Date: 2011-06-05 Source: http://www.independent.co.uk Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world By Laurie Penny Sunday, 5 June 2011 In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing…. Weiter »
Kategorie: United States
State moves to shut down Hollywood adoption agency
Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com By Megan O’Matz, Sun Sentinel, June 3, 2011 For more than 30 years, a Hollywood-based adoption agency has found new families for newborns and children whose birth parents were unprepared or unwilling to raise them. Thanks to its services, Adoption by Shepherd Care proudly declares, more than 5,000 boys and girls have found… Weiter »
China’s government trafficking babies from poor families
Date: 2011-05-15 Source: http://www.youtube.com
In Hunan, Family Planning Turns to Plunder
Source: http://english.caing.com By staff reporter Shangguan Jiaoming 11.05.10 19:10 Families in a poor mountainous region have had children seized, and apparently sold, in the name of China’s one-child policy (Shaoyang) – On a long journey in search of his lost child, Yang Libing carries a single photograph. It’s a faded snapshot of his daughter Yang… Weiter »
Family-planning officials took & sold babies: report
Source: http://china.globaltimes.cn May 10 2011] By Liu Linlin Alleged child trafficking involving family-planning officials in Hunan Province stunned the nation on Monday. Over the last 10 years, family-planning „enforcers“ in Shaoyang have seized at least 20 children from Longhui county, who were born outside their parents‘ birth quota, and dispatched them to a local children… Weiter »
Ethiopia to Cut Foreign Adoptions by Up to 90 Percent
Source: http://nazret.com/blog By Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa 3/5/2011 VOA News Ethiopia is cutting back by as much as 90 percent the number of inter-country adoptions it will allow, as part of an effort to clean up a system rife with fraud and corruption. Adoption agencies and children’s advocates are concerned the cutbacks will leave… Weiter »
CICIG requests explanation from US Senator Landrieu regarding illegal adoption comments in Guatemala
Source: http://www.guatemala-times.com FRIDAY, 29 APRIL 2011 07:18 THE GUATEMALA TIMES CICIG REQUESTS PUBLIC EXPLANATION FROM SENATOR LANDRIEU (LOUISIANA STATE, U.S.A.) CONCERNING COMMENTS MADE ON REPORT OF ILLEGAL ADOPTIONS IN GUATEMALA. During her visit to Guatemala, the Senator met with various authorities responsible for child protection and manifested her disagreement with the CICIG´s report on criminal… Weiter »
Integrity of Foreign Adoptions In Armenia Still In Question
Source: http://www.azatutyun.am 26.04.2011 Emil Danielyan What is an informal payment made to an Armenian government official or civil servant performing their duties? Armenia’s Criminal Code defines it as a bribe that could be punishable by a lengthy prison sentence. Yet some private U.S. agencies arranging international adoptions of children call it a mere “gift of… Weiter »
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk By IAN BIRRELL 10th April 2011 As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti. ‘Outside it is… Weiter »
Teodor Baconschi: Government’s position is firm, Romania will not resume international adoptions
3 April 2011 Source: Romania for Export Only Commenting on Wikileaks, the Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister reconfirmed Romania’s commitment to no not resume the export of children. From Hotnews.ro Baconschi Photo: Agerpres The Romanian Government’s position not to allow the resumption of international adoptions remains firm, although there is ”lobbying” from several European countries and the U.S., said Foreign Minister Baconschi on Sunday to Pro TV, according to Mediafax.
