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Source: http://www.myrepublica.com Spain, Italy suspend adoption from Nepal REPUBLICA KATHMANDU, July 14: Spain and Italy have suspended inter-country adoption from Nepal, joining other countries which have taken similar steps accusing Nepal´s adoption system of being non-transparent and unaccountable. According to a member of the adoption group -- a loose forum of western countries to discuss adoption related issues -- Spain and Italy are the latest in the league that has decided to not adopt children from Nepal. Nepal´s adoption system has been questioned by the western countries following publication of a report by The Hague joining other countries which have taken similar steps accusing Nepal´s adoption system of being non-transparent and unaccountable… |
Date: 2010-07-12 Source: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/revues/grande-europe/breves République tchèque : les enfants roms concernés par l’adoption internationale Âgé(e) de un à cinq ans, d’origine rom et en bonne santé. C’est dans ces termes que sont proposés pour l’adoption internationale un certain nombre d’enfants en République tchèque. D’après la responsable de la fondation Notre enfant, « dans les Pays tchèques le désir d’adoption de ces enfants est quasi nul. Tout le monde voudrait un petit à la peau blanche et une fille, si possible ». Selon l’Office de la protection juridique et internationale de l’enfance, qui devrait traiter 40 dossiers environ en 2010, contre 28 en 2009, le nombre de demandes d’adoption est en augmentation croissante. Environ 200 dossiers ont été déposés par des familles originaires de onze pays différents. Avec 40 % des demandes, les Danois, qui bénéficient dans leur pays de toute une série de mesures d’accompagnement des parents de substitution, arrivent en tête, suivis par les Allemands, les Italiens et les Suèdois… |
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com Translation of article on Kantipur news website, published on 22 June 2010 -By Pratima Baskota A guardian has claimed that, without her permission, a children’s home named Prayash Nepal at Baluwatar, Kathmandu, has sent her daughter abroad as an adopted daughter on the ground of a fake police document. She has said that her daughter Smriti was sent to Italy by making fake profile in the official letter pad of local community police. Though the children home says that the girl was referred by police, the letter itself seems to be a suspicious one. The reference letter of police, received by 'Kantipur' daily, states that Smriti, daughter of a local homeless (Sukumbasi) Sarita Bhujel of Shantinagar, was handed over to Prayash Nepal in 29, January 2007. The letter's 'dispatch/serial number' is 40. But the police have kept record of the letters of the period during 18, July 2006 to 10, November 2006 only. In the police record book, two pages are left blank following the last date (10, November 2006) after which new records for 2007 has been shown. "This letter must have been misused by someone" says a policeman of this branch" Every letters sent from here contains the dispatch number but this letter's dispatch number is not found to be recorded here." … |
Date: 2010-03-23 Source: http://paper.standartnews.com Google Translation: Foreigners queue for sick Bulgarian children Sofia. Nearly 1200 disabled children waiting to be adopted. The kids are diagnosed with severe physical and mental illness or high age. For 66 already given consent for adoption abroad, the procedure is for 21 open, 78 have submitted applications and the rest are still waiting. Data were exported to the National Conference for adoption. According to statistics, during the last year Ministry of Justice consented to the foreign adoption of 220 children aged 7 years and with health problems. International adoptions of children have risen at times. Many great is the desire of foreign adoptive parents to adopt Bulgarian children who have health problems. Said Justice Minister Margarita Popova. According to statistics, Americans are those who choose Bulgarian children who do not see, hear not, Down Syndrome or hydrocephalus. Bulgarians choose Swedes do with less severe disease. Older children usually go to the Italian families. At the conference attended the 5-year Elina, who is injured feet. Her adoption procedure started in November 2009 and ended on 22 March this year Her adoptive mother is from the USA. According to Deputy Minister for Daniela Mashev incorrect and incomplete reporting of medical information is difficult process of identifying suitable adoptive parents. There were also cases where it appears that the child has a disability only documents… REPORT FROM BRUSSELS23 March 2010
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War child trafficking between Bosnia and Italy Jagoda Savic found some of the victims of child trafficking after 14 years, with the address protected by Court's sentence and among 61 millions of citizens in Italy. She organized a meeting betwen some victims and their biological parents and presented the allegation about child trafficking in front of Special Department for Organized Criminal within State prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Source: www.monstersandcritics.com No EU plan foreseen to fast-track adoptions of Haiti children |
