Fewer children being adopted in India, Centre asks states to get their act together

Though there is no official data, surveys by NGOs say there are approximately 50,000 orphans in India. Around 14,000 applicants are in the queue to adopt but only 1,800 children are available.

INDIA Updated: Oct 05, 2017 10:58 IST

Moushumi Das Gupta

Hindustan Times, New Delhi

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The existence of so-called ‘baby farms’ was the most important reason for the Sri Lankan government to suspend intercountry adoption in 1987. At these baby farms, women were impregnated to meet the demand for adoptive children. This is confirmed by Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, in response to the investigation by ZEMBLA. “There were a lot of baby farms back then,” says the minister. “They collected the babies there and sold them to foreigners for adoption.” This is the first time the Sri Lankan government admits the existence of ‘baby farms’. Stories of ‘baby farms’ had previously been dismissed as rumours.

In response to the ZEMBLA findings, Sri Lanka will launch an investigation into the adoption fraud involving thousands of children who were brought from Sri Lanka to the Netherlands during the 1980s. Minister Senaratne also takes the initiative to establish a DNA databank, which children as well as parents can use to search for relatives.

From Flemish annual report CA - 2017

Exact date not clear

Dutch WOB Ketenoverleg refers to this Geneva meeting too.

And Finish Paper - see attached

https://www.valvira.fi/documents/18508/3375901/Finnish_Adoption_Board_Annual_Report_2017.pdf/2255b2ab-2459-379e-16f8-21a523d21b29

”Vi uppmanar nu Myndigheten för familjerätt och föräldraskapsstöd att utreda vad som egentligen hände i samband med att Sverige blev ett av världens största mottagarländer av srilankesiska barn”, skriver dagens debattörer. Bild: AP/Bram Janssen

”Vi uppmanar nu Myndigheten för familjerätt och föräldraskapsstöd att utreda vad som egentligen hände i samband med att Sverige blev ett av världens största mottagarländer av srilankesiska barn”, skriver dagens debattörer.

Bild: AP/Bram Janssen

Utred adoptionerna från Sri Lanka till Sverige

Det är på tiden att Sverige både erkänner och tar på sig ansvaret för att alltför många av landets 60?000 utlandsadopterade har kommit hit på kriminella och korrupta grunder.

Nobody’s baby – Are ‘baby farms’ a result of adoption law loopholes?

By SAJITHA PREMATUNGE - Sep 30, 2017 222 0

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It’s easy to romanticize about a dark skinned man with a European accent who comes to Sri Lanka looking for his long lost mother who gave him up for adoption as an infant. We’d all love to see his mother’s tear streaked cheeks upon finally being reunited with her son. But the hard truth is that he was probably, very likely, sold.

The decades old issue of ‘baby farms’ resurfaced recently when Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne admitted to the Dutch current affairs programme Zembla, the previous existence of ‘baby farms’ where up to 11,000 children were sold for adoption to foreigners in the 1980s.

Vlaams bureau genoemd in zaak adoptiefraude

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1 De man in blauw hemd is Erik Kuiken van de Stichting FLASH (voorzitter van 2004 tot 2009). ©rv

Adoptiefraude vanuit Sri Lanka naar Nederland: het Nederlandse onderzoeksprogramma Zembla bracht er vorige week een ophefmakende reportage over, waarin het in 2010 ter ziele gegane adoptiebureau Stichting FLASH centraal staat.

De Sri Lankaanse minister van Volksgezondheid bevestigde daarin het bestaan van babyfarms, kweekboerderijen voor adoptiekinderen.

The National Administrative Board asks Sri Lanka for information about adoptions

The National Ankestyrelse is now writing to the authorities in Sri Lanka for information on adoptions in the 1980s.

09/26/2017

We do this after reviewing the media of irregularities in adoptions from Sri Lanka. We have become aware that there may have been a problem based on a review of a documentary film shown on the Dutch television.

According to the review of Denmark, Denmark, together with, among others, Holland and Sweden, has received incorrect children from Sri Lanka in the 1980s.

Diplomacy and Law Enforcement Unite to Dismantle Major International Adoption Fraud Scheme

September 22, 2017

By Angela French, DSS Public Affairs

Date: 09/22/2017 Description: Closeup of mock-up adoption agreement document. © Shutterstock“[Addressing] adoption fraud was a top priority for the Consular section in Addis Ababa,” recalled Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Special Agent Jamel Love.

That’s what led Love to investigate International Adoption Guides, Inc. (IAG), a South Carolina company that arranged for the adoptions of Ethiopian children by U.S. citizens, for suspicion of adoption fraud. DSS’ pursuit of the case led to the take down of a major international adoption company and four employees sentenced for their part in the adoption fraud scheme.

Jeannette Kagame Shares Rwanda’s Journey to Orphanage-free Society

September 22, 2017 at 12:28 pm By Kalinda Brenda

(c) The First Lady Jeannette Kagame joined some of the invitees for the Global First Ladies Alliance, which was held on the margins of UNGA

The First Lady Jeannette Kagame has told her counterparts from across the world that reintegration of thousands orphans into foster or adoptive families was a success thanks to country’s tradition to recognize a child as a product of the whole society.

The integration happened in the wake of 1994 Genocide against Tutsi where over a million Tutsi were killed in three months. Parents left behind 75,000 devastated orphans that needed urgent support of society.

Babyfarmen auf Sri Lanka verkauften Kinder nach Europa

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In Sri Lanka wurden Tausende von Kindern ihren Müttern gestohlen – um sie nach Europa zu verkaufen (Symbolbild). In Sri Lanka wurden Tausende von Kindern ihren Müttern gestohlen – um sie nach Europa zu verkaufen (Symbolbild).Foto: imago stock&people / imago/ZUMA Press

Über 11.000 Kleinkinder aus Sri Lanka wurden in den 1980er-Jahren nach Europa verkauft

Das erklärt Rajitha Senaratne, der Gesundheitsminister Sri Lankas