Bemiddelaar adopties reorganiseert

Adoptiebureau Wereldkinderen moet drastisch reorganiseren. Door een dalend aantal internationale adopties en 'onvoldoende financiële sturing' zal de organisatie in omvang halveren en de banden met tientallen hulpprojecten doorsnijden, zo meldt Trouw. Directeur Marc Tijhuis wil bovendien fuseren met de overige vijf Nederlandse adoptiebemiddelaars tot één organisatie. Het aantal buitenlandse adopties zakte vorig jaar naar 488, aldus de Stichting Adoptievoorzieningen. In 2004 waren het er meer dan 1300.

Romania: increasing the number of infants abandoned in hospitals 
And 'increasing the number of infants abandoned in Romanian maternity hospitals, in the first three months of 2010 were left 342 children, 88 more than last year. It 'as announced that the National Authority for Protection of the Family and the Rights of the Child (ANDPC) in Bucharest that drew an initial report on the phenomenon of early Romanian hospitals. Would be 118 babies abandoned in maternity wards, 181 departments of pediatrics, 43 in other departments of hospitals. 

To reduce the abandonment of the Romanian authorities have introduced a measure to ensure, under the emergency, the name and identity number (CNP) infants abandoned in hospitals.Under this measure employees of the Registry Office should issue within 30 days of the birth of children, birth certificates giving the name and identity number for babies abandoned by their mothers in maternity wards of hospitals. With this new measure babies abandoned in Romanian hospitals will see their guaranteed right to identity from birth, without waiting months and years as it was until today. With the decision to issue the document of birth of the baby will be made within 30 days since its abandonment in the hospital wards, the registration will be done in small registers and municipalities of the city where the baby was found. 

Meanwhile in Romania continues to mobilize Romanian associations for reopening the international adoptions. The campaign of pro-adoption lobby continues to collect signatures: almost 10 thousand accessions reached up to now in the streets of Romanian cities from volunteer associations that promote the campaign to collect signatures to present to the Romanian Parliament to request the amendment of Law 273 / 2004. Link to petition>> 

Campaign aims to reach 100 thousand signatures share to ensure that the Romanian institutions take into consideration the proposal submitted by the pro-adoption groups.

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Fattige etiopiske kvinder er under massivt pres for at bortadoptere deres børn til kommende forældre i den vestlige verden.

Det rapporterer DRs korrespondent for undersøgende journalistik Line Gertsen fra det fattige afrikanske land Etiopien, som lige nu er centrum for bortadoption til rigere dele af verden.

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Susan Rutten lid Staatscommissie Internationaal Privaatrecht

3 juli 2012

Bij Koninklijk Besluit van 7 juni 2012 is Susan Rutten benoemd tot lid van de Staatscommissie Internationaal Privaatrecht. Het Koninklijk Besluit heeft terugwerkende kracht vanaf 1 september 2011. Vanaf die datum fungeerde Susan feitelijk al als lid van de Staatscommissie.

De Staatscommissie voor het internationaal privaatrecht is in 1897 ingesteld om maatregelen voor te bereiden ter bevordering van de codificatie van het Internationaal Privaatrecht. Zij doet de Regering daartoe de nodige voorstellen en dient de Regering van advies omtrent onderwerpen van internationaal privaatrecht. Het internationaal privaatrecht geeft regels voor grensoverschrijdende zaken, bijvoorbeeld als bepaald moet worden van welk land het recht van toepassing is of welke rechter internationaal bevoegd is. De commissie is ingesteld in 1897 en bestaat uit zestien leden. De laatste jaren leverde de commissie een grote bijdrage aan de totstandkoming van het nieuwe Boek 10 Burgerlijk Wetboek over het internationaal privaatrecht. De Staatscommissie houdt zich ook intensief bezig met de diverse Europese voorstellen tot harmonisatie van onderdelen van het internationaal privaatrecht binnen de Europese Unie.

De Staatscommissie is ook aangewezen als het nationale orgaan in de zin van artikel 6 van het Statuut van de Haagse Conferentie. Zij is de Nederlandse instantie waarmee het Permanent Bureau van de Haagse Conferentie contact houdt. De werkzaamheden en inrichting van de Staatscommissie worden bepaald door de Wet van 14 februari 1998 op de Staatscommissie voor het internationaal privaatrecht (Stb. 1998, 208).

