Russian demonstrators rally in support of U.S. adoption ban

By Sonia Elks and Steve Gutterman | Reuters – 1 hour 47 minutes ago

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Reuters/Reuters - People take part in a rally in defence of Russian children in Moscow, March 2, 2013. Demonstrators walked along Moscow streets to support the new law prohibiting the adoption of Russian children …more

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Countries: Russia

Thousands rally in Moscow to support US adoption ban

Published time: March 02, 2013 18:38

People march during a rally in defence of Russian children in Moscow, March 2, 2013. (RIA Novosti / Alexei Filippov)

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Radio Interview with Scott Carney

Scott Carney is an investigative reporter based in Chennai, India. In the March/April 2009 issue of Mother Jones, he examines the dark side of international adoption, and asks the question: How did a boy kidnapped from the slums of India wind up adopted by an American family in the Midwest?

Mother Jones multimedia editor Laura McClure spoke with Carney about how families can avoid adoption pitfalls, the ethics of overseas adoption, and what happened to the boy profiled in the story after the story went to press.

Read Carney's article, "Meet the Parents," and click here to listen to and subscribe to MoJo's audio podcast interviews.

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Organizations: ACT CASE Nageshwar Rao, Pauquette Children Services, Malaysian Social Services (MSS)

Sele Enat moved to Layla facility

OPPORTUNITY HOUSE

In March 2007 AAI opened Opportunity House (OH), a home designed to serve children with special needs in Addis Ababa. Start-up costs were provided by a generous grant from the Margaret T. Biddle Foundation. Three years later, in 2010, OH was officially sanctioned by the Ethiopian government as a model program improving the holistic well-being of children with developmental disabilities.

The dozen or so children living at Opportunity House have a variety of disabilities including autism, blindness, deafness, and developmental delays. AAI also partners with nearby orphanages to care for several children with similar issues. Many of the children referred to the OH program have families who are unable to assist with the challenging daily needs of their child. These children are not eligible for adoption. The ultimate goal is for children to be reunited with their birth families. In 2011-2012 several children did indeed go home to improved lives with their families!

Treatment is highly individualized and designed to help each child reach his/her maximum developmental potential. Caring professionals provide speech, physical, and occupational therapy, as well as training for the staff and families responsible for the ultimate care of the child. Slowly but surely the stigma surrounding special needs is giving way to empathy and appropriate educational and therapeutic programs.

We have seen evidence of great progress! Children who were silent have begun to speak; those who were immobilized are sitting and walking with the help of intensive therapy; and all are learning to interact with others and communicate their needs appropriately.

Organizations: Layla House, Adoption Advocates International (AAI) WA, Sele Enat Mahiber, Ethiopia

Indian baby under US foster care returns to Kolkata (Lead)

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Romania and international adoptions: Exclusive confessions of a European official.

Translation from Romanian :
Romania and international adoptions.
Exclusive confessions of a European official.

Romania is subject to huge pressure to resume international
adoptions.There is intensive lobbying on three fronts: European,
American and national by certain organisations that collect signatures
to force the Romanian authorities to change the law.
A European official speaks exclusively on TVR about the inside of
international adoptions, and the years in which our country was one of
the major exporters of children.

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România ?i adop?iile interna?ionale. M?rturii în exclusivitate ale
unui func?ionar european

România e supus? unor presiuni uria?e pentru reluarea adop?iilor
interna?ionale. Se face lobby intens pe trei fronturi: european,
american ?i intern, prin anumite organiza?ii care strâng semn?turi
pentru a for?a autorit??ile române s? schimbe legea.
Un func?ionar european vorbe?te în exclusivitate pentru TVR despre
culisele adop?iilor interna?ionale ?i despre anii în care ?ara noastr?
era unul dintre marii exportatori de copii.

Organizations: ACT IN THE NEWS

Countries: Romania

Documentary: Kinderen te Koop (Children for Sale)

Een reportage over de misstanden rondom adopties uit Ethiopië: gesjoemel met geboortebewijzen, vervalsen van afstandsverklaringen en het misleiden van biologische ouders.

Organizations: ACT IN THE NEWS, ACT Case Betty, ACT CASE : Wereldkinderen RESEARCH ETHIOPIA, Wereldkinderen aka NICWO

Russian ombudsman investigates another adopted child abuse case

Pavel Astakhov

15:49 22/01/2011

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Russian children rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov on Saturday elaborated on one more case of abuse of a Russian boy adopted by U.S. parents.

