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February 20, 2013

Russia worried orphan 'harmed by lesbian couple'

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Russia expressed "serious worry" Wednesday over the fate of a Russian boy adopted by an American woman who did not reveal that she is a lesbian, Moscow's latest broadside in a growing war of words over adoption.

Concern over ‘trafficking’ of children in the name of adoption

20 February 2013 , By Staff Reporter

Demanding that international adoption be stopped from India till comprehensive laws are put in place to prevent ‘trafficking’ of children in the name of adoption, parents of children who were fraudulently or forcefully taken away and put into inter-country adoption held a meeting in the Capital on Tuesday demanding urgent Government intervention in the matter.

Speaking about her daughter who went missing in 2009 from Chennai, Fatima said: “My child was picked up from near my house and after the police investigation we found that the child had been given up for adoption to an Australian family. There has been no co-operation from the Australian Government or the adoptive parents and we have been able to speak with our daughter only once so far. I appeal to the Indian Government to help get my child back.’’

Also asking for help to recover her child, Fatima from Andhra Pradesh said: “I was divorced and working as a domestic help when I was taken to St. Theresa’s Tender Loving Care Home (an adoption agency in Hyderabad) for my delivery. After delivery the agency demanded Rs.10,000 for there services. This was way back in 1990 and I did not have the money to clear my medical dues and other expenses. When I could not pay the entire amount they forcefully took my child and now I have been informed that my child was adopted in 1991 and is in Germany. I haven’t surrendered or given up my child so why has my child been taken away from me? I hope the Government wakes up to this and takes note of the parents whose children have gone missing.’’

Death of adopted Russian child in U.S. spurs anger in Moscow

By Kathy Lally and Tara Bahrampour, Published: February 19 | Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 12:12 AM

MOSCOW — Reports that a 3-year-old adopted Russian child died in Texas last month set off a furor here Tuesday, with Russian officials declaring that the boy had been abused, although U.S. authorities said the death is still under investigation.

The child, Max Shatto, was born in northwestern Russia and lived in the same orphanage in the city of Pskov as Chase Harrison, who was adopted by a Northern Virginia couple and died at the age of 21 months after his father left him in a hot car in July 2008.

Russia’s Dima Yakovlev law, which bans American adoptions and was enacted in December, is named after Chase and uses his birth identity.

'Children without family care be brought into adoption system'

News'Children without family care be brought into adoption system' Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath PTI Centre today asked the states to take steps to ensure that all children bereft of family care are brought into the adoption system.“On the one hand more and more couples in India are now coming forth to adopt children, and on the other hand children legally free for adoption are very few,” Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said, highlighing the need for streamlining policies on this issue.Addressing an international meet on adoption here, she admitted that at present prospective parents from both India as well as other foreign countries have to wait for long periods for a child and emphasised that more children should be brought into adoption system for giving them permanent family-based care.“I would request the state governments to ensure that all children who are without family care are brought into adoption system, irrespective of their age or special needs, if any,” she said.Recognising the role of the NGOs and social workers on child adoption, Tirath also asked them to ensure that the children who are looked after by them are united either with their biological parents or with “loving adoptive families”.“While the government is ready to provide necessary support by way of policies, guidance and financial support, it is the Non-Government sector which necessarily plays a far greater role at the ground level,” the minister said.Noting that they are the first point of contact for the children, the biological parents and the adoptive parents, she said, “What is advised by these organisations goes a long way in influencing decisions of the prospective parents.”Tirath also advocated “very high of ethics and moral values” in the process of adoption.“I would like to reiterate that the timeline and adoption placement protocol provided in adoption guidelines and Juvenile Justice Act should be strictly followed,” she said.

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Mother of stolen girl still waiting

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Dare we risk allowing parents time to fail?

Published on 20 Apr 2010

Stephen Naysmith

We give parents a reasonable chance, but if they can’t get it together, we can’t have children paying the consequence of that.

3-year-old Russian boy killed by American adoptive mother in Texas

Published: 18 February, 2013, 17:57

Edited: 18 February, 2013, 22:24

After being brutally beaten by his American adoptive mother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian diplomats have said.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the death of Maksim Kuzmin at the hands of his adoptive American family.

Date: 02/13/18

After the establishment of the database on adoptable minors in Italy, a new challenge: European Adoptions

How many families of European countries go abroad to adopt a child, and could do so in Europe, that is, at home, without spending considerable long and bureaucratic absurd stays abroad?

But above all, how many minors living in communities and educational institutions in the various European countries may find a family in any country in Europe, if we consider that only in Italy there would be 2,300 children currently adoptable?

After the news from the Ministry of Justice of the signing of (February 15) the executive decree activatingf the database of adoptable children and adoptive couples available - which is now awaiting publication - opens in a new challenge to associations for the defense of children's rights.

End of the line for Ethiopian adoptions

21 SEP 2012, 6:08 AM - SOURCE: MAY SLATER, SBS

Australians hoping to form a family by adopting children from Ethiopia say they are devastated and baffled by the government’s recent decision to close its adoption program with the Horn of Africa country.

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18/02/2013 - Italian vice foreign minister on EU-Central Asia water conference in Kyrgyzstan

Category: Politics, Analyses & Opinions

Published on Monday, 18 February 2013

Written by Giorgio Fiacconi, TCA publisher

BISHKEK, February 18 (TCA) — During the 4th EU-Central Asia High Level Conference on Environment and Water organized in Bishkek last week by the European Union within the framework of the Platform for Environment and Water Cooperation of the EU-Central Asia Strategy, The Times of Central Asia had the opportunity to speak with Marta Dassu, vice minister of foreign affairs of Italy and co-chair of the conference together with Patricia Flor, EU special representative for Central Asia.