Nigeria: 32 Pregnant Teenagers Rescued From Baby Factory

4 APRIL 2013

Not less than 32 pregnant teenagers have been rescued from a maternity home at Umuzuo, Osisioma local government area of Abia State.

Investigation has revealed that the victims were induced to sell a baby boy for N100, 000, while a girl goes for N80, 000.

Investigation further showed that the owner of the maternity home, in turn sales the baby boy for N450, 000, and a girl for N400, 000.

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Romania: the testimony of Azota Popescu

OF MAURIZIO- SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

POSTED IN: INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS , EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT , ROMANIA

ph. Roma children, Craiova-Romania (flickr cc)

We fished out a year later, a letter / testimony, dated September 2010, Azota Popescu Representative of the Convent for international adoptions in Romania. We wonder how successful ever had. We hope that as soon as the situation of adoptions in Romania can be resolved favorably.

DanAdopt: We prefer perhaps out of Ethiopia

The organization is considering to withdraw from Ethiopia.

AT. 17:03

The last days of revelations about the so-called børnehøstere and false death certificates has caused the DanAdopt have sent two employees to Ethiopia to investigate tilstanden.Beslutningen to be or not depends on the explanations they come home with. Photo: DR

Written by: Line Gertsen

Adoption system must be under the microscope

The revelations of fake death certificates and paid between men get now Minister of Social Affairs to intervene.

AT. 16:46

The revelations of fake death certificates and paid between men get now Minister of Social Affairs to intervene. © DR

Written by: Line Gertsen

Charities and authorities battle over number of abandoned children

Over 30 Romanian-centred charities have published an advertisement in the Financial Times detailing what it calls a ‘Guantanamo for babies’ in Romanian childcare, due to thousands of abandoned children.

The charity groups called for the resumption of international adoptions, but do not know the number of children abandoned.

“We as NGOs don’t have the resources to go around the country to tally the figures,” says Robin Nydes, spokesman for Charities Concerned with Children in Romania.

The Romanian Authority for Protection of Children’s Rights (ANPDC) said that 1,335 children were abandoned in 2005 and only 249 remained without parenting by the end of the year.

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20-12-2012

New for disseminating

Then it's time for a brief update on Senegal dissemination

As our first 4 families were promised by their visit to Dakar in October, so there is now signed four matching documents of the Senegalese judge.

Valentin Nas

Here is my translation of this newspaper article:

Draft law by NGOs for the legalization of international adoption, endorsed by a Liberal senator

by Aurelia Alexa

BUCHAREST, 4 April 2013, 19:57

UNICEF: Child harvesters is a known phenomenon

Adoption agency DanAdopt refused Sunday to know about the word 'children harvest', although it is a common phenomenon.

AT. 20:04

Gimma Kebele worked for DanAdopt's now closed orphanage in Ethiopia, ENAT Alem. Beside the job as a night watchman, he earned money to find suitable families and convince them that they should be adopting their children.

Written by: Nikoline Vestergaard

http://www.dr.dk/tv/se/21-soendag/21-soendag-56#!/09:01