The National Board of Appeal has uncovered the historical adoption mediation cooperation with Chile in the years 1978 to 1988.

In the report, the National Board of Appeal concludes that, in the National Board of Appeal's assessment, it cannot be rejected that the adoption mediation from Chile to Denmark through AC Børnehjælp in the period 1978 to 1988 has been associated with illegal behavior in Chile.

You can read the full report here

The investigation has taken place in continuation of a number of inquiries from adult adoptees from Chile who suspected that illegal actions had been taken in connection with their adoptions. The National Board of Appeal conducted an initial review of information about the adoptees who had approached the board. The National Board of Appeal then assessed that there was sufficient basis for assuming that the adoption agency from Chile could be associated with illegal behavior, and that there was a basis for initiating a general coverage.

On the basis of the National Board of Appeal's assessment, Minister of Social Affairs and the Elderly Astrid Krag asked the National Board of Appeal to initiate a general coverage of adoptions from Chile to Denmark.

Bilagsoversigt

Bilag 1:

Ankestyrelsens retningslinjer for den fremtidige håndtering

af mistanke om ulovlige forhold i adoptionssager

Bilag 2:

Department of Children's Services - Republic of Kenya 2019

This handbook is a key tool for supporting care reform in Kenya, promoting family-based alternative care for children, and moving away from institutional care.

This book is particularly written for formal and informal government practitioners: social workers, child protection volunteers, police, health workers, teachers, community health workers, child and youth workers, probation officers, and para-social workers, including:

Chiefs, Nyumba Kumi and Village elders, and Area Advisory Councils

Community-based organizations (CBOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in communities

PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate found to be responsible for falsifying at least 200 birth records in the country has been uncovered by the National Registration Department (NRD).

NRD director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the department nabbed two men, both in their 60s, who are believed to be key members of the syndicate which has been operating since 2009.

“Our investigation and enforcement division caught a man, who is a doctor at a private clinic in Putrajaya, on Monday (April 19). The other suspect is believed to be an agent and he was caught at his home in Melaka on the same day.

“With the arrest of the two suspects, the NRD is able to partially cripple a syndicate involved in falsifying birth records which we have been tracing since 2009, ” Ruslin said at a press conference at the NRD headquarters here Tuesday (April 20).

For a fee of between RM8,000 and RM20,000, the syndicate will help parents to adopt a child but register them as their own biological children.

My name is Winnie (Venkatamma). I was born in India. I was in an orphanage and was about 2 years old when I was adopted by a white Jewish family. Up until about the age of 6, I didn’t understand what my adoption meant. I would tell people that I’m adopted, not knowing there was a whole meaning behind it. I was 6 years old when I understood what my adoption meant. When it happened, everything changed. It was then I realized I had a birth mother who was Indian and had given birth to me, and SHE was my mother, not my adoptive mother.

Everything switched, and I started to become obsessed with wanting to know who she was. I would always ask questions, but my parents would be very quick to change the subject. I know I can speak for a lot of adoptees when I say the trauma of being rejected by our birth parents will never go away. If you’re an adoptive parent, your number one job is to make sure that we don’t feel that rejection again. If you can’t understand that, you have no business adopting. Because I constantly experienced this, it caused me to not want to be close to my adoptive parents. It’s to the point that I don’t care if my yearning for my birth mother hurts them. I helped fill a void for my parents…they’re fine. That’s what adoption is…filling a void for the adoptive parents. No one wants to ask if we’re ok.

I always struggled with identity issues, fitting in, depression, and suicidal thoughts. I definitely feel that if I wasn’t adopted my life would be different and probably better. Adoptees are taken from everything, their culture, family, birth mother, country, and people expect us to be ok. My number one trauma growing up, and still until this day, is not knowing who my birth mother is. It’s been frustrating to know how many birthdays, holidays, graduations, and achievements of mine that she’s missed. No one understands the trauma of not knowing who gave birth to you, other than adoptees. I’m currently in the process of trying to find her, but there’s a lot holding me back from doing it.

I’m learning more about my culture that has caused me to be scared to proceed with my search. Many women in my country are affected by the dowry system, which has caused so many girls to be unwanted, abandoned, aborted, and, worst, killed. I’m definitely afraid that my mother was a victim of this. It’s also the fear of what if she has no interest. I still plan to proceed because, in the end, I need closure answers. Our trauma is ignored because people have been stuck believing that we have a better life, and most of us don’t.

I also want to share my story in the hopes that it will save a life, let adoptees know that they are not alone, and that more adoptees will share their story.

Tjibbe Joustra ziet ‘veel goede wil’ in verbeterplan adoptie, maar ‘invulling zal doorslaggevend zijn’

Ruim een jaar nadat de commissie-Joustra een vernietigend beeld schetste van de interlandelijke adoptie, presenteerde minister Franc Weerwind vorige week verbeterplannen. Voormalig topambtenaar Tjibbe Joustra is nog niet overtuigd. ‘De invulling zal doorslaggevend zijn.’

Haro Kraak19 april 2022, 20:01

Tjibbe Joustra Beeld Kiki Groot

Tjibbe Joustra

The Dutch adoption system has exploded. Earlier this year, the hard-hitting report by the Joustra Committee revealed that the Dutch government had known about abuses in adoptions since the 1960s – from child trafficking to child theft. An acute stop to intercountry adoption followed. A group of adoptive parents, and parties such as the Interlandelijke Adoptees Foundation, oppose the adoption ban and find the report too one-sided: after all, many adoptees in the Netherlands are doing very well, aren't they?

In De Balie, program maker and adoptee Parwin Mirrahimy talks with adoptees and experts: how should the Dutch adoption system proceed?

A pressing task that awaits the new cabinet is to adopt a definitive position on intercountry adoption. Is this possible again in the future? And if so, under what conditions? This evening we are anticipating this by talking to a number of adoptees from different parts of the world. We talk to them about their journey and about their experiences with the Dutch adoption policy. Together with experts, they discuss the pros and cons of the current adoption system.

Adoption brings positive change in many lives. But adoption in its current form too often leads to abuses. What needs to change in the adoption system in the future? And what should we keep?

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East Bogotá, March 2021. The cotton swab should be rubbed deep into the oral cavity against both sides. The Colombian half-sister of Stockholm-based Marta Persson, Hilda Grisales Blandon, takes a deep breath. Trying to swallow the nervousness away.

Ten more seconds. Clear.

Laura Mora puts the stick in a small plastic bag and marks it with her name and social security number. She works for the Dutch organization Plan Angel, which brings together adopted and Colombian families.

The sample must be sent to the Netherlands for analysis. Hilda Grisales Blandon hopes that at least one of her three missing siblings left their DNA in the same registry.

At the end of last year The family contacted Marta. She was adopted to Sweden, but Hermalina Grisales Blandon never gave her written consent.

The lawyer who went too far for the clients

Who : Henriëtte Nakad

Issue : improper practice

Where : Council of Discipline Amsterdam

Folkert Jensma

Managing board

Ellen Giepmans Managing Director

Ellen Giepmans

Managing Director

Mirte Grauss