ANKE HASSEL

Gast

22.05.2010, 13:56

Liebe taz,

eine kritische Berichterstattung über problematische Praktiken in der internationalen Adoptionsvermittlung ist wichtig, um diese zu unterbinden. Eine Adoption aufgrund falscher Angaben noch lebender Eltern hat tragische Folgen nicht nur für das Kind sondern auch für die aufnehmende Familie. Wenn dem Vater das Kind wirklich, wie im Artikel angedeutet, von einem Mittelsmann abgeschwatzt wurde, dann ist dies ein Skandal und widerspricht allen Grundsätzen der Adoptionsvermittlung.

A recent case in Tamil Nadu shows that the existing system has allowed child trafficking to take place for years under the guise of a perfectly legal adoption process.

ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR

ON May 3, 2005, the Central Crime Branch of the Chennai police arrested five people for kidnapping and selling about 350 children to an adoption agency in the city. Several lost children seem to have been given in adoption to families abroad over the last decade. Ironically, the police have found all the paperwork by the adoption agency to be clear. This highlights the need to look into the existing adoption system that allows for child trafficking under the guise of a perfectly legal adoption process.

Frontline investigation and documents available with it reveal that this is not an isolated case. Bending rules, circumventing norms, and following illegal and unethical ways to "source" children and sell them to foreigners under the guise of adoption is not uncommon among some agencies in Tamil Nadu.

ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR

A Frontline investigation lays bare a multi-billion-dollar, countrywide racket in inter-country adoption of children, run by private adoption agencies that exploit the loopholes in the rules.

THE arrest in Chennai on May 3, 2005, of five kidnappers, who have sold over 350 children to an adoption agency in the city over many years; the inquiry ordered by the Delhi government into the process of inter-country adoptions in 10 agencies in the Capital; and the recent moves in Andhra Pradesh to book

JCICS was part of a meeting yesterday with three congressional offices, two from Kentucky and one from Illinois. Through a meeting with Chris Smith, they were referred to the Helsinki Commission, one of the largest Human Rights watch groups in the world, and a meeting has been set with them for 3pm today. Also discussed was the February 2004 letter from Pierre Poupard of UNICEF to the Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase as it directly contradicts the UNICEF statement from January 2004 that indicated international adoption is one viable form of child welfare. (See attachment to minutes.)

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Spanish Adoption Rates Hit All-Time High

Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 11:38 PM Central Daylight Time

Spain has become Europe’s first country and the world’s second after the United States in adopting foreign children as marriage and birth rates in the southern European country are hitting all-time low.

The latest government statistics showed that foreign adoptees in 2004 reached 6,000 with a 40% increase compared to the previous year.

The statistics indicate that adoptive parents go abroad, bringing about 80 percent of the overall number of adopted children and then finalizing legal adoption requirements at home.

ROMANIA: DEMARCHE CONCERNING PENDING INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION CASES

Date:2005 April 29, 12:47 (Friday) Canonical ID:05BUCHAREST1062_a

Original Classification:CONFIDENTIAL Current Classification:CONFIDENTIAL

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Executive Order:-- Not Assigned -- Locator:TEXT ONLINE

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Parliamentary questions

25 April 2005

E-1540/05

WRITTEN QUESTION by Mairead McGuinness (PPE?DE) to the Commission

Subject: The roll-out of national pilot projects for the reform of state institutions in Romania