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Al veertig jaar hopen Braziliaanse moeders op vergiffenis na schimmige adoptieprocedures - NRC (For 40 years, Brazilian mothers have been hoping for forgiveness after shady adoption procedures - NRC)

Foreign adoption Brazil For years, foreign adoptions took place in Brazil under shadowy and illegal circumstances. The Brazilian-Dutch foundation PDBH uses DNA testing to help Brazilian mothers and adopted children in the Netherlands find each other.

With a cotton swab, Liza da Silva-Alijaj carefully scrapes some mucus from the inside of Raimunda Aparecida Vieira da Silva's (54) mouth. She hands the DNA swab to her colleague, who carefully puts it away. “Parabens mamae! Congratulations mom!” exclaims Alijaj. There is loud applause and cheering and Raimunda sighs deeply. “I suddenly feel much lighter, like a weight has been lifted off my shoulder,” she says. "This DNA test is my last hope to find my son."

The next mom sits down, opens her mouth, and gets the swab pressed against the inside of her cheeks.

In the auditorium of the parliament building of the state of São Paulo, Brazilian women who gave their child for adoption in the 1980s and 1990s come and go these days. They were often underage, poor and had unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is forbidden in religious Brazil. Under pressure from family or authorities, they renounced their child – sometimes without realizing it themselves. There are also cases in Brazil of children being stolen from hospitals. For years, foreign adoptions took place under shadowy and illegal circumstances where shady organizations and individuals earned a lot of money, as a subsequent investigation has shown.

The ministry, we learn, is calling the families that previously adopted children from the Congo and announcing the visit of social workers

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On Monday, adoptive parents of children from the DR Congo started receiving calls from the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy announcing the visits of employees of the Centers for Social Welfare in the coming days. These social workers should see for themselves the conditions in which the children who were adopted from the Congo live, that is, how they coped after arriving in Croatia.

This is a new move by the Ministry after the affair with the adoption of children from Africa broke out.

Advancing a Child Rights Informed Approach to Antislavery Policy and Practice

Event date

24 April 2023

Event time

13:00 - 14:30

Minister Nasser Bourita of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans living abroad has explained the "kidnapping" of Moroccan children by Swedish social services to place them in Christian or gay foster homes.

Member of Parliament Abdellah Bouanou of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) posed a written question to Minister Nasser Bourita about "the agony of the Moroccan diaspora in Sweden, with regard to discrimination and the 'kidnapping' of children, to bring them into Christian or homosexual foster homes." The head of Moroccan diplomacy replied that, according to unofficial estimates, these are the children of several dozen Moroccan families. Only two children of Moroccan families were taken away from their families by Swedish social services and placed in foster care, Hespress reports .

Bourita assured that his service has been following the file "with great interest" and through the Moroccan embassy in Sweden, which is in contact with the Moroccan diaspora in the country, to inquire about the cases of Moroccan children removed from their families. "In addition, the Moroccan representation has contacted the two families involved, as well as their relatives in Morocco , to follow them closely," the foreign minister added. The Moroccan diplomatic services' investigation found that the phenomenon is explained by "the non-assimilation of the country's laws by a significant number of newcomers to Sweden."

The written question to the head of Moroccan diplomacy follows a controversy stemming from accusations against the Swedish authorities by Muslim associations. According to the latter, the Swedish authorities kidnap Muslim children and place them with Christian or gay families. The allegations have been denied by the Swedish authorities and the ambassadors of the Muslim countries involved.

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They went through a series of artificial insemination procedures • They started adoption • When they hugged their adopted daughter for the first time, everything fell into place. Now they are waiting for the trial to start and hope to return home with the little girl

After five years of relationship, Azra and Zoki decided that they needed help in having a child, and then started artificial insemination. After two operations and seven embryo transfers, great disappointments and emotional and physical exhaustion, they decided to give up. It was a very difficult period for them, their whole life revolved only around that, hormones had a strong effect on Azra's physical and mental state, it was impossible for her not to feel guilty whenever the pregnancy test came out negative, even though she rationally knew that the fault is not theirs. While they were still in the process of medically assisted fertilization, they started talking about how adoption might be a better option. They really wanted to start a family, they were thinking all the time about how they would raise the child, where they would take him, how they would enjoy together. At that time, all of Azra's closest friends had children, with whom she and Zoki spent a lot of time. I will never forget the moment when they definitely decided - they were sitting by the sea and Zoki said to Azra: 'If we adopt a child, little feet could be running around here already next summer', exclusively in 24 hours she began the story of her daughter and son-in-law's difficult journey to child Ivana, mother of Azra Imamovi? Suboši?, who together with her husband Zoran and three other couples were arrested in Zambia on suspicion of child trafficking.

'They were ready to adopt a child with health problems'

Her daughter and son-in-law are not allowed to appear in the media, but she wanted the public to know what they went through in order to have a child and how they were looking forward to the little girl they adopted from the DR Congo, whom Ivana has been calling her granddaughter for a long time, and how much it is difficult for her because of her daughter and son-in-law, she also suffers so much for her granddaughter, who is somewhere in Zambia, about whom she knows nothing.

