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BUNDESTAG-UL GERMAN, ÎN "CONTROL" LA TIMI?OARA

BUNDESTAG-UL GERMAN, ÎN "CONTROL" LA TIMI?OARA Feti?a sechestrat? în Germania va fi readus? acas? Susanne Kastner, vicepre?edinte al Parlamentului federal german, a venit la Timi?oara pentru a se documenta despre soarta feti?ei românce, sechestrat? de trei ani la o familie german? din Bavaria. Ini?iativa Jurnalului Na?ional de a investiga acest caz de "adop?ie" a trezit interesul autorit??ilor federale germane. de Mircea Opris 6/06/2009 1037 vizite Într-o întâlnire privat? cu pre?edintele CJ Timi? ?i cu prefectul jude?ului, Susanne Kastner a declarat c? este ilegal faptul c? familia din Germania a ?inut-o pe minora Nicoleta Trif timp de trei ani acolo ?i c? autorit??ile române ?i germane vor declan?a o ac?iune comun? pentru readucerea în România a feti?ei. Între timp, presa din landul Bavaria a semnalat un al doilea caz în care o familie german? "între?ine" un copil român, în condi?ii similare, la limita legalit??ii. Identitatea celui de-al doilea copil ?i date despre caz nu au fost f?cute publice înc?, urmând ca autorit??ile germane s? declan?eze o anchet? privind acest al doilea caz ?i eventuale alte cazuri în care copii români au fost "adopta?i" de familii din Germania, lucru interzis prin lege. Cazul minorei Nicoleta Trif, ?inut? f?r? forme legale de o familie din Bavaria de mai bine de trei ani, a ajuns în aten?ia vicepre?edintelui Bundestag-ului, cel mai înalt for executiv din Germania. Susanne Kastner a f?cut o vizit? de trei zile la Timi?oara, Buzia? ?i Lipova unde a vizitat câteva centre pentru minori. La Timi?oara aceasta a avut o consultare privat? cu pre?edintele CJ Timi?, Constantin Ostaficiuc, prefectul de Timi?, Mircea B?cal? ?i cu directorul Direc?ie pentru Protec?ia Copilului Timi?, Rodica Negrea. Kastner a declarat c? este un act ilegal ac?iunea familiei Biemueller, cea care o ?ine practic sechestrat? pe micu?a din Giulv?z înc? din anul 2006. În toat? aceast? adop?ie mascat?, vinovate au c?zut Estera Schweitzer ?i Annelise Jugu, cet??ene româno-germane, care nu au f?cut altceva decât s? pun? în leg?tur? familia din Germania care de?ine feti?a cu familia natural? din România. IMPLICARE OFICIAL? Susanne Kastner a declarat în exclusivitate pentru Jurnalul Na?ional c? din punctul ei de vedere feti?a este ?inut? ilegal în Germania ?i c? în privin?a procesului în care sunt acuzate cele dou? cet??ene româno-germane pentru intermedierea copilului, Estera Schweitzer ?i Annelise Jugu, ea nu se poate pronun?a, deoarece în Germania puterile legislativ?, executiv? ?i judec?toreasc? sunt strict separate, iar politicienii nu au dreptul s? intervin? în actul de justi?ie. "Doamna Kastner a fost foarte ferm? ?i a spus c? trebuie aplicat? legea. Adop?iile interna?ionale din România sunt ilegale. Ea a condamnat atât familia german? care a acceptat s? pl?teasc? ni?te bani pentru a ?ine acest copil în Germania, cât ?i familia natural? a feti?ei care a acceptat s? î?i vând? copilul. Cât despre persoana care se presupune c? a f?cut tranzac?ia am în?eles c? va fi condamnat? în Germania. Noi am cerut s? ni se transmit? sentin?a ?i documenta?ia ?i nou? în România. Kastner a fost de acord cu propunerea noastr? de a trimite în Germania un psiholog vorbitor de limba german?, de la Direc?ia pentru Protec?ia Copilului Timi?, pentru a evalua situa?ia ?i pentru a plasa copilul într-o familie sigur?, undeva feti?a s? poat? vorbi în german?. Doamna Kastner nu a f?cut nici un fel de presiuni ?i a cerut s? se lucreze pe lege", ne-a declarat Constantin Ostaficiuc, pre?edintele CJ Timi?. ADOP?IE ILEGAL? Prefectul de Timi?, Mircea B?cal?, a avut ?i el o întrevedere cu vicepre?edintele Bundestag-ului, pe aceea?i tem?. "Doamna Kastner a spus ?i ea c? aceast? form? de adop?ie este ilegal?. A mai întrebat dac? plasamentul feti?ei se poate face la familia din Germania, îns? Rodica Negrea, directoarea Direc?iei de Protec?ie a Copilului, i-a explicat c? acest lucru este ilegal ?i c? plasamentul se poate face doar la o familie din România. Întâi copilul va fi luat la o familie de plasament din Germania, apoi va fi adus? la o familie de plasament din România, tot vorbitori de limba german?. Apoi, cu ajutorul unui psiholog, copilul va fi integrat încet, încet, în familia natural?", a declarat prefectul de Timi?, Mircea B?cal?.

