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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.

Spain offers Rabat change their adoption law to recognize Islamic guardianship

The Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, so is that 58 Spanish families with orphans Moroccan allocated for months to get them out of the country

Morocco international adoptions closes

Six Moroccan NGOs demand that the Spanish can again take

CEMBRERO IGNACIO Madrid 17 FEB 2013 - 21:13 CET219

Turkey seeks to relocate European foster children to Muslim families

By Agence France-Presse

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:11 EST

Turkey has embarked on a campaign to retrieve children of Turkish immigrant families living in Europe who are fostered by foreigners, and instead place them in homes where their cultural identity can be preserved.

The step comes after a court in the Netherlands refused last week to return nine-year-old Yunus — who had been taken into care by a Dutch lesbian couple — to his biological Turkish family, reportedly citing the mother’s inability to speak Dutch.

Ukraine Moves to Probe Foreign Adoptions

Topic: US Adoption Ban

Orphans

© RIA Novosti. Sergey Venjavsky

03:46 23/02/2013

Portugal

De NAS heeft eind 2012 accreditatie aangevraagd voor adoptiebemiddeling vanuit Portugal. De verwachting is dat de accreditatie in de eerste helft van dit jaar wordt afgegeven. In overleg met de Portugese Centrale autoriteit is besloten om vanaf heden (7 februari 2013) alvast de vooraankondiging voor de openstelling van de wachtlijst te doen. U kunt zich dus nu al aanmelden voor dit programma.

Adopties vanuit Portugal moeten in Nederland worden geformaliseerd met een adoptieprocedure naar Nederlands recht. Portugal is aangesloten bij het Haags adoptieverdrag, maar de kinderen komen op een voogdij beschikking naar Nederland. Conform de Portugese wet wordt eerst een aantal opvolgrapportages gemaakt, waarna de adoptieouders toestemming krijgen om de adoptieprocedure naar Nederlands recht af te ronden.

Een plaatsing vanuit de Portugese gebiedsdelen Madeira (voor de kust van westelijk Afrika) of de Azoren (in de Atlantische Oceaan) behoort ook tot de mogelijkheden, indien het kind tot moment van plaatsing in één van deze gebiedsdelen woonachtig is.

Wachtlijst

Reorganisatie adoptiebemiddelaar

www.wereldkinderen.nl

Toegevoegd: zaterdag 26 jan 2013, 11:03

Adoptieorganisatie Wereldkinderen moet reorganiseren. De organisatie kampt al jaren met een dalend aantal adopties, minder donateurs en teruglopende ledenaantallen.

Volgens directeur Marc Tijhuis is een reorganisatie onvermijdelijk. Het aantal voltijdbanen moet van 22 naar 12 worden teruggebracht. Dat komt volgens Tijhuis ook door foute keuzes die in het verleden zijn gemaakt.

Adoption watchdog suppresses Ethiopia findings By Mary Ann Jolley for Foreign Correspondent Updated Tue Mar 2, 2010 12:42pm AEDT One of Katie Bradshaw's adopted children was told by the adoption agency that she was going to the US on a study trip. (Supplied) RELATED LINK: Foreign Correspondent: Fly Away Children A powerful international adoption overseer is refusing to release the results of its inquiry into the disturbing activities of American adoption agencies operating in Ethiopia. The inquiry was launched after ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent exposed deep and dangerous flaws in the system. The Joint Council of International Children's Services (JCICS) says it has completed its probe, but to release its conclusions would not be "appropriate". Foreign Correspondent's story last year exposed a dysfunctional, largely unregulated adoption industry in Ethiopia, where children were being harvested from families, and mothers claimed they were tricked into surrendering their children. Tonight's story unearths more disturbing developments: children wrongly portrayed as orphans and children pitched to adoptive families as being as young as seven when in fact they are teenagers. Ethiopia has not signed the Hague Convention on inter-country adoption, but hosts many adoption agencies boasting Hague credentials and claiming high standards of practice. Prominent adoption reform advocate Maureen Flatley claims JCICS is stacked with adoption agency figures and does a poor job of self-regulating. "We've really let the fox guard the henhouse," she said. "They are the 'big tobacco' of adoption. They are a trade association that nominally espouses the highest standards but which is harbouring the very people who have been involved in some of the biggest abuses in adoption - and they haven't laid a hand on them. "The JCICS has one goal and one goal only, and that is to avoid federal regulation of adoption. "Here is one of the biggest pieces of hypocrisy in adoption. If they're Hague-accredited, why are they doing business with a country that isn't a Hague signer? "The answer is that they know they have much more freedom to do whatever they want to do and to bully people in countries that aren't Hague signatories." Last year's Foreign Correspondent program focused on the activities of Christian World Adoption (CWA), one of the largest US agencies operating in Ethiopia. It featured video of a CWA representative asking families in one southern village if they wanted to surrender their children. The program also showed the plight of CWA client Lisa Boe, who adopted a "healthy" boy who arrived with a litany of serious health problems. Ms Boe spoke out and is now being sued by CWA. The agency repeatedly refused to comment before it finally allowed lawyer Curtis Bostic to be interviewed. "A half a million children in Ethiopia will sleep on the street. By sunset tonight 500 will die from starvation," Mr Bostic said. "There are children today who need what caring American and Australian families can bring them. "What Lisa Boe did was make a series of exaggerations and misrepresentations that has slowed and, in some cases, halted that process." Tonight Foreign Correspondent exposes more cases, including that of Journee Bradshaw, who claims CWA told her she was heading off on a study trip to the US, only to learn after her arrival that she would not be returning to Ethiopia. "I didn't know that I'm going to stay here," she said. "They never told me that I'm going to have a family I'm going to stay with and I'm supposed to be their daughter. They never told me that. I just find out when I got here." "You can't imagine the depth of her pain," said Katie Bradshaw, Journee's American adoptive mother. "No-one will understand the damage. It was as if someone had ripped the soul out of her body and just left her. It was absolutely unbelievable." -Watch tonight's program on ABC1 at 8:00pm. Contribute your stories to a special Foreign Correspondent/ABC News Online Investigative Unit special. Contact us and tell us your experiences of international adoptions in Australia.

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Birth mother of adopted boy who died in the US wants to reclaim his brother

21/02/2013

MOSCOW, February 21 - RAPSI. The birth mother of Maxim Kuzmin who was adopted by the Shatto family in the US has asked the authorities to restore her parental rights to Maxim's younger brother, Kirill, who is still living with the American family.

Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov has announced that Yulia Kuzmina, the birth mother of the boy who died in the United States, has changed her irresponsible way of life and has asked the authorities to restore her parental rights to her other son, Kirill.

Astakhov said she could be granted her request if there are sufficient grounds for it.

Russian children's rights ombudsman wants to end foreign adoption

Russian children's rights ombudsman speaks candidly about his mission to abolish foreign adoption and end Russia’s role as an international “donor of orphans.”

Anna Nemtsova, special to RBTH

February 19, 2013

Russian children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, 47, is a man with a controversial mission: to end once and for all the American adoption of Russian children. In an interview with Anna Nemtsova, he said he wants to end foreign adoption entirely. Three years ago, when he was appointed ombudsman for children’s rights, he declared that foreign adoption was “shameful” for Russia. In early February, Astakhov was appointed adviser to the president.