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Hawaii adoption agencies merging

Posted on: Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Hawaii adoption agencies merging

Nonprofits cite need to cut costs, expand their reach

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By Eloise Aguiar

Organizations: Hawaii International Child

Persons: Kristine Altwies

Desperate parents' plea: Please take our children

Posted on Tuesday, 02.02.10

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THE CHILDREN

Desperate parents' plea: Please take our children

Parents try to make the ultimate sacrifice -- giving their kids to strangers so they'll be taken out of Haiti.

Countries: Haiti

Organizations: Maison des Enfants de Dieu, Haiti, All Blessings International, Joint Council on International Children's Services (JCICS)

Musiol zu Auslandsadoptionen: Lizenz zum Kinderhandel abschaffen

Utl.: Österreich ist säumig bei der Umsetzung von internationalen Übereinkommen =

Wien (OTS) - "Derzeit werden in Haiti Kinder auf illegale Weise

ihren Eltern entzogen, um der Adoption zugeführt zu werden. Solche

Adoptionen können auch in Österreich passieren", stellt die Familien-

Countries: Austria

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Haïti: Paris propose la création d'une commission bilatérale pour étudier les dossiers d'adoption

AP | 05.02.2010 | 15:12

La France va proposer aux autorités haïtiennes la création d'une commission bilatérale chargée d'examiner les dossiers d'adoption d'enfants pour lesquels aucun jugement n'avait été rendu avant le séisme du 12 janvier, ou n'a pu être produit suite à la catastrophe, a annoncé vendredi le Quai d'Orsay.

L'ambassadeur chargé de l'adoption internationale Jean-Paul Monchau est "actuellement à Port-au-Prince pour proposer aux autorités haïtiennes un mécanisme conjoint, une commission bilatérale, qui nous permette de traiter ensemble, là-bas, les dossiers d'adoption", a expliqué le porte-parole Bernard Valero lors d'un point de presse.

Cette commission est d'une part destinée à "faciliter le traitement des procédures pour lesquelles des éléments probants permettent d'établir l'existence d'un jugement mais qui ne peut être produit suite au séisme" du 12 janvier, selon un communiqué de M. Valero. Et d'autre part à "émettre des recommandations pour les procédures dans lesquelles aucun jugement haïtien n'avait été rendu avant le séisme".

Countries: France, Haiti

Child arrives from Haiti

Posted on February 1, 2010 | By Kathryn Flagg Bridport

TWO-YEAR-OLD Gedeleine has been adjusting to new experiences like riding in a car seat and wearing shoes, which she never did in the Haitian orphanage where she spent the last two years. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

BRIDPORT — Three weeks ago, Gedeleine Franklin was bundled out of the orphanage she knew as home after a slip in an underwater fault plunged Haiti into chaos.

Ten days ago, the two-year-old little girl was hustled onto an airplane with 80 other children bound for Miami. Aid workers, airline employees and orphanage volunteers cradled the children as they made the halting, unfamiliar trek out of Haiti.

Countries: United States of America, Haiti

Organizations: God's Littlest Angels (Haiti, orphanage)

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Organizations: Australian Afrian Children's Aid and Support Association (AACASA), Koala House

Trafficking in Samoa/petition to sign

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Countries: United States of America, Samoa

Organizations: Focus on Children

Illegally adopted Filipino babies traced

By Cathy C. Yamsuan

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 01:54:00 02/01/2010

Filed Under: Children, Crime, Science (general), Family, Foreign affairs & international relations

Countries: Philippines, Singapore

Spanish judge rejects 'baby-theft' probe

General Francisco Franco ruled Spain from 1939-75. Spain's attorney general's office has rejected a demand that it open a national probe into allegations that newborn babies were stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for decades under a policy approved by Franco's dictatorship.

AFP - Spain's attorney general's office on Tuesday rejected a demand that it open a national probe into allegations that newborn babies were stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for decades under a policy approved by Franco's dictatorship.

Anadir, an association fighting for the stolen children and their families, presented the demand on Thursday on behalf of the victims and families of 261 snatched babies along with evidence including testimony from nurses who admitted taking part.

It estimated there could have been as many as 300,000 cases during General Francisco Franco's 1939-75 dictatorship and up to the end of the late 1980s.

"The attorney general's office refused to open an inquiry at the national level and asks that each family present a criminal complaint at their local court where the alleged crime took place," said a spokesman for the attorney general's office.

The attorney general's office justified the move on the grounds that those responsible for the baby thefts were not part of a single network but operated independently from different parts of the country separately.

Under a 1940 decree the state was allowed to take children into custody if their "moral education" was at risk.

The decree allowed the dictatorship to take children of jailed left-wing opponents from their mothers with state approval and often the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church to purge Spain of feared Marxist influence.

Historians say many of the "lost children" were put in Catholic religious orders and became nuns or priests while others were illegally adopted by other families with changed identities.

Many of the same doctors, nurses and officials who carried out the Franco-era policy are accused of continuing it after the dictator's death and Spain's return to democracy as an illegal business that provided babies for cash to women unable to give birth.

Many new mothers were told their babies had died suddenly within hours of birth and the hospital had taken care of their burials when in fact they were given to another family, according to Anadir.

Countries: Spain