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The State Duma look into the issue of adoption, 722 thousand orphans
 
publication time: 16 November 2005, 14:58
Last update: 16 November 2005, 18:33
 

  

In anticipation of the "government hour" in the State Duma on the issue of adoption of Russian children by Russian and foreign citizens, the Ministry of Education and Science held meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for adoption and other forms for children in foster families.

The Commission endorsed the proposal of the Ministry on the development of comprehensive measures to combat illicit brokering in the adoption of children, citizens of Russia, foreign citizens. The priority measures in this direction, said the press service of the Ministry, "should be the introduction of legislative ban on" independent "adoptions, the responsibility for illegal brokering activities."

It is also to take measures aimed at improving the monitoring of accredited to the Russian representative offices of foreign organizations on the adoption of children, reported Interfax.

The Ministry of Education and Science stopped accreditation and refused to renew the accreditation of foreign missions of the four organizations on the adoption of children. According to a press release, we are talking about the Spanish ADECOP, the Italian Associazione Chiara ONLUS, American Crossroads Adoption Services and the Canadian Au berceau de la vie.

In addition, the press service, Minobrnauki developed the concept of the bill "On Amending the Federal Law on State Bank of children without parental care." Essence of the bill that foreigners wishing to become parents will be able to obtain information about orphans only through accredited representative offices of foreign organizations. The document has already undergone alignment in the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and will soon be sent to the Russian Government.

The message states that currently on the territory of the Russian Federation opened 84 representative offices of foreign organizations accredited by the adoption of children. Deadline extended for the accreditation of 56 missions. Documents further 28 missions are under consideration.


In the State Duma opposed the ban on international adoptions



As part of the "government hour" on Wednesday, the State Duma is considering issues related to the adoption of children by Russian and foreign citizens. The need to take measures to protect Russian children adopted by foreigners and Russian citizens in the State Duma raised as early as September.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko considered it inappropriate to establish a ban on adoptions of Russian children by foreigners. "I think it is not worth talking here about a moratorium. There is a legally valid and did not quite right" - said Fursenko.

According to Fursenko, it would be inappropriate to "unlimited increase in Russia of the American organizations that deal with adoptions. "Today, they are" - I am sure the minister.

In so doing, he responded to a replica of the representative of the LDPR faction Alexei Chernyshev, who offered to accept U.S. "country non grata" because most deaths of adopted Russian children. Every year abroad adopt 8-9 thousands of Russian children, but "not all adoption procedures are performed in accordance with the requirements of the law."

Against the ban on international adoptions was made and the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin. He called populism appeals to ban international adoptions of Russian orphans. "Talks on banning foreign adoptions are populist, psevdopatrioticheskuyu balderdash, which is intended to cover someone's interests, but not for children. Criterion - the right of the child, everything else second", - said Lukin.

However, he noted that in terms of international adoption, and adoption in general, there are many issues that must be addressed. According to Lukin, the issue of international adoptions can be solved by limiting the number of agencies that have been registered for this activity in Russia. "A identify those agencies that have received this right should be through open competition" - says the Ombudsman.

Moreover, in his view, the issue of international adoptions is the fact that Russia is not well organized adoptions within the country. "In particular, the need to better develop a system of guardianship and control over the order in which living conditions of adopted children", - said Lukin.

Lukin said that Russia now has about 722 thousand orphans, noting that the main problem in a large and complex issue of motherhood and childhood is poor content of orphans in Russian institutions.

Russian families in 2004 had education 109 thousand orphans

Russian families in 2004 had education 109 thousand orphans, said Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko Russia. "109 thousand young citizens into the Russian family in 2004 and the adoption went 7 thousand in Russia and 9.4 thousand - abroad", - said to RIA Novosti Fursenko.

He noted that in Russia there are different ways in which citizens can take to their orphans to care. "The number of children by a family of our citizens, many times more than the number of children adopted by our citizens" - said Fursenko.

He noted that in 2003 the first time the number of children adopted by foreigners exceeded the number of children adopted by Russian citizens. In 2003, Russia had adopted a child 7331, and international child adoptions have been 7852.

In 2004, this difference has increased. In Russia last year, 7000 children were adopted, and foreign nationals adopted 9,400 children. In 2005, this difference has declined, mainly due to the fact that decreased foreign adoptions, said Fursenko.


Kolesnikov: some Russians have an opportunity to take care of children, rather than "Chelsea" buy


Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Kolesnikov proposes to establish a committee on adoption of Russian children headed by a deputy of the Parliamentary Committee on Women and Family Catherine Lahovoy. "The relevant committee to deal with this work could lead Yekaterina Lakhova," - said Kolesnikov.

This concentration of the work of the special agency created by the fact that, as underlined Kolesnikov, the Ministry of Education and Science, which aims to address this issue, with its responsibilities is unable to cope. Kolesnikov believes that nothing has been decided to transfer and functions related to the adoption of Minzdravsotsrazvitiya.

Vladimir Kolesnikov said that foreign adoptive parents are paying for a Russian child from 15 thousand to 80 thousand dollars. "Part of that money goes to Russian officials," - added zamgenprokurora. It is with regret that in comparison with 1993 Russian citizens to adopt children in the two less, while foreigners in 4.5 times more often. "Some Russians have opportunities to take care of children, rather than" Chelsea "buy" - said the representative of Prosecution.

According to Kolesnikov, is due to the financial situation of Russian families who did not go up for adoption, but are forced to because of lack of funds to abandon previously adopted children. From 2000 to 2005, told zamgenprokurora, courts have been considered almost a thousand cases of the abolition of the adoption of children by Russian citizens.

With regard to the facts of cruel treatment of adopted children, it said Kolesnikov, official statistics on this occasion not. At the same time, the prosecutor's office, he said, are aware of three cases of killings of children by Russian adoptive parents over the past five years. At the hands of foreign adoptive parents were killed 15 Russian children, 14 of them - in the U.S., he added.

In this regard, the representative Prosecution accused Russian officials and, above all, the structures that are required to care for children, that they have a vested interest in addressing the issue of adoption of our children by foreigners. According to him, "our officials rather advanced in the field of children adopted by foreign nationals."

"Under the guise of so-called exit to rest and treatment abroad for children without parents, they are satisfied with uniform" smotriny ", the violation of the rights of domestic adoptive parents. Chinovniku interesting to go abroad, the world is to see a show, and eventually a large part Children who first visited these smotrinah, remains abroad ", - said Kolesnikov.

He also severely criticized the Ministry of Education and Science to supervise the protection of rights without parental guardianship of children. In particular, the Prosecution representative made specific claims head of the department Andrei Fursenko, noting that the Office of General Prosecutor has directed the relevant representations relating to the activities of organizations involved in adoption of children and, above all, the fact that the timing of the accreditation of those organizations have expired, but they has continued to operate illegally.

Kolesnikov said that the work was halted more than three dozen such companies - in Russia last year there were 87 foreign missions adoption. "In a frank acquiescence of the Ministry in 2004-2005, the work of a number of them continued without a renewal of accreditation," - said the representative of Prosecution. "We will make the Minister responsible," - he said.

Kolesnikov also said that the Office of General Prosecutor sent to the State Duma a bill to appropriate amendments to the criminal and administrative law, so as to enhance the responsibility of those involved in the process of adoption of Russian children, for the observance of law and the rights of the child.



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