{"id":1161,"date":"2006-06-16T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2010-09-06T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T13:07:22","slug":"export-of-children-a-perverse-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/export-of-children-a-perverse-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Export of children, a perverse business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although the private orphanages are audited by the state, the union that the Icbf asked to be removed.<\/p>\n

Pius Alvaro Fernandez | El Pais\u00a0\u00a0 16 june 2006<\/p>\n

Some private orphanages in Colombia will be profit sectors through bonds of economic assistance donated by international agencies. The cumbersome paperwork and time. The recent Constitutional Court ruling on the partial decriminalization of abortion in Colombia has put back on the table the topic of adoption as an alternative to what some consider an affront to life.<\/p>\n

However, on this table of salvation front of abortion have fallen serious allegations, which the marketing of children to foreign families is the biggest drag. According to Maria Victoria Forero, president of Workers of the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare, ICBF, “Colombia is experiencing a perverse export of children for adoption by figures ranging from eight thousand and fifteen thousand dollars”, which, in their view, has turned this proceeding into “a perverse business.”<\/p>\n

Forero asked for an archive project, which is currently in the Senate’s First Committee on the Code for Children and said that one of the negative aspects of the initiative is that it allows the presence of private houses of adoption agencies and international adoption. He added that the country must end for private adoptions that these are state and no intermediaries, and that the Attorney General’s Office is aware of the abnormal situation that has been presented.<\/p>\n

Spokesmen for the Attorney General told El Pais that these allegations are known for quite some time, but refused to give any version, arguing that currently developing several research.<\/p>\n

Traffic. According to Marina and Eric Ditesheim, a couple of spouses residing in Geneva, Switzerland, Colombia and Peru have very good international image in terms of adoption of children. ” However, a recent development led to prefer the adoption through the ICBF and reject the offer they made an intermediary of a private orphanage.<\/p>\n

In a sustained dialogue on its way through Cali, where he came to make up for adoption to Matthew, a boy of 3 years into neglect by the ICBF, the spouses Ditesheim noted that “in Geneva, we boarded a private intermediary of a center of Colombian adoption and asked us six thousand dollars as a guarantee that we would have a child, which led to mistrust us. ”<\/p>\n

To be consulted about the incident, the house of adoption that referred to the Ditesheim denied having representatives in Geneva, but admitted that in Colombia presents a gradual increase in child trafficking. The cumbersome and delayed adoption procedures are the engine of the illicit business, which at times can move up to $ 60,000, where brokers contact affluent customers in the U.S. and Europe, even by those who come to steal babies to their natural mothers.<\/p>\n

Since 1998 the Mission of Intercountry Adoption, an official French body responsible for monitoring the trade of adopted children, complains that some countries in Latin America there are lawyers who remain in contact with doctors and nurses who in turn put pressure on mothers to leave their children, then those who are incarcerated in private orphanages.<\/p>\n

In practice there is no such evidence in Colombia, according to the director general of the Center for Adoption Alice Chaos, in Cali, Galatlos Agatha Leon, the eight orphanages in the country are “armored” against this illegal. “I do not know where the trade union of Icbf out those versions. All the homes of private adoption in the country hold meetings with Beatriz Londono, director of the ICBF, and she knows how we work, “explains Ms. Leon.<\/p>\n

The key data<\/p>\n

Signed at The Hague in 1993, the ‘Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption’ forbids any kind of profit in the adoption process, as well as the sale and abduction of children.<\/p>\n

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\nAl asked about resources for support of the institution that manages, Agatha Leon said that, like the others of its kind, receives state resources and donations, some of them international.<\/p>\n

Says that they are never an imposition to the adoptive parents or a ‘business mounted, “but admitted that government resources are not sufficient for the maintenance of the establishment and to look for other revenue sources.<\/p>\n

“The families know that adoptive parents need help, but are free to adopt through a private organization that lives off donations or through the State (ICBF),” he says.<\/p>\n

He explains that such institutions have a contract with the ICBF to meet certain amount of children between 2 and 10 years old, and that this money also covers 25% of the needs of the institution.<\/p>\n

It adds that “another form of financing is through vaccination projects, medical care and support to the educational program, as well as support from foreign agencies and donations from some adoptive parents, which can reach seven thousand dollars per family.”<\/p>\n

