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Cambodia’s Stolen Children: Fraud and Corruption in the Inter-Country Adoption System

Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)

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March 30, 2018 - Thousands of Cambodian children were adopted overseas between the late 1980s and 2009. During that time it emerged that many of the adopted children were not orphans but had parents who placed them in orphanages because of extreme poverty. Their parents placed them there on the understanding that they would return home at a later date. They did not consent to their children's adoption. Instead, orphanage directors, with the help of local authorities, created documents falsely stating that the children were orphans or had been abandoned.

The court said prima facie, the Mankhurd shelter home’s condition was not up to the mark.

Mumbai: The Bombay high court has suggested the state to develop a model plan for constant governance and supervision of shelter homes for children in the state. The division bench of Justice N.H. Patil and Justice G S Kulkarni has said that the government could also consult social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muuruganantham for supply of sanitary pads for girls staying in these homes.

The bench put forward these suggestions while hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by a city resident, Sangeeta Punekar, raising the issue of poor condition of a children’s shelter home in suburban Mankhurd. The court said prima facie, the Mankhurd shelter home’s condition was not up to the mark.

HYDERABAD: A day after a woman trafficking children was arrested and a 10-day-old baby girl was rescued by RGI Airport police, five more persons, including kingpin Gangadhar Reddy, were arrested by Cyberabad police on Wednesday. Another infant was also rescued.

Briefing the media, deputy commissioner of police (Shamshabad) PV Padmaja said based on the confession of arrested Manga, Gangadhar Reddy, C Srinivas, T Shirisha Reddy, Sharada, and K Lakshmi were arrested from different areas in the city. During interrogation of Gangadhar, police came to know that he was a repeat offender and he was arrested earlier by Madannapet, Gandhinagar and Chatrinaka police for trafficking infants.

The prime accused, who had previously worked in a few fertility centers, used to interact with women going for IVF and surrogacy procedures. After quitting his job, Gangadhar became an agent and used to sell infants to issueless couples by procuring new-borns from poor families or those having many children or tribals. Till now, Gangadhar reportedly dealt with 12 infants. He claimed in six cases the adoption process was legal. “Three infants were rescued by Hyderabad police in the past, while now RGI Airport police rescued two infants. We are making efforts to rescue the third infant too,’’ Padmaja said.

Police said other five culprits used to search for parents willing to sell their infants or prospective buyers. Efforts are on to trace parents of rescued infants, who would be handed over to them only after DNA profiling.

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Cyberabad police busted a child trafficking racket and apprehended seven people, besides rescuing a 15-day-old baby. The prime accused has allegedly been involved in the sale of 12 infants, the police informed.

The racket came apart after the police arrested 22-year-old Sarikonda Manga, on Monday. The police was on the lookout for Manga, who managed to escape last week when she was seen with the infant. The cops, however, managed to free the infant from her clutches.

On Monday, police arrested Manga, who led them to the prime accused, Vakapally Gangadhar Reddy. According to the police, Reddy, a native of East Godavarin in A.P., worked in Hyderabad as a mediator for fertility centres and women who sought to become surrogates, besides buying and selling infants.

The police said the rescued infant has been sent to a State home and efforts were on to find its parents.

Lions Clubs International has decorated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with the “Medal of Distinction” in recognition of her service to the needy and distressed, particularly the forcibly displaced Rohingya people from Myanmar.

Visiting Lions Clubs International President Naresh Agarwal handed over the medal to the prime minister when he paid her a courtesy call at her official residence Ganabhaban on Wednesday, the prime minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told reporters.

Agarwal strongly praised Sheikh Hasina for her humanitarian qualities, particularly for giving shelter to over a million Rohingya people in Bangladesh.

He said the international community had already recognized the prime minister as a “Mother of Humanity.”

In response, Hasina said it was her responsibility to serve the distressed group. "You (Lions) have been working to serve the common people. Similarly, we politicians are also working to ensure the basic needs of people," she said.

ADOPTED KIDS SUE DUTCH GOV'T OVER ABUSES IN THE '80S

By Janene Pieters on March 28, 2018 - 07:38

Adopted children from Sri Lanka and Indonesia filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government over errors in their adoption procedures in the 1980's. They want the government to compensate the high costs they're incurring in the search for their origin and biological parents, according to a Zembla broadcast on Wednesday, NU.nl reports.

Last year Zembla reported that adoption files of children from Sri Lanka and Indonesia, among others, were falsified on a large scale and that biological parents did not always give their child up voluntarily.

According to the lawyers representing the adopted kids, the Dutch state is responsible for making sure that adoption procedures from abroad are correctly implemented. Because the state failed to do so, adoption files could be falsified. The government can therefore be held liable, the lawyers said. Now these adopted children have no idea what their real identity is or who their biological parents are, and have to incur high costs in their search to find out.

In this SAP blog highlighting the relationship between the government and the foundation Flash, who was involved since 1979 with the adoption of children from countries such as Sri Lanka. Flash will be discontinued in 2010. The foundation has mediated for a total of 2,410 children, most of whom come from Sri Lanka.

