Zwolle - “Adoption is only about the adoptive parents, the child is forgotten,” says adoption coach and adopted Soorien Zeldenrust. This month is Adoption Awareness Month. An important month for Soorien Zeldenrust, but an ordinary month for Rosa Bouw.

ANNO is a museum for and by Zwollenaren. In the exhibition about freedom, Soorien skews her story about adoption. “It is imposed on us by society that we should be grateful because we have been 'saved' by our adoptive parents,” says Soorien. According to her, there is often no room for the adoptee to indicate that they are struggling with a piece of grief, for example. Soorien is an expert in the field of adoption and is also adopted herself.

Soorien says she is not in favor of adoption. "It is a loss for both the biological mother and the child." According to Soorien, parents must first process their own trauma, for example that they will never be able to have children. If that fails, there are expectations that the adopted child can never live up to. “The wish for a child is simply not replaceable, and neither is the biological parent,” emphasizes Soorien. “It is really important that adoptive parents understand that it is not their child. Perhaps on paper, but the child will always keep a soul connection with the biological mother. ”

Rosa was adopted just like Soorien, but she experiences this differently. “I'm not actually working on it at all,” she says. “I don't know my biological parents, they are strange to me”, Rosa says. She is convinced that there would have been room for her at home if she had struggled with her adoption. “My parents have really involved Colombia in our lives,” she says. According to Soorien, it is also very important that the child is given speaking space.

Soorien indicates that the GGD could do more for adopted children. "I would really like it if you go to the GGD again at the age of twelve, sixteenth and eighteenth." She thinks this could have helped her.

At the beginning of this year, Dilani Butink, who was adopted from Sri Lanka in 1992, filed a lawsuit against the state. Butink's adoption papers are forged. She does not know who her real biological family is. And Butink is not alone. Since the 1970s, more than 40,000 children have been adopted from abroad to the Netherlands .

In three previous broadcasts, Zembla showed that adoption papers were forged on a large scale. Babies were taken from hospitals and there were 'baby farms', where babies were born for adoption. Butink blames the state for not intervening. But she lost. Her case is time-barred according to the court. The court bases its judgment on, among other things, the fact that the actions of the state are not 'culpable'. What's up with that? New research by Zembla shows that the abuses had been known for years at various ministries. Even from the late 1970s onwards.

Zembla investigates: What did the Dutch government do with that information?

'Adoption cheating part 4'

Thursday December 3 at 8:25 pm at BNNVARA on NPO2

This article is the first installment in a series about adoptions from Haiti to the U.S., offering perspectives on the process from both countries.

In October, the media spotlight shone on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family of seven children during the judicial confirmation process. Among the children, the two adopted from Haiti — Vivian, 16, and John Peter, 13 — received the most scrutiny.

Probes came from news outlets like The New York Times, which reported that the children were adopted in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, however, the Haitian government has adopted stricter laws to comply with Hague Convention protocols, making international adoption more difficult.

“In the past, anybody could come and adopt a child easily,” said Erick Pierre-Val, a Delmas, Port-au-Prince pastor who counsels parents on the adoption process. “Now, because of the Convention, [they] try to control the process because they care about human trafficking.”

International adoptions to the United States from the rest of the world declined sharply after 2008, when the U.S. government first adopted Hague standards. Haiti itself tightened its laws in 2014 to comply with the Hague Convention, and the steepest decline in adoptions from Haiti took place in 2015.

Nagpur: The crime branch busted a child selling racket and rescued a four-year-old girl, who was going to be sold off for Rs2.5

lakh. Five women and one man were arrested in the daylong action from different places on Saturday.

Prima facie, police feel the racket is part of a bigger illegal surrogacy and adoption racket. The women are hired as surrogate

mothers illegally and deliveries are done clandestinely with the help of doctors at small clinics. More arrests are likely. The

racketeers used Aadhaar card of childless couples to create fake parents of the child in the hospital records.

Today three children came home from Haiti on a special flight. It concerns 3 boys who were taken up for adoption in 3 different families and for whom the adoption procedure went through the Dutch Adoption Foundation (NAS).

The adoption procedure of the affected children in Haiti was completed, but due to travel restrictions due to

COVID-19 it was impossible to pick them up. An end to the present situation was not in sight. The German organization HELP a child eV "Kinder finden Eltern" found itself in a similar situation with 7 children. Their adoption procedure was also completed, after which it was impossible for the parents to pick up the children. This organization has taken the initiative to rent a private jet to transfer the children from Haiti to Germany. The Dutch parents were able to join this because of 3 available places on the flight. The aircraft left Basel with escorts on Friday morning and landed early on Saturday 9 May with the special passengers at Karlsruhe Airport.

In Haiti, the Dutch children were prepared for the flight by the Haitian partner of the NAS, escorted to the airport and handed over to the escorts on the trip at Port-au-Prince airport. Explicit permission was granted for this special flight by the Central Authority in Haiti (IBESR).

The 2 weeks prior to this Airlift has been extremely exciting for the families involved whether they would be able to get permission for this Airlift and get their children home. During this short period of time, the NAS had a particularly intensive collaboration with the Dutch Ministries of Justice and Security and Foreign Affairs. The 3 organizations have made joint efforts to obtain the necessary consents on the Dutch, Haitian and German sides to pick up the children, bring them into the Schengen area, land in Karlsruhe and hand the children over to the Dutch parents.

