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India’s orphans, for export only?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

India’s Orphans
FOR EXPORT ONLY?

by Anant Asthana

Business of selling children in the garb of “Adoption”

goes on and it is hard to dismantle this

adoption-mafia which has come up in India.

Author is a lawyer in Supreme Court of India.
This column is narration of his experiences and views while he is now looking into adoption issue in India.
He can
be contacted at anant.asthana@gmail.com

Full article HERE

Battle of international adoptions reaches peak

Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Source: http://www.jurnalul.ro

The European Commission Forges Official Report
Autor: MIRCEA OPRIS 3 decembrie 2010

The European Commission has falsified an official report, released only partially exactly one year ago, during the Conference on Challenges in Adoption Procedures in Europe, in Strasbourg from 30 November to 1 December 2009. Exclusively for Jurnalul National several experts testified about the pressure put on their work by high-rank European Commission officials, in order to get to the conclusion that there is a need for the establishment of a European Adoption Agency. The stake of the new agency: creating a “market” for European adoptions in which Romania would be forced to reopen international adoptions. Behind this decision are pro-adoption lobbies from France, Italy, Spain and the United States. (more…)

The European Commission Forges Official Report

Friday, December 3rd, 2010
EXCLUSIVE
Battle of international adoptions reaches peak 
by Mircea Opris
The European Commission has falsified an official report, released only partially exactly one year ago, during the Conference on Challenges in Adoption Procedures in Europe, in Strasbourg from 30 November to 1 December 2009.

Exclusively for Jurnalul National several experts testified about the pressure put on their work by high-rank European Commission officials, in order to get to the conclusion that there is a need for the establishment of a European Adoption Agency. The stake of the new agency: creating a “market” for European adoptions in which Romania would be forced to reopen international adoptions. Behind this decision are pro-adoption lobbies from France, Italy, Spain and the United States. (more…)

Raport oficial falsificat de Comisia Europeană

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Source:    http://www.jurnalul.ro
Bătălia adopţiilor internaţionale a ajuns la apogeu

Autor: MIRCEA OPRIS 
3 decembrie 2010

Comisia Europeană a falsificat un ra port oficial, prezentat parţial exact cu un an în urmă, la Congresul despre Drep turile Copilului de la 30 noiembrie-1 decembrie 2009, la Strasbourg. 

În exclusivitate pentru Jurnalul Na ţional, câţiva experţi care au întocmit ra portul povestesc despre presiunile la care au fost suspuşi de Comisia Eu ro peană pentru a impune conclu zia că este nevoie de înfiin ţa rea unei Agen ţii Europene pentru Adopţii. (more…)

When they closed the Romanian “baby shops”

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Thu, 2010-06-03 15:49

Informal translation.  Original article :    Cuando cerraron los “baby shops” de Rumania

When they closed the Romanian “baby shops”
“There have been moments when we took more into account the interests of the parents then those of the children”
“The Irene Foundation, the Romanian associate of the Spanish agency ADECOP, was the best in manoeuvering bribery”
“As the US managed to get exceptions to the moratorium on international adoptions in Romania, we wanted an equitable treatment” (more…)

Cuando cerraron los “baby shops” de Rumania

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Source: Periodismo Humano

31.05.2010 · Luna Bolívar

“Hubo momentos en los que tuvimos más en cuenta los intereses de los padres que los de los menores”

“La Fundación Irene, la socia rumana de la agencia española ADECOP, era la mejor en el manejo de la corrupción”

“Si EE UU había logrado excepciones a la prohibición de las adopciones internacionales en Rumania, nosotros queríamos un trato igualitario”

“Señor delegado, quiero recalcar y dejar claro- aunque sé que no a todo el mundo le gusta escuchar esto- que entre la protección de un niño rumano y el deseo de unos padres procedentes de países en los que la adopción se ha puesto moda, nosotros optaremos siempre por lo primero”, contestaba el alemán Günter Verheugen, entonces comisario de Ampliación, a la pregunta que el 12 de marzo de 2002 le había formulado el europarlamentario español José María Gil Robles en una sesión de control del organismo comunitario. (more…)

‘Child wanted, cash paid’ The shady world of adoption – By Thomas Schuler

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Atlantic Times: The following article is from our March 2010 issue.

