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Looking for answers: Two Scandinavian women search for their roots in Bangladesh

Two women, Asha and Elisabeth, were born in Bangladesh but moved to Europe in the 1970s as infants, after being adopted by a Danish and Norwegian couple respectively. All these years later, they are on a mission in their birthplace to trace their roots

 

Asha holds a childhood picture of herself while exploring the Old Railway Station in Dolkhola, Khulna, where she was found by someone named Dolly Mondol. Photo: Mehedi Hasan

Asha holds a childhood picture of herself while exploring the Old Railway Station in Dolkhola, Khulna, where she was found by someone named Dolly Mondol. Photo: Mehedi Hasan

 

Elisabeth wanted to know the truth about her own adoption. After two years of searching, she was not only reunited with her mother, but she also found an unknown adoption archive.

Illegal adoptions


 

In January 2022, Elisabeth Fjalsett (49) and her husband Henrik Fjalsett are at home in Arendal when they watch the documentary series "Norway Behind the Facade" about Norwegian foreign adoptions.  


 

The program uncovers several objectionable aspects of adoptions from abroad. Both unethical and criminal methods have been used to find children who are later adopted to Norway. 

Kalyan Illegal Adoption Case: Baby sold for one lakh due to financial hardship, deal made within the premises of the Tehsil office

Kalyan Tehsil Office: Baby sold for lakhs at Kalyan Tehsildar's office; Is repeated abortions a life-threatening situation?


Dombivli: She had two miscarriages earlier, and if she has a child, her life is in danger….so the baby deal…and that too within the premises of the Kalyan Tehsil office… an attempt to buy and sell a newborn baby has been exposed. In this regard, a case has been registered at the Titwala Taluka Police Station against the child’s parents and the couple who are preparing to adopt the child illegally. The police have registered a case based on the complaint filed by the District Women and Child Development Department and started an investigation.

The action was taken based on information received through the Child Helpline of Thane District Women and Child Development Department. The parents of the child confessed to the police that they were selling the child for Rs 1 lakh due to their financial situation.

Immediate action is taken if the adoption process of young children is implemented illegally through the District Women and Child Development Department. In this way, the coordinating officer of the District Women and Child Development Department had received information about the Child Helpline. Upon learning that a couple was coming to the Kalyan Tehsil Office to prepare mutual documents to implement the adoption process of a child, Shraddha Narkar, coordinator of Thane District City Child Helpline, immediately reached the Kalyan Tehsil Office. It was noticed that a couple was present there to adopt their child to another couple. Since this was a serious matter, Shraddha Narkar took help from the local Mahatma Phule Chowk police.

The baby is safe with his mother Ashish from Dombivli.

Romanian Parliament - Ralu Filipe - Elena Bustea

GOOGLE TRANSLATION:
 
 
Dear colleagues,

Parliamentary groups of the Greater Romania Party in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will vote against the candidacy of Mr. Ralu Filip the high dignity of the president of the National Council of Broadcasting, for several reasons. First, he has no specific training function that concern, no vocation of such a mission, not a man of no radio, no television man, no man of film, no man of the theater, no expert communications, and the certificate of revolutionary, you do not know how to obtain, can not replace the knowledge of specialty and general involved in the coordination of Romanian broadcasting. Moreover, in 2001, Mr. Ralu Filip had plenty of money in public television, as the moderator of "Brief on two" încasând from TVR amounts too large in comparison to low production audience question.

The contract of cooperation signed by Mr. Philip with Romanian Television provide for payment of not less than 1923 dollars per month for "artistic interpretation of roles to show Horia conducted by Romanescu, whose show was moderated itself Ralu Filip. Rating issue was very small for prime time. Despite sus?inerilor fanteziste the moderator, that the audience was close to the show "Surprise, surprise," about it summarizes the entire experience of Mr. Filip audiovisual collection of the important amounts of pay TVR, ie from public money, or, more explicitly, the taxpayers pocket for some benefits of a quality television doubtful.

In connection with your work from 1990 - 1991, it is true, Mr. Philip, that period, you have dealt with international adoption, as procurator of some foreign families, you've written a series of favorable articles in the newspaper that work, "Curierul National", and that you received a car from several Italian families, as a reward for services too?