He continues the story by saying how Azra and Zoki decided to adopt a child after returning from the sea.

A newborn was left in one of Italy's safe haven baby boxes over Easter, sparking a fierce debate around motherhood and women's rights in the country.

In Italy, a woman who -- for whatever reason -- decides she can't take care of her baby can leave it in a safe haven baby box, in complete anonymity.

It’s increasingly rare for Italian women to choose this option, but it still happens.

Over Easter, one woman decided to anonymously drop her baby boy into such a box at one of Milan’s biggest hospitals, Policlinico di Milano.

Many would say the event should have been private, as the concept of anonymity suggests.

Opaque international adoption procedures have led to a family drama: children separated from their parents, siblings scattered all over the world and lives wrecked. Corrupt networks facilitate these illegal adoptions. Today, the law has been revised to better protect children and families, and separated children are trying to reunite with their families.

By Nadia Raonimanalina and Elise Nandrasanela

2017-014 Law of 6 July 2017 defines the procedures, general terms, conditions, financial contributions related to adoption. The rationale for this law states that “Adoption is a measure of child protection when a child cannot grow up in his or her family of origin or cannot be entrusted to a member of his or her extended family or to a substitute family, such as a foster family.”

In the child’s best interests and with respect for his or her fundamental rights, adoption provides a child deprived of family and parental care with a permanent and definitive solution for growing up in a family environment. However, the response to the child’s right must be first and foremost a national solution so that the break with the child’s environment of origin is limited as much as possible.

Can we still talk about the best interests of the child and the respect of his or her rights if the latter has been taken away from his or her biological parents with a view to adoption and the related procedures have been ambiguous? Between national or international involuntary adoption and child trafficking, there are only narrow boundaries.

AMADEA, an NGO founded in 1986, Authorized Body for Adoption (OAA) authorized for Madagascar since 1990 and member of the French Federation of OAA (FOAA), found itself confronted and attacked head on by what seems to be a network of illegal adoption in the region of Toamasina (Tamatave) in Madagascar.

The French adoption organization has signed a partnership agreement with the Nomena center which takes in abandoned children on this part of the island.

Nôry, a 2.5-year-old girl, is one of these children and her judgment of adoption by a French family is pronounced on 5/11/2003. It will only be notified 2.5 months later (legal appeal period: one month).

In January 2004, an illegal network, orchestrated in all likelihood by a couple of Franco-Malagasy restaurateurs neighboring the children's institution, came to the fore. The man, Mr AA, a Malagasy jurist, is an ambitious political figure, his companion, Mrs FC, is French. They take care together of the management of a hotel located a few hundred meters from the center. Without it being possible to identify the origin of the rumour, many in Mahambo believe that they are responsible for the center. Fraudulently pretending to be someone close to Amadea, it was therefore not difficult for Madame to show the center to candidates looking for children to adopt.

For a few months, in fact since the electoral campaign for the municipal councils, the Malagasy Association which manages the center was opposed to its former director dismissed from his functions following serious shortcomings, busy as he was leading the electoral campaign of Mr. AA. The dismissed former director then never ceased to file complaints against the staff and officials of the Malagasy association, citing in particular abuse of children (while it was at the time of the facts that he denounced, himself the first local official!). This layoff was the subject of an agreement signed by the 2 parties on 6 Nov 03.

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand high court has ordered that a baby girl born to a minor rape survivor be "retrieved" from her adoptive parents in Uttar Pradesh and handed back to her biological mother. The direction came following a petition by the woman, now 21 years old, who told the court that both she and the accused, whom she later married and who is currently serving a 10-year-sentence for rape, want their child back.

The woman had given birth to the baby in February 2019 and the child welfare committee (CWC), with the consent of the survivor's parents, had then handed over the newborn to a family in Mau, Uttar Pradesh. An FIR against the man had been lodged in the matter on February 26 that year, a day after the woman, 17 years old then, had delivered the child.

During trial in the district court, the woman said that she was having an affair with the accused man, who was 22 at that time, from her village and got pregnant. He had promised to marry her but then "disappeared". On August 20, 2020, the special court of Uttarkashi sentenced the accused to 10 years in jail after holding him guilty of rape under relevant sections of the Pocso Act.

In the meantime, the parents of the survivor had handed over the child to CWC on March 12, 2019. Later, the baby was adopted by a family in Mau. But things took a dramatic turn after that. First, the woman and the accused together moved the HC seeking short-term bail for the man so that they could marry. The court allowed that and granted bail for 45 days on August 4, 2021. After the survivor married the rape accused, the couple once again approached the HC to get their child back.

After hearing the matter, the court ordered that the child be brought back from Mau and given back to the biological parents. The order was passed on January 30 this year, but a copy was made available only on Wednesday. The court had on January 12 this year asked SSP Uttarkashi to submit a report regarding the whereabouts of the toddler, "as the mother was keen on a reunion". On January 16, when a sub-inspector submitted the report, justice Sharad Kumar Sharma got upset and said, "When the court had issued a specific direction to the SSP to submit a report, he couldn't have delegated his powers to the sub-inspector."