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Civil society representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova will participate in a study visit in Romania

Posted on June 16, 2014

Photography credits: Silviu Ghetie

The project “Together for Children: Stronger NGO Coalitions in the Black Sea Region” is continuing its mission to support cooperation among civil society networks in order to enhance their capacity to advocate for child protection reforms at the national, regional and international level.

As part of this initiative, NGO coalition representatives and state officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova will be in Bucharest between 23-27 June on a study visit. They will have the occasion to get acquainted with Romania’s experience with child protection reforms, meeting representatives of local and international NGOs as well as government officials engaged in child care.

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI

ADOPTION CAUSE NO. 47 OF 2014

IN THE MATTER OF THE CHILDREN ACT, 2001

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Groups Seek Resumption of US Adoptions From Nepal

June 4, 2014 (AP)

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer

Associated Press

Prominent advocates of international adoption are assailing the State Department for its four-year suspension of adoptions from Nepal and have asked Congress to help reverse the policy.

Police Arrest Suspected Child Traffickers in Kumasi

3 June 2014 , By Ernest Best Anane, Source: Ghanaian Chronicle

The Ashanti Regional Police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit has arrested a 44-year-old woman, Cecilia Annor, at Ayefro, and two of her accomplices in connection with a baby boy suspected to have been stolen. Briefing the media, ASP Regina Eleanor Mintah, in-charge of Anti-Human Traffic Unit, explained that the police gathered intelligence to the effect that Ms. Cecilia Annor had a baby in her custody, but was not the mother.

The suspect resides at Abuakwa and sells at the Kumasi Polytechnic. According to her, the suspect confessed to the police as having collected the baby from one Comfort Adjei-Kyem, 54, at the Kumasi Children's Home. She said Cecilia Annor mentioned a maternity home at new Suame as where the baby was collected from, and when the police followed up to new Suame, Madam

Grace Osei Afriyie, 59, owner of the Ayiwaah maternity home, who was also mentioned by the suspect, were arrested together with Comfort Adjei-Kyem, and have been cautioned to that effect. ASP Regina Mintah disclosed that Cecilia Annor went to the Kumasi Children's Home for adoption, and met suspect Comfort Adjei-Kyem, who is a typist at the home, and collected an amount of GH¢500 for the adoption forms.

lundi 2 juin 2014

L’affaire des « bébés roumains »

Image extrait de Bucarest 1986-1988, poétique d’une histoire.

"L'affaire des bébés roumains" est nommée ainsi par la presse française au début des années quatre-vingt (notamment on retrouve ce titre dans le Quotidien de Paris, du 3 Juin 1983) et rend compte de la situation de blocage des adoptions d'enfants roumains en Roumanie par des adoptants internationaux au cours des années quatre-vingt jusqu'au début des années quatre-vingt dix.

En janvier 1988 la mobilisation de l'association Enfance & Familles d'Adoption, fédération nationale des nombreuses associations départementales, débloque la situation pour quelques candidats à l'adoption pour l'été 1988 en interpellant les politiques. On retrouve un communiqué du ministère des affaires étrangères datant du 20 juillet 1988, où l'on apprend que selon la déclaration du porte parole du Quai d'Orsay : " Le Conseil d'Etat roumain a approuvé l'adoption de 74 enfants roumains par des familles françaises." (2)

Google translation

She was foster mother, but now she's mum

The number of foster children adoptions have doubled in five years. The rights of the biological parents is weakened, believes both CPS and lawyers in child welfare cases.

She was foster mother, but now she's mum

She was foster mother, but now she's mum

In June we are meeting with the Lumos Foundation (as part of the Global Alliance for Children’s mirror plan for the Action Plan) to discuss Lumos’ new office and presence in Washington. CAPP and Lumos will be working together specifically to advance the Action Plan in Congress and the Obama administration.

http://www.jointcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CEO-Report-to-Board-May-2014.pdf

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Julia Nalle is now fundraising again for Nicole Dewberry, despite the fact that Nicole has sent 4-5 teenage boys that she's professed her undying love to have fled to the hills rather and be adopted by her.

Perhaps the deity they claim wants the Dewberrys to adopt is not so subtly telling them otherwise?

http://covenantbuilders.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-waste.html

March 28, 2014

After the Second World War, many “mixed-race children” from Germany were adopted in Denmark.

Sometimes the children had to be hidden under clothes in the back seat so that they would not be discovered by officials at the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark. It was not allowed to bring the children from Germany to Denmark. After the Second World War, thousands of "mixed-race children" were born in Germany. Especially in southern Germany, German women often had children from American, colored occupation soldiers. Unwanted by society, they were deported to care homes. And for decades these German children were then brought to Denmark.

Illegal adoptions into the Kingdom

The Danish woman Tytte Botfeldt was responsible for most of the adoptions. She had good contacts with German care homes and with Danish couples who wanted children. She organized trips from Danes to Germany, during which children were then brought to the kingdom. Many of the children were hidden in their new homes because the adoptions were illegal. After two years, however, the children were considered socialized in Denmark and usually received Danish citizenship. More than two thousand children were adopted in Denmark in this way.

Stories of "mixed-race children"