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Two held by Northern Police for child trafficking
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Two Burkinabe’s; Fuseini Ibrahim and Seetu Nuhu, both 30, are being held by the Northern Regional Police Command for allegedly trafficking 13 children from Burkina Faso to Ghana.

The children aged between 4-15 are currently being given temporary shelter and meals by the Northern Regional Police and would be handed over to the Social Welfare Department for special care.

Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer for the Northern Police Command, was briefing some newsmen in Tamale on Thursday saying that investigation had already started on the case.

He said the police had information that Fuseini Ibrahim was travelling with the 13 children towards a lorry station to transport the children to Burkina Faso after travelling with them for two days on foot from Zinidom in the Karaga District of the Northern Region hence his arrest.

Chief Inspector Tetteh said Ibrahim who was in the company of the children said Seetu Nuhu brought the children from Burkina Faso to be taught in an Arabic school in which he (Seetu) was a teacher.

He said the suspects claimed the children were put in their care for Arabic tuition adding that one of the parents of the children had reported to the police and investigation caution statement taken from him to assist in investigation
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Ghana, Burkina Faso

Le Blogueur, cette semaine : Le choix d’adopter

26 NOVEMBRE 2010 À 13H30

Le Blogueur, cette semaine : Le choix d’adopter

Jusqu’où peut aller le « choix » d’un enfant, de son âge, de ses origines ou de sa couleur de peau, quand on souhaite adopter ? 
 

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  • Le Blogueur se penche sur les réalités européennes d’un phénomène devenu glamour à Hollywood : l’adoption internationale et le droit de « choisir » son enfant. En Europe, les critères diffèrent d’un pays à l’autre.

    Le Blogueur enquête en Espagne, grand pays adoptant qui accompagne paternellement les parents, en leur donnant entre autres le choix du pays d’origine de leur futur enfant.

    En Grande-Bretagne au contraire, on évite l’adoption internationale afin de favoriser la proximité ethnique. La ressemblance entre les parents et l’enfant fait partie des critères permettant son adoption par le couple. L’adoption sans tabou ? 

    Quant à la Roumanie, longtemps premier vivier d’enfants dans le monde, elle interdit aujourd’hui à l’Europe l’adoption de ses enfants alors qu’elle en a 70 000 sur les bras… Au nom de la lutte contre le trafic d’enfants, peut-on refuser à toute une génération le droit d’être adoptée ? Car dans cette histoire, plus personne n’a le choix…


    N'ésitez pas à envoyer vos idées ou vos liens pour les prochaines émissions !

 

Solidarite Enfants Roumains Abandonnes Romania (SERA Romania)
Bogdan Simion M.D., Bogdan Panait
Romania

11.000 de copii in orfelinatele romanesti. Ce face statul pentru ei?-TvZiare.com

11.000 de copii in orfelinatele romanesti. Ce face statul pentru ei?-TvZiare.com
    
Foto: TV Ziare.com
In cele 256 de orfelinatele din Romania, din care 142 vechi, sunt 11.000 de copii si, cu toate ca numarul lor este in scadere, statul, Biserica si institutiile neguvernamentale ar trebui sa se implice mai mult in a-i ajuta, este de parere Stefan Darabus, directorul Hope&Homes for Children Romania.

"Adoptia este o solutie pentru orfelinate, dar este nevoie de modificarea Legii adoptiilor si de o relaxare a consimtamantului parintilor biologici. Avem in derulare cu ministerul Muncii si Grupul la Nivel Inalt 'Copiii Romaniei' o serie de parteneriate care vizeaza continuarea procesului de inchidere a institutiilor din Romania, astfel incat aceastia sa reprezinte in 2020 doar istorie. 

Numarul copiilor din institutii este in scadere, sunt tot mai multe orfelinate care se inchid, este un trend de 7-8 ani care continua. Nu mai poate sustine nimeni ca institutiile sunt o alternativa, copiii au nevoie de o familie", a precizat Stefan Darabus, la Tv Ziare.com.

In ceea ce priveste situatia financiara a acestor instututii, in tara, posibiliatile de autofinantare sunt foarte reduse, insa exista fonduri de la UE si de la organizatiile pentru protectia copiilor care ajung in Romania, spijinindu-le.

"Cheltuielile pentru un copil tin de cheltuilile de perosonal, de hrana, imbracaminte, apa, gaz, curent, ca si pentru orice alt copil. In cazul in care aceste cheltuieli s-ar face intr-un mediu familial si nu institutional, ele ar fi mai mici", a continuat invitatul TV Ziare.com.

Desi banii sunt putini, conditiile din orfelinate s-au imbunattatit si nu mai vedem "imaginile de acum 10 ani", caci in prezent "peretii sunt zugraviti, mobilierul e nou, exista televizoare, sunt intr-un mediu mai bun decat erau inainte".