Source: www.lifeinitaly.com HAITI: ITALY MAY SPEED UP ADOPTION PROCEDURES (ANSA) - Rome, January 22 - The Italian government would consider placing adoptions if Haitian children by Italian couples on a fast track were asked to do so by the Haitian government, the undersecretary for the family, Carlo Giovanardi, said on Friday. Italy's regulations on international adoptions, he observed, "are very clear. Italy is a world leader in these matters and has no need to modify its laws. The criteria we use to allow couples to adopt abroad has earned us international credibility and each year some 4,000 children are adopted from 62 countries". "In regard to Haiti, we intend to operate in unison with other countries. However, we are already asking couples who have applied for an international adoption whether they would be willing to take a Haitian child," the undersecetary added. The subject of adopting Haitian children was discussed in a cabinet meeting in Rome on Friday morning as well as by European union justice ministers gathered in Toledo, Spain, for an informal meeting… |
Source: sofiaecho.com Italians adopt the highest number of Bulgarian children Photo: Anelia Nikolova In 2007, 28 of 81 Bulgarian children adopted abroad went to Italian parents, according to Justice Ministry data. In 2009, the number of children adopted by Italians grew to 112 out of a total of 220 children, Popova said… |
Source: www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitun Archiv » 2010 » 12. Januar » Seite 3 Auslandsadoptionen sind für Eltern oft die letzte Chance, eine Familie zu gründen. Dahinter steht eine mächtige Lobby - bis hin zum Kinderhandel Roelie Post kennt die Spielregeln, die bei Verhandlungen Eindruck machen. Zwanzig Jahre lang war sie selbst Beamtin in der Europäischen Union, von 1999 bis 2005 zuständig für die EU-Erweiterung und Auslandsadoptionen aus Rumänien. Sie kennt auch die Umwege, die man in Brüssel nimmt, um ans Ziel zu kommen. Das macht sie für ihren ehemaligen Arbeitgeber zu einer Gegnerin, die man ernst nehmen muss. Als Kommission und Europarat Anfang Dezember rund 150 Experten und Regierungsvertreter zu einer zweitägigen Konferenz nach Straßburg einluden, ging es offiziell um die Aktualisierung einer Konvention aus dem Jahr 1967. Roelie Post, 50, dagegen wusste es besser. In Wirklichkeit, sagt sie, sei es darum gegangen, einen Markt zu öffnen, der seit 2001 verschlossen ist. Damals hatte Rumänien ein Moratorium gegen Auslandsadoptionen verhängt. Nun wolle die EU unter dem Deckmantel der Einführung einer so genannten Europäischen Adoption Kinderhandel legalisieren, sagt Roelie Post. Tatsächlich bestätigte eine Mitarbeiterin der Kommission einem rumänischen Journalisten, dass das Ziel der Konferenz das Ende des Moratoriums sei… |
Source: www.canada.com 16 on trial in Vietnam adoption scandal AFPSEPTEMBER 22, 2009 HANOI - Sixteen people accused of falsifying papers for adoption went on trial in Vietnam on Tuesday, in a case that raised fears of international human trafficking, a court official and local media said. Among the accused are two directors of social welfare centres in northern Nam Dinh province, Thanh Nien newspaper reported. Doctors, nurses and local officials are also on trial, it said. They are accused of "abuse of power in the exercise of their public missions", a court official in Nam Dinh said, requesting anonymity. The accused allegedly assembled false documents of abandonment to allow the adoption of 266 infants by foreigners between 2005 and 2008, according to reports in both Thanh Nien and the Phap Luat (Law) newspaper. The arrests of the two key suspects came in July last year, three months after the U.S. embassy in Hanoi detailed endemic baby-selling and graft in Vietnam's adoption system. |
Source: CNN Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says (CNN) -- The Guatemalan army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries during the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, a government report has concluded. Around 45,000 people are believed to have disappeared during Guatemala's civil war, 5,000 of them children. Many of those children ended up in the United States, as well as Sweden, Italy and France, said the report's author and lead investigator, Marco Tulio Alvarez. In some cases, the report said, parents were killed so the children could be taken and given to government-operated agencies to be adopted abroad. In other instances, the children were abducted without physical harm to the parents. "This was a great abuse by the state," Alvarez told CNN on Friday. Investigators started examining records in May 2008 for a period that spanned from 1977-89, said Alvarez, the director of the Guatemalan Peace Archive, a commission established by President Alvaro Colom. Of 672 records investigators looked at, Alvarez said, they determined that 333 children had been stolen. The children were taken for financial and political reasons, he said. Alvarez acknowledges that many more children possibly were taken. Investigators zeroed in on the 1977-89 period because peak adoptions occurred during that time frame, particularly in 1986. They will investigate through 1995 and hope to have another report ready by early next year, he said… |
Adozioni internazionali, colloqui tra l’UE e la Romania 20 March 2009 This morning the Secretary to the Presidency of the Council responsible for international adoptions, Carlo Giovanardi, heard by the bicameral Commission for Children, pointed out that Romania is in the EU and therefore should cooperate with European countries to "unlock" and reconsider its position on international adoptions where, in fact, it is blocked since 2001. According to Giovanardi, we should ask that country to "unblock the situation, to cooperate with European countries," as does Russia – he said - I do not see why Romania can not. It would be interesting if it did, and it is not an offense to ask. " Given that "adoption is a solution to the degradation" in which children live. "No one should refrain from asking it to Romania, this is - he noted - to make free-speech and why not ask the resumption of adoptions. It would also be a way to get this country in good light and avoid to speak about Romania only about Roma and rapes. "… |
