A Beautiful Dream for India

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Robin Munro Comment

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Meet Jim De, Holt’s new India country director! From caring for foster children in his childhood home, to finding families for children orphaned by the 2004 tsunami, to greeting Holt adoptive families at the Delhi airport, he has always followed his life’s passion — advocating for his country’s orphaned and abandoned children.

It was 2:00 a.m. and 7-year-old Jim De sat awake in his home with his mother. She changed a baby’s diaper while he held another one in his arms, feeding her a bottle of formula. Tonight was their turn for “night duty,” a task in which they stayed up all night to care for the 30-40 children living in the care center that the De family ran out of their home. Jim and his mother were on night duty about once a week — and he loved it!

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COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT MONTENEGRO 2012 PROGRESS REPORT accompanying the document COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL 2.2. Human rights and protection of minorities (See also Chapter 23 – Judiciary and fundamental rights) Observance of international human rights law As regards international human rights instruments, Montenegro signed the third optional protocol to the convention on the rights of the child in February and ratified the Hague Convention on protection of children and cooperation in respect of inter-country adoption in March, to prevent children being sold for adoption. Nevertheless, the Constitution (Article 20) is not yet in line with Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), in relation to safeguarding the right of an effective remedy before the national authorities for violations of rights under the convention. Montenegro has not yet started the ratification process for the Convention on Reduction of Statelessness. Its implementation of international human rights standards needs to be stepped up and the national legislation brought into line. {COM(2012) 600 final}

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‘I felt abandoned’: children stolen by France try to find their past, 50 years on

For decades, children from Réunion island in the Indian Ocean were removed to repopulate rural areas of France

Jessie Moenner

Jessie Moenner, pictured in the Réunion capital, was one of many hundreds of children taken from their families to live in France. Photograph: Vidhi Doshi

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UNICEF Condemns Liberia Failure To Address Inter-Country Adoption

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Opschorting interlandelijke adopties vanuit de DR Congo

Gisteren maakte de Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie, de heer K. Dijkhoff, bekend dat er besloten is de adopties vanuit Congo op te schorten.

Ongetwijfeld zal dit bij veel adoptiefouders en vooral bij de nog wachtende aspirant adoptiefouders emoties veroorzaken.

Parliamentary questions

21 June 2007

E-3105/07

WRITTEN QUESTION by Ashley Mote (ITS) to the Commission

Subject: Safeguards against external psychiatrists

European Commission appoints senior managers in its Legal Service, Secretariat-General and Health department

The European Commission today appointed Ms Laura Pignataro Nolin to the position of Principal Legal Adviser “Team - European Civil Service Law” in the Legal Service of the Commission, as of 16 June 2016; Mr Giovanni Fracchia as the Commission's Mediator in the Secretariat-General, starting date to be determined later; and Ms Paola Colombo to the position of Director for Health and Food Audits and Analysis in the Health and Food Safety department (DG SANTE), as of 1 August 2016. Ms Pignataro Nolin, Italian, joined the Commission from academia in 1992. She has worked in the Commission's Legal Service since 1995, representing the Commission in hundreds of court cases and working on countless pieces of EU legislation. She is currently Legal Adviser dealing with internal market and environmental issues. Mr Fracchia, Italian, joined the Commission 1990. Medical doctor by education, he worked on a variety of topics in the area of medical research and health policies. Mr Fracchia has extensive management experience: he first became Head of Unit in 2003 and was briefly an Acting Director in 2008. He is currently the head of the European Commission's medical service. Ms Colombo, Italian and a trained veterinarian, joined in the Commission in 1995. Until 2002, she worked on policies tackling different animal diseases and drafting relevant legislation. In the mid-2000s, she gained political experience as a member of former Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding's private office. Since 2007, she headed the Management and Resource Unit of the European Political Strategy Centre of the European Commission, the successor of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. (For more information: Alexander Winterstein - Tel.: +32 229 93265; Andreana Stankova – Tel.: +32 229 57857)

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AP Interview:

"Harry Potter" author getting

involved with child welfare in Eastern Europe

By ALISON MUTLER

Associated Press Writer

Inquiry on adoptions: the prosecutor asks 4 indictments

The suspects are the leaders and representatives of a non-profit organization, the Association Heron, who was based in Albuquerque and offices in the province of Bergamo, Pisa and Rome

A preliminary hearing in the courthouse has been scheduled for next February 2

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October 13th"Italian Associations trafficked children» The shocking report in Parliament

Silvia Della Monica, vice president of the International Adoptions Commission at the hearing

MPs ask: there are Italian associations involved in child trafficking , there have been trafficking in minors with Congo? "There were, unfortunately there were" replies the Commission Vice-President for International Adoptions (Cai), themagistrate Silvia Della Monica: "Families are desperate . And they come to us asking the government to be helped. " It is one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing of Wednesday afternoon before the House Judiciary Committee. A confrontation that lasted over two hours, an hour longer than planned, in which Della Monica has also denounced the campaign of aggression and delegitimization fielded by the Aibi (repeatedly cited) of Marco Griffini, 69, famous entrepreneur of solidarity. He has confirmed the "Espresso" said the investigation "Italian children Thieves" : "The investigation published Espresso brings serious facts of which the Commission for international adoptions is fully aware. The attempt to trivialization or even negationist attitude does not reflect the priority of clarity and support Parker ' inescapable cleaning action which must be brought to the end and that I intend to bring to the bottom, because of my official duties , of my personal history. But mainly because of the protection of the Italian government. "

THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION

"I understand that families are lost in the face of what they have suffered from some entities: a particularly entity that is under investigation by the Commission and also under criminal investigation for a very serious facts, facts very serious. I interrogherei also: but if these facts are true, and the Commission for adoptions took note of the serious facts, it is right that we can move forward in a system of this kind? "Asks Silvia Della Monica to the deputies:" I do not we're just talking about the Congo. we are talking about very serious events that occurred in other countries . Recently the European Court of Human Rights has intervened with regard to the situation in Bulgaria, where it comes to abuse by pedophiles "of children adopted through Aibi then in Italy.