Cu toate acestea, copiii din orfelinate nu au Internet, pentru ca nu au voie la acces nesupravegheat la continutul virtual. "Trebuie protejati de continutul virtual. Nu stiu daca asta s-ar putea face in aceste institutii. Sunt prea putini membri de personal ca sa-i poate supraveghea", a precizat Darabus.

Pentru ca numarul celor care intorc capul catre acesti copii este destul de mic, directorul Hope&Homes for Children Romania a facut apel la Biserica sa-i ajute mai mult pe micutii fara o familie.

"Biserica ar putea face mult mai mult pentru ajutorarea cauzelor sociale, fie ca este vorba de copii sau de familii vulnerabile. Implicarea Bisericii exista la nivel de documente si hartii scrise. Ar fi binevenita o accentuare a implicarii sale si poate ca unele dintre sumele de bani pe care le aloca pentru construirea de noi lacasuri de cult ar putea sa fie redirectionate si catre cauze sociale", a opinat Stefan Darabus. 

"Noi, in mod particular, investim o buna pare din sursele noastre de finantare pentru dezvoltarea de servicii de tip familial, centre familiale, retele de asistenti maternali, astfel incat nevoia fiecarui copil sa fie acoperita intr-un mod cat mai individual", a continuat seful Hope&Homes.

Vestea buna pentru orfelinate este ca, de cand a inceput criza, nu s-a observat o crestere a numarului de copii institutionalizati. Insa, pentru ca vine iarna, este posibil ca numarul lor sa creasca usor.

Adaptarea in societate, foarte grea spre imposibila

Copiii care cresc in orfelinate au sanse mai mici de a se integra in societate in momentul in care parasesc instituiile in care au crescut. 

"Nu sunt pregatiti, nu au avut modele de viata, tinerii care parasesc insitutiile sunt dintre cei mai vulnerabili. In orfelinate, copiii sunt cu foarte multi alti copii in jurul lor, nu au timp sa-si lege niste relatii personale stabile, de lunga durata. Copiii si membrii de personal vin si pleaca. 

Este o problema legarea de relatii pe termen lung, cand ajung la viata adulta. Mai mult, pentru toti cei din jurul nostru este o perioada grea ca sa isi gaseasca un loc de munca, pentru ei este cu atat mai greu", a precizat Stefan Darabus.

Pentru ca acesti copii sa poata duce o viata normala, directorul Hope&Homes for Children Romania crede ca incurajarea adoptiilor sau preluarea acestora de catre asistenti maternali ar fi o solutie.

"Sunt foarte multe familii care vor sa adopte copii. Pocesul de adoptie dureza intre un an si doi ani, asta inseamna finalizarea juridica. Procesul de potrivire incepe de cand copilul este plasat in familie si se poate face la o saptamana-doua. (..)Adoptiile internationale au fost o problema foarte mare in sistemul de protectie a copilului. Era un comert, fratii erau despartiti, plasarile se faceau fara un proces de potrivire si se facea in favoarea familiei adoptive si in favoarea copilului", a tinut sa precizeze invitatul Ziare.com.

Mai mult, sunt cateva zeci de mii de asistenti maternali (aproximativ 13-14.000), dar, din pacat,e facilitatile pe care le au sunt destul de restranse din cauza crizei. 

"Odata cu toate scaderili salariale, si veniturile asitentilor maternali au fost reduse", a conchis Stefan Darabus, directorul Hope&Homes for Children Romania.
Vineri, 26 Noiembrie 2010, ora 19:45
Sursa: Ziare.com
Autor: Alina Bardas
Articol citit de 325 ori
 
Romania
Hope & Homes for Children
Stefan Darabus

Legea adop?iei a fost depus? la Parlament, în form? final?

Legea adop?iei a fost depus? la Parlament, în form? final?

de Admin » 16 Noi 2010 10:15

Proiectul redeschide procedurile pentru adop?iile interna?ionale ?i elimin? obstacolele de care se lovesc acum cei care vor s? înfieze un copil

Asocia?ia Catharsis Bra?ov a înregistrat recent, la Cancelaria Parlamentului României, ultima variant? a Proiectului de lege privind adop?ia în România, completat? cu propuneri trimise de speciali?ti ai serviciilor publice sociale ?i ai unor ONG-uri din ?ar?.

Astfel, în prevederile propuse termenul de „adop?ie na?ional?” va defini adop?ia încredin?at? familiilor care î?i au domiciliul stabil în România. „Adop?ie intracomunitar?” va însemna adop?ia încuviin?at? familiilor sau persoanelor cu domiciliul în ??rile membre UE, iar „adop?ia interna?ional?” va fi adop?ia încuviin?at? persoanelor sau familiilor cu domiciliul stabil în statele semnatare ale Conven?iei de la Haga.