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Cambogia, adozioni: al via una missione Cambodia, adoptions: a mission 13 March 2009 (Milan) A delegation of the Commission for international adoptions (CAI), together with representatives of Italian Institutions authorized operating in Cambodia, will fly to Phnom Penh Tuesday March 17 to review progress on international adoptions in the country. |
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ADOZIONI INTERNAZIONALI. AL VIA LA SPERIMENTAZIONE DI UN NUOVO SERVIZIO INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS. ROUTE TO THE TESTING OF A NEW SERVICE In Palermo in the last seven years 277 children are taken from abroad (March 4, 2009) - The year 2008 saw an increase of international adoption of 16.3% compared to the estimated percentage in 2007. A growing increase in the Italian families that, discouraged by bureaucracy of the Italian law relating to adoption, decided to turn to international bodies. Estimates made in Sicily have recently identified a growth of adoptions of children coming from Eastern Europe. The first half of 2008 has 87 adoptions in Sicily, of which only one is adoption an African or an Asian child, thirteen come from Latin America and the remaining seventy-two respectively from Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Albania. In Palermo in the last seven years the children adopted from abroad are now about 277, respectively, from January 2000 to 30 June 2008. But often the families are convinced, after bureaucracy, to finally set aside all the obstacles, but it is not because the reception of a child within a family, it is very important and delicate propaedeutic to establish the link between parents and children. This becomes even more difficult if the couple has to address the cultural difference. Thus, international adoptions often deploy a sad epilogue. In fact, in 10% of cases the family is forced to return the child. The City of Palermo, critically analyzed this data, so decided to set up starting from 9 March 2009 a service of preventing "adoptive failure."… |
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Adozioni, CAI: presto 63 bambini dalla Bulgari Adoptions, CAI: Soon 63 children from Bulgaria Giovanardi reminded there were almost 4 thousand children adopted in 2008 and says that "during 2009 we plan to intensify cooperation with other countries and to keep Italy among the leaders in the world for number of foreign children adopted." The Secretary gave an overview map of the "open contacts with some African countries, will continue talks with Belarus, we will activate to solve the problem in Romania, which has chosen to close its adoption and for which we want instead a re-opening." "Furthermore - continued Giovanardi - a protocol signed with Russia will facilitate relations with that country and this year we expect the arrival of the first child from China."… |
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Minister Frattini meets with foreign minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov Rome 24 February 2009 Their conversation focused on bilateral topics concerning both the economy and culture, and also touched on visas for medical treatment and adoptions. With regard to relations between the European Union and Belarus, the meeting offered an opportunity for Minister Frattini to encourage Minsk in its open attitude toward Europe and to confirm Italy’s consensus with Brussels’ approach to the Belarus government. Minister Martynov expressed his appreciation for the active and positive role that Italy has played thus far in fostering his country’s integration into the European Union. At the end of the meeting the two ministers signed a Memorandum of Understanding on continuing consultation between foreign ministers on matters of common interest. |
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Gemelli adottati: Italia condannata dalla Corte europea Twins adopted: Italy condemned by the European Court 15 January 2009 On 11 October 2005, the same social worker MP passed on to his superior a report in which it was specified that the mother of the twins had actually asked to have some 'time to reflect before deciding whether or not to recognize his children, and to be heard by the Court of minors. The mother also expressed the wish that children were placed temporarily in a reception or a family on condition that it was allowed to see them, and that pending a final decision. Despite this request, October 18, the prosecutor asked the court to declare the children taken, and December 6, children were actually assigned to a family with a view to their adoption. In his opinion, the judge noted that the mother had not requested a time to recognize the children but only "a little 'time to recover and assess the prospects," the woman said to have had two more children and a family another State, that the father of the twins was an Italian citizen with whom he had lost every report, which had neither the means nor a life sufficiently stable to take care of his children and then was "not conceivable that he had not thought about ' abandonment during pregnancy. " On 21 March 2006, the woman has appealed to the Court of Appeal of Bari, demanding the withdrawal of the decision to adottabilita ', but the court had declared the application inadmissible. The Court noted in particular that Italy has ratified the European Convention relating to adoption, according to which the consent of a parent in the adoption of their child should be accepted only after the expiry of a period that does not'' must be less than six weeks''. |
