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Uruguay approves $513,000 settlement for disappearance, illegal adoption during dictatorship

By Associated Press, Published: January 24

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s president has approved a $513,000 payment to Macarena Gelman, who was illegally adopted during the dictatorship after her mother was tortured and disappeared.

The payment complies with an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that accuses Uruguay of delaying justice for crimes committed by its dictatorship in the 1970s, according to a brief statement posted Tuesday on the presidency’s website.

Gelman’s parents were kidnapped in Argentina and taken to a torture center notorious for being a nexus of Operation Condor, the effort by South America’s U.S.-supported dictatorships to combine forces and eliminate opponents in each other’s countries.

Kyrgyzstan grants US Christian organization adoption services permit

By Associated Press, Published: January 23

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan is allowing foreign adoptions to resume, issuing the first permit to a U.S.-based Christian organization.

The Social Development Ministry said Monday it chose Christian World Adoption after a rigorous selection process.

Christian World Adoption says the move would allow it to resume adoptions from Kyrgyzstan. International adoptions were suspended in Kyrgyzstan in 2009 as authorities sought to improve regulations and root out corruption in the process.

Children’s shelter owner to face trial

January 23 2012 at 08:25am

By Tania Broughton

Durban North children’s shelter owner Hester Elizabeth van Schalkwyk will face trial later this year on allegations that she ran the home illegally and facilitated illegal adoptions.

It is also likely that she will face further charges of fraud for misrepresenting to prospective adoptive parents that she was legally entitled to do adoptions.

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French care leavers overcoming the odds

13 January 2012

A long-term follow-up study of adults raised in a particular type of foster care known as SOS children’s villages reveals some interesting trends in typical pathways for young people after leaving care in the largest country in Western Europe - France.

SOS children’s villages operate internationally and currently serve 600 children and adolescents in France alone. Children’s villages comprise a community of caregivers known as ‘SOS mothers’ who foster children and sibling groups. They provide long-term placements in family units and work closely with family helpers, case workers and psychologists. SOS also provide a host of other care services including job training, informal housing and job support, transitional apartments and residential accomodation.

The research study, involving 123 adults who had spent at least three years in a children’s village placement, revealed that the majority transitioned out of care and into independence without major difficulties, many of them by their mid-twenties.