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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… |
Source: http://periodismohumano.com “I wanted them to study, I did not give them for adoption” “Yo quería que estudiaran, no darlas en adopción” Las niñas fueron declaradas en situación de abandono y poco después enviadas a España 14.06.2010 · Luna Bolívar Kisabai Lokhande vende verduras en Karad, en el Estado indio de Maharashtra. (ATC)Kisabai Lokhande tiene más de 60 años y ha perdido a dos de sus nietas, seguramente para siempre. En Karad, una ciudad de medio millón de habitantes situada en el oeste de la India, vende verduras en un puesto callejero. |
Source: http://www.nytimes.com Guatemala: Frustrated, Chief of Corruption Panel Resigns By ELISABETH MALKINPublished: June 8, 2010Carlos Castresana, the Spanish judge leading a United Nations commission charged with fighting Guatemala’s corruption and impunity, has given up in frustration. After two and a half years at the head of the commission, known as Cicig, Mr. Castresana, above, resigned on Monday, saying that Guatemala had failed to keep promises to follow the panel’s recommendations. The catalyst for his resignation was the appointment of Guatemala’s new attorney general, Conrado Reyes. Mr. Castresana accused Mr. Reyes of having ties to illegal adoption rings and drug traffickers. |
Source: http://periodismohumano.com/sociedad Cuando cerraron los “baby shops” de Rumania “Hubo momentos en los que tuvimos más en cuenta los intereses de los padres que los de los menores” “La Fundación Irene, la socia rumana de la agencia española ADECOP, era la mejor en el manejo de la corrupción” “Si EE UU había logrado excepciones a la prohibición de las adopciones internacionales en Rumania, nosotros queríamos un trato igualitario” 31.05.2010 · Luna Bolívar Camino de Estados Unidos: dos niños rumanos adoptados por parejas estadounidenses en junio de 2001, poco antes de que el país europeo suspendiera, a petición de la UE, el envío de menores al extranjero. (AP /Vadim Ghirda) “Señor delegado, quiero recalcar y dejar claro- aunque sé que no a todo el mundo le gusta escuchar esto- que entre la protección de un niño rumano y el deseo de unos padres procedentes de países en los que la adopción se ha puesto moda, nosotros optaremos siempre por lo primero”, contestaba el alemán Günter Verheugen, entonces comisario de Ampliación, a la pregunta que el 12 de marzo de 2002 le había formulado el europarlamentario español José María Gil Robles en una sesión de control del organismo comunitario… |
Source: Se venden niños pobres para padres ricos “No habría tantos niños en orfanatos si no hubiera tanta gente dispuesta a pagar tanto dinero por ellos” "Quien paga demasiado, y 20.000 euros es demasiado, contribuye a sostener un sistema corrupto" No hay mejor lugar para un niño que allí donde ha nacido 21.05.2010 · Luna Bolívar Camino de la cuarentena, muchos no quieren esperar 10 años a que en su país les sea adjudicado un menor “en situación de desamparo”, cuyos padres biológicos siguen conservando, con frecuencia, derechos sobre él. “Además”, continúa Tarneden, “las políticas de planificación familiar, la extensión del uso de anticonceptivos y las medidas sociales de protección de las madres solteras han ido reduciendo en nuestros Estados el número de niños que son entregados a la adopción”… |
Source: Glimmer of hope for parents as court halts 'forced adoption' of their 18-month-old daughter By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:31 PM on 12th April 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories A couple who fled to Spain to prevent their unborn child being taken away by social services were today battling to prevent their eldest child being adopted. The British pair, who gave themselves the pseudonyms Jim and Carissa Smith to protect their identities, lost their daughter Poppy when she was just 11 weeks old after they were declared unfit parents. When Carissa became pregnant for a second time, the couple fled to Spain where she gave birth to a baby boy in February. He is now being held by Spanish child protection workers. Battle: The couple with their son in Spain, before he was taken into care, have won the right to battle the decision for their eldest daughter to be adopted Today the European Court halted the forced adoption of their daughter, who is now 18 months old. The court will decide if Suffolk County Council have the right to permanently place her with another family after taking her away from her parents. Jim and Carissa are hoping that a win will start the ball rolling in their fight to get their daughter back. 'It has taken us 18 months to get the go ahead from the EU Court,' said Jim. 'But it means Suffolk Social Services should stop Poppy's adoption until sufficient time has been allowed for our case to be heard… |
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Source: /news.bbc.co.uk Nepal 'should suspend' adoptions The adoption of children from Nepal should be suspended, the international body that governs adoption between countries has recommended. |
