Tilbagekaldelse af tilladelse til at yde adoptionshjælp vedrørende børn med bopæl i Sydafrika 

Jeg har i dag truffet afgørelse om at stoppe adoptionsformidlingen af børn fra Sydafrika. 

Da Danish International Adoption (DIA) fortsat har tilladelse til at yde adoptionshjælp vedrørende børn fra udlandet, og da tilladelsen vedrørende Sydafrika er givet til DIA, betyder dette, at DIA ikke længere kan bistå ansøgere med at gennemføre en adoption fra Sydafrika. Det betyder således også, at der efter DIAs ophør ikke foreligger tilladelse til at yde adoptionshjælp vedrørende Sydafrika. 

Sending unwanted offspring abroad, bringing desired children to Switzerland – since the 1950s, Switzerland has been involved in a systematic child transfer.

Shortly :

• Between the 1970s and the early 2000s, around 2,200 children were adopted from India.
• Reports confirm systematic child trafficking and failures of the Swiss authorities.
• Documented irregularities include missing signatures and contradictory information.
• To make their work easier, officials noted “mother unknown” on numerous birth certificates.

Some were found on the streets, others were taken to children's homes by relatives - many were taken away from their mothers immediately after birth.

By Lumka Oliphant

• South Africa’s adoption framework may change as key international partners withdraw from inter-country adoption.
• The Netherlands and Denmark have informed the country of their plans to phase out adoptions from South Africa by 2025,citing challenges in tracing biological parents as a key factor. 
• This shift will force South Africa to bolster its domestic adoption program,which has already identified irregularities in the private adoption sector.

South Africa will soon need to strengthen its national adoption program as countries are beginning to withdraw from the inter-country program. This was revealed by social workers during the review of the social development Integrated Justice System (IJS) program underway in Cape Town underway this week.

Dr Tebogo Mabe, Director Adoption Services at the department of social development revealed that the Netherlands and Denmark have written to the department informing it of their intention to stop accepting adoptions from South Africa.  “We have been a sending country to these countries and we have received a notice from these countries of this intention,” said Mabe.

Although, this was not unique to South Africa but a trend globally, he said these trends are giving South Africa an opportunity to strengthen its national adoption program.  He revealed that the two countries did not have too many children adopted from South Africa but they received their notices of intention.  He said the Netherlands has informed the department that it intends to go to its Parliament in September and will take a phased in approach which should  end the program by the end of 2025.

Legal requirements were systematically ignored in adoptions from India, and to this day it is not clear who the mothers were. A new study shows that the authorities knew about it and did nothing.

For decades, the overwhelming desire of Swiss couples to have children meant that babies were separated from their mothers in other parts of the world.

Now, a new research study commissioned by the cantons of Zurich and Thurgau shows that in the 1980s and 1990s, India was the most important country of origin for babies who came from abroad to married couples in Switzerland. 

Between 1979 and 2002, a total of 2,278 babies were brought from India to Switzerland.

Until now, adoptions from Sri Lanka have been the main topic of discussion, with several scientific studies revealing actual child trafficking and proving major legal irregularities.

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05 juillet 2008

Jean Guyot ou comment faire l'Europe avec la banque Lazard

Poursuivons notre grande saga européenne, avec cette fois-ci une sorte de zoom sur un illustre inconnu du grand public, qui pourtant est typique de cette atmosphère étrange de laquelle a émergé l’Europe. Zoom, donc, sur Jean Guyot, un personnage qui a allègrement mêlé les affaires et la construction européenne, proche de Monnet et Schuman, associé gérant de la banque Lazard. Un des fans de la technique du tourniquet, en somme…

Jean Guyot : ce personnage fait partie de ce que je qualifierais de « nébuleuse Monnet », c’est-à-direJeanguyot les hommes qu’on voit dans l’orbite de Monnet, le « père de l’Europe » selon la messe en vigueur depuis 60 ans maintenant, mais aussi –avec d’autres- de la Société des Nations, la SND qui devait nous empêcher de faire la deuxième guerre mondiale. Peu connu de ceux qui ne cherchent pas des poux à l’Europe qu’on nous a construite, Guyot est symptomatique d’un certain système fort peu démocratique : l’Europe.

On 27 May 2024, the Council has adopted new rules to reinforce the fight against trafficking in human beings. These rules provide stronger tools for law enforcement and judicial authorities to investigate and prosecute new forms of exploitation, including those that take place online and will ensure a higher level of assistance and support to victims.

