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"speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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"content": "On Article 26(3), and I do not know how to put it, but the Mover can find ways and means of recasting it and enlarging it. One of the most abused processes of trafficking in this country is adoption. There are many American organizations, some that falsely pass themselves off as church groups that are in cahoots with some of our colleagues, lawyers, who come here, go to St. Barnados Childrenâs Home or whatever childrenâs home---- There are criminal elements who run what looks like genuine beneficial homes for children, where they collect children from the streets and poor people. They keep them in those homes for purposes of processing adoption. What they do is that they traffick them. They sell these children. So, you must find a way of casting in your net in this Bill, how to regulate childrenâs homes so that you avoid having them as sources of trafficking of children. You must also net in the groups that are professional adoption agencies who just come into this country--- As the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I have been visited by a very concerned groups from the United States of America (USA) which told me that âpeople in this country are destroying the institution of adoption.â They further told me that they have been adopting children and taking them to the USA and now people are interfering. Adoption is not an occupation or a hobby where you say somebody spoiled my hobby. People adopt children when there is need. If your duty is to get children adopted on a serial basis, then, certainly, there is something behind it. These children need protection. So, this Bill should address that issue. I know that it is casually mentioned in the Children Act. It is not deep or wide enough. This is an opportunity for you as an agitator for childrenâs rights to enlarge that provision so that we can be able to protect our children."
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