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Mail Teeven to RP: VVD does not agree with you about subsidiarity

Teeven F.

Sat, 6 Jun 2009, 13:00

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Geachte mw. Post,

Dank voor uw mail van gisteren. Het zal U bekend zijn dat de VVD van mening is dat uw uitleg een onjuiste uitleg is van het subsidiariteitsbeginsel.

US urged to abandon ageing flood defences in favour of Dutch system

US urged to abandon ageing flood defences in favour of Dutch system
The US must adopt an integrated model of water management like the Netherlands, says New Orleans senator Mary Landrieu
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guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 June 2009 18.30 BST
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Water slams over the side of a levee near the Industrial Canal in New Orleans during Hurricane Gustav. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP
America, now entering its hurricane season, was today urged to abandon the outmoded "patch and pray" system of levees – whose failure magnified the devastation of Hurricane Katrina – and borrow from the Dutch model of dykes and water management.
Mary Landrieu, a senator from New Orleans who was brought to tears during a helicopter tour of the destruction of 2005, said America needed to rethink its entire approach to low-lying coastal areas and adopt an integrated model of water management like that of the Netherlands.
The US has budgeted $14bn since Katrina to shore up the flood defences of Louisiana and other low-lying areas. "I believe I have found a great model that will work for protecting the people of Louisiana and the people of the Gulf coast," she told reporters.
Louisiana's ageing flood controls rely on a series of levees along the Mississippi river built over the past 80 years by the Army Corps of Engineers.
In the Netherlands, water management is incorporated into urban planning, taking into account parks and other open public spaces that could function as safety reservoirs in case of floods, and also barrier islands and wetlands.
"They have engineers and architects that build a flood control system that is integrated into the landscape," Landrieu said. "We have a one-size-fits-all military model that is out of date – building levees – when we should be managing water."
The Dutch also build to a far higher standard of preparedness than in the US, with structures designed to hold up in even the most extreme storms and flooding conditions. "The system we have now in South Louisiana and in some measures in much of the country is unsustainable," Landrieu said. "It is literally a patch-and-pray system and it doesn't even try to patch us to the same level that is customary in other parts of the world.
Landrieu was speaking on her second visit to the Netherlands to study water management since Katrina, and said she planned to ask Congress to approve funds to improve water management along the Gulf Coast.
This week marks the start of the hurricane season in the Americas. The US government's forecasting agency, Noaa, said there was a 70% chance of having nine to 14 named storms this season. As many as three of those storms could develop into major hurricanes, ranked category three or higher.
Katrina was only a category three storm when it made landfall in August 2005, but it was America's deadliest hurricane. The flood control system was breached at more than 50 places in New Orleans, leaving 80% of the city underwater for weeks. More than 1,800 people were killed; others were stranded for days without food or drinking water in sweltering temperatures, producing searing images of a human catastrophe and government failure.
Since Katrina, the senator has fought back hard against the idea – expressed repeatedly since 2005 – that New Orleans and the other low-lying regions of her home state are unsustainable, and that the population should ultimately be moved to higher ground.
Instead, she argued today that a redesign of the infrastructure for water management be extended from Louisiana to other low-lying coastal areas at risk of hurricanes, such as parts of Florida and Georgia.
Dutch officials contacted Landrieu soon after Katrina, saying there were strong geographic parallels between Louisiana and Netherlands. Both are low-lying coastal areas. Both host major ports, and both have experienced devastating floods; the Netherlands lost 2,000 people in 1953.
More than a quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level; Louisiana is 16% water, with the land sliced up by lakes, bayous, canals and the Mississippi river.
The Netherlands, though smaller, has a far more extensive network of flood protections. Louisiana has about 2,200 miles of flood walls and control structures, while the Netherlands has about 1,860 miles of outer-sea dykes and 6,200 miles of river dykes and canal walls.
Flood control systems in the Netherlands are built to withstand storms of a severity seen once in 10,000 years; in the US the levees are built to stand up to storms of a severity anticipated once in a century.
Landrieu was accompanied by the chairman of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, who comes from the lower ninth ward of New Orleans, the worst affected area by the storm.
Landrieu declined to give an estimate of the costs involved of changing America's approach to water management. "It's going to be in the billions but we are spending billions now," she said. "My effort here is to spend it better and get a safe result."

