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From today the police will control international adoption: finally end the scourge of payments in cash and in black?

Money-wadFrom today to monitor the international adoption will be the Police, not the CAI.Or rather not only . In the name of "transparency", in fact, the Commission International adoptions called to his side the Arma and signature, Saturday, June 20, an agreement for the protection "of the child and the respect for fundamental rights that are recognized by international law." In signing the MoU, the Vice-President of CAI, Silvia Della Monica, and the Commanding General of Tullio Del Sette .

News that however surprising and perplexing. Families and associations.

Because on one hand the agreement can be seen as a tool to counter cash payments and in black , transparency requirements not respected and the "financial pressure", in many cases illegal, for sure alone is not enough to restore sap international adoptions. It would have been, in fact, very interesting to read, rather, to some agreement signed with the countries of origin especially in light of the fact that since thisCAI took office (about a year and a half ago) met only once (in June 2014), met with foreign delegations only a few times (not promptly inform the authorized bodies) and especially the last bilateral agreements with foreign countries date back to July 25, 2014 (Burundi) and 17 September 2014 with Cambodia and neither of them is still operating

Congolese Children, Adopted Years Ago, May Soon Be Permitted to Travel to New Homes

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By RACHEL RABKIN PEACHMAN

JUNE 22, 2015

Nicole Craig’s nearly 3-year-old daughter, Elisabeth Grace, carries a ring of laminated family photos everywhere she goes. “She sleeps with them and kisses them and she will tell everyone, ‘This is my daddy,’ or ‘This is my brother Alex, this is my brother Kaden.’ She knows she has a family,” Ms. Craig said over the phone from Green Bay, Wis.

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Children’s Authority promises easy adoption process

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Foreign adoption order recognised at common law in Scottish legal first

LordBrailsfordAn adoption order granted by a court in Ethiopia is thought to be the first foreign adoption order to been recognised and registered at common law in Scotland.

A married man who was granted adoption of the child of his wife’s previous marriage before the couple relocated to Scotland has had the adoption formally recognised by a judge in the Court of Session in the first reported decision of its kind.

Lord Brailsford heard that Ian Ashford Brown and Aida Ashford Brown married in Abu Dhabi in July 2002, she having been previously married to a man who died in 1996.

Mrs Ashford Brown and her now deceased spouse had a child, Mekedes Abdisa Debele, born in June 1990, who was adopted by Mr Ashford Brown by deed of adoption granted in January 2005 by the Federal Court of First Instance in Lideta, Addis Ababa.

Minister defends ‘Barnevernet’

June 12, 2015

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The name of the Norwegian state agency charged with ensuring the welfare of children, Barnevernet, has become well-known far beyond Norway’s borders, for all the wrong reasons. Thorny cases of children taken away from foreign parents have made headlines from India to Lithuania but now the government minister in charge of the embattled agency is coming to its defense, while also promising to take all the complaints against it seriously.

Solveig Horne, the government minister in charge of children's and family issues, is now tackling the controversy around Norway's state child welfare agency "barnevernet." PHOTO: regjeringen.no

4th Meeting of the Special Commission on the Hague Convention

NORDIC ADOPTION COUNCIL July 2015 Birgitta Löwstedt

4TH SPECIAL COMMISSION 8-12 June 2015

"20 years of the 1993 Hague Convention”

The objective of the 4th Special Commission (SC) was to review the practical operation of the 1993 Hague Convention; in the light of the 20 years that have passed since its birth. The discussions included presentations by some experts and some 'round table' sessions to introduce certain topics. After each presentation and round table sessions, there was time for discussions, questions and comments. Special for this year: A preparatory meeting was held on Saturday 6th June, for new States parties to the convention and for those States seriously considering ratification of, or accession to, the Convention. 19 States participated, with totally 33 experts. It was very successful and appreciated by participants.