Catharsis, Lobby to Re-open Romanian Adoptions (2001- )
Azota Popescu

Forcible foster care ‘genocide’: UN Declaration

  Forcible foster care ‘genocide’: UN Declaration
WRITTEN BY ADMINISTRATOR
THURSDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2010 11:38
UOI OFFICES (November 24, 2010) – Anishinabek have the right to keep their children in their own communities, including those who require foster care.
“Other governments must put a stop to the harm that has been caused to thousands of our kids – first in residential schools, then in foster homes,” said Deputy grand Chief Glen Hare. “They have to give us the resources our communities need to look after our own children; their welfare is more important than providing jobs for outside agencies.”
“And now that Canada has finally endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” he added, “it needs to understand that forcibly removing children from one group of peoples to another is considered genocide by the standards of international law.”
Hare noted that a Human Rights complaint has been filed against Canada for its funding of First Nations child welfare agencies across the country at an average of 22 per cent less than the budgets of provincial agencies like Children’s Aid Societies.
The Anishinabek Nation established the Union of Ontario Indians as its secretariat in 1949. The UOI is a political advocate for 40 member communities across Ontario, representing approximately 55,000 people. The Union of Ontario Indians is the oldest political organization in Ontario and can trace its roots back to the Confederacy of Three Fires, which existed long before European contact.
For more information contact:

Marci Becking
Communications Officer
Union of Ontario Indians
Phone: (705) 497-9127 (ext. 2290)
Cell: (705) 494-0735
E-mail: becmar@anishinabek.ca
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Canada

Some chiefs in the Northern Region recently called for the abolition

Some chiefs in the Northern Region recently called for the abolition
of practice of adoption and expressed anger with the practice particularly the provision in the adoption law that hands
adopting parents complete ownership of the adoptees.
The chiefs expressed the anger in Mzuzu at a function organised by The Law Commission aimed at getting views
from civil society on what should be included in the reviewed and Adoption Law which is being tailored ‘to reflect
modern issues.’
“Adoption should end; it’s like selling a thing that does not speak. Orphans always have relatives and whatever law
we implement, it will always bring us problems in the future,” said Inkosi Mtwalo of Mzimba.
T/A Mwakaboko of Karonga said he understood the idea of adoption but did not like the permanent ownership of by
others rather than natural parents.
“Just look at Jumani [Johansson]. We are having problems now because his name was changed and his natural
parents cut off,” said Mwakaboko.
He, however, said whoever puts his child for adoption should not demand tokens because assistance rendered to the
child is enough for the parent to be thankful.
T/A Marlowe of Rumphi said he was against the permanent ownership phrase in the law and said those wishing to
adopt should only assist in providing for the child. T/A Mkumpha 3 of Likoma and Chizumulu Islands shared the
view.
However, Alan Chinula, a commissioner in the exercise, said the chiefs’ fears are baseless since the child can choose
to go back to their parents after reaching maturity age.
He added that the new adoption law would make it tougher for foreigners to adopt in Malawi saying child shopping
would end and that the matching process would be emphasised.
Northern Chiefs calls for an end to adoption practices | Malawi Voice http://www.malawivoice.com/latest-news/northern-chiefs-calls-for-an-...
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He asked government to adopt the Hague Convention which he said
would be an additional tool in the adoption exercise as it centralises adoption and reinforces the Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC).
Social workers who attended the function accused chiefs of hypocrisy saying they were just defensive adding that
they were not looking after the children in the villages.
The current Adoption of Children Act was enacted in 1929; a law which, chairperson of the Special Law Commission
on the Adoption Act, Justice Esme Chombo, said is too old and doesn’t reflect issues like HIV, poverty and
modernity.
Malawi

