According to recent reports, Malawi’s rights commission says US pop Celebrity Madonna was “putting it crudely” when she said the country had no adoption laws.
Malawi’s state-sponsored rights group has hit out at recent comments by US pop diva Madonna, saying she was “putting it crudely” when she said the country had no adoption laws.
“She (Madonna) was putting it crudely. If we had no laws, how come she was asked to apply to the court to adopt a child? She used the same laws she is criticising to adopt David Banda,” Dorothy Nyasulu, chairperson of the state-sponsored Malawi Human Rights Commission, said yesterday.
Nyasulu was reacting after the pop star told a news conference at the Cannes film festival in France last week that there were no adoption laws in Malawi.
Saying she was “happy to be the guinea pig”, Madonna expressed hope that her full adoption of the African boy David, whose final verdict will be made on Wednesday, will make it easier for other people to adopt children in the impoverished country.
The commission, which gets its funding from the government, alongside the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), a coalition of 67 rights groups, are “friends of the courts” in a full review of an interim 18-month custody order granted to Madonna in 2006 to adopt David.
Maxwell Matewere, a spokesperson for the HRCC, earlier said his group expected Madonna to be subjected to “stringent regulations and procedures” in the full adoption of the toddler.
Critics have accused Madonna of using her wealth to fast-track the adoption process.
In other Celebrity news, Madonna has teamed with Mike Tyson to save the children of Malawi after they met at the Cannes Film Festival. They both are in Southern France promoting new documentaries and talking about the Malawi with Madonna, Mike Tyson agreed to accompany the star this summer to promote awareness for children with AIDS.
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