Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Stop adoption of children from abroad

The Netherlands must stop the adoption of children from abroad. The right of children to grow up in a family in the country of origin should be unconditionally paramount. This advises the Board of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (RSJ) Wednesday to the Cabinet.

"A child is always better off in a family than in a home and it is very important that a child has continuity of upbringing," said juvenile court Jolande Calkoen, who is a member of the RSJ Wednesday in Trouw. "So that it remains in an environment where it knows the culture, the social environment and the language."

The Council examined the request of the government on how prospective adoptive children can best be protected. The RSJ finds that adoption offers many benefits to the individual child, but feels that too much insoluble risk are sticking in its entirety to the system. The RSJ does emphasize in the report that adoptive parents and agencies did nothing wrong.

Tegenstrijdigheid IVRK en het Haagse verdrag

Een ander knelpunt in het juridisch kader betreft het verschil tussen het IVRK en het Haagse

verdrag op het gebied van de pleegzorg. In het IVRK87 is vastgelegd dat opgroeien in een

(pleeg)gezin in het land van herkomst de voorkeur heeft boven interlandelijke adoptie.88

In het Haagse verdrag wordt interlandelijke adoptie als substituut gezien van binnenlandse

ADVIES: STOPPEN MET INTERLANDELIJKE ADOPTIE

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De Raad voor Strafrechttoepassing en Jeugdbescherming (RSJ) heeft vandaag haar advies 'Bezinning op Interlandelijke Adoptie' uitgebracht waarin gesteld wordt dat interlandelijke adoptie niet het beste middel is om kinderen te beschermen. Zij doet een beroep op de Nederlandse overheid om de focus te verleggen en deze kinderen te beschermen door het ondersteunen van de opbouw en uitbouw van het jeugdbeschermingssysteem in het land van herkomst. Dit ideale scenario noemt de RSJ 'Gezin in land van herkomst'. Defence for Children - ECPAT verwelkomt het RSJ rapport en herkent de geïdentificeerde knelpunten bij adoptie. Met name de invloed van financiële prikkels op adoptie en de problemen rond het toepassen van het subsidiariteitsbeginsel.

Het subsidiariteitsbeginsel van het VN-Kinderrechtenverdrag schrijft voor dat Interlandelijke adoptie alleen kan worden overwogen 'indien het kind niet in een pleeg- of adoptiegezin kan worden geplaatst en op geen enkele passende wijze kan worden verzorgd in het land van zijn of haar herkomst (art 21b)'. Met het 'Gezin in land van herkomst' voorstel van de RSJ wordt het subsidiariteitsbeginsel strikter toegepast omdat het terechte vraagtekens stelt bij de mate waarin nu naar alternatieven binnen het gezin of een pleeggezin wordt gekeken. Een passend alternatief voor adoptie zou in het eigen land gezocht moeten worden, zoals ook in geval van Nederlandse kinderen. Voor Nederlandse kinderen die niet in een eigen gezin opgroeien én niet opgevangen kunnen worden in een pleeggezin zoekt de overheid binnen onze landsgrenzen naar oplossingen in plaats van dat zij worden aangeboden voor buitenlandse adoptie.

De RSJ adviseert verder om de samenwerking met landen waarin grote specifieke knelpunten spelen direct te beëindigen. Het gaat om China (toezicht door CA en vergunninghouders niet mogelijk), de VS (schendt intentie van verdragsbepaling m.b.t. het subsidiariteitsbeginsel en de vrijelijk gegeven toestemming) en EU-landen van herkomst (subsidiariteitsbeginsel). Voor Defence for Children – ECPAT horen ook Afrikaanse staten op dit lijstje omdat er onvoldoende zicht is of er in deze landen een effectief adoptiesysteem mogelijk is. Met de RSJ kijken wij uit naar een beleidskeuze van de minister op korte termijn.

Hi Arun .. this is first draft only and I’m not an expert on ICA law or Human Rights like you .. so it’s very generic and hopefully simple to understand and read  ..

I’m keen to have your expert feedback on what you think, corrections to law or rights?  have I missed something? have I misunderstood things?

Cheers

Lynelle Long

When Khaled Quzmar was 14 years old, his brother was arrested by Israeli occupation forces and Khaled was only able to see him through an “iron net” when he visited. His desire to break through this iron net and give his brother a hug – a simple request denied by the Israeli prison authorities – is what inspired Khaled to become a lawyer: “I found that the only way was to become a lawyer and visit him in prison and hug him inside.”

