La Belgique reconnue coupable de crimes contre l'humanité pour des enlèvements dans l'ex RDC

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Enfants volés au Congo, adoptés en Belgique : une procédure au civil pour pointer les responsabilités de la chaîne d’adoption et du politique

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Condamnée jeudi à dix de prison par le tribunal correctionnel de Namur pour, notamment, enlèvement de mineurs, prise d’otages et escroquerie dans le cadre d’adoptions internationales entre la RDC et la Belgique, la Namuroise Juilenne Mpemba a bénéficié "de la part des fonctionnaires de la Communauté française, des responsables des organismes agréés d’adoption et de diverses personnalités d’une mansuétude coupable sans laquelle la prévenue n’aurait pu agir comme elle l’a fait ".

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Press Release - Hope and Homes for Children

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CDR 2014:

Since the month of September; I started having back pains. The doctor considered this linked to my work and ordered me to interrupt work (sick leave), which lasted two months. Since September; I also expressed to my Head of Unit my wish to no longer work on Montenegro, and that I wanted to be transferred to another job inside DG ELARG (or outside). This because I discovered that the IPA financing in the field of child protection; especially where it concerns de-institutionalisation, given to Montenegro since 2011 did not really serve to reform the child protection system, but created a situation where children had a tendency to leave the country (in the context of intercountry adoption) rather than to remain in alternative care (return in the family of origin, foster care). This situation was even more difficult because the project did not target the creation of family-type homes, which do not exist in Montenegro.

Well conscious of similar problems in the past in Romania (which the demand for children had created a market in children) as responsible for the rights of the child in the Romania Team of DG ELARG in 2004-2005, I did not want to work with the Montenegrin authorities in this context which contributed to a "legalised" traffic in children. Especially because during the pre-accession of Romania, an Independent Panel of Experts on Family Law, established by the Commission, had concluded that in the case of Romania in 2004, intercountry adoption cannot be considered as a measure of child protection but has to be, if all, an exceptional measure.

This approach hs been also confirmed by the note about the lessons learned about the rights of children in Romania addressed by DG ELARG to DG JUST in 3013 (Ares(2013)3769525).

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From: Arun Dohle [mailto:arundohle@gmail.com]

Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:50 AM

To: JUNCKER Jean-Claude (CAB-JUNCKER); HAHN Johannes (CAB-HAHN); MORDUE Simon (ELARG); LANGE Dirk (ELARG)

Subject: Children for Sale: Adoptions from the Balkans / Eastern Europe

Dear President Juncker,

This is the fifth and final report in a series of five country-specific briefings. It looks at intercountry adoptions from Ethiopia into Ireland between 1987 and 2013.

Reopening intercountry adoptions will put Cambodian children and their families at risk, a group of NGOs said in a statement Wednesday, urging the Cambodian government to stop the process.

Cambodia suspended intercountry adoption in 2009, following reports of unethical actions connected to adoptions. Multiple other countries also banned intercountry adoption from Cambodia during the 2000s. But in the last couple months, Italy and Cambodia have been taking steps to resume adoptions of Cambodian children. 

Cambodian rights groups Cambodian Center for Human Rights, ADHOC and Licadho, along with the international group Intercountry Adoptee Voices, released a joint statement asking Cambodia and Italy to immediately halt any actions leading to the resumption of intercountry adoptions.

A 2018 Licadho report states that thousands of Cambodian children were adopted overseas between the late 1980s and 2009, but many of the children were not orphans. Rather, their parents had placed them in orphanages due to poverty.

“The reopening of intercountry adoptions will only put Cambodian children and families at risk. Adoptions from Cambodia throughout the late 1990s and 2000s were defined by fraud, corruption and coercion,” Licadho outreach director Naly Pilorge said.

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Jonathan Amgott, Intern in the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, describes insights from the international adoption panel at this week's White House event to celebrate National Adoption Month.

On Monday, November 28, The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships held an event to observe and celebrate National Adoption Month. This event featured senior Administration officials, Members of Congress and outside experts. You can read more about the event here. Also, you can view the President’s National Adoption Month proclamation here.

Supporting international adoption was the theme of our first panel during Monday’s National Adoption Month event at the White House. International adoption has touched the lives of thousands of American families. In 2010 alone, the adoptions of over 9,300 children from more than 100 countries were finalized. Appropriately, this panel was rooted in the understanding that while there were big issues to discuss, at the end of the day international adoption is deeply personal and profound for many Americans, including those who served as panelists.

Kathleen Strottman, Executive Director of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, was the first expert to speak. Kathleen discussed an exciting initiative called The Way Forward Project, a yearlong convening of government officials and civil society experts to study adoption in six African countries.  Supported by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the CCAI initiative produced several adoption lessons applicable to other countries as well.  Among these, child welfare systems should evaluate the full range of adoptive family options, including kinship and international adoption.  Kathleen also suggested that efforts should be made to cultivate societal responsibility for all children, gather data on the number of children in foster care, and broaden children’s legal eligibility for adoption. 

REPORT ON THE IN-HOUSE CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON INTERCOUNTRY

ADOPTION, ICDC, FLORENCE, ITALY, 14-17. SEPTEMBER, 1998

1.0 Background and Participants:
This was the first UNICEF in-house capacity building workshop on the subject of adoption. The
workshop was organized by the International Child Development Center. It was necessitated by the
situation in UNICEF offices in all regions where abusive and illegal practices on adoption of
children internationally have been alleged or proven. In the such circumstances UNICEF offices
are faced with a continuous challenge of stating and/or defending UNICEF position on intercountry
adoption.
Participants in this workshop were comprised of mainly UNICEF officers, from ICDC, New York
and the following countries: Armenia, Barbados, Bangladesh, Colombia, Ecuador , Guatemala,
Romania, Rwanda, and Uganda. Other participants were from: Save the Children (UK) Rwanda, a
national NGO on adoption in Paraguay, the International Social Services, Hague Convention on
Private International Law, the Netherlands Committee for UNICEF and the Government of
Romania.
2.0 Workshop Objective:
 To analyze the purpose of intercountry adoption among other welfare measures;
 To identify international principles and standards on intercountry adoption and mechanisms to
safeguard them;
 To review acceptable and unacceptable conditions for intercountry adoption;
 To identify high risk situations; early warning signs of abuse and how to prevent abuse.

3.0 Workshop Methods:
Participants made presentations on country situation and experiences. Presentations were made on
relevant themes on international provisions such as, the Hague Convention on Intercountry
Adoption and situation regarding ratification. County presentations gave insight in varying
situations leading to adoption of children internationally, related principles and standards; as well
measures to safeguard them .
Regarding Africa , the main factors behind adoption are mainly conflict situation and HIV/AIDS,
leading to an increase in the number of unaccompanied children and of orphans(orphans in Uganda
refer to a child who has lost one or both parents). These have overwhelmed the capacity of the
extended family system. Not loosing sight of the situation in Rwanda, intercountry adoption in
Africa is not as massive as the case is in some Latin American and Eastern Europe countries.
Nevertheless, the situation poses a challenge of developing and/or strengthening in country foster
care and adoption systems and structures.
4.0 Lessons Learnt and Programming Implications:
 Continuity is of paramount importance for children in need of alternative family care. Preference
should be given to children staying in their countries. Intercountry adoption should be a last resort;

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