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Head of UN Occupation Force in Haiti, Edmond Mulet, Ran Child Trafficking Network in Guatemala

Head of UN Occupation Force in Haiti, Edmond Mulet, Ran Child Trafficking Network in Guatemala

By Dady Chery

Global Research, March 07, 2015

Haiti Chery 24 February 2015

Theme: Law and Justice

Né sous X, il dénonce « l’injustice » de la loi française

Né sous X, il dénonce « l’injustice » de la loi française

Il y a un an, Matthieu Evers a retrouvé la trace de sa mère de naissance, mais elle refuse d’entrer en contact avec lui.

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Dutch adoptee afraid time running out in search for birth parents

Dutch adoptee afraid time running out in search for birth parents PUBLISHED : Sunday, 22 February, 2015, 5:04am UPDATED : Sunday, 22 February, 2015, 8:54am Alice Woodhouse alice.woodhouse@scmp.com Follow SCMP SCMP Most Popular Viewed Shared Commented . China executes mining tycoon Liu Han, who had links to ex-security tsar Zhou Yongkang China ‘not ready to win wars’ despite PLA modernisation, says US report Rude awakening: Chinese tourists have the money, but not the manners A maid's tale: The story of one woman’s struggle to become a domestic helper Corrupt mainland drug firms 'fuelling crystal meth scourge', says UN official We recommend Lifestyle 16 Feb 2015 What Kanye West gets right, and what he gets wrong Comment 21 Feb 2015 Time to challenge power of the rich News 21 Feb 2015 Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in hospital with… Lifestyle 10 Feb 2015 Five beverages that rehydrate the body better than any sports drink News 22 Feb 2015 PLA pilot scheme extends family reunion privileges to… News 22 Feb 2015 Hong Kong's biggest pro-Beijing party preparing for new blood News 22 Feb 2015 Hong Kong needs marine upgrades to lure luxury yachts, expert warns Comment 22 Feb 2015 Hong Kong's unwanted HK$1,000 banknote is the money launderer's… Videos 11 Feb 2015 Topless protesters jump on former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn's car at… Comment 11 Feb 2015 Why banker's 'leaving Hong Kong' blog jars with so many people Lifestyle 16 Feb 2015 If you go out with wet hair, will you catch a cold? Videos 28 Jan 2015 How noodles spice up China-Japan tensions Lifestyle 03 Feb 2015 Yang Fudong's Australia exhibition marks a move into digital… Property 04 Feb 2015 Making microflats liveable is simply a matter of good design Comment 20 Feb 2015 Smaller club of airlines taking passengers for a ride PROMOTED My First Class Life 01 Dec 2014 Rich List: The 20 Wealthiest Criminals Ever PROMOTED The Dodo 13 Feb 2015 Hospital Bends Rules To Let Woman Say Final Farewell To Her Dog Recommended by Verhagen with adopted dad. Photo: SMP A Dutch woman adopted in Hong Kong in the 1960s has turned to the Sunday Morning Post for help to find her birth parents after attempts to trace her roots through official channels failed for a second time. Anita Verhagen, now 48, was adopted at 10 months old in 1967 by a Dutch couple living in Shouson Hill. She was born in Tsan Yuk Hospital on June 4, 1966, to 24-year-old Lo Siu Ngor, who lived at 4 Marsh Road, Wan Chai. The girl's name at birth was Mei Chong. Despite living a happy life in the Netherlands, she has wanted to trace her birth parents for as long as she can remember, as she feels something is missing. "It's almost like having a scar on your soul, you're not complete," she said. Her latest attempt to trace them through the Red Cross - which offers help to adoptees trying to find their origins - failed to provide new leads and she was told that the case had reached the two-year time limit and was now closed. "I understand that organisations like the Social Welfare Department or Red Cross have to work through the proper channels, but that doesn't always lead to a solution," Verhagen said. Verhagen as a baby. Photo: SMP Hundreds of children were adopted from Hong Kong by families from overseas in the 1960s, but records from the time are patchy. The welfare department said: "It would not be uncommon for the adopted person [to be] unable to locate his/her birth parents." In the late 1990s, an earlier attempt by Verhagen to trace her roots through the International Social Service in Hong Kong brought up a surname for her possible birth father, Harrimount, who served in the British Army in the city. Harrimount was a 27-year-old soldier at the time of Verhagen's birth and it is thought her mother worked in the barracks. Records show her birth mother was a domestic worker for European families and was originally from the mainland. She was forced to give up her baby as she was unmarried and had financial difficulties. Verhagen is worried time may be running out. "We see movies and they find their birth parents but they've been in the grave for the past two months. That would be an absolute horror," she said. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Time tight in search for birth parents

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Council launches Romanian recruitment drive to fill social work vacancies

Council launches Romanian recruitment drive to fill social work vacancies

By Neil Puffett

| 20 February 2015

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A troubled children’s services department has launched a social worker recruitment drive in Romania because it is struggling to fill vacancies with candidates in England.

Diplomat should be removed from UN over inquiry

The highest-ranking Guatemalan diplomat in the UN, Edmond Mulet, has been widely regarded as “the honorable candidate” who could rescue the country’s corruption-ridden political system.

