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Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in U.S.

Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in U.S.

Sarah Grainger

GUATEMALA CITY

Tue Dec 8, 2009 12:57pm EST

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - For three years Olga Lopez desperately searched for her baby daughter who was snatched from her home in Guatemala, until her face appeared in government paperwork for an international adoption.

Straatsburg - BCN

ingevoerd op 8-12-2009

Op 30 november en 1 december vond in Straatsburg een conferentie plaats rond het thema adoptie in Europa.

Aanpassingen in het Europese Adoptieverdrag werden besproken met een gezelschap dat uit o.a. geadopteerden, adoptieoudergroepen, adoptieorganisaties, wetenschappers en beleidsmakers bestond. Ook uit Nederland waren er deelnemers aanwezig. Gesproken werd over een Europese adoptieregeling naast de nationale en interlandelijke regelingen die nu reeds bestaan en van deelnemers zijn hierover al ongeruste reacties gehoord. Wat betekent dit voor nationaal kinderbeschermingsbeleid?

Geinteresseerden kunnen de conferentie bekijken op de website van de Raad voor Europa die alle plenaire sessies heeft geregistreerd.

We hopen binnenkort ook een verslag van een van de deelnemers te kunnen plaatsen.

AAI Annual Holiday Letter

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009

AAI Annual Holiday Letter

The holidays are upon us. It is heartwarming to see the cards arriving with smiling faces and we think fondly of the families we have worked with over the years. It has been a year of many accomplishments at AAI.

There will be nearly 300 children in new families this holiday, primarily from Ethiopia. Ghana, Thailand, China and domestically from Washington State. However so many children still wait. On my desk is a photo of five little orphan brothers, the oldest about seven. We don’t have space for all of them at Layla House at the moment, so they are in a small orphanage near Addis Ababa. They will join us as soon as we identify a family for them.

We are finding that the governments of the countries where we work are expecting us to do ever more to help children who will remain without being adopted. We have begun thinking of AAI as a humanitarian organization as well as an adoption agency. Our largest project was completed this year, the Dessie School, which was built in a poor area in northern Ethiopia. With help from AAI friends 1200 children are now able to attend school, and over half of the students are girls.

Child Trafficking Within China Has Penetrated Most Provinces

Published: December 08,2009

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Child Trafficking Within China Has Penetrated Most Provinces

By Ma Guihua, Womens Feature Service

Yunnan (Women's Feature Service) - Zhao Xianming, a narcotics control liaison officer for Mengla county in southwest China's Yunnan Province, clearly remembers the circumstances of that Saturday. Around midday on July 25, 2009, Zhao received a call from a senior police officer from Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, urging him to stop an international bus coming from Laos into Mengla. "I was told that a Laotian woman suspected of trafficking two girls was trying to bypass border check points," recalls Zhao, who can speak fluent Laotian.

Philipines' INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION SYSTEM HAILED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW GROUP

RP’s INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION SYSTEM HAILED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW GROUP

Tuesday, 08 December 2009 09:35

Social Welfare and Development Secretary Esperanza I. Cabral today said that the Permanent Bureau of The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recognized the exemplary practices of the Philippines in the field of International Adoption.

The Hague Conference on Private International Law is an international organization that works for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law.

The Philippines’ intercountry adoption program is being implemented by the Inter-country Adoption Board (ICAB), an attached agency of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), which serves as the central authority for inter-country adoption.

Rescued kid refuses to return to parents

Rescued kid refuses to return to parents

By Wang Jingqiong (China Daily)

Updated: 2009-12-07 07:10

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It was not the reunion mom and dad had hoped for.

Escalation of Child Trafficking in China

Escalation of Child Trafficking in China Authorities show little concern

By Zhang Anli & Yu Liang
Sound of Hope Radio Network
Created: Dec 6, 2009 Last Updated: Dec 7, 2009

Child Trafficking in China
Wang Bangyin breaks down as he hugs his rescued son in Guiyang, southwest China on October 29, 2009. His son was among the 60 children rescued from human traffickers. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

 

The Supreme People’s Court recently disclosed that two men were executed Nov. 26 for abducting and selling children. Parents victimized by such crimes say the executions serve only to appease public sentiment.