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2009: un anno di ripresa per l'adozione internazionale 2009: a year of recovery in international adoption 29 December 2008 |
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Vietnam, adozioni: prorogato per cinque anni l’accordo con l’Italia Vietnam, adoptions: agreement with Italy extended for five years "From 20-22 November 2008 was held in Hanoi meeting of the Joint Working Group art. 24 of the bilateral agreement between the Government of Italy and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the field of international adoptions. The working group was established to promote the proper implementation of the agreement…. |
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Cina, adozioni: arrivano i primi 22 bambini cinesi China, adoptions: the first 22 Chinese children 27 November 2008 This reassurance was given by the Deputy Minister for the Civil During this meeting the state of implementation of the bilateral The Chinese side has assured us that, in exceptional times the normal |
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Adozioni, firmato l'accordo tra Federazione Russa e Italia Adoption, agreement signed between Russian Federation and Italy 10 November 2008 |
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Will The Ruc Children Come Home Will my child come home? Shedding light on the grey-zones of international adoption Peter Bille Larsen, anthropologist 14/10/08 This was the story told to me by a Ruc mother in the remote part Quang Binh province of Central Vietnam. Rục communities, a sedentarized hunter-gatherer people, only total a few hundred people. Within the last few years, several families had accepted to temporarily place their children in a provincial nurturing centre, only to later discover their children had been sent abroad. One mother explained how she had become worried and gone to town to see her children, only to be informed that they were gone. Officials had apparently told her that the distance had been too far to tell her about the children being adopted. She had received a photo picturing what seemed like a ceremony of her children being handed over to foreigners and was now seriously worried about the fate of her children. It seems likely that a legal loophole was used involving illiterate ethnic minority parents signing over all rights to their children thus allowing centre officials to have the children adopted without the consent of the parents. This despite official letters from social authorities specifying the return of the children upon the improvement of living conditions back home. Authorities and other institutions have since then been alerted about the situation and a number of embassies, adoption agencies and have since then responded to the case. Field investigations by the US embassy quickly confirmed the gravity of the matter, one case is now in process in the US and Italian authorities are currently investigating at least 4 cases of Ruc children reported to be in Italy… |
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Panel promotes foreign adoption Conference helps underprivileged kids find homes abroad By Ondøej Bouda |
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Unwanted in Czech Republic, parentless Roma find homes abroad 30.9.2008
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Craintes d'irrégularités dans des adoptions au Vietnam Fear for irregularities in adoptions from Vietnam |
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Italian Police Smash Nigerian Drug Gangs
By Sabina Castelfranco Police say dozens of Nigerians were arrested in Italy on Tuesday and 15 others in European countries including the Netherlands. For VOA, Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome. Operation Viola ended early Tuesday carried out by Italian and Dutch police with the help of Interpol. A total of 66 Nigerian citizens were arrested, mainly in Italy, accused of smuggling compatriots into Europe to work as prostitutes and drug dealers. Police said 51 suspects were arrested and are accused of being affiliated with the Italian mafia who have been linked to human trafficking, slavery, kidnapping and international drug trafficking. Police also uncovered "serious adoption irregularities" in which Nigerian women living in Italy were able to take infants from Nigerian orphanages and sell them abroad…
