An orphan of the Decree, Monica Le Roy Dagen, returns home to find her parents. Foto: Lucian Muntean

Marion, born Mariuca

“When my son, Pierre, was born I wondered whether I should tell my biological mother. But I felt like I couldn’t allow her to call herself his grandmother. I didn’t want Pierre to be hers, too.”

Thus speaks Marion Le Roy Dagen, aged 40. Until the age of 6 her name was Mariuca.

  Terre des Hommes TdH Netherlands and Terre des Hommes International Secretariat (International Federation) in Geneva have supported the consultancy and expert meeting which will lead to the publication of the report of the UNSR on the Sale of Children on illicit adoptions during the Human Rights Council Meeting in March 2017. The draft report is written by consultant Nigel Cantwell. An expert meeting was held on 19-20 September 2016 to verify the findings and discuss the outcomes and recommendations. The expert meeting was organised by Terre des Hommes Netherlands staff in cooperation with the University of Leiden.61 The expert meeting was attended by UNSR Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio as well as a number of international experts on (illegal) adoption, such as David Smolin, Claire Achmad, Hans van Loon, Laura Martinez, Sarah Guebreyes (African Child Policy Forum), Bernadette Babejo (Philippines Central Authority), Carolina Pimentel, Nekane Lavin and Dorian Hall. The final report will be published in March 2017.   
 

By: Ranada van Kralingen and Yvonne Fiege

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Emeritus professor and adoption expert René Hoksbergen has been approached by her biological parents to assist them in a case of youth care Groningen about the possible return of a seven-year-old girl. In his view, the child can return to her parents, who have since been fully rehabilitated, but youth care Groningen, which in the case is mainly guided by the view of Tonny Weterings (1), opposes this. In this interview, Hoksbergen explains how an outdated view of foster care and adoption care, especially in relation to the often underestimated aspect of the identity of the growing child, can hinder the well-being of the child in the long term.

Problems with adopted children

René Hoksbergen: The core of the matter is that both Femmie Juffer and Tonny Weterings are personally involved in their statements. (2) Juffer is an adoptive mother who obtained her doctorate with me. After that she went to Leiden and unfortunately it all went wrong. She worked together with professor van IJzendoorn, who has now been expelled from the university. As an adoptive mother, she has tried to demonstrate when adopting a foreign child how good that is for the child compared to children who remain in a comparative situation in the country of origin. Now the sad thing about her research and that is what I also blamed Frank Verhulst (3) thirty years ago, that she does not emphasize that if those children come here, all kinds of special problems arise and that we have to help adoptees with that. It does, however, provide information about this in certain analyses, for example, that they need help much more often - there is no other way because that just comes from that and a lot of other research - but how you should deal with those problems and what kind of problems they are, she says. nothing left. She does not come up with a specification of the problems and how to tackle them.

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Leiden University and UNICEF Netherlands extended the successful collaboration for the next five years. During this period, there will be cooperation on an international children's rights expertise center around the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights.

This expertise center will focus on fundamental and applied children's rights research and education for students and professionals. The proposed center will make connections between law and other scientific disciplines, nationally and internationally, with law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a starting point.

'To make children's rights truly meaningful, scientific research and children's rights education for students and professionals are of the utmost importance. We want to continue working on this in the coming years, together with UNICEF Netherlands," says Professor Ton Liefaard . Jan Bouke Wijbrandi, director of UNICEF Netherlands, adds: 'The collaboration deepens and broadens knowledge about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is vital for the realization of children's rights in practice, and therefore has a positive impact on the rights and well-being of children – the mission of UNICEF'.

Five years ago, UNICEF Netherlands and the Faculty of Law of Leiden University started an initial five-year collaboration. During this collaboration, the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights and the part-time chair in Children's Rights in the Developing World were created, the Master in Youth Law and the Master in Advanced Studies in International Children's Rights were launched, and scientific research into the rights of the child has resulted in Dutch and international publications. The annual Summer School Frontiers of Children's Rights has also been realized.

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De politieke strijd achter adoptie in Oeganda

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Ireland ratified the Hague Convention in 2010, which regulates intercountry adoption on a global basis

Ireland ratified the Hague Convention in 2010, which regulates intercountry adoption on a global basis

Romanian adopters not allowed to choose child based on race

Published August 17, 2016 Associated Press

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BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian authorities say families who want to adopt a child will no longer be able to make a choice based on the child's ethnicity.

Gabriela Coman, head of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of the Child and Adoption, presented a new adoption law Wednesday. She said ethnicity has been eliminated as a criteria for adoption.

The 88-year-old priest decided to return to the United States for health reasons and after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. A defender of the tribal north of the country, he has published hymns and prayers in the Garo language. He founded at least 30 schools to give children an education.

Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Thousands of Catholics and tribal Garo greeted Fr Eugene Eduard Homrich, a 88-year-old missionary of the Holy Cross, who left Bangladesh yesterday after 60 years of work in the country.

On 12 August, parishioners organised a party in a church in Pirgacha, Tangail district (northern Bangladesh). In greeting him, a young Catholic said, "I thank you Father because you have sacrificed yourself for the Garo people. May God bless you and be with you, always. Thank you so much."

Fr Eugene Eduard Homrich was born in Michigan in 1928 and arrived in Bangladesh in 1955. After learning the Bengali language, he served for three years in the diocese of Dhaka, an ethnically Bengali area. In 1959 he moved to JalchatraPparish, diocese of Mymensingh, where he remained until 1992. He was then sent to Pirgacha Parish, in the same diocese, and stayed there until now.

A few months ago, Fr Eugene received death threats from radical Muslims. For this reason, and because of his health, he decided to return to the US.

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After working for the welfare of local Mandi (Garo) and other ethnic minority people for 57 years in Madhupur upazila of Tangail, Father Eugene Homrich is returning to his home country USA.

Homrich, the parish priest of Saint Pauls Darmopalli, a mission at Pirgachha in Madhupur upazila, left for Dhaka on Saturday morning and he is supposed to fly to the USA today.

Born in Michigan City in USA in 1928, Father Homrich came to Madhupur in 1959 and started preaching Christianity alongside arranging education and healthcare for the ethnic minority people in Madhupur Garh region after establishing Jalchhatra Mission.

He gave shelter to many freedom loving people during the 1971 Liberation War and after the country's independence, he was given recognition as a freedom fighter.

A farewell function for Homrich was organised at Saint Pauls Darmopalli, about 20 kilometres from the Madhupur upazila headquarters on Friday.