ECLI: NL: RBAMS: 2020: 5774

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Court of Amsterdam

Date of judgment

04-11-2020

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The operation was carried out at the so-called “baby factory” in the Mowe area of the southwestern Ogun state on Tuesday.

“Acting on a tip-off, our men stormed the illegal maternity home and rescued 10 people, including four kids and six women, four of whom are pregnant,” police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi told AFP news agency.

He said the women told police that the owner hired men to impregnate them and then sell the newborns for profit.

The “factories” are usually small illegal facilities parading as private medical clinics that house pregnant women and offer their babies for sale.

This article by Josephine Aburime discusses local and cross-border adoptions; that the fact that Nigeria is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (the Hague Convention) which inter alia, prescribes guidelines for international adoptions, is an impediment that must be addressed, since in its absence, we have had to resort to local legislation which are somewhat deficient, and seem to prohibit international adoptions

The Child Rights Act 2003 (“the Act”) is a Federal legislation, providing for the basic rights of a Nigerian child. It also provides for custodial matters such as adoption, foster parenting and guardianship. The Act has been domesticated in some States of the Federation including Lagos State which enacted the Child Rights Law of 2007 (“the Law”). This in itself, has brought some inconsistencies on matters relating to children, and with particular reference, adoption.

Private adoption has been long practiced in Nigeria, whereby a private arrangement between the adopter, usually a relative or kinsman and the parents of the child, a child is adopted.

However, contemporary developments including the menace of child trafficking has impelled the need for proper documentation reflecting adoptions, resulting in adoptions being formalised by the courts upon application of the parties. Embassies and border agencies now insist on the presentation of legal adoption documentation, in order to secure visas for adopted children or accord the adoptive parents, parental recognition over the child. This is particularly pertinent when the adoption is international in nature, referring to adoptions across borders where a national or resident of another country adopts a child from a different country, other than where he/she is resident. That is to say in Nigeria, a foreigner coming to Nigeria to adopt and take the child back with them abroad, or Nigerians resident abroad adopting a child in Nigeria with the intent of taking the child to live with them abroad. The term could also include a foreigner temporarily resident in Nigeria, adopting a Nigerian child.

International Adoption

Nagpur: The crime branch busted a child selling racket and rescued a four-year-old girl, who was going to be sold off for Rs2.5

lakh. Five women and one man were arrested in the daylong action from different places on Saturday.

Prima facie, police feel the racket is part of a bigger illegal surrogacy and adoption racket. The women are hired as surrogate

mothers illegally and deliveries are done clandestinely with the help of doctors at small clinics. More arrests are likely. The

racketeers used Aadhaar card of childless couples to create fake parents of the child in the hospital records.

This article is the first installment in a series about adoptions from Haiti to the U.S., offering perspectives on the process from both countries.

In October, the media spotlight shone on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family of seven children during the judicial confirmation process. Among the children, the two adopted from Haiti — Vivian, 16, and John Peter, 13 — received the most scrutiny.

Probes came from news outlets like The New York Times, which reported that the children were adopted in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, however, the Haitian government has adopted stricter laws to comply with Hague Convention protocols, making international adoption more difficult.

“In the past, anybody could come and adopt a child easily,” said Erick Pierre-Val, a Delmas, Port-au-Prince pastor who counsels parents on the adoption process. “Now, because of the Convention, [they] try to control the process because they care about human trafficking.”

International adoptions to the United States from the rest of the world declined sharply after 2008, when the U.S. government first adopted Hague standards. Haiti itself tightened its laws in 2014 to comply with the Hague Convention, and the steepest decline in adoptions from Haiti took place in 2015.

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At the beginning of this year, Dilani Butink, who was adopted from Sri Lanka in 1992, filed a lawsuit against the state. Butink's adoption papers are forged. She does not know who her real biological family is. And Butink is not alone. Since the 1970s, more than 40,000 children have been adopted from abroad to the Netherlands .

In three previous broadcasts, Zembla showed that adoption papers were forged on a large scale. Babies were taken from hospitals and there were 'baby farms', where babies were born for adoption. Butink blames the state for not intervening. But she lost. Her case is time-barred according to the court. The court bases its judgment on, among other things, the fact that the actions of the state are not 'culpable'. What's up with that? New research by Zembla shows that the abuses had been known for years at various ministries. Even from the late 1970s onwards.

Zembla investigates: What did the Dutch government do with that information?

'Adoption cheating part 4'

Thursday December 3 at 8:25 pm at BNNVARA on NPO2

ARNHEM - The struggle when you hear that you have been adopted at the age of 15. The fear of telling your parents you like women. A fantastic relationship that has lasted for 36 years. Cycling 12,000 kilometers through Asia together. Arnhem Elly Petri (61) did not want her life story to be lost and wrote it down in 'Losse eindjes'

"Sit down, we have to tell you something." Just so, in that businesslike way, Elly Petri was told by her parents at 15 that she had been adopted. “And after that moment the subject was always taboo. We were never allowed to talk about it at home again. ''

Why did your parents choose that moment to tell it?

“They had to. My sister turned 21 and had to officially take the name Petri in court. That was arranged at the time. They then told both my sister and me that we had been adopted. Not from the same biological parents. ''

How did you deal with that?

Delhi District Court

Welfare Home For Children vs Applicant on 27 November, 2020

IN THE COURT OF MS NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA

PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE

SOUTH EAST : SAKET COURT, NEW DELHI.

Zwolle - “Adoption is only about the adoptive parents, the child is forgotten,” says adoption coach and adopted Soorien Zeldenrust. This month is Adoption Awareness Month. An important month for Soorien Zeldenrust, but an ordinary month for Rosa Bouw.

ANNO is a museum for and by Zwollenaren. In the exhibition about freedom, Soorien skews her story about adoption. “It is imposed on us by society that we should be grateful because we have been 'saved' by our adoptive parents,” says Soorien. According to her, there is often no room for the adoptee to indicate that they are struggling with a piece of grief, for example. Soorien is an expert in the field of adoption and is also adopted herself.

Soorien says she is not in favor of adoption. "It is a loss for both the biological mother and the child." According to Soorien, parents must first process their own trauma, for example that they will never be able to have children. If that fails, there are expectations that the adopted child can never live up to. “The wish for a child is simply not replaceable, and neither is the biological parent,” emphasizes Soorien. “It is really important that adoptive parents understand that it is not their child. Perhaps on paper, but the child will always keep a soul connection with the biological mother. ”

Rosa was adopted just like Soorien, but she experiences this differently. “I'm not actually working on it at all,” she says. “I don't know my biological parents, they are strange to me”, Rosa says. She is convinced that there would have been room for her at home if she had struggled with her adoption. “My parents have really involved Colombia in our lives,” she says. According to Soorien, it is also very important that the child is given speaking space.

Soorien indicates that the GGD could do more for adopted children. "I would really like it if you go to the GGD again at the age of twelve, sixteenth and eighteenth." She thinks this could have helped her.