He studied for his law degree at Oran University in Algeria, and returned to Palestine 5 years later to find his brother still in prison. Two days later, he was inside his brother’s cell and was finally able to hug him.

For the next 20 years, Khaled continued to work as a defence lawyer representing mainly child prisoners inside the Israeli military courts.

However, after 20 years, Khaled became so frustrated that he felt that he could no longer continue to battle in the Israeli military courts system.

“I got aggressive with my children. I couldn’t accept it when I came home after working 10 hours in the military courts, leaving children alone behind bars without anybody to take care of them, subjected sometimes to torture and ill-treatment, while my children asked me to go to a restaurant or to the cinema. So I became aggressive. But then I thought to myself, ‘Why am I doing that? Why am I blaming my children? Why am I punishing them?’ So I decided to stop working, to have a rest, and to study something.”

When Khaled Quzmar was 14 years old, his brother was arrested by Israeli occupation forces and Khaled was only able to see him through an “iron net” when he visited. His desire to break through this iron net and give his brother a hug – a simple request denied by the Israeli prison authorities – is what inspired Khaled to become a lawyer: “I found that the only way was to become a lawyer and visit him in prison and hug him inside.”

He studied for his law degree at Oran University in Algeria, and returned to Palestine 5 years later to find his brother still in prison. Two days later, he was inside his brother’s cell and was finally able to hug him.

For the next 20 years, Khaled continued to work as a defence lawyer representing mainly child prisoners inside the Israeli military courts.

However, after 20 years, Khaled became so frustrated that he felt that he could no longer continue to battle in the Israeli military courts system.

“I got aggressive with my children. I couldn’t accept it when I came home after working 10 hours in the military courts, leaving children alone behind bars without anybody to take care of them, subjected sometimes to torture and ill-treatment, while my children asked me to go to a restaurant or to the cinema. So I became aggressive. But then I thought to myself, ‘Why am I doing that? Why am I blaming my children? Why am I punishing them?’ So I decided to stop working, to have a rest, and to study something.”

ROMFILATELIA SUPPORTS SERA ROMANIA FOUNDATION THROUGH A POSTAL STATIONERY FOR A NOBLE CAUSE – “EVERY CHILD DESERVES A FAMILY!”

On Monday, October 24th, 2016, the Romanian Athenaeum hosted the anniversary event 20 years of activity SERA Romania Foundation, which marked two working decades of this nongovernmental institution, serving to protect the children in need.

The event included a series of moments which guaranteed an exceptional evening, based on a noble cause “Every child deserves a family”: the anniversary charity symphonic music concert, having the famous American pianist Alan Gampel as special guest, the photo exhibition dedicated to the work of the foundation, the philatelic moment of presenting the dedicated postal stationery and a cocktail which ended the evening successfully.

The host of the evening, Mr. Bogdan Simion, Executive Director of SERA Romania Foundation, had several special guests: Mr. Dragos Pislaru, Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection for the Elderly, Ms. Arielle de Rothschild, President of the Board of Directors of the CARE France Foundation, Ms. Michele Ramniceanu, Board Member of the CARE France Foundation, members of the Chamber of Deputies, of the Diplomatic Corps, including H.E. Ms. Tamar Samash, the Israeli Ambassador to Bucharest. There were also representatives of the General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection, guests from the business environment, as well as institutional partners of the foundation.

In order to support the activity of the Foundation, as well as celebrating its anniversary of 20 years of existence, Romfilatelia joined the festive moment by designing a postal stationery with a fixed stamp, wishing to be a loud voice for those causes that deserve to be heard.

‘I felt abandoned’: children stolen by France try to find their past, 50 years on

For decades, children from Réunion island in the Indian Ocean were removed to repopulate rural areas of France

Jessie Moenner

Jessie Moenner, pictured in the Réunion capital, was one of many hundreds of children taken from their families to live in France. Photograph: Vidhi Doshi

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John and Georgiana Tufts

“I don’t want to talk about bad guy,” the 5-year-old told Cook Children’s Hospital psychologist Phillip Breedlove.

Her adoptive parents, John and Georgiana Tufts of Denton, told one of her peer’s parents that she came from an abusive family in Poland. But in late August, police in Denton were interviewing her