See how the adoption agencies do not agree with Independent Panel and want to replace it with the Hague version of subsidiarity

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December 15, 2014

Notice: U.S. Delegation Visits Nepal for Update on Government’s Child Welfare System

Representatives from the Department of State and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) concluded a four-day visit to Nepal on November 19. The delegation was led by Ambassador Susan S. Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children’s Issues at the Department of State.

In August 2010, the Department of State and USCIS suspended processing of new adoption cases from Nepal involving children claimed to have been found abandoned because of concerns regarding the reliability of supporting documents, and because circumstances of alleged abandonments could not be verified by the U.S. government due to obstacles in the investigation of individual cases. The United States continues to process adoption cases from Nepal involving relinquishment by known birth parents. The visit’s purpose was to learn about the Government of Nepal’s current child welfare system and adoption procedures, and to demonstrate the U.S. government’s support for the Government of Nepal’s efforts to seek permanent solutions for children in need of families and safeguard the integrity of intercountry adoptions. (Note: The United States was the last receiving country to suspend adoption case processing in 2010.)

Conference about deinstitutionalization held in Belgrade

WP_20141208_09_18_41_ProConference „Advancing the process of transition from institutional care to community-based services in Serbia“ was held in Belgrade in Palace Serbia on December 8th 2014 organized by the European Expert Group on transition from institutional to community-based care and Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of Serbia.

Opening speeches were held by Mr. Aleksandar Vulin, Minister, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Djukic, State Secretary of Ministry of Health, Mr. John Halloran, Co-chair, European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care (EEG) and Mr. Holger Schroeder, Head of Cooperation of the EU Delegation in Serbia.

The conference was attended by the representatives of various institutions and organization from the sector of social and healthcare.

Dr. Monika Gabanyi, OPEN ARMS project team leader attended the conference accompanied with other project team members. Key project expert Dr. Jan Pfeiffer, member of EEG presented the key principles of Deinstitutionalisation process.

New intergroup on children’s rights at the European Parliament

11-12-2014 Children's Rights - Child Rights Champions - European Parliament - Eurochild News -

The intergroup aims to mainstream the rights of the child across the work of the Parliament

MEP Antonio Lopez-Isturiz and MEP Anna Maria Corazza Bildt

Today the setting up of an intergroup on children’s rights for the current parliamentary term (2014-2019) was approved.

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Ontario mother says she's forced to give up adopted child to get him help

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Mary Katherine Keown, QMI Agency

First posted: Friday, December 05, 2014 11:45 PM EST | Updated: Friday, December 05, 2014 11:50 PM EST

Korean transnational adoptee Sarah Bowling was adopted to the US in 1974 at age 3 from an orphanage in Busan.

Despite two DNA tests with potential parents in the 1990s — both came out negative — Bowling has not found her birth family.

However, her experience her living in South Korea since 2009 as well as her own birth family search her have inspired her to start a project with a very personal connection.

She recently launched Korea Reconnect, an online database that helps birth parents and adoptees look for each other without revealing their identities.

The database, with information provided both in English and Korean, currently holds hundreds of profiles of birth parents and adoptees, both transnational and local. In some ways, Korea Reconnect works almost like a matchmaking site, she said.

Korean transnational adoptee Sarah Bowling was adopted to the US in 1974 at age 3 from an orphanage in Busan.

Despite two DNA tests with potential parents in the 1990s — both came out negative — Bowling has not found her birth family.

However, her experience her living in South Korea since 2009 as well as her own birth family search her have inspired her to start a project with a very personal connection.

She recently launched Korea Reconnect, an online database that helps birth parents and adoptees look for each other without revealing their identities.

The database, with information provided both in English and Korean, currently holds hundreds of profiles of birth parents and adoptees, both transnational and local. In some ways, Korea Reconnect works almost like a matchmaking site, she said.

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Romanian reunion with a birth mother thought dead

“The Romanian government stole and sold me,” says Canadian-reared woman who finds the parent she was told was dead.

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The ratings hit 'With open arms', presented by Natasja Froger, has shaken up the discussion about adoption.

It is really time to take a close look at the institute of intercountry adoption and start thinking seriously about alternatives, such as sustainable foster parent care in the country itself.

Foreign adoption is a self-perpetuating phenomenon that must disappear to prevent further suffering for parents and children. There is suffering with the parents of the children who have been put up for adoption. The grief of having to give up your child is indescribable. It becomes even more distressing if, as in some of the cases, this was not done voluntarily.

It is also a laborious process for adoptive parents, as the Flemish writer Benno Barnard explains in great detail. He drew the ire of many on his neck in February of this year with the publication of his piece: 'Don't Adoption'.

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