedures in Ethiopia.

During the visit, the Ethiopian authorities indicated that they are making preparations to join the Hague Adoption Convention. For this purpose, the child protection services of Ethiopia are being strengthened. There will also be more attention for the supervision of the activities of foreign accredited organisations providing intermediary services for adoption, for which a special agency was instituted. The alleged wrongs that were the reason for the investigation has also been identified and recognised by the authorities. It is for this reason that children that are left as foundling will from now on only be taken in and given accommodation in state children's homes.

Minister Hirsch Ballin observes that the Ethiopian authorities are willing to discuss any shortcomings and that they are open to cooperation. The Minister therefore sees no reason to reconsider the adoption relationship with Ethiopia, and the accredited bodies will continue their work. The accredited bodies will, however, incorporate extra guarantees in the adoption procedures, and developments in Ethiopia will be carefully monitored. Ethiopia is being offered support in their process of joining the Hague Adoption Procedure. The Minister will also ask that attention be given to Ethiopia at the European level. "I am of the opinion that, in this way, I am doing justice to the endeavours to further a clear and careful adoption procedure in the interest of the child", the Minister declared.


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Geen heroverweging adopties uit Ethiopië

Nieuwsbericht | 18-02-2010

Burkina Faso: Franceline Silga - La vendeuse de bébés pêchée à Tripoli

Burkina Faso: Franceline Silga - La vendeuse de bébés pêchée à Tripoli

Adama Ouédraogo Damiss

18 Février 2010


Une vendeuse de bébé, on en voit rarement. Pourtant ce trafic éhonté d'êtres humains existe sous nos cieux. Et une Burkinabè répondant au nom de Franceline Silga, spécialiste de ce type de commerce, vient d'être pêchée à Tripoli et médite au frais sur son acte. A cet effet, le directeur général de la police, Rasmané Ouangrawa a animé une conférence de presse le 18 février 2010 dans la matinée.

Elle s'appelle Franceline Silga, née en janvier 1979 à Kourittenga. Animatrice de formation, cette jeune dame a changé entre-temps de profession pour se livrer à une pratique illicite dans la législation burkinabè. En effet, elle a trouvé son filon dans le trafic d'êtres humains, plus précisément de bébés qu'elle plaçait en adoption chez des couples européens moyennant évidemment une rémunération à la hauteur de son forfait.

Selon le directeur général de la police, Rasmané Ouangrawa, Franceline qui possède deux passeports burkinabè (un passeport de service et un passeport ordinaire) fait voyager par voie terrestre à partir du Burkina Faso, des femmes enceintes démunies, presque à terme, jusqu'à N'Djamena au Tchad. Elle les fait transiter par Tripoli, en Lybie, par voie aérienne puis les achemine à Rome, en Italie.

Après l'accouchement, les bébés sont récupérés pour adoption en échange d'une certaine somme d'argent. La trafiquante prend sa part, donne le reste aux mamans et rebelotte. Un tel acte ne pouvait rester impuni. C'est ainsi que dans la nuit du 16 février 2010, la trafiquante a été arrêtée et reconduite à Ouagadougou avec une fillette de moins de trois ans dont elle refuse de donner le nom du père.

La présumée coupable a déclaré, au dire du DG de la police, appartenir à une structure dénommée « Association Aide aux tout-petits, orphelins et enfants de rue » dont elle est la présidente du bureau de onze membres. Cette organisation, créée en juillet 2005, a fonctionné avant de voir son siège fermé en 2009 par le ministère de l'Action sociale pour absence d'autorisation d'ouverture.

On apprend également que lors de l'arrestation de la présumée coupable, il a été découvert dans ses bagages à main divers documents au nombre desquels deux passeports burkinabè aux noms de Kaboré Augueratou et de Ilboudo Patingué et dix-neuf fiches d'identification d'enfants burkinabè de pères inconnus censés se trouver en Italie. Ces deux femmes sus-citées auraient été conduites au Tchad alors qu'elles étaient enceintes. Franceline Silga a, sans doute, bénéficié de complicité pour mener toutes ces opérations.

Comment a-t-elle pu, par exemple, se faire établir un passeport de service ? Qui finançait ses voyages qui en toute évidence sont coûteux au regard du trajet ? Autant d'interrogations que les fins limiers de la police pourront élucider. Les investigations se poursuivent et dans les jours ou mois à venir, on aura peut-être d'autres informations relatives à cette ténébreuse affaire.

Blog: Baby Trafficking (China)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Baby Trafficking

What a horrible day (sob).

The next step in Lili's adoption is to do a "re-adoption". Basically all it is is a formality to get a US issued "Certificate of Foreign Birth" so anytime Lili needs to show a birth certificate in the future, she can just show the Certificate of Foreign Birth, since she doesn't and won't ever have a birth certificate from China (the biological parents don't abandoned the children leaving their birth certificate with the baby).

So, I had tried to find an international adoption attorney in this area (the Middle of NoWhere, Oklahoma), but no one seemed to know how to do it. So, going off other adoptive families experiences I decided to do the re-adoption "pro se" or representing myself. At least by doing it myself I would save approx $2000.

Child: U.S. Adoption Agency Bought Me

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'Adviser' denies sex trafficking

Feb 15, 2010

'Adviser' denies sex trafficking

 

The adviser, Jorge Puello, had been presented as a Dominican lawyer for the American missionaries after their arrest last month. -- PHOTO: AP

 

PORT-AU-PRINCE - AN ADVISER to 10 Americans charged with kidnapping in Haiti on Monday denied he was involved in a sex trafficking ring in El Salvador after police there announced they were investigating him.

The adviser, Jorge Puello, had been presented as a Dominican lawyer for the American missionaries after their arrest last month. He has now returned to the Dominican Republic. In addition to denying any sex trafficking involvement, Puello told AFP he did not have contact with the Americans prior to their arrest, but declined to provide details.

Lawyers for the Americans have also said they did not know him before they were arrested. How they came into contact remains unclear.

El Salvador police have said they are probing whether Puello is the same person sought in the Central American nation over the sex trafficking case, Jorge Torres Orellana, and have posted photos on their website that show a strong resemblance.

'They are accusing me of something that I don't even know myself,' Puello told AFP. 'I'm open to questions. It could happen that two people could have the same name. Whatever the case may be, I'm not afraid of anything.'

Interpol has issued a wanted persons alert for Orellana, saying he is accused of running an international sex trafficking ring. The ring lured women and girls from the Caribbean and Central America into prostitution with bogus offers of modeling jobs, according to Interpol. -- AFP

Vegetable vendor's plea moves apex court

Vegetable vendor's plea moves apex court

New Delhi |Monday, 2010 11:05:12 AM IST

The Supreme Court has sought the Maharashtra government's response to a lawsuit filed by a vegetable vendor accusing a Pune-based private trust of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple under the garb of adoption.

A bench of Justice Aftab Alam sought the reply also from the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) on a lawsuit by Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, the grandmother of the girls.

In her lawsuit Lokhande, a vegetable vendor, has accused the private trust, Preet Mandir, of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple for Rs.5 lakh and Rs.25 lakh respectively. She said she had handed over the girls to an observation home in Karad in September 2004 as she was unable to look after them.

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