This weekend I was in Berlin. The Stiftung Kindernothilfe had invited me to their yearly media prize award. This prize is for German journalists whose work shows light on the breaching of children’s rights. The reason for my invitation was that the TV movie ‘Search a Child, Pay Cash’ by filmmaker Golineh Atai – and based… Read more »
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Resuming Blogging – Adoption Awareness Month
After a long silence, time to take up blogging again. What better moment to choose than the US National Adoption Awareness Month. As of now, my blog will be hosted on my new website; the old one remains but will no longer be updated. Since publishing Romania – For Export Only, spring 2007, lots has happened. The… Read more »
Indian family files police complaint of kidnapping in the Netherlands
Ethiopia: Export Commodity Child
Informal translation of summary: Sonntaz Exportgut Kind EXPORT COMMODITY CHILD FULL ARTICLE HOPE This Ethiopian Family has given a son to Germany. The father hoped that it would be better off there. That’s why he lied. Adoption agencies and orphanages claim such lies – at the intercountry adoption market. ONE IS MISSING
France: Over 80 adopted children abandoned each year
Unofficial translation – via Fabriquée en Corée Published in France-Soir, Nicole Korchia, May 3, 2010. The figures are secret and taboo in France: officially 2% of adoptions are doomed to fail in France. But unofficially, the specialists speak bluntly of one out of ten … Our investigation.
Why Russia should stop exporting its children
Amidst the pressure to re-open Romanian adoption, I of course followed the situation of Artyom Savelyev, the Russian adoptee who was ‘returned to sender’ by his US adoptive mother. This case has brought the controversial issue of intercountry adoption from Russia back into the international news. The possibility that Russia might stop exporting children has… Read more »
Romanian President: Country’s Adoption Law Will Not Change During My Term
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday in Brussels that the country’s law on adoptions will not change, “at least” not during his term, regardless of the lobby in favor of change made “in Brussels and elsewhere.”
Haiti puts a halt to new adoptions.
In the midst of adoptions? That’s rather vague. Finalised adoptions, Court Decision. That would be clearer: Lassegue told the German Press Agency dpa that the government has put a halt to new adoptions. Only those children who were already in the midst of adoptions would be allowed to leave. There have been increasing reports from… Read more »
The Dutch Airlifting Haiti’s children
Instead of airlifting the 56 Haitian children out of the country, it would be advisable to find back their parents and to help them reunite if that’s what they want. That would be a true humanitarian act – and a great blessing in these tragic days. Because, in many cases the children have parents who… Read more »
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