Former EU official Roelie Post campaigns worldwide against foreign adoption. She says the line between foreign adoption and child trafficking is too often blurred. She also sees potential danger in plans to introduce a trans­national “European Adoption” authority.

When Roelie Post, along with a translator and a film crew, set off for Romania some months ago and visited Marineta Ciofu, the story the child rights’ activist heard was a very familiar one. Ciofu had no idea what had happened to her child. Almost 10 years ago, poverty had forced the single mother to leave her daughter in a children’s home. But it was her firm intention to get her back as soon as her situation improved. The last time she saw her daughter was when she was two-and-half years old. (more…)

Kinder als Exportschlager

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Wiener Zeitung – Printausgabe vom Samstag, 23. Jänner 2010

Von Thomas Schuler

Auslandsadoptionen sind oft ein Deckmantel für Kinderhandel. Besonders schlimm war (und ist zum Teil noch) die Situation in Rumänien. Die ehemalige EU-Beamtin Roelie Post kämpft massiv dagegen an.

Als die Kinderrechtsaktivistin Roelie Post sich vor einigen Monaten mit einem Dolmetscher und einem Filmteam in den Nordosten Rumäniens aufmachte und Marineta Ciofu aufsuchte, hörte sie eine Geschichte, die sie so oder so ähnlich schon oft gehört hatte. Frau Ciofu hatte keine Ahnung, was mit ihrem Kind passiert war. Vor fast zehn Jahren musste sie ihre uneheliche Tochter aus Armutsgründen in einem Babyheim zurücklassen – mit der festen Absicht, sie zurückzuholen, sobald es ihr besser gehen würde.

Dann plötzlich war ihre Tochter verschwunden. Wohin, wollten die Behörden der Mutter nicht sagen. Erst zehn Jahre später erfuhr Marineta, dass das Mädchen von einer amerikanischen Familie adoptiert wurde. “Wie kann jemand ein Kind wegnehmen ohne meine Unterschrift?”, fragte Frau Ciofu. Die Journalistin Golineh Atai hat das dokumentiert. Ihr Film “Suche Kind – zahle bar. Die Adoptionslobby” lief im September 2009 im Westdeutschen Fernsehen (WDR). (more…)

Glück auf Bestellung

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Berliner Zeitung -Archiv » 2010 » 12. Januar » Seite 3

Auslandsadoptionen sind für Eltern oft die letzte Chance, eine Familie zu gründen. Dahinter steht eine mächtige Lobby – bis hin zum Kinderhandel

Thomas Schuler

STRASSBURG. Manchmal muss man einen Umweg nehmen, um ans Ziel zu kommen. Roelie Post wäre in vier Stunden mit dem Auto von Brüssel nach Straßburg gefahren. Stattdessen fuhr sie mit dem Zug nach Amsterdam und flog von dort nach Straßburg. Statt vier war sie mehr als acht Stunden unterwegs, damit sie dieselbe Maschine wie die Regierungsvertreter nehmen konnte. Sie wollte mit ihnen ankommen.

Roelie Post kennt die Spielregeln, die bei Verhandlungen Eindruck machen. Zwanzig Jahre lang war sie selbst Beamtin in der Europäischen Union, von 1999 bis 2005 zuständig für die EU-Erweiterung und Auslandsadoptionen aus Rumänien. Sie kennt auch die Umwege, die man in Brüssel nimmt, um ans Ziel zu kommen. Das macht sie für ihren ehemaligen Arbeitgeber zu einer Gegnerin, die man ernst nehmen muss. (more…)

Romania should withstand pressure to lift ban on international adoptions

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
by Rupert Wolfe Murray on 17.11.2009

european-parliament-buildingThis article was also published in the EU Observer in November 2009

Ever since Romania prohibited international adoptions in 2001 it has been pressurised by the leaders of France, Italy, Israel, Spain and the US to lift the ban.  Behind these politicians are private adoption agencies, adoptive parents and others interested in getting children for whatever reason. (more…)