European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has had a bit of it with the Netherlands: "It is impossible to explain abroad that we have an animal party or an action group that wants to set up a pedophile party."

An anthracite-gray pencil skirt, a silver-gray jacket, high pumps and a bag full of papers in each hand. There, European Commissioner Neelie Kroes (66) comes up, click clack click clack, half past six in the morning at Zaventem airport near Brussels. The VIP room is not open that early, it will just like the other passengers board the plane from TAP Portugal to Lisbon via gate 43. She has to address a conference there, then have lunch and meet with the Portuguese competition authority. But there is a problem. “I have to get back as soon as possible this afternoon,” she says. "My house in Wassenaar has been broken into."

She talks to Jean-Philippe Monod de Froideville, her personal adviser, a young man in a dashing pinstripe suit. He was already waiting for her and he immediately takes today's schedule, Friday, November 9. "That lunch ..." he says. “Shall we make a cup of coffee with the chairman? The meeting can go to next week, and then um, let's have a look, there is a flight from KLM to Schiphol at a quarter to twelve. Who try? ”

"The police called last night," says Neelie Kroes. “Everything has been turned upside down. There is a lot of road. ”

"I will arrange it as soon as we arrive," says Jean-Philippe.

“You are given a name without a choice. You are given a religion without a choice. You are given a race and an identity without your choice. Those who have favourable ones are lucky. But people like us will always be tormented by society. So I decided that somebody must speak up about it”.

– Moses Akash De Silva –

Years of discrimination have come to an end with the recent removal of marital status from all future birth certificates. The decision, announced by Registrar General, N C Vithanage, has been under consideration for two years. Set to be issued after the procedures have been completed, it has been renamed to National Birth certificate, instead of birth certificate.

The move to remove marital status was initially opposed by the Department of Pensions and Department of Lands on the grounds that it would affect inheritance and other entitlements. However, while the information will be withheld from the birth certificate, it will be documented by the Registrar General’s Department to be viewed when necessary.

Discrimination is nothing new to single mothers, children born out of wedlock and orphans in Sri Lanka. While juggling this stigma and hurt on a daily basis, they have also been deprived of opportunity and ripped of their dignity throughout their lives.

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For the Ministry of Justice and Security we are looking for a Senior Communication Advisor for 8 hours a week for the Distance and Adoption project. Are you strong in strategic communication advice? Do you have experience with / within the (national) government and with communication to vulnerable groups of citizens? Then we would like to get in touch with you.

Organization

Prevent crime. Protect victims and vulnerable people. Punishing perpetrators and offering them perspective. And in doing so, collaborate with partners such as municipalities, healthcare, the social domain, probation organizations, companies and various others. That is what the Directorate-General for Punishment and Protection (DGSenB) stands for. DGSenB is collaborative and innovative. The social task is central to them; they focus on sanction implementation and assistance to victims. In this way, DGSenB and its partners contribute to a safe and liveable Netherlands by means of compensation and reintegration. Victim policy, high impact crimes, prison system, probation, youth, integrity policy, games of chance, philanthropy, international child abduction, intercountry adoption and international child protection: these are a few of DGSenB's areas of activity that are diverse. Every employee has their own role, responsibility and expertise. What do they have in common? They are inspired by the outside world, work together and are open to the development of themselves, colleagues and the team. They do this in an open and transparent manner.

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S. Korean government program allows adoptees to submit DNA samples to locate families

Yun Sang-ae (on the screen), who was separated from her family at a young age and then adopted by a family in the US, speaks with her birth family for the first time in 44 years on Oct. 15. (provided by the National Police Agency)

“Sang-ae! Meeting you is a dream come true. If I hadn’t met you, I don’t think I could have found peace beyond the grave,” said Lee Eung-sun, 78. She had to stop talking, choked up by her tears. The South Korean woman had just been connected by video with the daughter she’d lost 44 years ago.

The face mask covering Lee’s nose and mouth was soaked in her tears. Lee cautiously lowered the mask when the police officer beside her gave her permission to do so. Despite the flowing tears, there was a big smile on Lee’s face.

“I miss you, Mom,” said Sang-ae, 47, in halting Korean. In 1976, Sang-ae, at the age of three, was separated from her grandmother at Namdaemun Market in Seoul. She was eventually sent to the US, where she was adopted by a family who named her Denise McCarthy.

Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Terre des hommes has been protecting displaced children in a Damascus suburb. They receive psychological support as well as material and financial aid.

Years of conflict have left many children traumatised and suffering from stress. “The younger children have never known a life without bombings, violence and suffering. In the bigger cities, hiding in the cellar has become a way of life”, reports Catherine Hallé, desk officer for Syria.

Our activities are designed to protect children and contribute to their well-being. In groups or individually, we let the children express what they have experienced in games or by playing with puppets. With professional support, they develop the strength they need to deal better with the emotional and social challenges they face. Some children with severe difficulties are referred to specialists, e.g. psychiatrists or language therapists.

The Tdh team in Syria also provides food, hygiene articles and financial support to pay the rent or purchase urgently needed medicine. Particularly vulnerable children and their families receive additional support in winter.

Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, Terre des hommes has been providing humanitarian aid to thousands of children who have fled to Lebanon and Jordan, as well as to those who have risked their lives trying to reach Europe.