Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Travels to Kyrgyzstan Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC January 14, 2013 Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs will travel to Kyrgyzstan from January 14-18, 2013. This is the Special Advisor’s fifth visit to Kyrgyzstan. In Kyrgyzstan, Special Advisor Jacobs will meet with government officials and nongovernment representatives and participate in …
Category: Kyrgyzstan
Kyryzstan Update: Reports Indicate Minister Aquitted, Assistant Guilty in Bribery Cases
24.kg media is reporting that Ex-minister of Social Development Ravshan Sabirov was acquitted and his assistant Takhir Mirzakhmedov was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment in the bribery cases uncovered this summer. http://eng.24.kg/community/2012/11/21/26577.html This updates previous posts to PEAR’s blog: http://pear-now.blogspot.com/search?q=kyrgyzstan Ethics, Transparency, Support~ What All Adoptions Deserve.http://www.pear-now.org/ People for Ethical Adoption Reform www.pear-now.org
Media Report: Kyrgyzstan Anti-Corruption Agency Announces Findings on Foreign Adoption
The 24kg News Agency is reporting findings of the Anti-Corruption Service under the State Committee for National Security (GKNB)in Kygryzstan. These findings allege the following corrupt practices with respect to the payments of bribes to officials in the Ministry in association with intercountry adoption: 1. Payment by foreign adoption agency of $15,000 – $20,000 in bribes to secure accreditation.2. Payment …
UPDATE: Additional Official Arrested In Kyrgyzstan Corruption Scandal: Gulnara Derbisheva
It has been reported that the arrest of Gulnara Derbisheva, former Deputy Minister of Social Development, took place on August 31, 2012. Ms. Derbisheva has been charged for allegedly accepting bribes in her arranging the adoptions of Kyrgyzstani children. Kyrgyz Adoptions Official Arrested For Bribery, Radio Free Europe September 3, 2012.http://www.rferl.org/content/kyrgyzstan-adoptions-official-bribery/24696219.html Clause of international adoption in Kyrgyzstan favours traffic in …
UPDATE: Kyrgyzstan – US Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Travels to Kyrgyzstan
The following press release was made yesterday by the Office of Children’s Issues. We are assuming this in response to the recent scandal in Kyrgyzstan involving misconduct by US adoption agencies and the subsequent suspension of their accreditation in Kyrgyzstan. We request the US DOS to disclose the identity of the agency alleged to have given bribes to the Kyrg …
UPDATE: Kyrgyzstan Reportedly Revokes Accreditation of All Foreign Adoption Agencies
According to media sources, the Kyrgyzstan government has revoked accreditation of intercountry adoption agencies. The order allegedly comes from the Ministry of Social Development and is translated as follows: The order states: to terminate the force of accreditation certificates for international adoption of children without parental care of the following foreign organizations: – Child and Future Agency (the Netherlands); – …
Kyrgyzstan Investigating Allegations of Bribery in Agency Accreditation
According to news sources, Kyrgyzstan’s social development minister was arrested on Wednesday July 4, 2012 under suspicion of seeking at least $15,000 in bribes from a United States adoption agency. According to the media, the US agency had paid $10,000 in bribes to become accredited to participate in intercountry adoptions from Kyrgyzstan under the Hague, and the minister was seeking …
DOS Adoption Alert: Kyrgyzstan
June 2, 2011 Alert: Kyrgyzstan Adoption In October 2008, the previous government of Kyrgyzstan halted all intercountry adoptions in response to allegations of corruption and illegal processing. The new government has not yet implemented a new processing system, and at this time it is not possible for new intercountry adoption cases to move forward. The Department of State continues to …
UPDATE: Kyrgyzstan Moratorium
Radio Free Europe reported on May 7, 2011 that the Kyrg government has lifted the moratorium on intercountry adoptions which has been in effect since February 2009:http://www.rferl.org/content/kyrgyzstan_lifts_ban_on_international_adoptions/24094372.html The lifting of the ban comes on the heels of an official US visit to Kyrgystan by DOS Special Advisor on Children’s Issues, Ambassador Susan Jacobs, on February 14, 2011. The purpose of …
MEDIA: Kyrgyzstan: American Adoptions Still Stalled
Kyrgyzstan: American Adoptions Still Stalled Submitted by k_kumkova on September 30, 2010 – 1:55pmOriginally published by EurasiaNet.org, http://www.eurasianet.org. September 30, 2010 – 1:51pm There’s a tiny grave near an orphanage on the outskirts of Bishkek. It holds the body of an undersized 2-year-old girl who died in August from complications of a disease that is dangerous, yet often manageable in …