Getting back to the tens of millions of dollars the UN has wasted in Sudan that I mentioned yesterday, but had neither the time nor the stomach for, I find it more than a tad disingenuous that the same day this story came out in the Washington Post, the “UN News Centre” had only this [...]
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Why are no heads rolling?
Heads? Heck … there are hardly any eyeballs rolling, as this sort of crap from the UN is now common as designer muck in baby blue berets and pretty much expected as business as usual.
U.N. officers in Sudan have squandered millions by renting warehouses that were never used, booking blocks of [...]
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Maybe it’s because I’m not feeling well this week that the news seems to be all snotty and headache-inducing. Does my miserable cold rule the world, or does the miserable world make my cold feel worse? Mox nix, as the truly jaded would suggest … or those with as nasty a bug as I’ve been [...]
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I mentioned in a news roundup post a few days back a story about a Canadian woman who had slapped her elderly adoptive mother with a lawsuit claiming her adoption had been conducted under fraudulent circumstance and that she had suffered “emotionally and financially” because of it.
It is back in the news in an [...]
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Reading the news this morning has been a bit like trying to study individual players’ techniques and philosophies of tennis while watching four courts of Wimbledon play all at the same time; there’s lots going on, it’s all related to issues that touch adoption, but the range is huge and the approaches are all over [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Cambodia, International Adoption, The United Nations, tagged Cambodia, Channel 4, China adoptions, Darfur, Mia Farrow, Olympics, Reporters Without Borders, Sudan on January 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been writing about international adoption for a few years now and have to admit that I have never quite managed to get a handle on prevailing attitudes toward adoption from China. Some might suggest that this is a result of obstinacy on my part arising from the fact that I adopted from Cambodia and [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, The United Nations, tagged AIDS, Kenya, orphans, United Nations, USAID, Zimbabwe on January 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
How many mornings start off with a sense of despair as I open my computer to learn what has happened around the planet as I slept the night away peacefully in the bosom of my beautiful little family? Far too many.
The world is for more people than not a terrible place of unimaginable pain and [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Cambodia, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, The United Nations, tagged Beth Kanter, Guatemala adoption, Nigeria, Sharing Foundation, Zambia on January 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There are some bits and pieces of international news that I need to pass along today, so that’s where the focus will be …
If Guatemalan adoption is of interest, please see the Guat Adopt Blog for information on the new Central Authority on adoption. They have an address for the office.
If Cambodia holds your heart, [...]
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Yet another article making the rounds is attempting the grasping stretch between the Zoe’s Ark fiasco and adoption, and hitting all the right notes with some who sing that tune and have little inclination to expand their repertoire.
Written by Lebanese-born adoptee and gay activist and writer Daniel Drennan, it takes a criminal act and dresses [...]
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As 2007 wraps, organizations from the U.S. Government to the United Nations to every news provider on the planet are collecting data, crunching numbers and trying to find tidy ways to package the year for presentation to the world sometime after the calendar ticks over.
Already established and making headlines, the unsurprising revelation that the number [...]
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