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News........
25th
January 2012
Adoption
in the Media
Click
here for coverage of adoption tracing issues on 98FM and Prime
Time's piece on the Mexican illegal adoption story.
No adoptions from abroad since new law was passed
None of the almost 200 couples approved to adopt under the new Adoption Act have managed to bring a child back to Ireland.
Under the act, which came into force in Nov 2010, Irish people can only adopt from countries that have ratified the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption or with which Ireland has a bilateral
agreement.
Click
here to
read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish Examiner (Monday, January
23)
Uruguay approves $513,000 settlement for disappearance, illegal adoption during dictatorship
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s president has approved a $513,000 payment to Macarena Gelman, who was illegally adopted during the dictatorship after her mother was tortured and disappeared.
Click
here to read this Associated Press article in the Washington Post
24th
January 2012
Prime
Time on Mexican adoptions
Prime
Time will be covering the issue of Mexican adoptions tonight.
Claire McGettrick from Adoption Rights Alliance was interviewed for the
programme today. Tune in to RTÉ One at 9.30pm tonight. Click
here for the RTÉ Player
Mexican baby-trafficking ring operated for 20 years
An alleged baby-trafficking ring in Mexico, which sought to sell babies to 11 Irish couples, has been in operation for more than 20 years, authorities have claimed.
Click
here to
read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish Examiner
Couples
devastated by adoption scam
Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico
have been left devastated by the affair, they said tonight.
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here to
read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish Examiner
Irish couples caught up in illegal adoption operation in Mexico
THE BOARD of the Adoption Authority of Ireland is to meet today to discuss the issue of Irish couples who have been caught up in an adoption scam in Mexico.
Click
here to read this article by Ronan McGreevy in the Irish Times
23rd
January 2012
Fitzgerald performs U-turn on adoption tracing rights
Retrospective information and tracing rights are to be offered in the upcoming Adoption Bill, in a significant U-turn by Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald.
The move has been broadly welcomed by groups representing adopted people, who had feared that tracing and information rights were only to be offered in relation to future adoptions.
Click
here to
read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish Examiner
Susan
Lohan on Talking Point Panel
Click here to listen back to Susan Lohan
from Adoption Rights Alliance on Talking Point
with Sarah Carey on Saturday 21st January.
Hospital sorry for forced adoptions
THE Royal Women's Hospital has admitted that single women were treated differently from married mothers until the mid-1970s and apologised for the pain and suffering that the practice caused.
Click
here to
read this article by Alana Rosenbaum in theage.com.au
Mexico authorities unravel child trafficking ring
ZAPOPAN, Mexico (AP) — Life seemed to give Karla Zepeda a break when a woman came to her dusty neighborhood of cinderblock homes and dirt roads looking for babies to photograph in an anti-abortion ad campaign.
Click
here to read this Associated Press article by OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
21st
January 2012
Susan Lohan
from Adoption Rights Alliance will be on Talking Point
with Sarah Carey on Saturday 21st January from 9am.
Text: 53106 Email: talkingpoint@newstalk.ie
Questioning of couples in adoption case ‘disturbing’
CHILDREN’S Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said the questioning of 11 Irish couples in relation to an adoption racket in Mexico is a "very disturbing situation".
Click
here to read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish
Examiner
Adoption red-tape is a cruel process but a necessary one
Anyone who complains about the bureaucracy which can be encountered when engaging with the State -- be it applying for the dole, or headage payments for livestock -- should attempt to adopt a child from abroad to get matters in perspective.
Click
here to read this article in the Irish Independent by Alison
O'Connor
Mexico baby trafficking dates back over 20 years
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A baby-trafficking ring aiming to pass infants on for adoption had operated for more than 20 years in Mexico and sent children to Italy as well as Ireland, according to a Mexican official.
Click
here to read this Associated Press article
20th
January 2012
Couples held in Mexico facing ban on adoptions
THE Irish couples being questioned by police in Mexico who are investigating alleged child trafficking now risk being banned from adopting in the future.
Click
here to read this story by Eilish O'Regan in the Irish Independent
Children in adoption scam show signs of sexual abuse
FOUR of the 10 children rescued during an alleged adoption scam to sell babies to Irish couples have shown signs of sexual abuse.
Click
here to read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish
Examiner
Authority satisfied registered Mexican adoptions
safe
THE Adoption Authority (AAI) said it is satisfied all registered adoptions here from Mexico are "safe and secure" following more arrests in connection with an alleged trafficking ring planning to sell babies to Irish couples.
Click
here to read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish
Examiner
Mexico prosecutor says 4 children seized in child-trafficking ring show signs of sexual abuse
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Four of the 10 children seized in western Mexico as part of a child-trafficking investigation involving Irish couples show signs of sexual abuse, a Mexican official said Wednesday.
Click
here to read this Associated Press article published in the
Washington Post
16th
January 2012
Irish couples caught up in Mexico adoption scam
THE Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it is in contact with a number of Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico.
Click
here to read this article by Caroline O’Doherty and Conall Ó Fátharta
in the Irish Examiner
Couples quizzed in adoption scam
THE Department of Foreign Affairs has refused to say if it issued adoption visas to 11 Irish couples caught up in a Mexican "babies for sale" scam.
Click
here to read this Irish Independent article
Warning over illegal private adoptions from Mexico
THE CHAIRMAN of the Adoption Authority of Ireland has warned prospective adoptive parents not to enter into any private arrangements in Mexico.
Geoffrey Shannon said while some individual states within Mexico allow private adoption, none sanction private inter-country adoption.
Click
here to read this article by Fiona Gartland and Gerard Couzens in
the Irish Times
Irish couples quizzed over Mexican 'adoption' scam
The Republic's department of foreign affairs has refused to say if it issued adoption visas to 11 Irish couples caught up in a Mexican "babies for sale" scam.
Click
here to read this article by Anne-Marie Walsh and Gerard Couzens in
the Belfast Telegraph
15th
January 2012
ELEVEN Irish families quizzed in Mexico over adoption ‘racket’
Seven Mexican babies have been seized from Irish couples after police in Guadalajara smashed an international child-smuggling ring.
Click
here to read this article by Sheila Flynn and Gerard Couzens in the Sunday
Mail
Irish couples to be quizzed over illegal adoptions
ELEVEN Irish couples are said to have been caught up in an investigation into illegal child adoptions in Mexico.
The Irish couples were reportedly due to be interviewed by state prosecutors over the weekend as police investigated a suspected child adoption ring in Guadalajara.
Click
here to read this article by Gerard Couzens in the Sunday
Independent
10th
January 2012
RIP
Mary Raftery
RTÉ
News: The death has taken place of journalist Mary Raftery
following an illness. Click
here for further details
Visit
the Justice for Magdalenes website
2nd January
2012
Numbers of adopted children in care unknown
THE number of adopted children in care is not known by the HSE, the Department of Health or the Department of Children, despite it being raised as a concern by social workers as far back as 2005.
Click
here to read this article by Conall Ó Fátharta in the Irish
Examiner
How Ethiopia's Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists
As the "searchers" who track down adopted children's histories increasingly uncover stories of fraud, corruption, and worse, these specialists are facing threats and even violence.
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here to read more
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