Rescue centre offers Kenyan orphans a good future

Rescue centre offers Kenyan orphans a good future
2:20pm Thursday 4th June 2009
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A RESCUE centre and health clinic for orphaned girls in Kenya has officially opened after years of fundraising by people in Oxfordshire.
Kenya Children Centres chief fundraiser Gay Goodall, 61, from Warborough, near Wallingford, flew out to Ngoingwa, 40 miles north of Nairobi, to mark the event last month.
'At last, all our efforts are beginning to pay off'
Gay Goodall
The Ngoingwa Centre for Good Future provides round-the-clock care for 120 girls and includes a health clinic and community centre for local people.
The accommodation is a lifeline for the orphans, who could otherwise end up abused, uneducated and destitute. Many of their counterparts are forced to work in the sex industry.
During her visit Ms Goodall unveiled a plaque in memory of her late husband Bernard Goodall, one of the first supporters of the project, who died in 2005.
Fellow trustees and Warborough residents Wilf and Liz Eaton also unveiled a plaque in one of the accommodation blocks to mark their contribution to the centre.
Ms Goodall helped raise £25,000 of the £80,000 it cost to build the centre. She became involved in the campaign after a family friend, married to a Kenyan, highlighted the problems of orphaned girls in the country.
She said: “At last, all our efforts are beginning to pay off, and thanks to some fantastic work from our supporters and local companies, the girls can now start to build themselves a decent future, and when they leave our centre can help other, local orphan girls near Nairobi who are suffering.”
The opening ceremony was attended by more than 200 people, including the mayor of Ngoingwa, and attracted national press and TV coverage. The girls sang, danced and read poetry for the occasion.
The girls are accommodated two to a room and mentored by a house ‘mother’ who follows their development until they are ready to leave.
Businesswoman Ms Goodall said: “By building up their confidence and offering regular medical attention and schooling, the young girls get a lifeline and a decent start in life. It’s something often unavailable for many of their peers who are forced to live in degrading circumstances on the margins of society, facing abuse and exploitation in a country riven by poverty and social conflict.”
To sponsor a child at the orphanage, call Ms Goodall on 01865 258651. Any donations to the charity will be used to feed, care for and educate the orphans.
For further information, visit kenyachildrencentres.com

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Sollen homosexuelle Paare Kinder adoptieren dürfen?
Auch wenn bei den Christopher Street Paraden wieder schön die Sonne scheint: Schwule und Lesben in Deutschland sind noch immer nicht gleichberechtigt.
Ohne Mann hätte er gute Chancen auf eine Adoption, mit Mann weniger: Ross Antony küsst seinen Lebensgefährten.    Foto: dpa
Auch vierzig Jahre nach dem Aufruhr im "Stonewall Inn" in der New Yorker Christopher Street - Geburtststunde der modernen Nachkriegs-Homobewegung – müssen Lesben und Schwule weiterhin für ihre rechtliche Gleichstellung kämpfen. Weltweit. Und, was viele überraschen mag, auch in Deutschland: Vor allem beim Thema Kinder und deren Adoption weist das hierzulande geltende Lebenspartnerschaftsgesetz noch große Lücken in Sachen Gerechtigkeit auf.
Für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare existiert ein eingeschränktes Adoptionsrecht. Nach diesem ist nur einer der Lebenspartner berechtigt, ein fremdes Kind – beziehungsweise das des Partners (Stiefkindadoption) – zu adoptieren. Die gemeinsame Adoption ist hingegen nicht möglich. Hier werden Schwule und Lesben gegenüber heterosexuellen Paaren ganz klar benachteiligt.
 
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In anderen Ländern ist man da schon weiter. So dürfen zum Beispiel in mehreren Bundesstaaten Australiens und den USA schwule oder lesbische Pärchen problemlos ein fremdes Kind adoptieren. In Europa ist die gemeinschaftliche Adoption in Belgien, Dänemark, Großbritannien, Island, Niederlande, Norwegen, Schweden und sogar dem erzkatholischen Spanien legal.
In Deutschland wird es gleichgeschlechtlichen Paaren dagegen schwer gemacht. Besonders aus kirchlichen Kreisen ist oft mit Nachdruck zu hören: wer das Wohl des Kindes im Auge habe, dürfe Homosexuellen keine Adoption erlauben. Kinder könnten sich nicht richtig entwickeln, wenn ihnen der Einfluss der väterlichen oder mütterlichen Seite fehle, so die Argumentation – was allerdings zu beweisen wäre.
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Adoptions of Abandoned Children Halted by Ethiopian Court

On May 4, 2009 the Ethiopian First Instance Court temporarily stopped

New Orphanage Partnership

June 09, 2008
New Orphanage Partnership
We are excited to announce our new partnership with Gelgela Orphanage.  They are located a few miles from our Transitional Home and have already referred children to our Agency. Gelgela orphanage is expanding its projects (education & children sponsorship) in southern and northern Ethiopia. We are honored to support them in their new sponsorship program in Gojam (North Ethiopia).

Lafarge and CARE sign a three-year partnership agreement

Lafarge and CARE sign a three-year partnership agreement

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Date 06/02/2009

Lafarge and CARE announce their new partnership, which is a three-year agreement. For this occasion, a press conference was held today, in the presence of Arielle de Rothschild, Chair of CARE France, and Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO of Lafarge.

A partnership that transcends the CSR discussion