The adoption includes the following measures:

• EU countries will be required to include the exploitation of surrogacy, of forced marriage, and of illegal adoption as forms of exploitation explicitly covered by the definition of trafficking in human beings in their national law;
• Trafficking committed through the use of information and communication technologies will be considered as an aggravating circumstance when it relates to sexual exploitation, which means that it can lead to higher penalties;
• EU countries will be required to establish Formal Referral Mechanisms, enhancing early identification and assistance of victims, as well as single national focal points, which will form the basis of a European Referral Mechanism;
• The knowing use of services provided by trafficking victims will become a criminal offence, with the aim of reducing the demand that fosters trafficking;
• National Anti-Trafficking Coordinators will be established, and Member States will also have the possibility to designate independent bodies. The adoption and regular updates of National Action Plans will also become mandatory;
• EU-wide data collection on trafficking in human beings based on specific indicators will become mandatory and will be published annually by Eurostat.

Lawyer, Arizona elected official and former missionary to the Marshall Islands Paul Petersen has received six years in federal prison from the state of Arkansas for arranging illegal adoptions of Marshallese babies. He still faces up to 31.5 years more in total from trials in Utah and Arizona for the same crimes. 

Timothy Banks, a federal judge in Arkansas, handed Petersen the sentence over video.

Petersen’s crime involved the illegal transport of individuals into the U.S. for private profit. There were estimated to be at least 70 cases, from which he took in over $2.7 million from adoptive parents.

Petersen claimed that he did not know what he did was illegal. However, he gave statements to government officials which he knew to be false in several states while arranging adoptions. Statements included dates of mothers’ arrivals and residencies.
 

Further discrediting the claim of ignorance is that the defendant also was a practicing attorney who was for six years the assessor for the Phoenix metro area. Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the U.S.
 

She provides a secure nest for abandoned, lost and orphaned children

Rewati Rau

This little bespectacled girl is all of two. She likes meeting people but is too shy. Try picking her up, and she’ll jump right out of your arms. Tanu (name changed) is among the group of 23 children who are part of the Welfare Home for Children in Sarita Vihar. Mostly in the age group of 0-8 years. A few are orphans here, there are others who are lost and some have just been abandoned by their parents for various reasons.

Set up in 1979 by Achla Khanna, Welfare Home for Children has been giving shelter to such children from across the city for the last four decades.

Police said, they got a tip-off about a gang of women visiting Jagtap dairy area for the sale of an infant

PUNE Wakad police have arrested six women in a child trafficking case in Kalewadi area of Pimpri Chinchwad city on Friday.
Accordingly, police laid that trap and questioned the women who stepped out from two auto rickshaws. As they failed to provide satisfactory answers they were detained. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)

Police said, they got a tip-off about a gang of women visiting Jagtap dairy area for the sale of an infant.

The accused have been identified as Saida Bhimrao Kamble (35) from Shivajinagar; Supriya Sharad Waghmare (39) from Dhankawadi; Lalita Dattatreya Giri Gosavi (45) from Yerawada; Afarin Danesh Sheikh (25) from Hadapsar; Amrin Rahid Sayyad (32) from Yerawada and Asma Javed Sheikh (30) from Hadapsar.

During investigation police recovered conversations about the deal and they had also shared photos of the infants.

The Search For My Daughter’s Birth Mom

“In 2013, on a dusty, deserted road in Southern Ethiopia, four of us headed deep into a village in search of my daughter’s birthmother. Navigating the bumps and dodging an occasional goat, Asfaw drove us to where it all began.

As luck would have it, my driver spoke the language of the region as well as Amharic and English, and the older gentleman in the passenger seat beside him held in his lap a large book with the details of hundreds of adoptions. Just a few hours earlier, seated in the garden of the Abebe Zeleke Hotel, he had opened that book and confirmed the information I had been given on my daughter years ago—the name of her mother and the region where she was from. And he knew how to find her. I looked out the window. Despite the aridity, the landscape was lush; replete with the large leaves of the false banana trees. The anticipation was indescribable.

The search for my daughter’s birth mother was more than twice as long as the lengthy process of international adoption (which for me was two years, five months—plus an additional 4 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days waiting for a referral—according to my blog). After not finding success in adopting through the DC foster care system and being dissuaded from pursuing domestic adoption from the agencies themselves, I landed on international adoption, hopeful that I could have an open relationship with my daughter’s Ethiopian family. When I submitted my paperwork to the agency in June 2009, there were a handful of countries open. I chose Ethiopia because I had read the children were well taken care of and the country didn’t appear to be engaging in unethical practices.

I had also spent a month volunteering at an orphanage in Addis Ababa the year before and the experience had been nothing but positive. I loved the country and its people and was beyond excited to have it inextricably woven into my own family fabric. I was aware that some countries had been exposed for coercing or paying birthmothers to give up their children; others flat-out abducting and trafficking kids to meet the demand of families wanting to adopt. But in my research, I hadn’t heard of such things happening in Ethiopia. In addition, the agency I chose was recommended to me by an adoptive mom who said they facilitated birth mother introductions and she believed them to be above board. Satisfied, I forged ahead, open to a boy or a girl from birth to age 3.