Spain offers Rabat change their adoption law to recognize Islamic guardianship
Spain offers Rabat change their adoption law to recognize Islamic guardianship
The Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, so is that 58 Spanish families with orphans Moroccan allocated for months to get them out of the country
Morocco international adoptions closes
Six Moroccan NGOs demand that the Spanish can again take
CEMBRERO IGNACIO Madrid 17 FEB 2013 - 21:13 CET219
Filed in: International adoptions Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Mohamed VI of Morocco Guardianship Mustafa Ramid Juan Carlos I Rabat Morocco Adoptions Islamist parties Maghreb Family Islam Africa Spain Justice Religion
José María Giménez with the child you want to adopt.
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The Spanish government has offered to change Moroccan international adoption law in December 2007, to solve the problem of 58 Spanish families to which assigned Moroccan orphanages children, sometimes over a year ago, but to which the Executive Rabat Islamist puts new demands, very difficult to meet, so that they can complete the process.
"I live in the anguish of feeling mother but not being able to have my son with me," said Susana Ramos, Madrid psychologist. Since spring was assigned a baby by the Moroccan League for Child Welfare , a public institution, has made ??23 trips, he has spent all his holidays in Rabat to be with him, but can not get your Kafala (Guardianship dative) , mode of governing adoption in the Islamic world.
"We suffered an interminable wait whose outcome is uncertain," recounted the Barcelona Mar in early October in Rabat, coinciding with the interview that the Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, then stood with his Moroccan counterpart, the Islamist Mustafa Ramid . "We created bond with our children, we love them, live for them, but we're not sure we can educate them, nurture, make a home," he added bleary.
The proximity to the Iberian Peninsula, the high number of abandoned newborns -24 a day, according to the Moroccan NGO Feminine Solidarity - the transparency of the judicial process and the health of babies, children of single mothers, turned to Morocco from 1995 in an adopted country for the Spanish. In 2011, the last year of normalcy in the process, Moroccan courts granted 254 kafalas foreigners, especially Spanish, mostly Catalans.
José María Castro, with his biological daughter and the child you want to adopt.
To try to overcome the blockade Ruiz-Gallardón sent on Monday to the CEO of International Legal Cooperation, Angel Llorente , to Rabat where he met with Mustafa Ramid. He announced the intention of the Spanish to constrain by the Spanish law that safeguard children Moroccan and sub-Saharan in orphanages in Morocco, to respect the kafala.
This legal guardians Islamic forces to maintain the child's parentage, his Muslim religion and nationality. This means that when you change the law, probably later this year, may not, for example, ask the juvenile judges in Spain full adoption of the child. Some families requested it years ago to ensure their children well, of Moroccan origin, the same rights as the Spanish. In the best interests of the minor judges often grant them.
Shortly after reaching the Islamists the Government, in January 2012, the processing of kafalas for foreigners was paralyzed in Moroccan courts, but on September 16 Ramid Minister gave the lace to the more than 70 families-83% Spanish-power standby guardianship.
The 'Kafala' requires guardians to maintain the child's parentage, his Muslim religion and nationality
Ramid, a man of deep religious convictions, issued a circular urging prosecutors to oppose delivering babies Moroccan foreign "if they are not habitually resident in the national territory." He argued that if children in care leaving the country, it was impossible to verify if respected kafala and if they were educated in Islam.
To meet this new requirement some Spanish families being processed leaving his residence in Morocco, sometimes, a job, a house in Spain. Get the residence permit is not, however, guarantee that they can take their children someday the country.
It is not clear that the offer just made ??enough of Ruiz-Gallardón to appease Ramid. To meet on Monday 11, this made ??a series of questions about whether it could compel the Spanish Tutors and your child to travel once a year to Morocco to verify compliance with the kafala or Spanish juvenile judges could handle this task.
The climate is rarefied in Morocco. Some newspapers accuse foreigners of "buying children" without providing any evidence. A judge has overstepped Agadir demanding that future guardians theological pass an exam to demonstrate that they have sufficient knowledge of Islam in order to educate children in that religion. Spanish families have been suspended.
Convinced that only the King Mohamed VI can be taken out of this trance 40 families, mostly Spanish, but also French, Swiss, Canadian, U.S., later this year sent the king an emotional letter in which he "beg" for "intercede" to your Government and that the circular does not apply retroactively Ramid.
A copy of this letter was also sent to the King of Spain in the hope that, during the visit to Morocco's planned early March , suggesting his "nephew" as lovingly called Alawite ruler, finding a solution to alleviate the plight of Spanish families. Health problems of Don Juan Carlos can, however, lead to the cancellation of the trip and plunge more families into the doldrums.