How did it work? When adoptive parents from the Netherlands had a permit in principle from the Ministry of Justice, Flash contacted a few permanent private mediators in Sri Lanka. In practice, the Dutch parents stayed in Sri Lanka for about 3 weeks, with a travel visa applied for and granted by the Dutch embassy on the last day of the child's stay. Flash advised a week after arrival in the Netherlands to report to the local aliens police in order to apply for a residence permit. Because no details of the child had to be provided in advance, foster parents were usually not aware of who the child is and who the biological parents were. On March 2, 1983, the Ministry of Justice wrote to Flash that from now on the name in writing to the Ministry of Justice, date of birth, nationality and gender of the foster child are stated. The practice of granting a travel visa to adopted children was formally 'not entirely correct'. As a result, an authorization for temporary residence must be issued from now on. A condition for this is that the parent (s) and / or the legal representatives of the baby have renounced the baby in a locally applicable manner and acceptable according to Dutch standards. The personal details of the child to be adopted must be known to the Ministry of Justice before the parents go abroad. A condition for this is that the parent (s) and / or the legal representatives of the baby have renounced the baby in a locally applicable and acceptable manner according to Dutch standards. The personal details of the child to be adopted must be known to the Ministry of Justice before the parents go abroad. A condition for this is that the parent (s) and / or the legal representatives of the baby have renounced the baby in a locally applicable and acceptable manner according to Dutch standards. The personal details of the child to be adopted must be known to the Ministry of Justice before the parents go abroad.

Flash reports on July 11, 1983 that this would mean that the foster parents would have to stay longer in Sri Lanka and that she does not agree. Apparently the interests of the buyers were greater than those of the child. Rather than halting adoption, the government is allowing Flash to continue to handle current affairs in the usual manner. As a result, it remains unknown where exactly the baby comes from. The Ministry of Justice announced on September 28, 1983 that it does not wish to process requests from foreign nationals whose full personal details are not yet known. Flash is now given another postponement, until January 1, 1984, to announce the child's personal details in advance. In the letter of June 5, 1984 from the Ministry of Justice, it is noted that Flash is still making requests without the required statement.

On July 26, 1984, representatives of Flash reported on their working visit to Sri Lanka, where they discussed the problem of applying for temporary residence by name. It is agreed that prospective foster parents may travel to Sri Lanka as soon as a child becomes available. As soon as the details of the child are known, they will be forwarded to Flash and the application for the authorization for temporary stay will be applied for. This, too, is contrary to the required advance notice of these essential data. The government has consciously let Flash run its course. Given the coverage of adoption practices worldwide and in Sri Lanka in particular, and Flash's reputation, this is particularly careless. As a result, hundreds if not thousands of babies have been taken from Sri Lanka, without knowing who their family was and is. The government had the power to allow adoptions only if it was established who the baby belonged to, that the parent (s) in Sri Lanka gave permission to give it up, and that everything was recorded so that the baby could later interact with his or her family in Sri Lanka. Unfortunately, many children were found to have been robbed from hospitals, born in baby farms, and there was widespread fraud with passports by rogue traders.

In the next blog, attention will be paid to regulations when it comes to adoption.

Dutch Journalist and TV host of the television show ‘KIDNAPPED’ Joannes Maria Van den Heuvel has been signaled as a wanted fugitive by an Indian Criminal court after the judge has issued his non bailable Indian national Arrest warrants in Insiya Hemani’s kidnapping case. He was indicted by the Indian prosecutors for the attempted kidnapping and abduction of Insiya Hemani from India in October 2016 which was captured on camera. The Indian intelligence had advance information and was following him during his kidnapping mission in India during October 2016. Insiya’s father Shehzad Hemani pressed criminal charges in India against him and others for Insiya’s attempted kidnapping and abduction, deprivation of liberty, extortion and criminal conspiracy. An Indian criminal court after going through all the video evidences, other evidences collected by the Prosecutor and after viewing the episodes of Television how KIDNAPPED was convinced that he acts like a mercenary and then indicted him and issued his non bailable arrest warrants and declared him a wanted fugitives in India after he failed to appear in courts after various court summons given to him. If arrested, John Van den Heuvel will face upto 12 years of rigorous imprisonment in India since the Indian courts and prosecutors have credible evidence which proves that he is part of an international child kidnapping cartel and an organized crime syndicate which abducts and kidnaps children for the television show aired by RTL4. The Indian foreign affairs, has also contacted their counterparts in Suriname, Spain, Mexico and Turkey among other countries where John van den Heuvel is probably a wanted fugitive for similar child kidnapping offenses and it appears that such countries have assured India for their support to bring the child kidnapper to justice. A copy of his Indian National Arrest Warrant is enclosed herewith for reference. Previous press articles stating such facts are: https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-news-dutch-journolist-bookedkidnap-bandra-businessman-files-fir/18565177 FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE 26 MARCH 2018 CONROS GROUP INDIA http://www.indialivetoday.com/dutch-journalist-john-van-den-heuvel-bookedfor-kidnapping-child-after-shehzad-hemani-bandra-businessman-filesfir/197740.html https://www.hartvannederland.nl/nieuws/2017/vader-insiya-klaagt-john-vanden-heuvel-aan-voor-kidnapping/ https://www.ad.nl/amsterdam/vader-insiya-doet-aangifte-tegen-ex-vrouw-enjohn-van-den-heuvel~adc60ba6/ http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/172910/vader-insiya-doet-aangifte-tegen-vanden-heuvel-voor-kidnapping The other 10 co-accused wanted fugitives in this case are; VD Wiel, Loth Roy, Gallas Peter, Leks Frits, Veerman Tijmen, Nadia Rashid, Adnan Rashid, Sadia Rashid, Nighat Tahera Rashid and Erland Galjaard of RTL who are also wanted fugitives by the Indian Police and Prosecution services in this child kidnapping case. End of Press Release

Welcome to part six, "John Abraham Memorial Bethany Home" where I visit the orphanage that I stayed in.

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INDIA: John Abraham Memorial Bethany Home (Part Six)

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Welcome to part six, "John Abraham Memorial Bethany Home" where I visit the orphanage that I stayed in.