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Adozioni, boom di richieste, ma i bimbi sono pochi Adoptions, boom of demand, but children are scarce 15 November 2007, By CONCITA DE GREGORIO A concrete example, for clarity. Ms. and Mr. F. have introduced three years ago a double request for adoption: national and international. The second practice has moved faster, and was personalised by an African child of three years, black. The future parents have gone two times to the institute to get to know it, in its country: they have carried gifts, stayed days to play with him. In the meantime news has arrived from the other side, the one of national adoption, that they could have a newborn Italian baby. The couple F. renounced the African child and has chosen the Italian. Smaller, therefore better. A confused mechanism, a general executive manager of the factory of adoptions does not exist, every unit travels for its own account, the competences are divided over four ministries in one Tower of Babel/Confusion of small jealously guarded powers and often overlapped. In the law of the jungle governs the individual arbitrator: better a white newborn than a black toddler. It makes thousands of persons happy, too. In its fuzzy way it works… |
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Press Release French Embassy - NEPAL The ambassador of France to Nepal met the Prime Minister Girija Prasad KOIRALA on 7th November to handover three letters addressed to him by the Prime Minister of France (Francois FILLON), Prime Minister of Italy (Romano PRODI) and Prime Minister of Spain (Jose-Luis ZAPATERO). This high level initiative made by France on behalf of these three countries in order to draw the attention of the Nepalese authorities, especially the prime minister on the difficult and dramatic situation of 340 families of these countries whose adoption files are blocked since March 2007… |
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U.S. Leads in Adopting Children from India
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India: Child trafficking in India has a new guise to wear: adoption Renuka, 18, lost her three younger sisters to an adoption racket. An Italian couple took the help of Preet Mandir, an adoption and child welfare agency in Pune, to adopt the sisters. CNN-IBN, in several reports since last year, had exposed Preet Mandir for selling children in the name of adoption. The way it tricked Renuka’s parents proves it is still operating its racket. It promised to educate Renuka’s sisters but then asked their father, who can’t read, to sign on papers which said he was giving them away for adoption. The girls were then declared orphans. “People from Preet Mandir came and took away my sisters. They said they would educate them. My uncle visited them twice but then people at Preet Mandir they said don’t come here again because the children are getting disturbed,” says Renuka. Guidelines framed by the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA), the watchdog on adoptions in India, say siblings should be kept together if possible, but a family court in Pune strangely forgot to mention Renuka when permitting her sisters to be adopted. Preet Mandir, in a document, declared that Renuka’s parents were dead and their father had given all his children to the welfare agency before his death. The document said Rani was the eldest sibling in the family and Indian families had refused to adopt either her or her siblings because she was HIV positive. CARA bought this lie and gave a no-objection certificate to Preet Mandir. “They took my father’s signature on a paper but he could hardly read as he had only studied up to Class III,” says Renuka. Renuka’s parents are dead and her sisters are in a foreign country. Her grandfather Bhagwan Chougali takes care of her now. “I have everything in my house. I cook for them and I can provide for them but I can't do without them,” says Chougali… |
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Renault's children
French magnate Francois de Combret, member of the Renault administration board and author of the EADS corporation, is part of it. As head of the Solidarité Enfants Roumains Abandonnés, he was the main support of the idea that international child adoption should be allowed for again. The EU Resolution emerged because of French MEPs Jean Marie-Cavada and Claire Gibault. According to this EU document, Romania should change Law 273/2004, much praised by PM Tariceanu, a law banning the export of children. But De Combret isn't the only wealthy man to get involved in the issue. In 2004 Berlusconi managed to persuade PM Adrian Nastase into breaking the moratorium so that 105 Italian families would be allowed to adopt Romanian children. There has also been constant pressure from the US too. A report by the USAID described child adoption in Romania in terms such as bid, market and price. The Western press has also reported on cases of Romanian children adopted abroad who became victims of pedophiles or flesh trafficking. The EU Commissioner for Justice Franco Frattini reminded there was no common legislation on child adoption. The attendants claimed there was need to pass a EU legislation for it, arguing that, just like the grown-ups had the right to free circulation, children should have it too by means of international adoption…
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BRUSSELS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON ISSUE OF EUROPEAN ADOPTION 'TO OVERCOME THE FREEZE of Eastern countries SPINOSA EXAMINED THE QUESTION "ROMANIA" Nov 11 2006 - In Brussels took place on November 9 an important meeting proposed by French MEPs Jean Marie Cavada and Claire Gibault. The meeting is the following question raised by the mobilization of our coordination, coordination with other families across Europe and the U.S. (see in regard adozione2.htm on July 18). In the annex of the program. The meeting was also attended as the auditor of the European Commission Vice President Franco Frattini. We informed well in advance of the fact we have received, with the collaboration of sensitive political Italians, abundant information to the administrative. Frattini was informed that the drama "Romania". For Italy participated Dr Melita Cavallo, a former chairman of the Commission for international adoptions, in which we were constantly in touch. |
