Date : 2004-05-31

A young Thai Girl search for her roots in Thailand :

Anybody who could provide information may contact -

The photograph of Maria-Elsa: inset - when she was 10 to 12 weeks old.

This is a heart wrenching story of a young Thai girl named - Maria-Elsa, who is at present 27 years old, living in Sweden and she is searching for her roots in Thailand. She was adopted by a Swedish family when she was less than six weeks old and brought to Sweden and now she is grown up and searching for her biological parents in Thailand.

Date: 13/06/04

Moldova, with the introduction of the new law are taken international adoptions. Back in Italy, the first pair

After three years of closure of International Adoptions in Moldova , today is the first pair returned to Italy with their 7 year old daughter: so began a new period for adoptions in Moldova regulated by the introduction of the new law.

In the last 3 years, in fact, in Moldova there had been an arrest of international adoptions waiting for the bill were passed. Now it seems he has finally resumed activities with foreign couples and that there are important changes that would make even the fastest adoption procedures.

The first new feature introduced with the new adoption law , which came into force on 19 April 2013, concerning the establishment of the Central (Advisory Council for Adoptions) which will have the task of examining the records of foreign couples and to propose related pairings.

Now the whole area of ??adoption delved

A working group under the Ministry of Social Affairs to the next year examining the Danish adoption system.

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DR News korrepondent in investigative journalist Line Gertsen, is here with an Ethiopian woman who has given up for adoption a child. © DR

By Line Gertsen, Ditte Bannor-Kristensen and Laura Marie Sorensen

AFRICA: Call to reverse soaring adoption rates

Photo: Mohamed Hasan/IRIN

Ethiopia was in 2010 ranked the second top origin country for inter-country adoptions (file photo)

ADDIS ABABA, 6 June 2012 (IRIN) - As the number of African children adopted by people outside the continent reaches record levels, experts, activists, government officials and academics have called for the practice to be stemmed, warning that adoption was too often motivated by financial gain rather than the best interests of the children involved.

Between 2003 and 2011, for example, at least 41,000 African children were sent abroad for adoption from Africa, according to a study entitled Africa: The New Frontier for Inter-country Adoption by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF).

Paedophiles `exploiting turmoil in Romania'

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Posted by Mark Pack on Thu 24th February 2011; This entry is filed under Election law, News.

Tags: justice and anti-corruption party, les cummings, mike hancock, phil woolas, portsmouth south

The BBC reports:

A rival who falsely claimed a Liberal Democrat MP was a paedophile has been convicted of attempting to affect a result in the general election.

Councillor Mike Hancock , MP and Paedophile…

‘Hancock has been chairman of the Southern Region of the NSPCC since 1989.

Because of Hancock’s sexual involvement with a 14 year old schoolgirl, his

Association with the NSPCC should trouble every decent citizen in the UK.

Hancock’s trips to Romania are also very suspicious. We have interviewed those who travelled with him and they told us of his activities in Romania. In Romania, Hancock gave a young girl named, Daniella extra supplies that were donated by the citizens of Portsmouth for sexual favours. Hancock goes to Romania as an Ambassador for Portsmouth and basically gives out goods in exchange for sex.

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Parliamentary Assembly session : 31 March – 4 April 2003

Mike Hancock : «Any country that fails to love its children has no right to call itself civilised !»

02.04.2003 - Interview

Abandoned by their families because of their disabilities or because their parents are unable to look after them, hundreds of thousands of children are still languishing in orphanages or other institutions unsuited to their conditions. More often than not, they only leave these institutions to end up on the street or in the asylums. The British Liberal MP, Mike Hancock, urges Europe to take action to improve their lot.

Lib Dem MP accused of being a paedophile admits he 'kissed and cuddled' the teenage girl

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

UPDATED: 12:32 GMT, 23 February 2011

We had a 'close and affectionate' relationship, admits MP

Slurs: MP Mike Hancock was branded 'a paedophile' by an election rival who accused him of 'having sex with a 14-year-old girl'

Tuesday 26 Mar 2013

Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock attacked on four fronts

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The Liberal Democrats have tonight announced that their chief whip, Alistair Carmichael, is urgently investigating allegations of sexual harrassment against the MP for Portsmouth South, Mike Hancock, made by one of his female constituents.

I am told that Mr Carmichael recently travelled to Portsmouth to interview Mr Hancock, and plans to hold further meetings to explore the allegations. He is expected to report to Nick Clegg within a “couple of weeks”.