Manitoba reviewing U.S. adoption agency for fees based on child's race

U.S. also looking at Florida agency that charges more for white children, less for black children

By Donna Carreiro, CBC News Posted: Oct 30, 2014

The U.S. State Department is now reviewing how a Florida adoption agency handles intercountry adoptions, including to families here in Manitoba.

Their review comes as a result of a CBC investigation into the agency which revealed it charges reduced fees to Canadians if they adopt black children versus white.

EXCLUSIVE: Kremlin brands American couple who want to void adoption of 'mentally ill' Russian boy and girl as 'despicable' and demands to see children

Couple, from Long Island, adopted children, then six and eight, in 2008

At time, the youngsters were reportedly described as 'healthy' siblings but parents say they are now mentally ill - and not brother and sister

Parents have gone to court to overturn the adoption in rare legal move

Russian officials now want access to the children who are in state mental health facility, saying 'they are our citizens'

This is Lumos: Brand Refresh

Lumos, the international children’s charity founded by J.K. Rowling engaged Global Natives to do a top to bottom brand refresh in advance of a major moment in the spotlight. That moment occurred last month, when the eBook version of The Tales of Beetle the Bard (a lateral book to the Harry Potter series) went on sale on Pottermore, with proceeds benefitting Lumos.

In the past months, we worked hand in hand with Lumos’ CEO and her amazing staff, both at their London HQ and in the field,to redefine how Lumos tells its story and engages the public with it. This was primarily accomplished as a result of a comprehensive process in which we deconstructed the brand via staff interviews and field research. Their work is so powerful, so important, but also complicated, and hard to immediately grasp given its breadth and depth. Thus, the initial focus of our work was entirely new branding and messaging. Once that was locked in, they put it to use… in a lot of places!

We’re proud to say that the finished products of the months’ long process speak for themselves. To tell their story across platforms, at eye level, to a multitude of demographics, we created:

A new website for Lumos that looks like anything but a standard charity website, with the emphasis placed on ongoing and dynamic storytelling. A major thanks to our friends at Public Society in Brooklyn for their help with design and development.

Hoe adoptie haar onschuld verloor

AMSTERDAM - Adoptie van buitenlandse kinderen is uit. Het idealisme van de beginjaren is verdwenen door de dramatische verhalen over de mondiale adoptie-industrie.

De afgelopen zestig jaar zijn in Nederland ruim 37 duizend kinderen geadopteerd. En een veelvoud daarvan in veel andere westerse landen. Eerst kwamen ze uit eigen land, daarna uit Griekenland en Oostenrijk. Zodra het taboe op ongehuwd moederschap uit Europa verdween, kwamen de adoptiekinderen van heinde en verre: Zuid-Korea, Brazilië, Libanon, India, Sri Lanka en de laatste jaren vooral uit China.

In het naoorlogse Nederland tot diep in de eindjaren van de vorige eeuw domineert het enthousiasme over adoptie van een vondeling of weeskind uit een minder ontwikkeld land. Wat is er mooier dan een kind zonder ouders in een straatarm land een betere toekomst te geven in je eigen gezin in een welvarend land? In de loop der jaren gaat het idealisme er meer en meer van af en wordt adoptie een oplossing voor ongewenste kinderloosheid met een sympathiek randje.

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Families in Azerbaijan wait for their turn to adopt child for years

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Guliyevs' spouse will have to wait long for their turn.

Couple wants to void adoption of ‘mentally ill’ Russian orphans

By Tina Traster

October 26, 2014

Couple wants to void adoption of ‘mentally ill’ Russian orphans

Black market adoptees turn to DNA testing to find families

Sale of children, great business getting out of hand

May 13, 2013

(Google Translation)

The lack of opportunities in education, health and employment, coupled with excessive growth of poverty, every day's shore Honduran women have to give away or sell their children.

Many women would give birth to their children and handing them over to foreigners in other countries, for paltry sums of money.

No EU plan foreseen to fast-track adoptions of Haiti children

Jan 25, 2010, 14:06 GMT

Brussels - The European Union would not launch a comprehensive plan to facilitate adoptions of child victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the European Commission said on Monday.

The idea was floated last week at an informal meeting of EU justice ministers in Spain, where Commissioner for Justice, Jacques Barrot, said the EU would look for a 'European framework' on the issue, in cooperation with UNICEF, the United Nations' fund for children.

But on Monday in Brussels, his spokesman Michele Cercone said 'a European framework for adoptions at this stage seems premature, and anyway the commission does not have any competence' to act.

Adoption in Congo, more than a hundred children still stuck after the mission of Boshi

In May, the minister went to Africa and helped 31 children to be adopted by 24 Italian families. But the situation remains stationary for another 130 pairs. On September 26, the Congolese government has decided to extend indefinitely barring adoptions because of yet another case of child trafficking by an American family

Alessio Schiesari | October 22, 2014 COMMENTS

It's been 147 days since it was last May 28, Boshi descended from a flight from Kinshasa along with 31 Congolese children adopted bu 24 Italian families . The landing, remained engraved in the collective memory for the braids made by the Minister for Reforms, was hailed as the end of a nightmare since September when in fact the Congolese government had blocked all international adoptions.

The 24 families who have brought home their children, however, are just the tip of the iceberg since then, some 130 pairs of parents (this is an estimate, but the Commission adoptions refuses to offer an official figure) - the adoption of which has been validated by the authorities of the African country - waiting in vain for the situation to breakouts. Not only have to live with the silence of the institutions, the broken promises of politicians and the strong recommendation not to talk to anyone, least of all with the press.