The ratification by Ukraine of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption will oblige countries whose citizens adopted Ukrainian children to provide full information about the fate of the adoptees, the Ukrainian president's children's rights commissioner, Yuriy Pavlenko, has said.

“The ratification of the Hague Convention would oblige the countries in which Ukrainian children were adopted to provide us with full information about their fate, as the 89 countries that ratified the Convention include the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Israel, Canada, the citizens of which have adopted the most children over the period of [Ukraine’s] independence,” he told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

According to the children’s ombudsman, the major priorities of the Hague Adoption Convention are support for and the protection of the biological family, as well as comprehensive support for and the development of national adoption.

In addition, he said that inter-country adoption, in accordance with the Convention, takes place only after due consideration of all possibilities for the placement of the child within the state of origin, provided that inter-country adoption is in the child’s best interests.

“The procedure proposed by the Hague Convention ensures that the child is affected as little as possible in all processes and procedures related to inter-country adoptions,” Pavlenko said.

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UNICEF urges Ukraine to ratify the Hague Convention

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Kyiv, January 16, 2013 – UN Children’s Fund in Ukraine supports President Yanukovych’s initiative and urges Ukraine to ratify the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoptions (the Hague Convention).

UNICEF believes that all decisions relating to children, including adoptions, should be made with the best interests of the child as the primary consideration. The Hague Convention on International Adoptions promotes transparent processes and UNICEF urges national authorities to follow the guidelines and principles laid down in the Convention.

“Lack of regulation and oversight, particularly in countries of origin, coupled with the potential for financial gain, has spurred the growth of an industry around adoption where profit, rather than the best interests of children, takes central stage. Many countries around the world have recognised the risks, and have ratified the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption to protect the best interests of each individual child” - explained UNICEF Representative in Ukraine.

Bulgaria, nella tana dei pedofilidi

Fabrizio Gatti

Violentati nell'orfanotrofio.

Fotografati e filmati.

Il racconto choc di tre bambini bulgari adottati in Italia apre una finestra su un orrore nascosto che può contare su molti complici. E i genitori accusano: le nostre denunce sono state ignorate(14 gennaio 2013)Un'immagine scattata in un istituto per minori in BulgariaLe luci nelle finestre dell'orfanotrofio stasera si spengono più tardi del solito. Sono le otto e venti. Qui fuori la mezza luna rischiara l'aria limpida a quindici gradi sotto zero e le sagome delle volpi affamate che si avvicinano in cerca di qualcosa da mordere. E' il momento peggiore. L'ora in cui risuonano i latrati dei cani randagi. E quella in cui D. entra nelle camere dei bambini più piccoli. Succede quasi ogni sera in questo istituto sperduto nelle campagne innevate della Bulgaria.

Date: 14/01/13

The procedures for institutionalized children victims of abuse: the case of Bulgaria and the details of Ai.Bi.

In " L'Espresso "11 January 2013 was published an article by journalist Fabrizio Gatti in which it refers to some facts related to the adoption of three children made in Bulgaria at an institution through Ai.Bi. Association of Friends of Children, body authorized under applicable law.

The article refers to some "facts" that occurred in the institution in which they lived Bulgarian adopted children.This applies, in particular, sexual behavior between children and sexual abuse by pedophiles adults. Of these facts, the article said, Ai.Bi. was aware.

This is misleading and severely damaging to Ai.Bi. as unfounded .

Italian magazine reports on sexual abuse cases in Bulgarian home for children deprived of parental care

12 January 2013 | 20:12 | FOCUS News Agency

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Sofia. In a shocking article the Italian weekly newsmagazine L'espresso reports on a case of pedophilia in a Bulgarian home for children deprived of parental care, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported.

The adoptive families of the Bulgarian children reported the sexual abuse cases to the Italian institutions last October, reads the magazine. However, it is possible that the Bulgarian authorities has not received officially the pedophilia signal yet.

International adoption in free fall

by Roberta Lunghini - 01.09.2013 | Comments | Print |

-22.8 %

In Italy, between 2011 and 2012, international adoptions decrease by 22.8% over the previous year. For a total of 3,106 foreign minors who have been authorized to enter our country. Russian Federation (749 children, 24.1% of the total), Colombia (310, 10%), Brazil (270, 8.7%), Ethiopia (233, 7.5%) and Ukraine (225, 7.2%) are, as in 2011, the top five countries of origin of children adopted by the Italian families. These are some of the provisional figures released by the CAI (Commission for International Adoptions).

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Dr Irene Creedon took in babies from vulnerable mothers at her surgery

She allowed adoptive parents to register children as their own

Operations uncovered by mother-of-two when she began tracing her birth

A well-known family doctor arranged scores of illicit and illegal adoptions across the nation over at least two decades, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Dr Irene Creedon, of Carrick­macross, Co. Monaghan, took in a string of babies from vulnerable mothers, gave their place of birth as her surgery and then allowed adoptive parents to register the babies as their own biological children.