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Adopted Bibi Hasenaar: 'My life is broken for the money'

'I think I can demand a reimbursement', says the adopted Bibi Hasenaar in response to the investigation that Minister Dekker is adopting for adoption. "It was vulgar trafficking."

"I think I am now 46 years old," says Bibi Hasenaar. The independent entrepreneur from Muiderberg does not know exactly what it is. As a four-and-a-half-year-old, the Bangladeshi-born girl was adopted, later her files were no longer there. "I celebrate my birthday on April 1, and then I feel really happy."

"I can still laugh," says Hasenaar at the end of the conversation, which is about her adoption. How the young Bibi and her brother are first disassembled in the Netherlands - against the rules - and how after three days of continuous crying they are replaced in the adoptive family of her brother. That was terrible, she says. "I did not feel wanted anywhere in my youth. My mother in Bangladesh did not want me anymore, I thought, and in that new family I was not wanted as an extra child. "The contact with her adoptive parents was bad from the start, she says. "In retrospect, I'm sure that I was brought up in Bangladesh with much more love."

On Thursday, Minister Dekker announced that investigations into malpractice in intercountry adoption, including those from Bangladesh. Hasenaar finds the reaction from The Hague very late. "Adopted people have been looking for answers for decades." A laugh sounds. "Actually, I have never been that person myself. I have not let myself get carried away by my past, I have tried to make something of my life here. "

Sometimes there is a story that is too bizarre for words. This is also the story of Lisa. She is 15 years old when she reports to the police about sexual abuse by her father and other men in the Nieuwe Scheveningse Bosjes and in a cafe in The Hague. The details she tells are getting more and more horrible and hard to believe. The Public Prosecution Service decides to stop the investigation. But then there is evidence that supports Lisa's story.

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Soms is er een verhaal dat te bizar is voor woorden. Zo ook het verhaal van Lisa. Ze is 15 jaar als ze bij de politie aangifte doet van seksueel misbruik door haar vader en andere mannen in de Nieuwe Scheveningse Bosjes en in een cafe in Den Haag. De details die ze vertelt worden steeds gruwelijker en zijn moeilijk te geloven. Het Openbaar Ministerie besluit het onderzoek stop te zetten. Maar dan duiken er bewijzen op die Lisa’s verhaal ondersteunen.

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Drie stewardessen met Koreaanse weeskinderen op Schiphol in februari 1972. © Hollandse Hoogte / Spaarnestad Photo

Mondje dicht! Ambtenaren knepen oogje toe bij ‘handel in baby's’

ILLEGALE ADOPTIEHet kabinet laat illegale adopties van kinderen onderzoeken. Het was bekend dat Nederlandse ambtenaren in de jaren 70 en 80 meewerkten aan de ‘handel in baby’s’. Toch greep de overheid nooit in.

Tonny van der Mee 08-12-18, 08:54

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“There is no difference between living in a brothel and staying in a shelter home,” says 23-year-old Farzana, who, after escaping a brothel in Pune, found herself in a ‘shelter home’ run by an NGO for the next 2 years. “In a brothel, we have no control of the situation, we cannot predict what is to happen to us the next moment; the same goes for these shelter homes, which are worse than prisons for us,” she adds, “In prisons, we know when we will be able to get out; in a shelter home, we have no information or certainty. When asked, I am always told things are in process, and it is a court order to keep me at the shelter, and without being ‘released’ by the court, they cannot send me back home.”

It is disturbing to see that brothels, shelter homes, prisons are synonymous in the minds of a survivor. The recent report about forced detention of women in a reputed shelter home in Hyderabad, and other recent reports of shelter homes in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh sexually exploiting children, raise serious doubts about the effectiveness of shelter home based rehabilitation approach for survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

While the comparison of a brothel and a shelter home may surprise many, beneath the surface, examination of the two shows stark similarities. At a seminar at Antara, a mental health institution in Bengal, while lecturing on psycho-social impact of sex trafficking on victims, an “activist” from one of the prominent anti trafficking NGO in Kolkata that runs one of the largest shelters for trafficked girls and women in the city declared, “If human trafficking is eradicated, then we would have no job left do to.”

Notwithstanding the ‘joke’ in poor taste, her observation brings to light a few striking similarities between brothels and shelter homes. Both have an economic interest that is based on survivors of trafficking, wherein there is income, and salaries are generated. The brothel or shelter itself is an asset for its owner. The existence and business of both depend on the retention and availability of victims of trafficking. Both are closed institutions where survivors are kept in control, their mobility restricted and communication with family is prohibited or controlled.

Despite the fundamental difference between the two in its intent – one uses debt bondage and servitude of girls and women to earn profit for a few, and the other aims to free people from that bondage – to a young women who has survived both, the similarities are glaring.

Onderzoek naar rol Nederlandse ambtenaren bij illegale adopties

Een onafhankelijke commissie gaat onderzoek doen naar misstanden bij adopties van buitenlandse kinderen door Nederlanders, en de mogelijke betrokkenheid van de overheid daarbij. Dat heeft het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid zojuist bekendgemaakt.

Politieke redactie 06-12-18, 14:12 Laatste update: 14:25

Nederlandse ambtenaren waren in het verleden mogelijk betrokken bij illegale adopties uit Brazilië, aldus het ministerie. Daarnaast is mogelijk geprobeerd om deze betrokkenheid ‘buiten beschouwing te laten bij een strafrechtelijk onderzoek’, schrijft minister Sander Dekker (Rechtsbescherming). Hij wil weten of dit vaker voorkwam, en in hoeverre de overheid een actieve rol speelde bij illegale adopties.

De informatie over de mogelijke betrokkenheid kwam aan het licht door een informatieverzoek op basis van de Wet openbaarheid van bestuur (Wob). ‘De belangrijkste onderzoeksvraag is wat de feitelijke gang van zaken is geweest en wat de rol van de Nederlandse overheid was’, aldus Dekker.

Research into the role of Dutch civil servants in illegal adoptions

An independent committee will investigate abuses in adoptions of foreign children by the Dutch, and the possible involvement of the government in this. The Ministry of Justice and Security has just announced this.

Political editing 06-12-18, 14:12 Last update: 14:25

Dutch officials may have been involved in illegal adoptions from Brazil in the past, according to the ministry. In addition, attempts may have been made to 'disregard this involvement in criminal investigations', writes Minister Sander Dekker (Legal Protection). He wants to know if this occurred more often, and to what extent the government played an active role in illegal adoptions.

The information about the possible involvement came to light through an information request based on the Government Information (Public Access) Act (Wob). 'The most important research question is what the actual course of events was and what the role of the Dutch government was,' says Dekker.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) on Wednesday said it will be formulating guidelines for children's hostels which are not registered under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

The guidelines will cover institutions housing children at the request of parents who are unable to take care of them and their education.

According to the Ministry, the new guidelines will prescribe the minimum standards of care that should be provided to children.

In view of the directions of the apex court, the Ministry is drafting the guidelines which will be applicable to any institution not falling under the categories mentioned in the JJ Act, the Ministry said in a statement.

"Children staying at hostels, including those attached to schools, are as vulnerable as children at any other facility like child-care institutions (CCIs) and day-care centres. Therefore, we decided to formulate a set of guidelines to ensure adequate safety, minimum standard of living conditions and periodic inspections at hostels," said Union WCD Minister Maneka Gandhi.

19 years on, no justice, no compensation: A TN mother's fight for her abducted son

Nagarani is yet to even receive an interim compensation of Rs 1 lakh from the Government's victim compensation scheme.

Anjana Shekar

Tuesday, December 04, 2018 - 13:38

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