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The EU and International Adoption from Romania

Ingi Iusmen*

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*Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Mangalore: German Citizen's Relentless Quest for Mother Yet to be Fulfilled

Mangalore, Apr 13: Chaya (32) alias Maria Chaya Schupp has been visiting the city often since 2004, in search of her mother. She comes every time with the renewed zeal to find her, in the expectation that her quest for her mother would be fulfilled, but has been returning home disappointed.

The relentless efforts of Chaya, who lives with her foster mother, Ingrid Schupp, at Frankfurt, Germany, began with initial visits starting 2004 during which, Ingrid had accompanied her. Chaya was adopted from the home for the destitutes at Ullal, which in the past, also functioned as adoption centre.

Chaya has also approached help from courts in finding her real mother. The present visit was the fourth since 2004, but this time too she had to return empty-handed to Mumbai on Thursday April 12.

Indian Born German Reaches Mangalore in Search of her Roots

Mangalore, Feb 12 2013

Maria Chaya Schupp, who was given for adoption to a German couple in 1981 has

returned to Mangalore to track down her biological

mother. With the adoption agency, Nirmala Social Welfare Centre at Ullal

Child adoption process needs to be transparent

Oct 21, 2007

India, Parul Malik, CNN-IBN

New Delhi: Misinformation violates the rights of biological parents, of the child and the adoptive parents. And yet adoption is crucial for thousands of destitute children. So it is important to look at solutions that would make the entire process transparent and free from racketeers.

Chaya Maria Schupp is 31. She has come from Germany looking for her birth mother from Mangalore.

ADOZIONI24/05/2010

La Cai cancella Famiglia e Minori

di Benedetta Verrini

La comunicazione sul sito della Commissione. Assicurato l'iter adottivo delle coppie

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Adoptions to Italy halted

Missing Documentation Led To Suspension Of Adoptions

25 Mar 2013Roman Cuprik Politics & Society

ADOPTIONS of Slovak children to Italy were put on hold on February 19, due to what Slovakia identified as missing post-adoption reports on the fate of 72 Slovak children adopted by Italian families. The moratorium will remain in effect until all of Slovakia’s terms are met by the Italian side. Meanwhile, Italy, the country with the highest demand for international adoptions from Slovakia, has promised to supply by April 15 the missing reports on 72 of the 269 children adopted over the past 10 years, Labour Ministry spokesperson Michal Stuška told The Slovak Spectator.

Slovak Labour Minister Ján Richter halted the adoptions on the heels of a visit to Italy on February 13 by Andrea Císarová, the head of the Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth (CIPC), a branch of the Labour Ministry, to discuss the missing adoption reports. Císarová met with representatives of the Italian Commission for International Adoptions (CAI) and inquired about 117 post-adoption reports. However, she was only able to access a few of them, according to the Sme daily.

Parliamentary committee enquires into international child adoptions

5 Oct 2012Flash News

Members of the parliamentary human rights’ committee say that the time has come to draw criminal responsibility in cases of international and so-called forced adoptions of children from Slovakia. They made the comments in connection with an MPs' inquiry into the work of the Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth.

Opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) MP Lucia Nicholsonová said, as quoted by the SITA newswire, that more than 100 cross-border adoptions of children from Slovak orphanages took place without the supervision of the commission responsible for pairing children with suitable parents. A meeting of the parliamentary committee on Thursday, October 4, was also attended by the current director of the centre, Andrea Císarová, who said that an audit, begun on the instructions of the labour minister, has started at the centre to look at international adoptions.

Nicholsonová said that after more and more parents contacted her she decided to look into information from 357 files on international children adoptions. She said that the largest number of children adopted from Slovakia end up in Italy, which is the only country that is represented by a private company in international adoptions of children from Slovakia. According to her, the disproportionate transfer of children to Italy has been going on for at least ten years. In this matter, Nicholsonová has filed a criminal motion alleging children trafficking, and said she plans to turn to Interpol and the Italian police. Nicholsonová says there have been 106 cases when children went abroad without the commission's involvement and without documenting of their problematic health conditions. Another serious problem is the archive of the centre, which she said is lacking files related to international adoptions before 2002, SITA wrote. This means that it is not currently possible to get an overview of transfers of children from 1993 to 2002.

Slovakia to receive Italian adoption documents by April 15

7 Mar 2013Flash News

Labour Minister Ján Richter has said that Slovakia does not know the fate of 72 Slovak children who were adopted in Italy. The news was reported by the Sme daily on March 7, two weeks after Andrea Císarová, the head of the Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth (CIPC), part of the Labour Ministry, returned from Rome where she had met representatives of the Italian Commission for International Adoptions.

During her visit she asked for 117 post-adoption reports that are currently missing. However, some of these still remain in Rome. The commission is set to send the rest to the respective Slovak authorities by April 15. Several reports for 2003 to 2005 in particular are missing. Until then, a temporary suspension of adoptions of Slovak children by families in Italy remains in effect, the daily wrote.

Neither the former head of the CIPC, Alena Mátejová, nor Italian Ambassador to Slovakia Roberto Martini have explained why the documents are missing – despite the fact that they are required by an international protocol on adoptions. Most of the adoptions were made through the Italian Famiglia e Minori agency, which was dissolved in 2010 by the Italian state. However, the Slovak Labour Ministry did not ask the Italian side for an explanation at the time, or for the missing documents.

22.03.2013, de Echipa Anticoruptie Tipareste acest articol

Avocatul copilului sau al firmelor de adop?ii? Tamara Pl?m?deal?, suspectat? c? a promovat înfierea cu înc?lc?ri a unui b?ie?el moldovean în Italia

Natalia Porubin, Centrul de Investiga?ii Jurnalistice

Un b?ie?el suspectat c? ar fi infectat cu HIV/SIDA urma s? fie înfiat de un cuplu din Italia. De?i avea la baz? doar o b?nuial?, diagnosticul a fost utilizat ca paravan pentru adop?ia peste hotare, promovat? de Tamara Pl?m?deal?, avocatul copilului.

Protagonistul acestei istorii, Vl?du? (nume schimbat), nu are decât trei ani ?i e prea mic ca s? în?eleag? ce lupte înver?unate s-au dat pentru soarta lui. B?iatul din nordul ??rii figureaz? într-un proces de judecat? pe care avocatul parlamentar pentru protec?ia drepturilor copilului l-a intentat împotriva Ministerului Muncii, Protec?iei Sociale ?i Familiei. Ombudsmanul acuz? autorit??ile c? t?r?g?neaz? adop?ia lui de c?tre o familie din Italia. Argumentul de baz? este c? micu?ul ar suferi de o boal? incurabil?, pe care ar fi mo?tenit-o de la mama sa. Anume datorit? acestui diagnostic dosarul copilului a fost prezentat direct pentru adop?ie interna?ional?. În mod normal, copiii din Republica Moldova nu pot fi propu?i spre adop?ie în str?in?tate decât dup? ce sunt epuizate toate posibilit??ile de a le g?si o familie în ?ar?. „Copilul putea fi înfiat imediat dup? na?tere, înc? în 2010. Dac? urma tratamentul peste hotare, el evita pericolul s? dezvolte o boal? pe via??“, sus?ine Tamara Pl?m?deal?. „Ultima testare clinic?, efectuat? pe 25 ianuarie 2013, nu a confirmat diagnosticul invocat de avocatul parlamentar“, r?spunde Viorica Dumbr?veanu, ?efa Direc?iei protec?iei familiei ?i copilului din cadrul ministerului.