Colombia closed the door for foreign adoption

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May 30, 2013 4:18 pm

E n an unprecedented move, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare has temporarily suspended acceptance of new applications for foreign families who want to adopt Colombian children between 0 and 6 years, with no special conditions.

The move, announced on Thursday at the First Meeting of Central Authorities in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, responds to the need to manage 377 Colombian applications and 3,506 foreign families who are registered on the waiting list who want to adopt healthy children, children seven years and no siblings, ie children who do not have characteristics of difficult adoption.

New adoption law makes it possible for Romanians abroad to adopt children from Romania

Date: 25-11-2011

The new adoption law stipulates the possibility that Romanian citizens residing abroad should adopt children from Romania, said Secretary of State with the Romanian Office for Adoptions Bogdan Panait. But he added that, as for the international adoptions for foreign citizens, the regulations are the same as in the old legislation.

'International adoptions for foreign citizens are the ones in the old law, therefore no change has been made in this respect,' said Panait. The Secretary of State said that the Romanian citizens residing abroad could resort to adoptions in Romania.

He also made it clear that the new adoption law stipulated the possibility for a child to be adopted 30 days after its birth certificate was issued, in case it has no declared parents. As for the time it takes to carry out adoption procedures, Panait said that it might take a shorter time in the future.

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FUNDS CRUNCH HITS NGO’S ORISSA PROJECT FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bhubaneswar, May 12 When Milton McCann set up 11 schools in Kalahandi in 1986, he had only one dream — to provide food and education to impoverished tribal children and help them shape a future vastly different from that of their fathers.Eleven years later, McCann’s dream lay shattered when he had to close down these schools due to paucity of funds.“It was something terrible and very difficult to come to terms with. How can you slam the door on these unfortunate children?” says the Calcutta-based social worker, who was named “Member, Order of the British Empire”, for his work among the poor, especially street children.McCann had to “pack up and leave” in 1997 because foreign funds stopped coming. “I was very sad to leave, but I had no other alternative,” says the 68-year-old secretary of the Usthi Foundation, an organisation he set up in collaboration with a Swiss couple in 1977.Impressed by his work, former chief minister Biju Patnaik gave him 200 acres of land in the Bhawanipatna and Lanjigarh blocks of Kalahandi district.Before he left Kalahandi “for good” three years ago, McCann returned the land in his possession to the state government and asked another Christian organisation to carry on the work. McCann is now focusing on cyclone relief in Orissa. He said the Usthi Foundation was also running a hospital for tribals in Keonjhar district.But the social worker is worried that funds will dry up. “I need money to run schools and hospitals. I do not want to relive the Kalahandi experience again,” he said. To generate funds, McCann plans to open a diagnostic centre in Bhubaneswar soon.

Italian adoption agency paid Slovak officials

25 Jun 2013Flash News

The Italian regional agency for interstate adoptions, A.R.A.I., financed educational projects in Slovakia for employees of orphanages, social officials and judges, with members of working groups that prepared the projects receiving some money as well, the Sme daily reported on June 22.

Since 2004, the agency spent almost €190,000 on five projects on which it cooperated with Slovakia’s National Centre for Human Rights, the Association of Towns and Villages of Slovakia (ZMOS) as well as Saint Elizabeth’s College of Health Care and Social Work in Bratislava, according to the documents received by Sme. The daily states some of the names featured on the invoices are recurring, including coordinator Peter Gurá?, who worked in the centre; the former and current section head at the Labour Ministry, Nadežda Šebová; and the head of the Centre for International Legal Protection of Children, Alena Mátejová. According to Sme, they received bonuses for the preparation of seminars, lectures and for their membership in the steering committee.

The A.R.A.I. does not agree that the high number of children adopted in Italy is associated in any way with projects that the Italian side financed here. Based on the centre’s agreement with Italy, out of 433 children adopted abroad within the last ten years, over 50 percent were adopted in Italy. She explains that this is because Italian couples are willing to adopt Roma children, siblings, children over seven years of age and children with health problems.

Adoptions to Italy raise questions

Alleged Misconduct Prompts Slovakia To Change Its Intercountry Adoptions Policy

29 Jul 2013Michaela Terenzani - Stanková Politics & Society

DOZENS of children born in Slovakia each year, unwanted by their own families and unable to find an adoptive family in their home country, have been fortunate enough to find new parents through intercountry adoptions. While there are not enough intercountry adoptions to generate much public interest, such adoptions recently became a hot-button issue, with some media outlets pointing out that the practice may have been conducted as a sort of business by some state officers in the past.

The Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth (CIPC), the office under the Labour Ministry responsible for facilitating intercountry adoptions in Slovakia, has recently undergone a series of changes, starting with the replacement of the centre’s director. Labour Minister Ján Richter appointed new director Andrea Císarová in July 2012, after signs of misconduct emerged within the CIPC, previously led by Alena Mátejová.

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A child-friendly adoption policy is paramount

.July 20, 2012

Several lawmakers from the Chamber of Deputies, this week, took the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion to task over the fate of Rwandan orphans adopted by foreign nationals.

The major issue that the parliamentarians had was that children who are taken to other countries by their adoptive parents risked losing touch with their Rwandan culture and heritage. 361 adopted Rwandan children are currently living in various nations including the United States, France, Belgium and Italy.

Are the children, very often very young, helped to understand where they are from? Are they given opportunities to meet fellow Rwandans? Or are they simply assimilated into the nation their foster parents come from? The MP’s certainly have genuine concerns that must be addressed. These questions must be answered as soon as possible; especially because the policy of the Rwandan Government is to gradually phase out orphanages, preferring children to be raised in foster homes.

Senate Passes Landrieu Resolution on Romanian Adoption Policy

Senate resolution urges Romania to reinstate international adoption.

August 2, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously last week passed, S. Res. 359, a resolution sponsored by United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., that sends a strong message to Romanian President Traian Basescu that Romania should decrease barriers to adoption, both domestic and international, thus improving the well-being of their children.

"My hope is that the U.S. Senate's unanimous support for this resolution will encourage Romania to get rid of its law prohibiting international adoption," said Sen. Landrieu, co-chair of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption. "Tens of thousands of Romanian children today remain without permanent families when Americans and Europeans are willing to give these children safe homes."

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