Source: www.caracol.com Adopción de niños en Haití no es buena idea según la Comision Europea "La prisa en las adopciones no es una buena idea", afirmó el portavoz de la CE para Justicia e Interior, Michele Cercone, que destacó las difíciles condiciones en que vive el país y los efectos de la catástrofe en vidas humanas. Cercone añadió en unas declaraciones que el papel del Ejecutivo comunitario en esta materia se limita a "proteger los derechos de los niños". La semana pasada, durante la reunión informal de ministros de Justicia de los Veintisiete en la ciudad española de Toledo, el titular de Justicia holandés, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, anunció que su país va a facilitar las adopciones de niños haitianos que han perdido a toda su familia tras la catástrofe… |
Date: 2010-01-21 Source: www.20minutos.es Las ONG desaconsejan las adopciones de niños en Haití tras el terremoto Ampliar foto Varios niños haitianos corren a las afueras de Puerto Príncipe. (Imagen: Logan Abassi / REUTERS) |
Source: Foreign adoption not illegal, says high court The Bombay High Court on Wednesday held that there was nothing illegal in the adoption process where two minor girls aged 15 and 10 were sent to Spain for rehabilitation. The division bench of Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice A. R. Joshi on Wednesday rejected the petition filed by a 65-year-old vegetable vendor who had alleged that her grand daughters were given for adoption without her consent… |
Source: www.adn.e Denuncian robo de niñas a familias para darlas en adopción a extranjeros El caso, destapado por el diario "Nanfang Dushibao" ("Southern Metropolis News"), afecta a familias del distrito de Zhenyuan en la citada provincia, una de las más pobres del país, y también a familias adoptantes de EEUU, Bélgica y otros países europeos. Al parecer, las niñas pertenecen a familias que violaron la "política del hijo único" y no pudieron hacer frente a la multa que debían pagar por tener otro vástago (unos 2.900 dólares, equivalentes a unos 2.000 euros)… |
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ Woman moves HC to get back grandkids MUMBAI: Kisabai Lokhande, a 66-year-old illiterate woman from a Satara slum has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Bombay high court to get The issue which highlights the need for greater check in processing eligibility for adoptions, is that the agency had claimed that the two minor girls were abandoned and no consent was required from family members. Lokhande had initiated a search for her grandchildren last year although they had been adopted in 2005. She moved court as the last resort, wanting the HC to direct the DGP and the local cops to register complaints for various offences including kidnapping, cheating, using forged documents and illegally declaring a child under 12 as being abandoned-an offence attracting up to seven years in jail… |
Padres nepaleses reclaman a sus hijos adoptados en España NEPALESE PARENTS RECLAIM THEIR ADOPTED CHILDREN IN SPAIN 3 March 2009 |
Spain looks back at dark chapter of adoptions By DANIEL WOOLLS – 1 March 2009 |
Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed 4 Feb 2009, Swati Deshpande , TNN MUMBAI: Kisabai Lokhande, an illiterate vegetable vendor from Karad, has been fighting a lonely battle to get back her two granddaughters who Lokhande (66), after having protested outside the Satara collector's office in 2007, has now filed a police complaint seeking a probe against the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), the Central Adoption Resource Centre (CARA), a Spanish NGO and a Pune-based private adoption agency for executing the allegedly illegal cross-border adoption without her consent. She also sent the complaint to the Chief Justice of the Bombay high court with a plea to turn it into a suo motto habeas corpus petition to get her granddaughters back. The crucial issue she is raising now with the help of advocate Pradeep Havnur is that various agencies connived to get the girls declared "destitute'' in December 2004 to facilitate their international adoption… |
La demanda de adopciones en el extranjero cae el 40% en dos años The demand for foreign adoptions fell 40% in two years 30 October 2008 That waiting times are lengthening, countries which close doors to adoption or implementing a more restrictive policy, destinations with few guarantees ... Since about two years, international adoptions have the wind against. The difficulties eventually erode the willingness of many families who no longer see international adoption as an option for having children. |
В Испании задержаны мошенники, усыновлявшие детей из России Spain has arrested fraudsters adopting children from Russia 28 October 2008 Olga Zubakova was arrested, Russian by birth and Spanish passport, led by a group of offenders, against whom criminal proceedings were instituted. In addition, the arrested ex-husband Zubakovoy Asis, Jorge Rojas Caballero, and two of her Spanish friends. Police also arrested a Spanish couple living in the city of Posadas (Córdoba province). They had just arrived from Russia, which left two children, who were going to adopt. Russian authorities refused to grant them permission to adopt children, doubting the authenticity of a document on their capacity, which, apparently, was granted Zubakovoy. In addition, they were denied the adoption because of the fact that orphans are cousins. In Russia, adoption is permitted only sibling. Police accused the first of four detainees in the falsification of documents for the adoption of children. A married couple living in Cordoba, is accused of collaborating with fraudsters. As a result of unlawful actions by these individuals the cost of adoptions has increased twice, when in fact it does not exceed 15-20 thousand euros … |
