Young boys watch a television at an orphanage in Phnom Penh

Young boys watch a television at an orphanage in Phnom Penh. The Ministry of Social Affairs announced earlier this week that they would welcome the restart of international adoptions in Cambodia. Sovan Philong

New step towards adoptions

Wed, 4 March 2015

Sarah Taguiam and Sen David

3 Mar 2015 The Herald (South Africa)Tanya Farber and Poppy Louw Free 1ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslateKIDS’ BURGER MEAL

THE adoption system in South Africa is in a state of crisis. Hamstrung by bureaucracy, missing documents and inefficient court processes, the system is working against matching children with suitable parents and has resulted in fewer children being adopted year on year.

Since 2004, when 136 adoptions took place through Joburg Child Welfare, the number has dropped to only 50 adoptions taking place last year.

“[This is] a really big decrease,” adoption supervisor at Joburg Child Welfare, Pam Wilson, said.

Nationally, according to a report by the National Adoption Coalition South Africa, adoptions saw a decrease of about 50% from 2 840 in 2004 to 1 448 last year.

Parliamentary questions

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Würselen. „Du bist eine großherzige, solidarische Persönlichkeit!“ Mit diesen Worten würdigte der Präsident des Europäischen Parlamentes, Martin Schulz, die Verdienste einer Parteifreundin, die mit ihm gemeinsam die Sozialdemokratie in Würselen seit Jahrzehnten prägt: die Würselener Landtagsabgeordnete Eva-Maria Voigt-Küppers.

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The adoption of foreign children to the lowest in 30 years in France

01/03/2015

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In ten years, four times less foreign children were adopted in 2014, said Saturday the Quai d'Orsay. In France, 20,000 candidates for adoption in France have a valid file.

Just over a thousand foreign children were adopted in 2014 by French parents, four times less than a decade ago, said Saturday the Quai d'Orsay, confirming a report in Le Figaro .

9th European Forum on the Rights of the Child

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European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care receives “Innovative Practices 2015” award

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EEG highlights the need of community-based care and identifies the risks of institutional care for persons with disabilities

The European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care was one of 50 projects to receive an award for “Innovative Practices 2015” during the Zero Project Conference (25-27 February) on Independent Living and Political Participation in Vienna, celebrated on 25 February.

The European Expert Group (EEG) includes a wide range of stakeholders, providing training, guidance, and tools to EU officials, political representatives, and governments to inform them about the need of community-based care and the risks of institutional care for persons with disabilities.

Two adopted Congolese children arrive in the Netherlands

News item | 26-02-2015

Two adopted Congolese children arrived in the Netherlands yesterday to join their adoptive parents. They are a two-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The children form part of a group of thirty adopted by Dutch couples, with some of them already waiting almost three years to depart from Congo. These two children required specialist medical assistance which they are to receive in the Netherlands.

In September 2013, the Congolese government decided to suspend all international adoptions, even if the procedure had already been completed. The reason for this were signs of child trafficking and so-called 'proxy adoption', where a child is adopted in the new country by different parents. Congo has explicitly stated that the Netherlands was not involved in this in any way.

Secretary of State Teeven from the Ministry of Security and Justice traveled to Kinshasa last December to discuss this matter with the Congolese authorities. There Teeven was given an assurance that the government would look into the files of the two children needing additional medical assistance as a priority. This eventually led to the two children arriving in the Netherlands.