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Interpolul cauta copii romani adoptati in strainatate Interpol search for Romanian children adopted abroad 29 September 2006 Oana Craciun, Cristina Hurdubaia |
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Row over Belarus girl escalates 22 August 2006 The Belarussian government has demanded that Italy provide proof that the girl is alive and well. She had travelled to Italy as part of a programme to help children suffering the long-term consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. |
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31 de copii disparuti in strainatate Romania - 31 children disappeared abroad |
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Romania: 408 MEPs, of which 64 Italians, call for the reopening of international adoptions |
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El Salvador's kidnapped children search for their parents By Paul Jeffrey "My mother and grandmother and aunts kept hugging me and touching me. We were all crying. I wanted to talk, to ask questions and hear stories, but the others wouldn't stop hugging me," Ms. Ortiz told Response. "I asked about my father, and they told me how he'd been taken away by the army and never seen again. I cried then for him, and for the years I'd searched for all of them. But I also felt complete, that I now had a mother and a family, that when people ask me about my family I now have an answer." The civil war in El Salvador, in which the U.S. government backed a murderous government in its war against a revolutionary uprising, left 75,000 people dead. Today, 13 years after the 1992 accords that ended the conflict, one of the war's most horrible practices continues to haunt families throughout the tiny Central American country. |
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Trafic de copii prin adoptii la straini Trafficking of children in adoptions by foreigners 24 Oct 2005 Oana Craciun Born in 1990, when his mother was only 16 years. Four years later, the girl has agreed to be adopted by a family in Italy, Claudio Tessari and Nori Silvana. Although, according to the 1994 final decision of the judge, Silviu would go to Italy, along with his adoptive parents, he never left Romania… |
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Babies-for-sale trade faces a global crackdown Attempts by Western families to adopt children from poor nations have fuelled a rogue market in young lives. But at last action is being taken. Carolyn Wheeler reports from Lviv, Ukraine The thick stack of photographs pulled from a manila envelope in Maria Chernyk's cupboard explains all she has to say about foreign adoptions. Each year, the director of Lviv's Orphanage No 1 sends a handful of children overseas: most to the United States, many to Italy, some to Germany, France and Canada, one to a Ukrainian couple in Manchester. She tracks them with this collection of photos: a sweet blond boy with a crossed eye, a slender, solemn-faced girl who needed heart surgery, a little boy so traumatised by his past that he never spoke. Each family paid dearly for the privilege of being parents, over £15,000 in many cases, to cover travel, agency fees and the demands of dozens of bureaucrats. Chernyk is a staunch defender of the web of bureaucracy and money that foreign adoption has become: her orphanage is better able to care for the children left behind with donations that include a television, new carpets and medicines. And the children adopted are - judging from the photographs - well cared for far from the run-down orphanage and far from the politics threatening the adoptions of others like them. 'I am in favour of, and will continue to support, international adoption, because I have seen the results,' said Chernyk, whose orphanage is so strapped for resources she had to ask a friend abroad to collect milk powder last year. Overseas adoption is big business, and growing: last year, more than 2,150 Ukrainian children and almost 8,000 Russian children were adopted to foreign countries. Most of those went to the US, where Russia is second only to China as a provider of adoptees and Ukraine ranks sixth. Italy and Spain adopt hundreds of children each year, as do Canadians. British parents applied to adopt 26 Russian children last year - none from Ukraine, where adoption is on hold over a disagreement over regulations… |
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TRAFIC de bébés : aussi au Portugal et en Italie Trafficking of babies : also in Portugal and Italy 2 August 2006 |
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Dječja ambasada i roditelji djece nestale u Italiji započeli s protestim Children's Embassy and the parents of children disappeared in Italy began with protests 12 April 2004 |
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Romania-Adoption Secrets 13 Februaly 2004 |
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Adrian Nastase confirma implicarea unor sefi de state si premieri in adoptiile de copii Adrian Nastase confirms the involvement of a head of state and Prime Ministers in adoptions of children 31 January 2004 |
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Nastase si Berlusconi, traficanti de copii Berlusconi and Nastase, trafficking in children |
