March 29, 2022 - We are deeply alarmed by Cambodia reopening intercountry adoptions and the Italian government’s apparent disclosure that at least nine potential adoptions from Cambodia are being processed by Italian adoption agencies. We fear these decisions will lead to more families being irreparably torn apart by a poorly regulated system that has failed to protect children’s best interests in the past.

Cambodia reports having sent 3,696 children abroad for adoption between 1998 and 2011. The country suspended intercountry adoptions following evidence of fraud and corruption. Cambodian officials forged documents to falsely change some children’s names or ages or claim they were orphaned or abandoned, before children were adopted abroad without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Cambodia today still lacks a sufficient child protection system, judicial system and anti-corruption measures to guarantee that adoptions will proceed legally and ethically. Despite Cambodia acceding to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in 2007 and enacting numerous laws and policies, there is no guarantee that intercountry adoptions would occur in children’s best interests.

Cambodian and Italian government agencies have ignored requests for information from LICADHO in recent months about the reopening of intercountry adoptions, including requests for information about the bilateral agreement, related procedures, and when children are expected to leave Cambodia.

Since 2017, six families have approached LICADHO to seek information about 15 children who were fraudulently adopted from Cambodia in the 2000s. Each family had temporarily placed their children in shelters or orphanages after being told their children would receive care and an education before returning home. Parents often only learned their children had left the country when they returned to visit them and found them missing. Each family has spent years seeking information about their children. While some children have been located abroad following extensive investigations, for others there has been no confirmation of where they are, who is caring for them, or if they are even alive, leaving families in a state of limbo and continued suffering.

Adoption & Society criticizes the National Board of Appeal's investigation of Colombia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Once again, the National Board of Appeal is delivering a piece of work that leaves adoptees in a gray zone with more unanswered questions than answers.

On 14 March 2022, the National Board of Appeal's conclusions were published on a study of 4 former partner countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

For 3 of the countries, the investigation has now been completed, while the National Board of Appeal continues its investigation of Colombia.

The National Board of Appeal writes in its introduction: “The investigation has not led to specific information that the adoptions to Denmark from the 4 countries in the years in question took place on an illegal basis. However, the National Board of Appeal cannot deny that the adoption agency may have been associated with illegal behavior. ”

The war in Ukraine is a disaster, especially for children who are already vulnerable because of a disability or because they live in an institution.

The war in Ukraine is a disaster, especially for children who are already vulnerable because of a disability or because they live in an institution. But children are also vulnerable on the run, because they sometimes lose their parent or caregiver in the chaos.

Pim Kraan, director of Save the Children: “In the centers for the first reception of refugees at the border with Romania, our staff has already seen several children who traveled alone. It is important that they are reunited with family as soon as possible. Sometimes children temporarily lose their family for a while.”

Save the Children is committed to reuniting children with their families. The organization does this both in Ukraine and in the border countries. There are an estimated 100,000 children in Ukraine, which is 1.3 percent of all children who live in institutions without parents. This makes Ukraine one of the highest percentages of children in institutional care in Europe. Since the start of the war, 1.8 million children have fled and 2.5 million are internally displaced.

Most vulnerable

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – A former Derby Line resident, now living in Keeseville, New York, returned to the United States over the weekend after spending two weeks in Romania. Maria D. Holderman traveled there to work in a refugee center to assist Ukraine immigrants who fled from their country as Russian forces continue to attack their homeland.

Holderman is no stranger to that part of the world. She was born in Dragasani, Romania, in December 1967. A week after the war with Ukraine started, Holderman decided to return to Romania. She traveled at her own expense, spending $1,300 because she couldn’t just do nothing after seeing the news. Through the Facebook page, “Romanians for Progressive Values," she connected with other volunteers, most of them Romanians living worldwide.

MADURAI: After it was informed that the child welfare committee (CWC) in Virudhunagar hand handed over the custody of the child which was given for adoption illegally to its mother, Madras high court had recently disposed of a petition pertaining to the custody of the child.

The court was hearing a plea moved by A Ambika, a resident of K Puliankadai village in Salem district, seeking custody of her male child as she had given the child for adoption without following procedures as per law, in 2019.

When the couple from Virudhunagar district who had adopted the child attempted to get a birth certificate, they were asked to hand over the child to the CWC members as they had not followed the procedures of adoption as per law.

When the petitioner sought to hand over the custody of the child to her since she was willing to take care of the child, the same was denied by the CWC members. Hence, the petitioner moved HC seeking custody of her child. During the pendency of the petition, a DNA test was performed and it was confirmed that the petitioner was the mother of the child.

Justice Abdul Quddhose observed that it was brought to the notice of this court that the child was handed over to the petitioner in February. Since the prayer sought for in this petition has been achieved, nothing survives for further adjudication, said the judge, while disposing of the petition.

Woman sues IVF clinic for wrongly implanting male - not female - embryo from her wife during IVF: Gave birth to son and likened having male fetus inside her to rape

Heather Wilhelhm-Routenberg and wife Robbie are suing CNY Fertility in Latham, New York

Robbie was originally meant to carry Heather's embryo, but miscarried

Heather then offered to carry Robbie's embryo, with the couple discovering they were expecting a boy at 15 weeks

Heather struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts during the pregnancy, and after giving birth

Our organization is recognized by the Romanian authorities to supervise the adoption of children from this country.

It is important to know that only people of Romanian origin are allowed to apply for this country.

Please contact us to receive more in-depth information on the procedure.

- No cohabitants (legal or not)

- Compulsory marriage but no specified duration of marriage

So who are we really?

WE are the International Social Service, ISS for short.

Even if in certain countries we are called something else, it doesn’t matter!

WE do all we can to protect and support children and families separated by borders.

WE work to safeguard children placed in vulnerable situations or deprived of their families often for reasons they do not fully grasp such as economic and social migration, complex social family problems, neglect, child trafficking and abduction.

Braunschweig - Riot in the venerable Braunschweig Cathedral (built in 1173). Cantor Gerd-Peter Münden (55) ran the largest Protestant singing school in Germany there and sang with hundreds of children every week.

But now he was fired without notice after 23 years!

Because it degrades women and children to commodities and damages their human dignity. This is what cathedral preacher Cornelia Götz writes in an e-mail to 600 schoolchildren's parents (is available to BILD am SONNTAG). The cantor vehemently disagrees.

What happened? Gerd-Peter Münden has been cathedral cantor since 1999 and married the Colombian Esteban Builes-Münden (33) in 2020. Both want to start a family, have a child carried by two surrogate mothers in the Colombian capital Bogotá and bring them to Germany.

The cantor told his colleagues about this and applied for leave in early 2022 so that he could fly to Colombia. The cathedral preacher then wrote her angry email, arguing that surrogacy makes women “a pure means of their own desire to have children” and exploits their weak position in an emerging country.

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