Astakhov said in late December he received a letter from a woman who has seen a TV show in which a certain Jessica Bigley from Anchorage, Alaska, unveiled her methods of upbringing her recalcitrant son, such as pouring cold water over him and mouth washing with hot pepper sauce.

Astakhov said his service has finally identified the boy. It is Daniil Bukharov from Magadan and the actions of his adoptive U.S. mum must be regarded as cruel treatment.

Bigley is due to be tried on the 28th of this month.

Russia is one of the largest sources of adoptions for U.S. families, accounting for about 10 percent of foreign adoptions. The mistreatment of Russian children adopted in the United States has attracted public attention in recent months as a result of a number of highly publicized incidents.

In April, a 7-year-old boy was placed alone on a one-way flight to Moscow by his U.S. adoptive mother with a note claiming he was "psychopathic."

Following the case, Russia threatened to prohibit child adoptions by U.S. citizens until the countries sign an intergovernmental agreement guaranteeing the rights of adopted children.

MOSCOW, January 22 (RIA Novosti)

Countries: Russia, United States of America

Persons: Pavel Astakhov, Ombudsman

Message for U.S. Citizens – Barring of Two U.S. Adoption Agencies by IHNFA (January 30, 2012)

2012 Messages for U.S. Citizens

Message for U.S. Citizens – Barring of Two U.S. Adoption Agencies by IHNFA (January 30, 2012)

January 30, 2012

The U.S. Embassy in Honduras informs citizens that the Instituto Hondureño de la Niñez y la Familia (IHNFA ) has barred two U.S. adoption agencies from the local adoption process, effective immediately. The IHNFA will no longer approve adoption requests filed by families who utilized the agencies to facilitate the adoption of a local child, as the agencies are no longer registered in Honduras. Only adoptions approved by the IHNFA can be processed for Immigrant Visas, as the IHNFA is the Government of Honduras’ Central Adoption Authority.

The following U.S. adoption agencies are no longer accredited in Honduras:

1. Living Hope Adoption Agency, IHNFA’s resolution SG-016-2011

2. Gladney Center for Adoption, IHNFA’s resolution SG-017-2011

The Embassy continues to monitor the adoption situation in Honduras and will update U.S. citizens accordingly. Meanwhile, we recommended that families who have not finalized adoptions contact IHNFA directly at ihnfadopciones@yahoo.es or at 011-504-2235-3565 to be sure their applications are handled by an accredited adoption agency.

If you are going to live in or visit Honduras, please take the time to tell our Embassy about your trip. If you sign up, we can keep you up to date with important safety and security announcements. We can also help your friends and family get in touch with you in an emergency. Here’s the link to the Department of State’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.

U.S. citizens should consult the Country Specific Information for Honduras and the latest Travel Alerts and Warnings and Worldwide Caution at the State Department's website: www.travel.state.gov

Current information on safety and security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States, or for callers outside the United States and Canada, a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).

The U.S. Embassy is located on Avenida La Paz in Tegucigalpa; telephone (504) 2238-5114, after hours telephone (504) 2236-8497; Consular Section fax (504) 2238-4357; E-mail: usahonduras@state.gov; Webpage: http://honduras.usembassy.gov.

American Citizen Services at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa is on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/acstegucigalpa.

Organizations: Gladney Center for Adoption, Living Hope Adoption Agency

Countries: Honduras

Verfahren vor Landgericht eingestellt: Emsländerin ohne Glück bei Adoption

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Verfahren vor Landgericht eingestellt: Emsländerin ohne Glück bei Adoption

Osnabrück. Ist es eine legale Adoption oder ist es Kinderhandel gewesen? Mit dieser schwerwiegenden Frage hatten sich die Richter am Landgericht Osnabrück zu beschäftigen. Angeklagt waren ein 71-jähriger Unternehmensberater sowie seine 46-jährige Ehefrau.

Eingestellt wurde ein Verfahren in Sachen Kinderhandel. Foto: Archiv

Die Frau ist chinesischer Herkunft und seit einigen Jahren mit dem Geschäftsmann verheiratet. Der Wunsch nach einem Kind blieb den beiden unerfüllt, sodass sich die Frau 2007 in ihrer ehemaligen Heimat nach einem Adoptivkind umschaute.

Countries: China, Germany