{"id":1832,"date":"2011-01-26T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:19:41","slug":"russian-child-rights-ombudsman-urges-foreign-adoption-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/russian-child-rights-ombudsman-urges-foreign-adoption-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian child rights ombudsman urges foreign adoption freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.rian.ru<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a9 RIA Novosti. Grigoriy Sysoev<br \/>\n10:00 26\/01\/2011<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s children&#8217;s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has called for a halt to adoptions of the country&#8217;s children by foreign families until bilateral agreements to regulate adoptions are signed.<br \/>\nThe move comes after a U.S. woman told a talk show last month that she raised her seven-year-old Russian adopted son by pouring ice cold water over him and forcing him to rinse his mouth out with hot pepper sauce.<!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;International adoptions between Russia and the United States have been in place for 16 years, but there has been no official bilateral agreement yet,&#8220; Astakhov said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;It has been quite a revelation to me that children are being shipped out of Russia in their dozens, without any agreements&#8230; I say that such agreements should be signed not only with the United States, but also with the UK, France, Germany and other countries,&#8220; he went on.<br \/>\n&#8222;Until those agreements are reached, it is necessary to halt adoptions,&#8220; he added.<br \/>\nAstakhov said 17 Russian children have died in the United States as a result of abuse.<br \/>\nLast year, a U.S. woman sent an eight-year-old adopted boy back to Russia unaccompanied. He was carrying a note from his adoptive mother saying she did not want him as he was &#8222;psychotic.&#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/en.rian.ru\u00a0 \u00a9 RIA Novosti. Grigoriy Sysoev 10:00 26\/01\/2011 Russia&#8217;s children&#8217;s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has called for a halt to adoptions of the country&#8217;s children by foreign families until bilateral agreements to regulate adoptions are signed. The move comes after a U.S. woman told a talk show last month that she raised her seven-year-old&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/russian-child-rights-ombudsman-urges-foreign-adoption-freeze\/\" title=\"Read Russian child rights ombudsman urges foreign adoption freeze\">Weiter &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}