200 familias españolas habrían requerido los trámites de la mafia rusa de adopciones 200 Spanish Families have used the services of the Russian maffia for adoptions 28 October 2008 A total of 200 Spanish families have been affected by the decline of the mafia network dedicated to the illegal adoption of children in Russia, according to a preliminary assessment of the Police. |
Guatemala - Detienen a dos mujeres por intentar vender niños en España Two women arrested for attempting to sell children in Spain |
NEPAL: Concern rising over illegal adoptions KATHMANDU, 2 September 2008 (IRIN) - For the past four years, 35-year-old Nirmala Thapa has been fighting to get her three children back from Spain after they were adopted illegally through a Nepalese children’s home. |
Nepal, ready to re-open adoptions with UNICEF being against 30 September 2008 International adoptions in Nepal were suspended last year because of the numerous allegations of corruption and trafficking of children: children fraudulently declared as orphaned, illiterate women who had signed with its fingerprint resignations believed that approvals for scholarships, and so on. Yesterday, a representative of the Nepali government announced that it will soon lift the suspension and is being reviewed applications to start new trials of 62 international agencies, including 6 Spanish agencies. By mid-September, is expected to make public the list of orphanages and agencies authorized to process international adoptions. Although the Spanish authorities were planning to reopen adoptions in Nepal after the summer, provided they are processed through agencies, it is hoped that the report of UNICEF makes them rethink the maintenance of the closure… |
España y Vietnam aprueban un acuerdo de adopción Spain and Vietnam adopted an adoption agreement AGENCIAS - Madrid - 20/06/2008 AGENCIES - Madrid - 20/06/2008 |
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Suspicions about the adoption of children from Guinea 2 March 2008 A series of attempted illegal adoption of children in Spain of Guinea-Bissau, one of the countries the world's poorest, has led the government in Madrid to freeze relations with one such former Portuguese colony in West Africa, yesterday reported the newspaper El country. |
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Resuming the 50 adoption processes in Nepal launched by Catalonian families and paralyzed since May BARCELONA, Nov 9. (EUROPA PRESS) -- |
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Children uprooted in Ethiopia The demand for adoptions unties all kinds of irregularities in the African country El Pais, CÓZAR ALVARO - Addis Abeba - 17/12/2007 Aynalem Zacharias, an Ethiopian woman of 22 years, is not where she said she would be to talk to this newspaper about the disappearance of her two twin children, robbed by the police of the region three months ago and given irregularly to an orphanage of the town nearby. After all morning looking for her in the city of Zwai, three hours by car from the Ethiopian capital, an old blind person opens the door and tells that Aynalem also has disappeared. "After they took her twins from her, the woman became crazy. All day she walked alone by the street crying and she asked everybody if they had seen the children. Days have passed by and I have not seen her again", tells the broken voice of the old woman. The history of the old woman corresponds with the version of Kemal Nagu, a civil employee of the Office of Social Affairs of Zwai in charge of the case. Kemal corroborates the information with the aid of the archives he stores in his office and he expresses his anger with the police performance. "We do not know where the children are. Some witnesses have said that they were taken to an orphanage near here, but there they say they never had them. We suspect that they have ended up in the adoptions circuit", he explains. Ethiopia has in the last years become one of the destinies most asked for by the western families who love to adopt, with about 2,000 cases the year, according to the Ministry of Women. In Spain, Ethiopia occupies the third position in the list of countries with the highest number of children adopted (304 in 2006) after China and Russia. And the forecast is that it will occupy the second place in the next years, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs. Although the present Ethiopian legislation establishes very high exigencies for the adoption processes, it is for sure that the continuous demand of the families allows some Ethiopians to bypass the system. One of those flaws is being corrected little by little, but still it persists: the representatives of some 60 foreign agencies established in Ethiopia to facilitate the adoptions… |
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An Catalanian NGO denounced for ‘stealing’ Congolese children for adoption by Spanish families
15 December 2007
The case of Chad has uncovered a Pandora's box and Spain threatens to splash. According to yesterday’s announcement of the French newspaper Liberation, the controversy over illegal adoption in African countries is not exclusively about French organizations like The Ark of Zoé. Thus, the newspaper has not hesitated to point to its southern neighbor and charged directly a Spanish NGO, Adic (Association for the adoption of Congolese children), incurring the same malpractice of the French, although in this case in the Congo. The organization, headquartered in Sabadell, collaborated with the Generalitat of Catalonia until September 2006.
