NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal appellate judges closely questioned attorneys for the government and Native American tribes Wednesday over whether a law meant to preserve Native American families and culture unconstitutionally intrudes into state adoption issues.

It was the second time in a year that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was considering the future of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. A three-judge panel of the appellate court upheld the act in August in a 2-1 ruling.

Opponents of the law — including non-native families who have tried to adopt American Indian children — sought and got a full court re-hearing. Sixteen judges heard the latest arguments.

Aside from strictly legal issues, the case sparks strong emotions. Matthew McGill, representing families challenging the law, told the court that one set of would-be adoptive parents had a child “pried out of their arms because she was not an Indian.”

Outside the courthouse, Rosa Soto Alvarez, of Tuscon, Arizona, held onto the flag of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. She said the ICWA helped her and her three siblings get adopted by a Native American family after her mother’s suicide when she was 11.

The changing landscape of international adoption: Where we’ve been and where we’re going

Bethany spearheads efforts to change the emphasis from bringing children to the U.S. to instead finding adoptive homes for children in their home countries.

Kristi Gleason, Vice President of Global Programs

January 21, 2020

In 1982, Bethany Christian Services assumed responsibility for the international adoption program that had been run by the State of Michigan, seeking American families for orphaned or abandoned children from South Korea. Throughout our nearly 40-year history with international adoption, nearly 15,000 children have found a home with safe and loving families.

A group of donor-conceived and surrogate-born people have spoken out at the UN in a renewed push to improve the rights of access to biological information.

Giselle Newton, a PhD research student at UNSW, is one of 16 donor-conceived and surrogate-born people from around the world who are leading a renewed push to change laws which govern their access to information about their genetic heritage.

For the first time, the group told their own stories at a historic visit to the United Nations to mark the 30-year anniversary of the Convention for the Rights of the Child in Geneva on November 19.

They presented their five recommendations* to the Human Rights High Commissioner Michele Bachelet, and received a standing ovation from the audience.

“We highlighted the consequences of ignoring the voices of those most affected by these practices,” Ms Newton says. “Donor-conceived people are experts on this issue and our voices need to be listened to and acted upon.”

10 Years Towards Inclusion

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European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based care

The Orban government wants to make the foundation "The Orphanage Mogul of Romania's Orphans" of public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

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The Orban government wants to make the foundation "The Orphanage Mogul of Romania's Orphans" of public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

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Francois de Combret and the Orphans of Romania - millions of euros at stake! Where do all the mysterious roads of Romanian adoptions lead: Pizza Gate, Organ Trafficking, Satanic Sacrifices?

Most of the false images around Romania come from a lobby that desperately wants to reopen Romania. One of the key figures is Francois de Combret, the founder of the aforementioned NGO, SERA and a member of the Renault board.

Although he is certainly not the only player on the field. I think his actions are the most disturbing. Not only that, he is also a very influential man, with high positions in some of the largest French companies and political connections both in the French government and in the European Parliament.

His motivations are clear to me, the rest remains to understand what you are talking about. He presents three naked Romanian boys in a bath with a Masonic background. I wonder where this photo was taken. The bath certainly does not seem to be found in a Romanian orphanage. I also wonder who took this photo.

Many European organizations involved in a strong lobby to resume international adoptions

Orban wants to make the foundation of the "Orphan Mogul of Romania" public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

A draft Government decision was posted on the website of the Ministry of Labor, led by Violeta Alexandru, and the project is in public debate until February 12, 2020. The foundation note and the draft Government decision, assumed by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Deputy Prime Minister Raluca Turcan, as well as the ministers Violeta Alexandru, Vasile Florin Cî?u and Marian C?t?lin Predoiu, show that they declare as "of public utility" the "Sera Romania" Foundation, which requested this from the General Secretariat of the Government and which invested in Romania during the period 1996-2019, in the child protection programs about 85 million euros.

The SERA Foundation (Solidarity with Abandoned Romanian Children) is founded in the 1990s by the banker Francois Polge de Combret, investigated by several authorities in a huge corruption scandal, the Combret Frenchman being over time extremely interested in children. orphans from Romania and making a very strong lobby in Brussels.

The SERA Foundation (Solidarity with Abandoned Romanian Children) also appears in a documentary broadcast on 2009 on German WDR television, “Find me a child, I pay cash. Lobby for international adoptions ", in which are presented the pressures made to European officials for the resumption by Romania of international adoptions and it was even accused that it financed, together with American universities, the program" Project for Adoption ", carried out at the Saint Catherine Center in Bucharest, through which scientific experiments were carried out on orphaned Romanian children.

The executive director of the SERA Romania Foundation is Bogdan Simion, initially proposed, in the past, even by the former prime minister Dacian Ciolo? to be minister of Labor, but for different reasons Ciolo? has renounced its non-monetization. Bogdan Simion, a wealthy man, was also vice president of CES and, according to his statement of wealth, he also consulted with the Tanner Foundation, the World Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction.

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