But suddenly, reports that Mulet was investigated for child trafficking by the Guatemalan authorities in 1981 have appeared like a nasty blotch of ink smeared across his impeccable resume. They are also a severe blow to the UN’s credibility in Latin America, given the fact that UNICEF spent years lobbying the Guatemalan government to pass stricter adoption laws that would put an end to child trafficking.

A Guatemalan, Mulet is the UN Joint Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. He has also expressed an interest in running for president in the forthcoming September elections as a candidate for the Todos party. Disgraced former president Alfonso Portillo, who will be released from federal prison in the US on Feb. 25, after having served less than a year of his six-year sentence for conspiring to launder $2.5 million through the US banking system, is allegedly one of his key supporters.

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World Tendsto Reject Child Adoptionby US Citizens –Russian Ombudsman

World Tendsto Reject Child Adoptionby US Citizens –Russian Ombudsman

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Kenya puts foreign adoptions on hold

Around two million children live in homes in Kenya. Because infertility is taboo there, it is difficult to find adoptive parents for them in the country. Now the government has also stopped the few placements abroad.


"It's a very confusing situation because there has been no official announcement so far. We've only seen reports in the two major daily newspapers here. And they contradict each other."

Susan Otuoma runs the Little Angels Network, the largest of four Kenyan agencies that place children for international adoption. What she finds even more confusing, however, is the government's justification: fighting child trafficking. Kenya has a big problem with this, but in most cases it occurs domestically. Children are abducted and forced into work or prostitution.

"There has been a lot of propaganda about the sale of children. That adopted children have been stolen or their families deceived into consenting. All I can say is that we do our job pretty thoroughly."

Adoptions abroad are strictly regulated

The Minister, Congo and Sister Benedicta

Date: 02/16/15 The Minister, Congo and Sister Benedicta Here is the article written by Giuseppe Lo Bianco and published by The Daily Saturday, February 14, 2015. The journalist reported the interpellation submitted on 12 February by the senator of Popular Area, Aldo Di Biagio, on the modus operandi in the Democratic Republic of Congo unclear CAI (Commission International adoptions led by former prosecutor Silvia Della Monica). In the article, on the basis of interpellation, it is said that even in the city of Goma would be ordered by the CAI of transfers of children adopted by Italian couples without the involvement of the Congolese authorities and on which the Court of Goma intervened opening of investigations ad hoc. When she came down from the aircraft steps of State who was returning from Kinshasa with braided hair as a child adopted, which had brought in Italy along with 30 other children, Maria Elena Boschi had wanted her next to her, picked up by all the TV: but now it turns out that "Sister Benedicta" - the Congolese religious on which the minister has much to resolve the standoff with Congo that holds its breath a hundred Italian adoptive families waiting to welcome the children stuck in Kinshasa - is a "irregular" nun who committed "serious violations" so its French Order has distanced itself from her since 1998, as well as the Diocese of Massa Marittima where the religious had taken refuge. And, even more embarrassing to the minister, Sister Benedicta is accused of having managed so casual adoptions in Congo endangering diplomatic relations between the two countries: on one occasion she tried to move children from an orphanage to another without authorization and the curator of the judiciary its association, Amamatu said "she continued adoptions in Kinshasa '' and no longer in Goma, home to a very severe Court," because the 22 children are configured as wards of the state. " The last mystery around Minister Boschi raised by interpellation of 'on. Aldo Di Biagio (Popular Area) invests the management of international adoptions entrusted to Cai, the commission which depends on the Presidency of the Council led by ex pm Silvia Della Monica, committed to unlock the transfers of children from the Congo: "I was in contact with Sister Benedicta, who runs one of the orphanages in the Congo and other realities in Italy - had said in an interview in the Woods Family Christian - because we are following the cases of other children and other families waiting. " But who is the sister? Interpellation presented by Di Biagio says that Sister Benedicta Sekamonyo Muiawimana "who is now a member of the Fraternity of monastic nuns of San Cerbone Kinshasa, made her religious profession in the order of Cistercian Bernardine of Esquermes in 1982, as evidenced in a note of the Prioress General of the general House of the Order based in France, addressed to the Diocese of Massa Marittima in Grosseto ". "In the same note - adds Di Biagio - the Prioress General refers to 'serious breaches' in the hands of the Congolese nun, following which she was asked to leave the order in 1997. Since 1998, the nun would not have more contacts with the general house therefore the religious would live an irregular situation. " 28 May, Sister Benedicta "was present - as stated on the website of the Cai - as representative of the" Five Loaves " (Cinque Pani). Among the most active in managing the orphanages in the Congo, the foundation Raphael, starred in an not clarified episode: the nightly transfer last 29 December of 22 children, many in their pajamas, from one institution to another, was not authorized by the Congolese authorities . An incident that would not be isolated: "It is - writes Di Biagio - the same days there was a second transfer request: the coordinator of the Association Femme et le Developpement (Fed) of Goma has refused to give in to "nagging" requests from association Amamatu asbl Sister Benedicta, probably commissioned by the Italian Cai (Central Authority), who despite not having any commitment or arrangement with the Fed would be required to withdraw the minors."

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