Russia, US to hold another round of talks on adoption

Russia, US to hold another round of talks on adoption
 
24.11.2010, 14.36
 
MOSCOW, November 24 (Itar-Tass) - Another round of Russian-American talks on the preparation of the bilateral agreement on issues of adoption will be held in Washington on December 1-3, the press service of the RF Ministry of Education and Science reported on Wednesday.
Director of the department of education and socialisation of children of the Education and Science Ministry Alina Levitskaya will head the Russian delegation at the talks. According to her, “There are reasons to hope that the talks will allow us to remove the remaining disputable questions and thus ensure the earliest signing of the agreement.”
The ministry’s pres service noted that the subject under discussion will be “a number of items of the draft agreement on which the Russian side voiced critical remarks.” In particular, according to Russian experts, “the procedures of the recognition of the decision on adoption in the receiving state, getting of the citizenship of this state by the adopted child, as well as the “organisation of monitoring over the cases of conversion of adopted children, should be specified.”
Meanwhile, both Russian and US negotiators have earlier repeatedly said that they have reached understanding on the main points of the document, and the draft agreement will be signed before the end of 2010.
The Russia-United States bilateral talks on a draft agreement on adoption began this spring after an incident with 7-year-old Artyom Savelyev, who in early April was sent by his American grandmother by plane from Washington to Moscow alone with a letter to the Education Ministry requesting cancellation of the adoption. The boy’s foster mother Tory Hansen said that she no longer wanted to be parent for Artyom, because the boy is unbalanced, cruel, and he has a serious psychopathic behaviour problem. Then the Russian Foreign Ministry stated in connection with the incident that “the further adoption of children in Russia by US citizens would only be possible after the conclusion of the relevant Russian-American treaty.”
Russian officials say they want more control over US adoptions of Russian children and the living conditions those children face in the United States. “We have reached agreement on all principal issues and have seen willingness to sign such an agreement,” children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov told reporters after US and Russian officials met to discuss the pact. The draft agreement is expected to be approved, and the deal should be signed within the next two months, he said in May. The return to Russia of Artyom Savelyev, who is now 8, caused some officials to demand a freeze on foreign adoptions. Russia’s parliament, however, defeated a motion to suspend adoptions to the United States, the Associated Press reported.
Astakhov confirmed that adoptions to the US have not been “legally suspended” but said they are “effectively suspended” as Russian courts will not rule on adoption cases as long as there is uncertainly about the children’s safety in that country. Under Russian law, only a presidential act or legislation passed by the parliament can freeze foreign adoptions. The new deal will make it obligatory for adoption agencies as well as adoptive parents to report on their child’s health and living conditions, and to “open the door” for social workers to check the facts reported, Astakhov said.
Savelyev’s adoptive mother refused to allow a social worker into the house less than a month before the boy was dispatched back to Russia - a visit that could have prevented the boy’s misfortunes. Russia also has accepted a US proposal to allow adoptions only through US-accredited agencies, the ombudsman said. These agencies work in compliance with the Hague Adoption Convention, to which Russia, however, is not a signatory yet. “This will be an extra guarantee that random people and random organisations will not be involved in such an important and delicate matter as adoption of Russian children in the United States,” Astakhov said.
Some 1,800 Russian children were adopted in the United States last year, according to Russian officials. Some 3,000 US families are estimated to be in various stages of adopting children now from Russia.
Russia, United States of America

Baby Girl Abandoned on the Street in China Because she is Blonde

Baby Girl Abandoned on the Street in China Because she is Blonde

Daily Mail Reporter
November 23, 2010

Baby girl in China abandoned on the street... because she is BLONDE

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

A mother abandoned her newborn baby on the street in China - because the little girl was blonde.

The white-haired Chinese baby was discovered by a passer-by on a street corner in Nanning, Guangxi Province.

The woman who found the child heard a cry and made the shocking discovery.

The little girl was found on the street in Nanning, Guangxi Province with a note and some baby clothes

'I was walking to work and heard cries from a wrapped-up quilt in the corner' she said.

'By opening it I found a baby crying very sadly.'

Police found a bag of baby clothes besides the quilt and an envelope containing 3,900 Yuan, about £390.

On the envelope the mother had written: 'I hope warm-hearted people can help to send the baby to the orphanage house. Wish you all the best.

'My dear baby I am an irresponsible mother and an incapable mother. I am sorry.'

Police suspect but have not confirmed that the mother dumped her child because of the baby's white hair.


Police suspect the mother may have dumped her child because of the baby's white hair

She may have been given up because she was a girl or because her mother could not afford the fine for keeping her.

Most Chinese families are allowed only one child to reduce the 1.3 billion-plus population and cut unsustainable demand on resources.

Many children, mostly girls, are abandoned because of the policy.

The policy also leads to an estimated 13 million abortions every year, with many of those ordered by local authorities. Infanticide is also widespread in many rural areas.

Those who violate the one child law can be fined up to £25,000.

 

China

Jail after £113,000 benefits fraud is cracked

News

Jail after £113,000 benefits fraud is cracked

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Fraudster: Illie Schian got three years

By Nick Tarver

Illie Schian
Romania

U.S. Department of State Adoption Alert – November 24, 2010

Kazakhstan: U.S. Department of State Adoption Alert – November 24, 2010
November 24, 2010

From the U.S. Department of State:

Adoption Alert

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Office of Children’s Issues
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November 24, 2010

According to the Government of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Education plans to match all families with pending adoption dossiers with children before December 15, 2010. Once these matches are made, the adopting parents will be invited to travel to Kazakhstan for the mandatory three-week bonding period with the children. Adopting parents who decline to travel to Kazakhstan to bond with the children with whom they are matched will not be able to proceed with an adoption in Kazakhstan under the existing adoption process; their “pending dossier” will be closed.

Kazakhstan
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