Chinese village ‘in lockdown’ as parents sue government over lost child

BY TOM PHILLIPS, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 31, 2013

A rural village in northern China has reportedly been placed under “curfew” after a disabled couple accused the local government of masterminding the abduction of their 11-day-old baby.

Authorities imposed the lockdown as Liu Laogen, 64, and his 50-year-old wife, Xia Fengge, spoke for the first time about their daughter being snatched from them by officials they say were working for the family planning bureau almost 20 years ago. The case is the latest to underline the human cost of China’s one-child policy and the appalling abuses that it has spawned, including forced abortions and child abductions.

The baby was Xia’s third and relations believe family planning officials decided to take the girl in order to discourage other locals from breaking China’s one-child policy.

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Couples looking to adopt in Russia may lose children

Children's Minister is urged to change law

JEROME REILLY – 20 OCTOBER 2013

LISA and Michael Fennessy returned from Russia with love – for a beautiful baby boy who would make their family complete.

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Haiti slows orphan flights over human trafficking concerns

Published: January 27, 2010

By Carol Marbin Miller — The Miami Herald

Acting on persistent fears that homeless and orphaned children will be victimized by human traffickers, the Haitian government in Port-au-Prince has put the brakes on the large-scale migration of orphans destined for adoptive families in the U.S.

Haiti's prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, told The Miami Herald his government had considerable fears that children may be scooped up in the streets of Port-au-Prince by nongovernmental organizations. The government also has concerns that children may be trafficked into prostitution or slavery.

US-based couple wins adoption war in High Court

By Sunil Baghel, Mumbai Mirror | Oct 20, 2013, 12.00 AM IST

The legal battle between two couples, one based in Pune and the other an OCI (overseas citizens of India), over adoption of the same child has ended in favour of the latter.

Mumbai Mirror reported on Friday a petition submitted to the Bombay High Court by the Pune-based couple, who said they were referred to the child by an agency called Sofosh in July this year (Adoptions: HC to decide if Indians should be given preference over foreigners).

The couple said in the petition that a month later, they were informed that the child was referred to a US-based couple in complete violation of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) guidelines. The petition further said that Sofosh was favouring the OCI couple for financial gains.

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Vulnerable Children Should Benefit from Family and Community Based Services

Bucharest - October 2, 2013. To speed up the transition from Institutional Care to Family and Community Based Services through the use of Structural Funds and other EU financial instruments, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly along with the Ministry of European Funds, in partnership with the European Expert Group (EEG), UNICEF Romania and Hope and Homes for Children Romania held on Wednesday, October 2, 2013, an International Seminar.

At the event, representatives of the European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and DG Regio, European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care (EEG) experts and representatives of Romanian public and private agencies showcased good practice models and lessons learnt from the Structural Funds programming period 2007 – 2013 while making an overview of deinstitutionalisation.

“The child place is within the family not in an institution, no matter how good the institution is looking like. This is the reason for, from the very beginning of the reform in the child protection system, our main purpose was to close the big institutions and to ensure the wellbeing of children in the state care. Nonetheless, it is our duty to continue to prevent child separation from his family, especially by developing community based services. Only through well organized and efficient community based services the family can have a real support in rising and caring for its children”, declared Mariana Câmpeanu, the Minister of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly.

Nederland evacueert Haïtiaanse adoptiekinderen

Een tweejarig kind wordt gered en met zijn moeder herenigd in Port-au-Prince.

Door onze redacteur Steven Derix

Amsterdam, 17 jan. Op het kantoor van de Stichting Wereldkinderen in Den Haag meldden zich zaterdagmorgen ineens bezorgde adoptieouders. „Het begon met vier”, vertelt woordvoerder Martien Miedema. „Maar aan het einde van de dag waren het een stuk of twintig. Ze wilden iets dóen.”

Twee Nederlandse ‘vergunninghouders’ bemiddelen bij de adoptie van kinderen uit Haïti. Beide organisaties zijn al sinds afgelopen dinsdag dag en nacht in touw om het lot van ‘hun’ kinderen veilig te stellen. Tijd om de pers te woord te staan is er nauwelijks. „We zijn nu op weg naar een cruciale bijeenkomst in Den Haag”, vertelt Letje Vermunt van de Nederlandse Adoptiestichting aan de mobiele telefoon. Later volgt er een e-mail: „Ik wil je graag morgen te woord staan. Het is hier een gekkenhuis.”

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It established the European Agency for Child Protection, Innovation and Social Inclusion

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PSD deputy Ana Birchall announced commencement activities for the establishment of the European Agency for Child Protection, Innovation and Social Inclusion in Romania.

child'Protecting children's rights must be a priority for all European countries. European Agency for Child Protection, Innovation and Social Inclusion is a tool aimed at developing cooperation between the Member States of the European Union regarding the implementation of the European legislation. The agency also aims to support national governments in establishing public policies designed to protect disadvantaged people, " said Ana Birchall at the Conference 'Protect Your Family! Stop Violence! 'Held in Petrosani.