Activists in Moscow carry the portrait of a Russian child (shown) who died in the US due to the negligence of his adoptive American father in 2008. (File photo)
Russia has called on the US authorities to investigate violation of children’s rights in the country.
The demand comes after Reuters reported earlier this month that some American foster parents, who rued adopting children from abroad, have employed social networks to find new homes for their adoptees in a practice which is known as ˜private re-homing.™
The investigation by Reuters™ reporters revealed that due to the informal custody transfers, the practice bypasses the monitoring by child welfare officials. It also provides huge potential for abuse and exploitation of the adopted children.
œWe are calling on the US authorities to pay close attention to this information and conduct an appropriate investigation into the facts of gross violation of children’s rights that have been uncovered,” RIA Novosti quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry™s Commissioner for Human Rights Konstantin Dolgov as saying on Friday.
œWe believe that the matter is not about individual cases but a serious systemic problem showing that children’s rights in the US are not protected properly,” Dolgov added.
He also called on authorized US official bodies to clarify the fate of 26 Russian children œwho have fallen victim to the US Internet-exchange of adoptees.”
The instances of alleged abuse of Russian children adopted by American families have strained ties between Moscow and Washington.
On December 28, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the ˜Dima Yakovlev™ law, which bans Americans from adopting Russian children.
The bill is named after a Russian toddler who died in 2008 of heat stroke due to the negligence of his adoptive father – an American.
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