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| Title: | Romania: For Export Only
: The Untold Story of the Romanian 'Orphans' |
| Author: | Roelie Post |
| ISBN: | 907882901X : 9789078829010 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 270 |
| Weight: | .46 Kg. |
| Published: | Eurocomment - May 2007 |
| List Price: | 16 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Child welfare: Romania: Adoption & fostering: Human rights |
Romania needed to reform its child rights policy, as one of the conditions for its future EU Membership. Large 'orphanages' were closed and replaced by modern child protection alternatives. The author kept a diary on her work for the European Commission that aimed to help Romania reform its child protection. She soon found out that the intercountry adoption system in place was nothing short of a market for children, riddled by corruption. After international criticism this practice was halted temporarily. When redrafting laws, it became clear that in Romania's reformed child protection there was neither place nor need for intercountry adoptions. A ferocious lobby that wants to maintain intercountry adoptions stepped out. The reader is taken along on an eight-year-travel, and will be shown the story of the Romanian 'orphans' from a different light, where global politics and private interests compete with the rights of the child.
Preface; The Year 1999 - Crisis; The Year 2000 - Forwards; The Year 2001 - Change; The Year 2002 - Progress & Resistance; The Year 2003 - EU Know-how; The Year 2004 - Children's Rights Are Law; The Year 2005 - Guerilla War; The Year 2006 - Open War; Epilogue; Acronyms & Initialism.
"This is a shocking and forensic case history of how the lobbying nexus can work in Brussels, threats and all, as children's lives are cynically disposed of between the 'In' files and the 'Out'. Few players emerge well from this story and some are out-and-out black hat villains. A salutary antidote to the EU's 50th anniversary celebrations." -- David Haworth, Irish Daily Mail.