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Cataluña acusará a una ONG por adopciones ilegales en el Congo Catalonia to acknowledge the illegal adoption by an NGO in Congo ARTUR ZANÓN. ARTUR Zanon. 08.11.2007 Adic could have got children who were not abandoned, and paid 350 euros to intermediaries to fool their families. The Generalitat of Catalonia plans to denounce alleged irregularities by the Association of Adoption of Children in Congo (ADIC), the NGO accredited to handle adoptions in the Congo until August 2006 when this facility was withdrawn. |
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Sunita Bhattarai is 24 years, black eyes and half of her body is disfigured. It was on fire with kerosene an afternoon four years ago, when she discovered that her son had been sold to a Spanish couple. They brought her by ambulance to the Bir Hospital, where, incredibly, her live was saved… |
India: Child trafficking in India has a new guise to wear: adoption 14 March 2007 Snatched away in Satara CNN-IBN then travelled to Karad and met Kisabai Lokhande, who had kept her granddaughters, Ashwini and Komal, at an observation home in Satara. She discovered days later that her girls had been moved to Preet Mandir. “When I met them in Pune, my elder granddaughter Komal said not to worry for her because Preet Mandir was taking good care of them. Preet Mandir people said don’t worry about your granddaughters and don’t visit them because you are poor and will waste money on travel,” says Kisabai. Preet Mandir then put out a newspaper notice, which said Kisabai had 30 days to reclaim her grandchildren and they would be given for adoption if she didn’t respond on time. Preet Mandir knew Kisabai would never see the ad. Kisabai’s granddaughters were given to a couple in Spain who don't know they had been conned by child traffickers. “I miss them a lot. I have lost my appetite and I keep falling ill. I will do anything to get them back. I had sent them to the observation home so that they go to school, not abroad,” says Kisabai… |
LA JUEZA DEL MENOR ESTARÍA COMPROMETIDA EN GRAVES IRREGULARIDADES CHILDREN JUDGE COMPROMISED IN SERIOUS IRREGULARITIES Investigate acts of corruption adoption of Bolivian children The Judicial Council follows the footprint of a scandal that could Are the orphans are sold or adopted? A letter sent by a Spanish couple who adopted a child in Bolivia and Sucre the complaint made by the District Directorate of the Judicial Council of Chuquisaca gave way to an investigation which could lead to serious acts of corruption involving the Justice for Children Adolescents and the Capital and the Agency for International Adoptions ADECOP. |
Danut, orfanul cerut de spanioli, nu mai are ce cauta in Madirjac Danut, orphan requested by the Spanish, no longer can stay in Madirjac Publishing date: 17/02/2005 … "I will hide in the closet of the Spanish" The Court of Appeals was the last hope of the "parents" from Madirjac to have the child further in their yard. "He gave us so much incitement I think we will never forget," said Maria Trifan, foster mother who took care of the child for two years. Moreover, the little boy in the age of only 4 years old is keeping "with his teeth" at new family. His mother and has hopes in the new elected president of Romania, Traian Basescu: "The president is now Basescu. Maybe he does not give the child to the Spanish because only Nastase wanted him to leave. She said that Danut threatened that "I will hide in the closet for the Spaniards" in case he will have to leave their family… |
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 Guardian, Sunday November 21 2004 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… |
Child traffickers prey on Romania Jon Swain and Ann McElhinney, Bucharest CATALINA OPREA has shiny new shoes. She also has a bicycle, a collection of dolls and a best dress for Sundays. This three-year-old “rescued” from Romania and now living with a middle-class Spanish family has every material possession she could want. To the casual observer, Catalina appears to be one of thousands of abandoned children said to have found their only chance of a decent life abroad with adoptive parents. But her story of being rescued from a country where no one seems to care is a fiction. She was not taken from a children’s home. She is not even an orphan. Catalina was living happily with a foster family who wanted to adopt her in her own country. Her real mother never consented to her adoption. That was decided by a court dealing with foreign adoptions without her mother’s knowledge. She was eventually given to a man of 62, Jose de la Torre Coll, and his wife, Anamaria, 32, in Majorca. In short, Catalina left Romania even though she was loved and wanted. She left despite a moratorium on foreign adoptions that was imposed because of rampant baby-trafficking… |
