Holt's 2014 Heritage Tour of India; A Recap

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Dean Hale, director of programs in India, reflects on Holt’s first heritage tour of India.

Our inaugural heritage tour of India went off well! We had four adoptees on this tour, all of whom traveled with family members. All the adoptees visited the orphanage where they lived in India and met staff members who remembered them.

The India tour group in front of the Taj Mahal. “This iconic wonder of the world is up to the reputation, and a testament for a man’s love in honor of his late wife,” says Dean.

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U.S. organization donates over $26,800 for Vietnam orphans

Vietnam police to probe rumor of adoptee trading at Hanoi pagoda

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Authorities of Hanoi’s Long Bien District have requested that local police launch an investigation into whether children have been sold for adoption at Bo De Pagoda as rumored recently.

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Caretakers struggle to raise abandoned children

VietNamNet Bridge – Four one-year-olds lie on the bed, scrambling for toys. Seeing a stranger come into the dark, dank room, they sit up and stretch out their hands. Their limpid eyes move toward the stranger and crane their bodies toward her as if waiting to be held in her arms.

Ha Noi, Bo De Pagoda, abandoned children, newborn baby

Four abandoned children cared for at Bo De Pagoda in Ha Noi. Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs statistics show that more than 176,000 children were abandoned or orphaned during the 2004-12 period.

Benin detains 10 people in child trafficking probe

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COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin has detained 10 people on suspicions of child-trafficking just weeks after a group in neighboring Niger was held for links to a "baby factory" ring, police sources said on Tuesday.

While it was not immediately clear if there was a connection between the two cases, the latest detentions point to the persistence of human trafficking across West Africa.

Russia opens criminal case for negligence in adoption docs for child killed in Italy

Russia July 20, 13:05 UTC+4

The decision to open a criminal case was taken after the procedural inquiry which had obtained information about possible negligence, which state officials in Amur region

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MOSCOW, July 20, /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s far eastern Amur regional legal authorities opened a criminal case over negligence in processing documents for adoption of a child from Russia who died in Italy, spokesman of Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

Senator Corker, Colleagues Urge President Obama To Personally Engage On Congolese Adoption Delays

Friday, July 18, 2014

In a letter to President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined 167 members of Congress in asking the president for his “personal engagement to resolve over 900 international adoption cases of Congolese children who either have been or are in the process of being adopted by American families, yet who are unable to obtain Congolese exit permits due to a suspension in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).”

“We respectfully request that you raise this human rights crisis with President Kabila prior to his attendance at the U.S.-African Leaders Summit next month, and then use the opportunity of the summit to press for a firm resolution,” wrote the members of Congress. “We would appreciate your leadership on this issue to help unite these children and their families.”

In September 2013, the DRC suspended the issuance of exit permits for children adopted by foreign parents. Over 145 children who have been legally adopted by U.S. families and have been given Congolese passports and U.S. visas await exit letters, including several children with urgent, life-threatening medical problems.

Ce ar trebui modificat in Legea adoptiei din Romania - avocati

Ce ar trebui modificat in Legea adoptiei din Romania - avocati

In sistemul de protectie din Romania sunt, in acest moment, circa 60.000 de copii, insa putin peste o mie se gasesc pe listele de adoptie.

Autoritatile spun ca nu toti copiii lasati in grija statului sunt orfani, ci doar abandonati o vreme din cauza saraciei.

Pe de alta parte, la doi ani de la ultima modificare a legii, reprezentantii asociatiilor nonguvernamentale sustin ca procedura de adoptie este una extrem de dificila si de birocratica, potrivit unui comunicat remis Ziare.com de Cabinetul de avocatura Coltuc.

Irish gov confirms 2,000 babies illegally sent to US for adoption

Kate Hickey @KateHickey_ July 17,2014 01:14 AM

The Irish government has confirmed that the remains of almost 500 “unclaimed” infants were used for medical examinations and nearly 2,000 were put up for adoption in the United States.

A document released by the government also shows that the remains of 474 babies were sent to medical schools between 1940 and 1965, without the consent of their families.

The report also shows that of the nearly 2,000 children sent to the United States for adoption there are few or no records of parental consent. Many were apparently sold to wealthy Catholic families.

6,000 adoptions from six mother and baby homes across 23 years

Records of placements show children being sent to US, Britain and Germany

The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, a mother and baby home run by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary from 1930 to 1970. Records show that between April 1st, 1960, and March 31st, 1967, of the 634 children adopted then, 111 went to the US, nine to England and two to Scotland. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, a mother and baby home run by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary from 1930 to 1970. Records show that between April 1st, 1960, and March 31st, 1967, of the 634 children adopted then, 111 went to the US, nine to England and two to Scotland. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

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