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Baroness Nicholson Calls Adoption “Human Trafficking”

As expected, anti-adoption forces have come out swinging against the memorandum created by the Romanian Office for Adoptions (ORA), recommending that certain children be allowed to find families outside Romania.

The article below was run by the Romanian-language newspaper Gandul on Friday, October 16th. Thanks to Peter Heisey for providing the translation.

Probe against Preet Mandir faulty, says CBI Tags: Mumbai Buzz up!vote now Published by: Noor Khan Published: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 at 21:01 IST Mumbai, Sep 10 Two years after giving a clean chit to Preet Mandir, a Pune-based adoption agency which is facing allegations of selling babies in the guise of international adoptions, the CBI today said that the probe against the agency was "faulty". Additional solicitor general D J Khambata told the Bombay High Court that the report submitted by the CBI investigating officer, R Doodraj, in 2007 appeared to be faulty. Khambata sought permission for further investigation. Directing the Centre to file an affidavit, division bench of Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi asked Khambata if the any action was proposed against Doodraj. Khambata told the court Doodraj has taken voluntary retirement from the CBI. "Find him then," Justice Nazki said. Advait Foundation, an NGO working on child rights, had filed a petition in 2006 alleging large scale malpractices by Preet Mandir management while giving children in inter-country adoptions. It had alleged that the adoption agency demanded donations of USD 6,000 and above from foreign parents willing to adopt a child. CBI in its 2007 report had said that allegations were baseless.

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Guatemalan soldiers sold children in war - gov't

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By Sarah Grainger

GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 10 (Reuters) - At least 333 children and probably thousands more were taken by Guatemalan security forces and sold abroad during the country's 36-year civil war, a government report said on Thursday.

Soldiers and police killed children's parents, lied about how they had been found and handed them to state-run homes for sale to adoptive parents in the United States and Europe, said the report, which was based on government archives.

Plan proposed to save adoptions

Posted By MICHAEL PEELING

Posted 18 hours ago

Almost two months after an international adoption agency went bankrupt, leaving 400 Ontario families wondering if they would be able to adopt, the agency's trustee has proposed a plan to rebuild Imagine Adoption and complete 350 adoptions.

To aid the company in getting back on its financial feet under the direction of BDO Dunwoody, couples such as Glen Walter's Carolyn Cormier and Stephane Leclerc have been asked if they would be willing to pay $4,000 on top of the $12,500 they've already paid in adoption fees.

The Speed Up Rumor

The rumored speed up from the beginning of the year said it should happen this fall. A lot of agencies were saying the same thing – that the CCAA said they would refer more babies in 2009 than they did in 2008, and that the numbers should pick up in the fall.

I’m now hearing a few agencies say that they aren’t so sure a fall speed up is going to happen. I don’t know if the CCAA has told them this outright, or hinted at it, or if they just aren’t talking about it anymore… or what. One agency goes so far as to say that they don’t have high hopes that things are going to pick up this fall, and that if it does not then they do not think the CCAA will ever pick their numbers back up.

My biggest question right now is… why did the CCAA make these statements to the agencies? Surely they truly believed what they were saying? And if so, then what happened that is making some of the agencies start trying to prepare their clients that it may not happen?

I absolutely do not think the agencies made it up. I think the agencies reported what they were told. I have the utmost respect for at least three of the agencies who reported this, and I do not believe they would have reported it if they didn’t believe what they were told. We had over a dozen agencies who reported having a similar conversation with the CCAA. I don’t know if the blame is with the CCAA or the MoCA, but I’m not blaming the agencies. If we want them to share with us what they hear from the CCAA then we can’t very well get mad at them for doing so. Can we?

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International adoption resumes for Nepalese children

Thu, 10 Sep 18:37 PM IST

By Gopal Sharma

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three U.S. couples were on Thursday the first to take Nepalese children since the Himalayan nation ended an international adoption suspension, which took effect two years ago amid reports of widespread corruption.

Ethiopia – Single Applicants – 10 September 2009

The Department has been advised by the Ethiopian Ministry of Woman’s Affairs (MoWA) that no further adoption applications from single applicants will be accepted. This applies to any potential applications from single persons yet to be approved by State and Territory Central Authorities, including those who have lodged adoption applications and are currently under assessment.

MoWA has agreed that existing applications already approved by State and Territories can be progressed. This includes those applications lodged with the Australian Representatives in Ethiopia, and those approved and waiting with Central Authorities.

If you have any queries regarding your adoption application, please contact your State or Territory Central Authority.

KYRGYZSTAN: ADOPTION REFORM LEAVES KYRGYZ ORPHANS, AMERICAN FAMILIES, IN LIMBO

Laurie Rich 9/10/09

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Last November, Suzanne Boutilier was sitting outside a Kyrgyz orphanage, cradling the slight 6-month-old baby girl she was set to adopt. She sang to her daughter-to-be and kept returning to a Carly Simon tune with the chorus "Lovin’ you is the right thing to do," and every time she came to the line "Even though you’re 10,000 miles away," she would sob.

In a few days Boutilier would be back in California, and the baby she had been waiting five months to finish adopting would remain at the orphanage. Now, more than a year after she was first matched with the little girl by an international adoption agency -- and told she’d likely be able to bring her home in eight weeks -- she is still waiting. And by all accounts, there is no telling when her wait will end.

Joint Council Update

Program Child Permanency and Welfare

Date September 9, 2009

Regarding Nepal

Dear Colleagues,