International adoption in free fall

by Roberta Lunghini - 01.09.2013 | Comments | Print |

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In Italy, between 2011 and 2012, international adoptions decrease by 22.8% over the previous year. For a total of 3,106 foreign minors who have been authorized to enter our country. Russian Federation (749 children, 24.1% of the total), Colombia (310, 10%), Brazil (270, 8.7%), Ethiopia (233, 7.5%) and Ukraine (225, 7.2%) are, as in 2011, the top five countries of origin of children adopted by the Italian families. These are some of the provisional figures released by the CAI (Commission for International Adoptions).

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Russian Deputy Proposes Amendment To Adoption Ban Law

Topic: US Adoption Ban

Robert Shlegel

© RIA Novosti. Vladimir Fedorenko

04:18 29/12/2012

Tags: Magnitsky Act, adoption ban, US State Department, Public Opinion Foundation, Russian Federation Council, State Duma, United Russia, Dima Yakovlev, Robert Shlegel, Barack Obama, Sergei Lavrov, Vladimir Putin, Russia

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MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) - A deputy from Russia’s ruling United Russia party, Robert Shlegel, has submitted to the State Duma an amendment to a controversial law banning adoption of Russian children by American families to try to make exceptions for disabled children, Shlegel wrote on his Twitter microblog on Friday.

Shlegel said he decided to submit the amendment to the lower house of parliament because a total adoption ban would mean some disabled children might be unable to find their family.

Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the adoption ban law on Friday, the US State Department called the measure “politically motivated.”

“We deeply regret Russia’s passage of a law ending inter-country adoptions between the United States and Russia,” State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said on Friday. “The Russian government’s politically motivated decision will reduce adoption possibilities for children who are now under institutional care.”

The adoption ban is part of Russia’s response to the US Magnitsky Act, which was signed into law by US President Barack Obama earlier this month. The Russian public has been largely supportive of the bill, with 56 percent of respondents in an opinion poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) saying they backed a ban on US nationals adopting Russian children.

The Magnitsky Act calls for US travel and financial sanctions against Russian citizens deemed by the American government to have violated human rights. It is named after Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblowing Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow pre-trial detention center in 2009 after accusing officials of being involved in a multi-million dollar tax fraud scheme.

Critics of the adoption ban said it would keep tens of thousands of children, especially those with disabilities, in Russia’s orphanage system. Figures from the US State Department show more than 60,000 Russian children adopted by American families in the last 20 years, including 962 last year.

Russian officials blame US adoptive parents for the deaths of at least 19 of those children. The adoption ban is named for Dima Yakovlev (Chase Harrison), a Russian toddler who died of heatstroke in 2008 after his American adoptive father left him in an overheated car for hours.

The ban goes into effect on January 1, halting the adoption of 46 Russian children by US families whose cases are currently being processed.

A number of Russian ministers, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have criticized the bill, which was approved by the State Duma - the lower house of parliament - on December 21 and by the Federation Council - the upper house - on Wednesday.

While the adoption ban is the most controversial aspect of the proposed legislation, the bill puts forward other retaliatory measures as well, such as banning alleged US abusers of Russian citizens’ rights from entering Russia and freezing any assets they may have there.

Altshuler, Boris

Boris Altshuler was born in Moscow in 1939 where he has since lived, except for a period during 1947-1956 when he lived in Sarov where his father Lev Altshuler worked at the Soviet Nuclear Centre “Arzamas-16” as a member of the pioneer team of scientists that designed the first Soviet A-bomb. In 1962 Boris Altshuler graduated from the Physics Faculty of Moscow University, receiving his PhD in physics in 1969. In 1962 Boris Altshuler married poet and author Larisa Miller, a member of the Russian Pen-Centre; they have two sons. Boris Altshuler was a participant in the human rights movement in the Former USSR since the early 1970s, and for 20 years he worked closely with Andrei Sakharov. From 1987 until the present he has also been Chief Researcher in the Theoretical Physics Department of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. In the new Russia, Boris Altshuler has been head of the human rights group, Movement without Frontiers, and since 1996 he has been director of the Right of the Child NGO. Both groups were set up at the Russian Research Centre for Human Rights. In 2009 the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia awarded Boris Altshuler the title “Man of the Year 2009” for his public work (see his speech on the occasion at the award ceremony in The Great Kremlin Hall). Boris Altshuler is co-founder of the Positive Childhood Association. He is a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and of the Public Chamber of Russia.