On this point, Maria Victoria Forero said that there are international agencies that provide vouchers for the orphanages, particularly for procedures for adoption, and perhaps that is where you begin to cook the illegal business.<\/p>\n

“Who knows? Behind a bonus of those many things can arise, “ruling. Ombudsman Volmar Perez, said on the subject which is now a legislative debate forward in order to regulate the adoption of a holistic way.<\/p>\n

“The Ombudsman’s Office has stressed the need to establish unequivocally the direct control of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child through the ICBF, to prevent the proliferation of situations that are against minors and that is encourage economic interests or organized crime or foreign, “said Perez.<\/p>\n

This newspaper tried to obtain statements from the director of the ICBF, Beatriz Londono, on the serious allegations of the union on adoptions, but received no response.<\/p>\n

The number<\/p>\n

2058 minors were given up for adoption to foreign families in 2005, another 1484 were taken by Colombian families.<\/p>\n

Starting the process<\/p>\n

Despite adopting a child in Colombia is free, there are a number of processes that ends represented a cost to the adoptive parents. Know who can adopt. Although the adoption in Colombia is free, the process is due to make a series of documents which represent costs to the applicants.<\/p>\n

Once the child is assigned, should be initiated before the Family Court promiscuity of the legal process of adoption, which requires a lawyer, chosen directly by the family, which also represents an additional cost.<\/p>\n

When the family is Colombian or foreign resident outside Colombia must communicate with the central authority or accredited agencies (such as agencies that coordinate adoption programs in the country of residence of the applicants), which will provide information on how to adopt a child.<\/p>\n

Among the requirements to adopt are: having completed 25 years of age, have at least 15 years older than the adopter; ensure physical fitness, mental, moral and social enough to provide safe and stable home for adoption.<\/p>\n

Among those who can take are:<\/p>\n

The spouses and the couple formed by a man and a woman. The adoptive parents who have legitimate children, extramarital or adoptive do not have any ban to apply for adoption.<\/p>\n

Notarial process generates controversy<\/p>\n

A recent and controversial bill aimed at creating a notarized by adopting a product of rape, sexual violence and artificial insemination without consent, was introduced recently by Senator Jose Ignacio Mesa, generating a broad debate even before its ‘Gestation’.<\/p>\n

According to the senator, “the idea of the proposal is to invite women who have the decision to abort a mechanism to take care, prevention and psychological support from the state”, giving them the opportunity to give the baby up for adoption occurs through the notary. His initiative has been referred to by many as a mercantilist process, although he says that there is no such.<\/p>\n

“There is no way that my proposal is mercantilist, because the idea is to deliver the entire management to ICBF, which would make a list of eligible nationals and foreigners, making adoption faster and freeing women from the pressure of thinking on abortion “He says.<\/p>\n

This proposal clarifies that the Icbf only has room, but not the homes of private adoption, in a manner that corresponds to state control, to select the adoptive parents and make all the rules of law.<\/p>\n

So, once the child is born parents would choose within a list of eligible Icbf and, subsequently, through a notary, would run the direct delivery of the baby.<\/p>\n

However, Senator Carlos Gaviria Diaz said no to the project because they consider unconstitutional. In his view, “to give consent for adoption is safe, requires the person to give it has taken its decision in a situation an\u00edmica appropriate.”<\/p>\n

Gaviria Diaz argues that the parameters to be taken into account to determine if the mother is not able or capable of giving consent are: there can be at the time of delivery, which has been previously reported that following the Pregnancy and childbirth may be at an emotional state can severely disrupt their decision, and that it has been informed that it has time to reflect, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El pa\u00eds El pais<\/a>
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\nPor: Andr\u00e9s Alfonso Pach\u00f3n – Reportero de El Pais<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Aunque los orfanatos privados son fiscalizados por el Estado, el sindicato del Icbf pide que sean eliminados.<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvaro P\u00edo Fern\u00e1ndez | El Pais<\/p>\n

Exportaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os, un perverso negocio<\/p>\n

Algunos orfanatos privados en Colombia se estar\u00edan lucrando a trav\u00e9s de bonos de auxilio econ\u00f3mico donados por organismos internacionales. Los engorrosos y demorados tr\u00e1mites. El reciente fallo de la Corte Constitucional acerca de la despenalizaci\u00f3n parcial del aborto en Colombia ha puesto de nuevo sobre la mesa el tema de la adopci\u00f3n como alternativa frente a lo que algunos consideran una afrenta contra la vida.<\/p>\n

Sin embargo, sobre esta tabla de salvaci\u00f3n frente el aborto han ca\u00eddo graves denuncias, seg\u00fan las cuales la comercializaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os a familias extranjeras constituye el mayor lastre.\u00a0 Seg\u00fan Mar\u00eda Victoria Forero, presidenta nacional de Trabajadores del Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, Icbf, \u201cen Colombia se est\u00e1 registrando una perversa exportaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os en adopci\u00f3n, por cifras que oscilan entre los ocho mil y los quince mil d\u00f3lares\u201d, lo que, a su juicio, ha convertido este procedimiento en \u201cun negocio perverso\u201d.<\/p>\n

Forero pidi\u00f3 que se archive un proyecto que cursa en la Comisi\u00f3n Primera del Senado sobre el C\u00f3digo de la Infancia y dijo que uno de los aspectos negativos de la iniciativa es que permite la presencia de casas de adopci\u00f3n privadas y agencias internacionales de adopci\u00f3n. Agreg\u00f3 que en el pa\u00eds se deben acabar las adopciones privadas para que estas sean estatales y no haya intermediaciones, y que la Procuradur\u00eda General de la Naci\u00f3n tiene conocimiento de la situaci\u00f3n an\u00f3mala que se viene presentando.<\/p>\n

Voceros de la Procuradur\u00eda se\u00f1alaron a El Pais que dichas denuncias son conocidas desde hace bastante tiempo, pero se negaron a dar alguna versi\u00f3n, aduciendo que en la actualidad desarrollan varias investigaciones al respecto.<\/p>\n

Tr\u00e1fico. Seg\u00fan Marina y Eric Ditesheim, una pareja de esposos residentes en Ginebra, Suiza, \u201cColombia y Per\u00fa tienen muy buena imagen internacional en lo que se refiere a adopci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os\u201d. Sin embargo, un hecho reciente los llev\u00f3 a preferir la adopci\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s del Icbf y rechazar el ofrecimiento que les hizo un intermediario de un orfanato privado nacional.<\/p>\n

En un di\u00e1logo sostenido a su paso por Cali, a donde vinieron para tomar en adopci\u00f3n a Mateo, un ni\u00f1o de 3 a\u00f1os declarado en abandono familiar por el Icbf, los esposos Ditesheim se\u00f1alaron que \u201cen Ginebra nos abord\u00f3 un intermediario de un centro privado de adopci\u00f3n colombiano y nos pidi\u00f3 seis mil d\u00f3lares como garant\u00eda de que tendr\u00edamos un ni\u00f1o, lo cual nos gener\u00f3 desconfianza\u201d.<\/p>\n

Al ser consultada sobre el hecho, la casa de adopci\u00f3n a la que se refirieron los Ditesheim neg\u00f3 tener representantes en Ginebra, pero s\u00ed admiti\u00f3 que en Colombia se presenta un paulatino aumento de tr\u00e1fico de ni\u00f1os. Los engorrosos y demorados procesos de adopci\u00f3n son el motor del il\u00edcito negocio, que en algunas ocasiones puede mover hasta US$60.000, cuando los intermediarios contactan clientes acaudalados en EE.UU. y Europa, por quienes incluso llegan a sustraer beb\u00e9s a sus madres naturales.<\/p>\n

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\nDesde 1998 la Misi\u00f3n de Adopci\u00f3n Internacional, organismo oficial franc\u00e9s encargado de controlar el comercio de ni\u00f1os adoptados, denuncia que en algunos pa\u00edses de Latinoam\u00e9rica existen abogados que permanecen en contacto con los m\u00e9dicos y enfermeras que a su vez ejercen presi\u00f3n sobre las madres para que abandonen a sus hijos, los que luego son recluidos en orfelinatos privados.<\/p>\n

De tal pr\u00e1ctica no hay pruebas en Colombia, y seg\u00fan la directora general del Centro de Adopci\u00f3n Chiquitines, en Cali, Agatha Le\u00f3n Galatlos, los ocho orfelinatos existentes en el pa\u00eds est\u00e1n \u2018blindados\u2019 contra ese il\u00edcito. \u201cNo s\u00e9 de d\u00f3nde el sindicato de trabajadores de Icbf saca esas versiones. Todas las casas de adopci\u00f3n privadas que hay en el pa\u00eds mantenemos reuniones con Beatriz Londo\u00f1o, directora del Icbf, y ella sabe c\u00f3mo trabajamos\u201d, explica la se\u00f1ora Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

El dato clave<\/p>\n

Firmada en La Haya, en 1993, la \u2018Convenci\u00f3n sobre protecci\u00f3n de los ni\u00f1os y cooperaci\u00f3n en materia de adopci\u00f3n internacional\u2019 prohibe cualquier tipo de beneficio en el proceso de adopci\u00f3n, as\u00ed como la venta y el rapto de ni\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

Donaciones.Al pregunt\u00e1rsele por los recursos de sostenimiento de la instituci\u00f3n que dirige, Agatha Le\u00f3n dice que, al igual que las otras de su tipo, recibe recursos del Estado y donaciones, algunas de ellas internacionales.<\/p>\n

Acota que ellas en ning\u00fan momento son una imposici\u00f3n para los adoptantes ni un \u2018negocio montado\u2019, aunque admite que los recursos gubernamentales no son suficientes para la manutenci\u00f3n del establecimiento y que debe buscar ingresos por otras fuentes.<\/p>\n

\u201cLas familias adoptantes saben que necesitamos una ayuda, pero son libres de adoptar a trav\u00e9s de una organizaci\u00f3n privada que vive de donaciones o a trav\u00e9s del Estado (Icbf)\u201d, dice.<\/p>\n

Explica que este tipo de instituciones cuentan con un contrato con el Icbf para atender determinada cantidad de ni\u00f1os entre los 2 y los 10 a\u00f1os de edad, y que ese dinero tambi\u00e9n cubre un 25% de las necesidades de la instituci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

A\u00f1ade que \u201cotra forma de financiaci\u00f3n es a trav\u00e9s de proyectos de vacunaci\u00f3n, atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica y apoyo al programa educativo, as\u00ed como apoyos de organismos extranjeros y donaciones de algunos adoptantes, que pueden llegar a los siete mil d\u00f3lares por familia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sobre el particular, Mar\u00eda Victoria Forero dice que existen agencias internacionales que aportan bonos para los orfanatos, dirigidos especialmente a los tr\u00e1mites de adopci\u00f3n, y que es all\u00ed donde quiz\u00e1s se empieza a cocinar el il\u00edcito negocio.<\/p>\n

\u201d\u00bfQui\u00e9n sabe? Detr\u00e1s de un bono de esos pueden surgir muchas cosas\u201d, sentencia. El defensor del Pueblo, V\u00f3lmar P\u00e9rez, dijo sobre el particular que en la actualidad se adelanta un debate legislativo con el fin de regular de manera integral la adopci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa Defensor\u00eda del Pueblo ha insistido en la necesidad de que se establezca de manera inequ\u00edvoca el control directo de la aplicaci\u00f3n de la Convenci\u00f3n de los Derechos del Ni\u00f1o a trav\u00e9s del Icbf, para evitar la proliferaci\u00f3n de situaciones que atenten contra los menores y que se favorezcan intereses econ\u00f3micos o de delincuencia organizada nacional o extranjera\u201d, dijo P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n

Este diario intent\u00f3 obtener declaraciones de la directora del Icbf, Beatriz Londo\u00f1o, sobre las graves denuncias del sindicato en materia de adopciones, pero no obtuvo respuesta.<\/p>\n

El n\u00famero
\n2.058 menores de edad fueron dados en adopci\u00f3n a familias extranjeras en el 2005, otros 1.484 fueron tomados por familias colombianas.<\/p>\n

Iniciando el proceso
\nPese a que adoptar un ni\u00f1o en Colombia es gratis, existe una serie de procesos que termina representado un costo para los adoptantes. Conozca qui\u00e9nes pueden adoptar. Aunque la adopci\u00f3n en Colombia es gratuita, para el proceso se debe aportar una serie de documentos que representan costos para los solicitantes.<\/p>\n

Una vez es asignado el ni\u00f1o, debe iniciarse ante el Juzgado Promiscuo de Familia el proceso judicial de adopci\u00f3n, que requiere de un abogado, escogido directamente por la familia, lo cual tambi\u00e9n representa un costo adicional.<\/p>\n

Cuando la familia es colombiana o extranjera residente fuera de Colombia debe comunicarse con la autoridad central o los organismos acreditados (como agencias que coordinan programas de adopci\u00f3n del pa\u00eds de residencia de los solicitantes), que brindar\u00e1n informaci\u00f3n sobre c\u00f3mo adoptar un ni\u00f1o.
\nEntre los requisitos para adoptar est\u00e1n: tener cumplidos 25 a\u00f1os de edad; tener al menos 15 a\u00f1os m\u00e1s que el adoptante; garantizar idoneidad f\u00edsica, mental, moral y social suficiente para suministrar hogar seguro y estable a los adoptados.<\/p>\n

Entre quienes pueden adoptar est\u00e1n:
\nLos c\u00f3nyugues y las pareja conformada por un hombre y una mujer. Los adoptantes que tengan hijos leg\u00edtimos, extramatrimoniales o adoptivos no tienen prohibici\u00f3n alguna para solicitar la adopci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Proceso notarial genera pol\u00e9mica
\nUn reciente y pol\u00e9mico proyecto de ley, encaminado a crear por v\u00eda notarial la adopci\u00f3n producto de la violaci\u00f3n, el acceso carnal violento y la inseminaci\u00f3n artificial sin consentimiento, fue presentado recientemente por el senador Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Mesa, generando un amplio debate a\u00fan antes de su \u2018gestaci\u00f3n\u2019.<\/p>\n

Seg\u00fan el senador, \u201cla idea de la propuesta es invitar a las mujeres que tienen la decisi\u00f3n de abortar a que tengan un mecanismo de atenci\u00f3n, de prevenci\u00f3n y de apoyo psicol\u00f3gico por parte del Estado\u201d, d\u00e1ndoles la oportunidad de dar en adopci\u00f3n al beb\u00e9 a trav\u00e9s de la v\u00eda notarial. Su iniciativa ha sido contemplada por muchos como un proceso mercantilista, aunque \u00e9l asegura que no hay tal.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo hay forma de que mi propuesta sea mercantilista, porque la idea es entregarle todo el manejo al Icbf, que har\u00eda una lista de elegibles entre nacionales y extranjeros, haciendo la adopci\u00f3n m\u00e1s r\u00e1pida y liberando a las mujeres de la presi\u00f3n de pensar en abortar\u201d, explica.<\/p>\n

Aclara que en esta propuesta s\u00f3lo tiene cabida el Icbf, m\u00e1s no las casas de adopci\u00f3n privadas, de manera tal que corresponde al Estado controlar, seleccionar a los padres adoptantes y hacer toda la reglamentaci\u00f3n de ley.
\nAs\u00ed las cosas, una vez nazca el ni\u00f1o se escoger\u00edan los padres dentro de una lista de elegibles del Icbf y, posteriormente, a trav\u00e9s de notar\u00eda, se ejecutar\u00eda la entrega directa de la criatura.<\/p>\n

Sin embargo, el senador Carlos Gaviria D\u00edaz dijo no al proyecto por considerarlo inconstitucional. A su juicio, \u201cpara que el consentimiento de dar en adopci\u00f3n sea seguro, se requiere que la persona al darlo haya tomado su decisi\u00f3n en una situaci\u00f3n an\u00edmica adecuada\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gaviria D\u00edaz sostiene que los par\u00e1metros que se han de tener en cuenta para establecer si la madre se encuentra en condiciones o no de dar un consentimiento apto son: no puede ser en el momento del parto, que se le haya informado previamente que a ra\u00edz del embarazo y el parto puede estar en un estado emocional capaz de perturbar severamente su decisi\u00f3n, y que se le haya informado que cuenta con tiempo para reflexionar, entre otras.
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