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Marie
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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: A European market for children |
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Some forces are pushing for a European Adoption Policy by which means they want to have a European Market. But not just that.
All 'abandoned' children should be put for adoption, first national, than European and than international.
During Romania's accession process to the European Union, the country was told that a European country does not export its children. As a result, they created with EU support a reformed child protection and closed intercountry adoptions. Now everything is put in force to get that country reopened. If the European Parliament's resolution will be taken over by the European Commission, and voted by the European Council of Ministers, we are up for a whole new free market - a market in children
http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/14157#comment-3387 |
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Marie
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Thanks Tony. Fully agree on the risk of a faceless voting machine.
By the way the Council of Europe, which is not the EU, but has 49 member states is joining the adoption lobby too.
Read their mind-bogling reasoning here:
| Quote: | Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Disappearance of newborn babies for illegal adoption in Europe
The trafficking of babies from the Ukraine was already a fact in 1995. Ten years later, in 2005, the Council of Europe requested an investigation to clarify if babies were still declared stillborn, but in reality sold for adoption.
The fact-finding mission of Ms. Ms Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold brought heart-breaking stories and confirmed all suspicion.
In a recent interview Ms. Vermot-Mangold gives harrowing examples of how mothers were fooled by doctors and made to believe their babies were stillborn. She believes it likely that those children ended up for intercountry adoptions, as this market exists since long,
Her investigations in Moldova showed different practices: strong pressures is put on poor and/or single mothers to leave their child in an orphanage, most likely for reasons of intercountry adoption as mothers who later reclaim their child do that in vain. Also newspaper advertisements can be found in Moldova, in which women are incited to sell their babies for 3.000 euros.
Ms. Vermot-Mangold goes on to say that trafficking in babies also exists in Bulgaria, but that Romania is at the moment less concerned as it has banned intercountry adoptions.
This is an important conclusion, as it is indeed the existing adoption market that triggers the sale of children. Before Romania closed intercountry adoptions the same issues as in Ukraine, Moldova existed: babies declared dead at birth, mothers incited to abandon children.
However, Ms. Vermot-Mangold is not of the opinion that a ban on adoptions is appropriate, without saying why not, but that stricter rules are needed and that adoptions need to be done through adoption agencies which strictly control the procedure.
However, those who read Romania for Export Only know that adoption agencies are part of the problem, not the solution.
But now the most amazing part.
On 24 January the Council of Europe’s General Assemblee discussed Ms. Vermot-Mangold’s findings and presented a draft Recommendation ‘Disappearance of newborn babies for illegal adoption in Europe’.
Read the mind-boggling press release in which the Council of Europe announces their view on how to prevent the sale of children:
By stricter rules, in particular for post adoption monitoring...
but that’s not where the problem exists: it is how children are 'freed' for adoption where things go very wrong.
And what about the press release's catchy title? Stricter rules, no:
Assembly calls for easing of adoption rules |
To have access to all the links, see:
www.romania-forexportonly.blogspot.com |
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Marie
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: European Parliament & Council of Europe join forces |
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The European Parliament's lobby for European Adoptions - headed by the French J.M. Cavada is now joined by the Council of Europe (which is not part of the Brussels EU power, but based in Paris and was set up to defend human rights.
| Quote: | Towards a European procedure for adoption
Strasbourg, 12.02.2008 – Despite the considerable volume of content of legal provisions on national and international adoption, the best interests of the child do not always take precedence over other considerations. Nevertheless, these legal arrangements decide the future of thousands of orphans and abandoned children every year.
Convinced of the need to create an adoption procedure common to all EU member states – in line with the recent adoption of a report on children’s rights calling for such a mechanism – and to encourage international adoption where there is no national solution, a number of Members of the European Parliament, together with the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, have drawn up a joint declaration addressed to European ministers responsible for family affairs.
Jean-Marie Cavada (ALDE, France), Claire Gibault (ALDE, France) and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, would like to invite you to a press conference at 3pm on Tuesday 19 February in the European Parliament press room (LOW) in Strasbourg where they will present this initiative. |
http://www.coe.int/t/dc/press/noteRedac2008/20080212_adoption_en.asp
This move is meant to re-open intercountry adoptions from Romania, while at the same time promoting adoption as a child protection measure.
Note that the rest of Europe does not have adoption of their children in public care, but fostercare. No identity change.
And none of the old 15 EU countries (including the UK ) sends children from their public care system abroad. AND THIS IS WHAT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE ARE NOW PROMOTING!! |
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Marie
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