The trafficking of children has been escalating sharply in recent years, arousing widespread public anger and frustration throughout China, according to a Sound of Hope radio report. Every year thousands of children—primarily those of poor farmers and migrant workers—are abducted and sold.

Concerned parents of kidnapped children argue that punishing traffickers alone will not benefit the abducted children: The regime must take effective steps to stem the tide of the booming black market, and punish not only the traffickers, but the buyers as well.

Police indifference

Mr. Chen, the father of a missing child from Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, said that the local police are often indifferent and callous when confronted with a missing-child case.

“The government has not done enough to combat kidnapping,” Chen said. “I do not think punishing a few traffickers is going to work. The relative of a missing child told me that he found a trafficker living in his neighborhood. He submitted a claim, but the police did nothing.

“Do you know that it was only for the sake of appearances that those two traffickers were sentenced to death?” Chen asked. “In order to appease public sentiment, the government decided to kill two traffickers this time. I know that’s why they did it.”

A buyer’s market

Mr. Peng, the father of a kidnapped child from Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, thinks that those who buy children are at the root of the problem. If they are not punished, he said, the selling of stolen children will become even more professional, organized, and violent.

“Some people are driven by greed and will risk committing a crime for the money,” Peng said. “A 3 to 5-year-old boy can be sold for as much as 40,000 to 50,000 yuan (US$5,888–$7,352). Without the buyer’s market, nobody would be engaged in stealing or kidnapping children.”

A woman from Hebei Province who asked to remain anonymous said she has been trying to find her child for the past 15 years, and during that time, more and more children have disappeared. She hopes that punishments will be strengthened for both the traffickers and the buyers.

“If the government does not take concrete steps to stop the problem, more and more parents across the country will lose their children, as I have,” she said.

The Chinese regime estimates the number of children involved to be 10,000 a year. The U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, however, estimates that there are 20,000 to 70,000 victims of child trafficking each year in China.

Yang Zaixin, a lawyer from Guangxi Province, noted that the trafficking of women and children is illegal in China, but buyers have rarely been punished in accordance with the law. He also said that the trafficking of children is just one of the critical social issues facing Chinese society today.

Read original Chinese article: http://soundofhope.org/programs/162/144114-1.asp

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/26115/

 

Prin Funda?ia HHC, o familie din Satulung s-a ales cu o cas?

Prin Funda?ia HHC, o familie din Satulung s-a ales cu o cas?

Adina Codrean

106 afi??riSâmb?t? 5 dec 2009

BAIA MARE?tefan D?r?bu? spune c? familia Ilie? a apelat la ajutorul HHC înc? din 2007.

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Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii insist? pentru reluarea adop?iilor interna?ionale

Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii insist? pentru reluarea adop?iilor interna?ionale

04 DECEMBRIE 2009

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Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii insist? pentru reluarea adop?iilor interna?ionale

La ?ase s?pt?mâni dup? respingerea de c?tre Guvern a memorandumului propus de Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii (ORA) pentru reluarea adop?iilor interna?ionale, acela?i Oficiu revine cu un proiect legislativ de modificare a legisla?iei adop?iilor, în care un capitol este dedicat… adop?iilor interna?ionale. Proiectul a fost prezentat ieri, în cadrul unei conferin?e de pres?, de ?eful ORA, secretarul de stat Bogdan Panait. Amintim c? premierul interimar Emil Boc a declarat c? nu sus?ine memorandumul propus de subordonatul s?u Panait, chiar a doua zi dup? ce ini?iativa a fost criticat?, prin intermediul ziarului Gândul, de baroana Emma Nicholson, parlamentar britanic, fost europarlamentar - raportor pentru România în perioada negocierilor de aderare.

Faces Too Beautiful To Lack A Family; Adoption is for the Rich

Faces Too Beautiful To Lack A Family

Date: Fri 04th December 2009

Mediahouse: Daily Nation

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