649 children legally available for adoption in Central Visayas

Published February 3, 2019, 5:55 PM

By Minerva Newman

CEBU CITY – Some 649 children in Central Visayas had been declared legally available for adoption from 2014 to 2018, according to Clavel Saycon, head of the Adoption Resources and Referral division of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Field Office.

Last year alone, 62 children were placed and endorsed for adoption, Saycon said.

The process can be extremely difficult and lengthy, especially when it pertains to foreigners adopting an Indian child.

HIGHLIGHTS

An Italian couple has adopted two orphan brothers

Two Spanish couples have adopted two girls

They have completed verification, got court permission & are left with passport formalities

Exclusive: 130,000 children sent to ex-colonies up to 1970s under ‘misguided’ programme

Child migrants from Britain sent thousands of miles from home to Australia in what was described as a “misguided” programme are to be given £20,000 (A$36,000) in compensation by the British government.

Under the programme, more than 130,000 children were sent to a “better life” in former British colonies, mainly Australia and Canada, from the 1920s to the 1970s.

The children, aged between three and 14, often faced a life of servitude and hard labour in foster homes. The majority came from deprived backgrounds and were already in some form of social or charitable care. Many ended up on remote farms, or in state-run orphanages and church-run institutions. They were often separated from siblings and some were subjected to physical and sexual abuse.

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NEW DELHI: At a time when the government is finalising a draft national child protection policy to hold organisations and their staff accountable for

both preventing and reporting child abuse, an analysis of the data drawn from a mapping of 9,589 children homes from across the country in 2016-17

shows that most homes lack a child protection policy (CPP).

An analysis of the data drawn from homes in 2016-17 shows that while homes in Chandigarh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands had no child protection

policy, in Chhattisgarh only 4.9 % homes were found to have a policy and in Manipur, the percentage was a poor 1.6%

CBI registers cases against 2 more shelter homes in Bihar for abuse of minors

The Supreme Court had directed the CBI to probe alleged abuse of inmates at 17 shelter homes listed in a study conducted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registeredtwofresh FIRs pertaining to alleged abuse of children in two shelter homes inGaya and Bhagalpur. This is in addition to its ongoing probe into sexual assault with minor girls at the Muzaffarpur shelter home.

This comes after the Supreme Court directive on November 28 to the CBI to probe alleged abuse of inmates at 17 shelter homeslisted in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) study.

The investigating agency lodged a case against director of Boy’s children home of Bhagalpur run by Rupam Pragati Samaj Samiti, while the second case was lodged against House Mother Children Home in Gaya.

15 januari 2018

KAN INTERLANDELIJKE ADOPTIE BLIJVEN VOORTBESTAAN?

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Op 18 januari vindt het Algemeen Overleg over interlandelijke adopties plaats. Terre des Hommes Nederland en Defence for Children Nederland hebben in dat kader het rapport 'The sale of children and illegal adoption' aan de Vaste Kamercommissie Justitie en Veiligheid aangeboden, opgesteld door de internationale kinderbeschermingsexpert Nigel Cantwell. Het rapport laat zien op welke manieren de internationale regels voor een zorgvuldige adoptieprocedure, door allerlei partijen betrokken bij interlandelijke adopties, juist handig zijn gebruikt, omzeild, toegedekt of afgekocht om adopties te faciliteren. Interlandelijke adoptie is niet in overeenstemming met het subsidiariteitsbeginsel van het VN-Kinderrechtenverdrag (IVRK). Terre des Hommes en Defence for Children menen dat de Nederlandse overheid niet kan volstaan met het enkel herzien van het huidige interlandelijke adoptiesysteem en vragen zich af of interlandelijke adoptie kan blijven voortbestaan. Interlandelijke adoptie mag pas in beeld komen als alle andere mogelijkheden in het zendende land om het kind te beschermen falen (artikel 21 sub b IVRK).

Illegale adopties zijn adopties die tot stand zijn gekomen door een legale adoptieprocedure, maar die de uitkomst zijn van daaraan voorafgaande onwettige, ongeoorloofde en criminele praktijken. Het rapport geeft een systematisch overzicht van alle grote misstanden rondom adoptie van voor én na de inwerkingtreding van het Haags Adoptieverdrag (1993). Daarnaast laat het zien hoe landen door wetgeving, beleid en praktijk de koop van kinderen mogelijk maken, ten behoeve van de interlandelijke adoptie van deze kinderen. Staten laten het adoptieproces over aan private initiatieven en zowel zendende als ontvangende landen staan grote sommen geld in het proces toe. Aanpassingen in regelgeving, strengere kwaliteitskaders, nadere regelingen, en handleidingen bleken vaak niet meer dan cosmetische ingrepen.

Were infants stolen from hospitals?

In the 1980s, more than 700 Sri Lankan children were believed to have been illegally adopted into Switzerland. Also involved was Alice Honegger from Bollingen SG.

The canton of St. Gallen has now published a report on the Sri Lanka adoptions. The 74-page report, which is available on the Internet, should help to work up the controversial Auslandadoptionen, as it says in a statement of the St. Gallen State Chancellery from Monday. The canton wants to support those concerned in the determination of the correct information of their biological parents.

The caregiver Alice Honegger (1915-1997) had from 1948 for almost 50 years in Bollingen, which now belongs to the city Rapperswil -Jona, with official approval, foreign adopted children to Swiss parents. There should have been many illegal adoptions.

Infants stolen

China will facilitate children adopted abroad search biological family

There will be easier access to their files prior to adoption and the organization of meetings with their former caregivers in orphanages, according to Ni Chunxia, ??deputy director of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

China will facilitate children adopted abroad search biological family

New regulation issued by the Government of China came into effect this month and contemplates actions such as coverage of the expenses of the visits of the returnees. (Photo: EFE)

26.01.2019 / 04:02 am

'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENTARY

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

01/22/2019

TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary 'Amy's will' is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication

'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENT

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

01/22/2019

TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary "Amy's will" is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication