Long journey home (Nepali Times) Instead of being commended, rescuers of Nepali girls are condemned RUBEENA MAHATO FROM ISSUE #573 (30 SEPT 2011 – 06 OCT 2011)[Photo] REUNITED: After ten years of search, Shangmo Lama finally meets her two nieces at Michael Job Centre in Coimbatore where they were kept as orphans. Lama had travelled with the rescue team to …
Month: September 2011
Cashing it big on children (Nepali Times)
Cashing it big on children (Nepali Times) Adoption is just one part of the larger trafficking problem in Nepal THOMAS BELL FROM ISSUE #573 (30 SEPT 2011 – 06 OCT 2011) Hundreds of orphanages in Nepal are being run as businesses, filled with children who would have been left with their families if orphanage owners weren’t making money by keeping …
Disabled kids to get priority in adoption (The Himalayan Times)
Disabled kids to get priority in adoption (The Himalayan Times) 2011-09-10 HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE KATHMANDU: The government is to give priority to ‘children with special needs’ –– those who have some kind of disability –– for inter-country adoption, said a committee established to monitor inter-country adoptions. To pave way for the new provision, the government in January amended the Inter-Country …
Renewal of Foreign Organizations or Agencies (MOWCSW notice)
Government of Nepal Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare Notice on Renewal of Foreign Organizations or Agencies http://www.mowcsw.gov.np/inter-country-adoption-15-en.html Date: 4 September 2011 Upon scrutiny the applications submitted by the following foreign organizations along with other documents for renewal pursuant to the notice published on 2 January 2011 for renewal of the foreign organizations enlisted for two years with effect …
Bal Mandir stops taking new children (Republica)
Bal Mandir stops taking new children (Republica) ARJUN POUDEL KATHMANDU, Sept 16: With indefinite suspension by some European countries and USA of adoption of Nepali children, Nepal Bal Mandir has stopped taking in new children. The organization stopped taking new admissions a year ago as inter-country adoption was its biggest source of income. The non-governmental organization devoted to giving care …
Nepal comes to terms with foreign adoptions tragedy (BBC)
Nepal comes to terms with foreign adoptions tragedy (BBC) 28 September 2011 By Thomas Bell — in Kathmandu Hundreds of parents in Nepal are struggling to come to terms with the fact that their children have been adopted by Western couples without their consent. Adoptive parents pay thousands of dollars in fees and “donations” to orphanages and government officials who …
A far-away rescue (Nepali Times)
A far-away rescue (Nepali Times) Young girls from the remote mountains of northwestern Nepal who were trafficked to the southern tip of India are rescued this week RUBEENA MAHATO in COIMBATORE, INDIA FROM ISSUE #571 (16 SEPT 2011 – 22 SEPT 2011) In the suburbs of Coimbatore at Sulur, the first thing that one notices in the impressively walled Michael …
DOS Adoption Notice: Guatemala: CNA Processing Framework for U.S. Cases Under Its Authority
Notice: CNA Processing Framework for U.S. Cases Under Its Authority On Friday August 19, 2011, the Guatemalan Central Adoption Authority (CNA) published in the Guatemalan government’s official register a new processing framework for the limited group of pending U.S. adoption cases that are under CNA processing authority. The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) …
Nepal: Children for sale (Al Jazeera)
Nepal: Children for sale (Al Jazeera) With weak law enforcement, can foreigners adopting children from Nepal be sure that they are really orphans? Video: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/09/2011920125119853524.html Orphaned, abandoned or trafficked? That is the question facing foreigners who wish to adopt Nepali children. International adoption services have provided a lucrative business to poverty-stricken Nepal. But in 2007, Nepal stopped adoptions for two …
Nepal: Children for sale (Al Jazeera)
Nepal: Children for sale (Al Jazeera) With weak law enforcement, can foreigners adopting children from Nepal be sure that they are really orphans? http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/09/2011920125119853524.html Video: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2012/pieces.php?iid=429797&pid=1Orphaned, abandoned or trafficked? That is the question facing foreigners who wish to adopt Nepali children. International adoption services have provided a lucrative business to poverty-stricken Nepal. But in 2007, Nepal stopped adoptions for two …