Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:08:54 PM (IST)

German Claudia Gerstner in search of her biological mother in Mangalore

Florine Roche

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore

Mangalore, Jul 10: “Blood is thicker than water” is a well-known German proverb, which means that bonds of common ancestry are stronger than any other. This is what has brought many of the foreign nationals who were adopted from India, especially from Mangalore decades ago come searching for their roots back in India. Many of these adopted were able to find loving and caring foster parents in European countries and are well settled in life. But they are constantly bothered by the urge to find their biological parents, without which they feel their life is incomplete. Remember the famous lines of Deewar ‘mere paas maa hai’ that really struck a chord with the audience and has become a cliché ever since?

Israeli serial sex abuser adopts Indian girl: report

Press Trust of India | 08 Jun 2013 10:47 pm

Jerusalem: An Israeli man convicted of sex offences against young children has gained custody of a four-year-old Indian girl through an agreement with a surrogate mother in India, according to a media report.

The man legally adopted the child through an agreement with the surrogate Indian mother and under current legislation the Israeli authorities do not have the power to remove the girl away from him, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

According to an independent probe conducted by the Israel National Council for the Child (NCC), an NGO for children's rights, the man served a year and a half in jail for sexually abusing young children while they were under his supervision, some repeatedly, and is recognised as a paedophile by the authorities, the report said.

AFRICA: Call to reverse soaring adoption rates

Photo: Mohamed Hasan/IRIN

Ethiopia was in 2010 ranked the second top origin country for inter-country adoptions (file photo)

ADDIS ABABA, 6 June 2012 (IRIN) - As the number of African children adopted by people outside the continent reaches record levels, experts, activists, government officials and academics have called for the practice to be stemmed, warning that adoption was too often motivated by financial gain rather than the best interests of the children involved.

Between 2003 and 2011, for example, at least 41,000 African children were sent abroad for adoption from Africa, according to a study entitled Africa: The New Frontier for Inter-country Adoption by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF).

Now the whole area of ??adoption delved

A working group under the Ministry of Social Affairs to the next year examining the Danish adoption system.

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DR News korrepondent in investigative journalist Line Gertsen, is here with an Ethiopian woman who has given up for adoption a child. © DR

By Line Gertsen, Ditte Bannor-Kristensen and Laura Marie Sorensen

The appointment by President Obama of human rights adviser Samantha Power to the post of US ambassador at the United Nations was greeted with particular interest at Mount Anville girls’ school in Goatstown in South Dublin. It means that three past pupils educated there by the Sacred Heart nuns now hold some of the most important positions in the world. It is also the Alma Mater of the former Irish President Mary Robinson, now UN Special Envoy to the Great Lakes in central Africa, and of the Secretary General of the European Commission, Catherine Day, who was a near neighbour of ours in Mount Merrion when I moved back to Dublin in 1967.

I was already familiar with Mount Anville from the 1960s as my aunt is a member of the Sacred Heart congregation (RSCJ) and entered the religious life there. She taught for a while in the Montessori school, where she ran soccer games for the children, as my former secondary school class colleague Peter Mathews TD once recalled! Over the years we have been privileged to celebrate a number of important family occasions with the community there. Now as in many towns and cities in Ireland, the nuns no longer occupy the convent, but tomorrow (June 7th) on the feast of the Sacred Heart, they will be gathering for Mass at the original convent building, once the home of engineer William Dargan. The school has a classical-style chapel, designed by EW Pugin and GC Ashlin in 1866. I understand they are hoping to open a heritage centre later this year, in which the history of the convent and the associated schools will be displayed.

One of the highlights of the calendar last year was the visit by President Robinson to deliver the Barat lecture, named after the founder (1826) of the Society of the Sacred Heart, St Madeleine Sophie. In her speech Mary Robinson spoke warmly and movingly about the main points of her career as a lawyer, Senator, President of Ireland (her greatest honour she said), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and lately, her work for climate justice. She also participated in a questions and answers session with the secondary school students. She spoke about her time spent as a boarder in Mount Anville in the late 1950s (Mary Bourke from Ballina in County Mayo). She recalled reading in the school library about Eleanor Roosevelt, someone she said who had inspired her in her formative years. In March, she was in Belfast for a memorial service to celebrate the life of the former trade unionist and human rights activist, the late Inez McCormack.

Catherine Day

Catherine Day

Adoption : les temps sont durs

Baisse des adoptions, débats sur la filiationâ?¦Les adoptés organisent leurs premiers états généraux sur un constat morose.

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Le 8 juin 2013 à 07h00

Date: 13/06/04

Moldova, with the introduction of the new law are taken international adoptions. Back in Italy, the first pair

After three years of closure of International Adoptions in Moldova , today is the first pair returned to Italy with their 7 year old daughter: so began a new period for adoptions in Moldova regulated by the introduction of the new law.

In the last 3 years, in fact, in Moldova there had been an arrest of international adoptions waiting for the bill were passed. Now it seems he has finally resumed activities with foreign couples and that there are important changes that would make even the fastest adoption procedures.

The first new feature introduced with the new adoption law , which came into force on 19 April 2013, concerning the establishment of the Central (Advisory Council for Adoptions) which will have the task of examining the records of foreign couples and to propose related pairings.

Lib Dem MP quits the party to fight sex attack claims, but spy scandal backbencher won't give up seat

Mike Hancock refuses to stand down from Parliament after quitting

He has vowed to clear his name in a High Court civil case against him

Stood down from party after meeting with chief whip Alistair Carmichael

By GERRI PEEV

No.10 rocked by secret love affair: 'Stunned' PM holds crisis talks over fears tryst will 'blow political agenda out of the water'

Identities of people involved or details of relationship cannot be disclosed

They are middle-aged figures and the affair has now concluded

Mr Cameron was ‘stunned’ when told the identities of alleged lovers

He ‘immediately realised the importance of the story’, sources revealed

Colombia closed the door for foreign adoption

Google Translation from Spanish:

May 30, 2013 4:18 pm

E n an unprecedented move, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare has temporarily suspended acceptance of new applications for foreign families who want to adopt Colombian children between 0 and 6 years, with no special conditions.

The move, announced on Thursday at the First Meeting of Central Authorities in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, responds to the need to manage 377 Colombian applications and 3,506 foreign families who are registered on the waiting list who want to adopt healthy children, children seven years and no siblings, ie children who do not have characteristics of difficult adoption.