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Sarajevo: Dirty game around adoption of children from evakuiranog Sarajevo, 27 May 2004 |
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Italian police 'buy' auctioned baby Investigating magistrate Gianrico Carofiglio The police say they then agreed to pay 350,000 euros (£251,000) to the organisation as payment for the unborn child. Four people - three women and a man, all Ukrainians - have been arrested in the southern cities of Naples and Bari, allegedly while trying to finalise the deal. There are suspicions that the baby was being sold for its organs. The baby's mother, who is alleged to have agreed to the deal, is among those arrested. The four have been charged with attempted enslavement as well as other crimes. |
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Russian Court condems Italian for illegal adoptionTribunale russo condanna italiana per adozione illegale 30 December 2002 MOSCOW - A Russian court has sentenced an Italian citizen to 7 years in prison, with suspension of the sentence, for corrupt officials and falsified documents to facilitate adoptions of Russian children for Italian couples. |
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Italy may return Rwandan children 12 April 2001 The 41 Rwandan children at the centre of an international adoption row between Italy and Rwanda may be returned to their home country. An Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Riino Serri told Olenka Frenkiel of the BBC's Crossing Continents programme that the controversial adoptions would have to be examined to assess their legitimacy and that the children may well have to return to Rwanda. Mr Serri said that he would recommend that the Italian couples who adopted them should go to Rwanda with the children to check whether the adoptions were carried out according to Rwandan law. The 41 children were taken with hundreds of others to Italy from Rwanda in 1994 to save them from the genocide that killed almost a million Rwandans… |
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Russia: Police raids uncover 'orphans for sale' racket Ian Traynor in Moscow and Rory Carroll in Rome When the secret policemen raided Nadezhda Fratti's flat in Volgograd, in southern Russia, they were fascinated to find sheafs of fake documents bearing the signatures of judges, education officials and local heads of social services. There were wads of roubles and US dollars, said a source in the FSB counter- intelligence service, and lists of clients. There were scanners and a computer to create the documents, and official stamps without which no Russian bureaucratic transaction can be made. Ms Fratti, in her 40s, a native of Perm, Siberia, who is married to an Italian and has dual Russian and Italian citizenship, was remanded in custody last Friday after the raids at the end of January. She is charged with falsifying official documents related to the adoption of Volgograd orphans over a period of seven years for desperate Italian couples. |
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Rwanda: Officials Demand Return Of Children Wednesday, August 16, 2000 |
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Mothers say Brazilian Judge snatches babies Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) August 30, 1998 Raising banners pleading for the return of their offspring, they gather below the window of Juvenile Court Judge Luiz Beethoven Giffoni Ferreira, who said that since 1992 he has sent 200 children to new homes in the United States and Italy. For desperate would-be parents in rich nations, decisive judges such as Beethoven can be precious allies. Yet in the past few weeks, his passionate defense of international adoptions and what some call undue hastiness to remove children from homes he deems unfit has prompted state and federal investigations. It also has revealed ethical quandaries for those trying to adopt children in foreign lands. "For years, he has taken children from parents who are poor and uneducated and haven't been able to fight back, until now," charged Marco Antonio Colagrossi, the lawyer for the women's group, which calls itself the Mothers of the Courthouse Plaza. |
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adottati illegalmente in Italia 1500 bimbi romeni denuncia di una associazione per la tutela dei piccoli: il ministro Guidi non mantiene le promesse Italy illegally adopted 1500 Romanian children (20 December 1994) - Corriere della Sera |
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The East, a mine of children After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries of 'Eastern have become the favorite destination for couples looking for a child to be adopted. The most 'recently released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that in 1991 and' Romania to lead the ranking of foreign children arrived in Italy via the 'international adoption are going well in 1009 from 299 in 1990, while in previous years were few tens. For its part Brazil, always at the top of this list (nearly a thousand of adoptions all 'years), and' now in second position with 608 children arrived in Italy in 1991. "A real deportation of children. Merguici says Gabriella, Secretary of Ciai Center (Italian for 'international adoption), located in Piazza Cardinal Ferrari 4th with thousands and thousands of children ended up in the West, in Europe in the United States, which threatened to leave Romania only the older. "… |
We are looking at an extremely dangerous form of criminality 
@2009 Against Child Trafficking