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2009 News
30th November 2009
Adoption abroad must be checked
We are not at all surprised to see the subject of inter-country adoption
embroiled yet again in controversy.
The Unicef report into adoptions from Vietnam (Irish Independent,
November 24) is to be welcomed and it has not come soon enough. We
concur with the report's recommendation that all countries should ratify
the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and we have called on the
Government to dissolve all bilateral agreements with countries that have
not signed up to the convention.
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18th May 2009Waiting
for adoptions
I
refer to the letters written by prospective adoptive parents (May 14th)
in relation to the delays concerning Vietnamese adoptions. I
completely understand from the point of view of a prospective adoptive
parent that waiting for a child must be agonising, but surely it is
better to wait a little longer in order to ensure that an adoption is
ethical?
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15th March 2009
Letter from Claire McGettrick to the Sunday Times
I wish to correct an error in Mark Tighe’s Sunday Times (Irish
Edition) article dated March 7th 2009 concerning Vietnamese adoptions,
in which he referred to “The Hague convention on child abduction”.
The convention’s proper title is in fact “The Hague Convention for
the Protection of Children in Intercountry Adoption”.
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15th February 2009
The Real Case of Tristan Dowse (Newspaper heading: Poor Adoption Law)
As one of the people involved in bringing Tristan
Dowse’s case to the attention of the media, I read Ciara Dwyer’s
piece entitled “The curious case of Tristan
Dowse” in the Sunday Independent of 8th February 2009 with mixed
emotions because, while I was happy to read that Tristan
has adjusted well, I couldn’t help but feel sad that his case was
being labelled as a “curiosity”.
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28th January 2009
Adopted Irish people still getting raw deal
THE Adoption Bill 2009 ratifying the Hague Convention for the
Protection of Children in Intercountry Adoption will go a long way
towards ensuring that such adoptions in Ireland are ethical and above
board. As an adopted person I am naturally happy to see the introduction
of any measures that will protect the most important person in an
adoption — the child. However,
the Hague convention only concerns itself with foreign adoptions and
there are thousands of adopted Irish people whose rights have yet to be
enshrined in legislation.
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Human
Rights In Ireland Blog on the 2009 Adoption Bill
Post from Brid Nic Suibhne on the Adoption Bill 2009.
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20 Irish couples
still waiting to adopt Vietnamese children
NO time scale has been set for the processing of 20 adoptions agreed
between the Irish and Vietnamese authorities.
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Argentina's
authorities order DNA tests in search for stolen babies of dirty war
Children adopted by regime backers checked against bodies of those who
'disappeared' in the 70s and 80s
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Adoptive
families' quests to trace Chinese roots often meet dead ends
More families are traveling to China to unravel the mystery of where
their adoptive children came from and who their parents are. For the few
who are able to make any headway, luck is a big factor.
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‘Deeply flawed’
adoption bill criticised
THE proposed Adoption Bill has been criticised for failing to provide
the legal right to enable adopted people to trace their birth parents or
obtain a range of post-adoption services.
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Government
criticised over Adoption Bill
THE BODY representing all adoption agencies in the State has criticised
the Government for moving to pass the Adoption Bill before holding a
planned referendum on the rights of the child.
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Adoption
abroad must be checked
We are not at all surprised to see the subject of inter-country adoption
embroiled yet again in controversy.
The Unicef report into adoptions from Vietnam (Irish Independent,
November 24) is to be welcomed and it has not come soon enough. We
concur with the report's recommendation that all countries should ratify
the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and we have called on the
Government to dissolve all bilateral agreements with countries that have
not signed up to the convention.
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A generation fights to reform
adoption laws
Six Korean adoptees filed an appeal with the Anti-corruption and Civil
Rights Commission last year to request a probe into irregularities in
their adoption documents and possible illegal procedures at local
adoption agencies.
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Adoption
Bill includes Hague protections
FEW IRISH children were now placed for adoption, Minister of State for
Children Barry Andrews told the Dáil. The vast majority of domestic
adoptions were “family or step-parent adoptions”, he said.
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The
babies airlifted out of Saigon
Viktoria Cowley was just a toddler when she was airlifted out of
Vietnam, one of 99 children plucked from the war-torn country by the
Daily Mail. Now she is trying to reunite the scattered evacuees.
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S
Leone fury at 'forced adoption'
A group of parents in Sierra Leone has accused a charity of sending more
than 30 children abroad for adoption without consent during the
country's civil war.
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The
story of the abandoned 'rainbow baby'
When just a few days old, David Stevenson was abandoned outside a flat
in London. Forty-nine years later, he's trying to piece together what
happened on that fateful day in 1960.
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Minister
examines UN reports pointing to concerns at Vietnamese adoptions
INTERVIEW: The
Helping Hands adoption agency wants transparency in Vietnamese
adoptions, which are suspended, writes CAROL COULTER, Legal
Affairs Editor
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Report
criticising Vietnamese adoptions to be published
A MAJOR UNICEF report, believed to be behind the Government’s failure
to renew a bilateral agreement with Vietnam on adoption, is to be made
public later this month.
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Six
Vietnamese officials sentenced to jail over fraudulent adoptions
SIX
VIETNAMESE health officials and charity workers in the northern province
of Nam Dinh have been sentenced to jail for arranging over 300
fraudulent adoptions.
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Six
jailed for Vietnam baby fraud
Six Vietnamese have been sentenced to jail for arranging more than 300
fraudulent adoptions, an official said.
The six were jailed for two to four-and-a-half years for "abuse of
power", court official Nguyen Tien Hung said.
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Egypt
jails US 'adoption' couples
Two US couples have been jailed in Egypt for two years for trying to
illegally adopt children.
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A Dad's Adoption
Nightmare
After Bringing Home a Child from Samoa, Mike Nyberg Learned She Had a
Loving Family Back Home
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Whatever
happened to Jane's baby?
Standing
in the lobby of London's Savoy hotel, pregnant and with a crying bundle
in her tattered shawl, Dublin woman Florrie Kavanagh must have attracted
some disdainful looks.
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Regulating
adoption
"Inter-country adoptions raise many complex issues and reveal
sharply the inequalities that exist between “sending” and
“receiving” countries. Not only are income levels vastly different,
it is inevitable that the administrative infrastructure in most of the
“sending” countries will rarely match that in the “receiving”
and that there will be room for bad practice to develop as a result. In
such circumstances, responsibility lies on the “receiving” country
to ensure that everything is done to protect the children involved.
The alternative is a scenario where in the years to come as adoptive
children reach adulthood, they will have legitimate questions for the
Irish authorities as to what steps were taken to guarantee their
interests. The Government must ensure it has the answers."
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The Orphan
Manufacturing Chain
Who
wants to buy a baby? Certainly not most people who try to adopt
internationally. And yet too often that's how their dollars and euros
are being used.
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2008 News
Twin brother, sister marry one another
In a remarkable and disturbing twist of fate, British twins who were separated at birth met, fell in love and married without knowing they were brother and sister.
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