Nu me vinde, Domnul Ministru Do Not Sell Me, Mr. Prime Minister "Ziarul de Iasi" publishes in its edition of 30 September, the request of a 4 year old boy staying with his foster parents from the Madarjac village in Iasi county, not to be adopted exceptionally by a Spanish couple. "Do not sell me, Mr Prime Minister", Danut asked - through the local newspaper - the chief of the Executive, who apparently signed the recommendation by which the orphan child will be the first derogation from the moratorium on intercountry adoptions. The paper - with Government heading and the PM’s signature and with lots of papers to prove the material and emotional advantage of the Spanish to become the boy's parents, and although they have never seen him, they desire him badly. "He was chosen from a photo album", said Maria Trifan, the foster mother of Danut. "I do not want to go to the Spanish mother, Danut said, who has a diagnosis of slight metal handicap and asthma, but the mental handicap has diminished since he has been with his foster parents from Madarjac. "If I were told they would take away the payment for his maintenance, I would bring him up along with my other children", said Maria Trifan. On 4 October the Iasi judges will judge about the recommendation of PM Nastase breaching the moratorium on intercountry adoptions and Danut's fate. Danut could be adopted by the Spanish parents who "forgot" to say that they adopted another child from the Ukraine in 2002, an omission that has been noticed by the judges… |
Romania-Adoption Secrets Senior European Union politicians intervened to push through recent adoptions in Romania even as the EU demanded the country uphold a 2001 ban on them amid charges of baby-selling to foreigners, documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal. |
Decenas de españoles han 'comprado' niños en una red de adopción ilegal en Rumania Dozens of Spaniards have 'bought' children in a network of illegal adoption in Romania JAVIER Sampedro - Madrid - 01/11/1996 A Bucharest telephone number circulates mouth to mouth among Spanish couples wishing to adopt a child. If stakeholders demonstrate their creditworthiness, a couple of trips to the Romanian capital are sufficient to return home in three months with a child in the arms, including Romanian passport. The adoptive parents can choose from a wide range whose prices, according to age and aesthetic preferences, ranging from two to four million pesetas. The Spanish ambassador in Bucharest said: "There are no adoptions, this is clearly an illegal trafficking of children." The case has been reported to this newspaper by J. G. P. and F. R. S., 37 and 36 years, one of the couples from Madrid who started preparations but decided not used after his apparent understanding of illegality. The complainants claim that at least 50 couples have already acquired Spanish Romanian children in this way, and that dozens more are in full trámite. The ambassador in Bucharest, Antonio Ortiz, confirmed yesterday the existence of child trafficking and stressed its illegality, and Spain and Romania have signed the Hague Convention for the Protection of Children, which sets strict criteria for international adoptions. "But unfortunately, children are being sold in Bucharest" Ortiz says, "is enormously worrying." A few months ago, J,. G. P. and F. R. S. decided to adopt a child outside of Spain, a growing practice due to demographic imbalances, and were prepared to deal with the paperwork, which typically last several years. But another couple in a similar situation persuaded them to follow a shortcut: "In Romania can be achieved in three or four months," they claimed. "We give you the phone." As he was told, J. G. P. marked the Bucharest and asked for a lawyer named Eliana. The Romanian, who spoke Spanish, asked him first of all who had given him the number. J. G. P. told her. Once verified that that name was on their list of past clients, Eliana proceeded to the next step in the protocol: "You must send your payroll, a certificate of assets and writing of the properties." So did the man. A week later, they called for them to travel to Bucharest. The Romanian housed them in a small urban apartment, for 16,000 pesetas each night, in which there were at least three other Spanish couples. She gave them a form to fill out: boy or girl, what age and other preferences… |
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