As further proof that you are not as clean as you claim, reproduce an excerpt from a report prepared in 1999 by two senior officers, which incriminates that you have taken 5,000 U.S. dollars bribe the mafia traffickers of children. At that time, you publicly accuse him of breach of law officers from the brigade combat organized crime, which deals with the illegal copies and file them instrumentaser? a lawyer Ileana Busta, which, by Irene Foundation, was an important link in export of Romanian children. Financial interests were so high that the honest officers who wanted to punish the perpetrators triggered a campaign of intimidation by Colonel Albu, brigade commander, the top leadership of the Ministry of Interior, particularly General Mircea Muresan, the frames of the Prosecutor General, etc..

As shown in the report, "political structures of the time they tried mu?amalizarea case, sending it to resolve Col. Albu, which has to gird and more spirits and increase pressure on officers. They have used the press to television. This includes the role Ralu Filip journalist who was bribed by lawyer Scott Busta and its foundation, led to a television broadcast on Dudu Ionescu COMPLAINTS to officers for indiscipline, for violations of work rules, requiring sending them Prosecutor on hand, and what has happened. " Here's criminal profile of the person waiting today for the vote to be elected president of CNA!

Greater Romania Party Calls imperative that Mr. Ralu Filip, here's to us clearly what is true of these allegations and why did not, until now, no reply and explanations. Nomination dumisale by PSD is a recognition of a career exception or, conversely, is a reward for role in the abolition of OTV, the most balanced television that has existed in the Romanian broadcasting landscape?

Sir Philip, You said, not long ago that the PRM parliamentarians would not have the moral capacity to decide in a matter related to the essential restriction of freedom of expression. Now is our turn, representatives of the strongest opposition party, to say openly that you do not have the moral capacity to lead the National Council of Broadcasting. Accordingly, the parliamentarians vote Greater Romania Party will be a negative one! (Applause in the stormy Group PRM)
 

François de Combret, the man in the shadows who propelled Bernard Arnault towards the LVMH empire

François de Combret, the man in the shadows who propelled Bernard Arnault
towards the LVMH empire
A collaborator of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and partner at Lazard, François de Combret
died on October 8 at the age of 84. His role in Bernard Arnault's acquisition of Boussac in
1984, as well as his advice to African leaders alongside George Soros, reveals a troubled
man. An investigation.

She was adopted into an abusive home in the US. Decades later, ICE deported her back to Brazil

It sounded like freedom, like a world of possibility beyond the orphanage walls.

Maria Pires was getting adopted. At 11 years old, she saw herself escaping the chaos and violence of the Sao Paulo orphanage, where she’d been sexually assaulted by a staff member. She saw herself leaving Brazil for America, trading abandonment for belonging.

A single man in his 40s, Floyd Sykes III, came to Sao Paulo to meet her. He signed some paperwork and brought Maria home.

She arrived in the suburbs of Baltimore in the summer of 1989, a little girl with a tousle of dark hair, a nervous smile and barely a dozen words of English. The sprawling subdivision looked idyllic, with rows of modest brick townhouses and a yard where she could play soccer.

She was, she believed, officially an American.

Woman who claims she was forced to give up her baby for adoption, settles High Court case

The alleged removal of her baby from her in 1980, it was claimed, has had lifelong adverse effects on the woman


A woman who claims she was forced to give up her child for adoption as an unmarried mother in a mother and baby home has settled her High Court action.

The woman was not in the High Court as the settlement of her case was announced. Her counsel, Conor Power SC instructed by McGuigan Solicitors, told the High Court on Thursday that the woman who is now a pensioner is "a very vulnerable individual". 

Counsel told Mr Justice Paul Coffey the court had given the sides time and the case had been resolved after mediation. The case is believed to be the first of several similar actions expected before the courts.


Sources have indicated there are a number of cases in the pipeline relating to alleged forced or alleged illegal adoption and relating to events in the 1980s and as far back as the 1940s. The cases are understood to be complex involving significant issues.