We are following since a few weeks the public outcry in Romania: United for Sorina. It is dramatic. An 8-year-old girl removed by Police forces from her foster family because she was adopted by a Romanian family living in the US. They paid 30.000 dollars to the American adoption agency. The girl is still in… Read more »
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Crime: 20 yrs later, Chennai court convicts orphanage that kidnapped kids and gave for adoption overseas
Source: https://www.thenewsminute.com For around 300 families that lost their children, there is however little to celebrate. Geetika Mantri Wednesday, June 19, 2019 – 08:05 Fathima holding up a photo up her daughter, Jabin “Have you heard from my daughter? What did she say? It makes me happy to hear from… Read more »
Sold for adoption to Australia: guilty as charged
In 2005 Fatima’s children were playing outside. A rickshaw driver pulled over and grabbed them. The older boy got away, but his little sister was kidnapped. And legally adopted in Australia. Years and years ACT has done whatever possible to try and connect the girl again with the grieving Indian family. Contacted the authorities, the… Read more »
European Parliament: Adoption Policy in the Digital Age
We received an invitation to this conference. Three times even! We declined. We informed MEP McClarkin that the people and organisations she invited as presenters, are part of a fierce adoption lobby. Hopeland US was initially co-founded by the now defunct Joint Council on International Children’s Services, the trade organisation of the US adoption agencies. We have… Read more »
2Doc: Girl in Return
Source: VPRO Imagine that as a child, you cannot ground in your adoptive family. What are your rights? 2Doc: Girl in Return shows the personal consequences of the current international adoption system through the eyes of Amy, an adopted teenage girl. 2Doc: Girl in return Wednesday 13 March at 20.55 on NPO2 (And afterwards to… Read more »
Adopted child, deported adult: The ‘American’ living in India without an ID for 9 yrs
Source: https://www.thenewsminute.com Should a country simply uproot a person, who had no say in being brought there, has lived there believing he’s a citizen, without any explanation whatsoever? Geetika Mantri Thursday, February 14, 2019 – 16:56 “I was told I was going to Mumbai. The next thing I knew, I was in an airplane, seeing… Read more »
U.S. Leaders in International Adoption Merge, Expand Resources
Source: https://globenewswire.com Holt International and World Association for Children and Parents Consolidate Efforts, Strengthen Impact for Families and Children Worldwide Email Print Friendly Share February 07, 2019 13:00 ET | Source: Holt International Children Services Eugene, Oregon, Feb. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Holt International and World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP), two of the… Read more »
Struck down by the ‘adoption mafia’
Date: 2019-01-30 Source: https://www.telegraaf.nl/ By Wierd Duk AMSTERDAM – Whistleblowers must feel safe, politicians emphasize time and time again. However, in practice, isolation and fear often threaten. Roelie Post exposed the international ‘Adoptive Mafia’ and paid a high personal price. She is not in hiding, but where she stays exactly in the Netherlands, Roelie Post (59)… Read more »
Adoption or kidnapping?
Source: http://www.standaard.be Google Translation Date: 2019-01-29 FROM OUR EDITOR PIETER HUYBERECHTS BRUSSELS The federal prosecutor confirms that it has asked ‘about fifteen’ parents whether an expert is allowed to take a DNA sample from their Congolese adoptive child. The registered letters have been sent. The court has strong indications that the children still have biological parents in their home country… Read more »
From Denmark to Coimbatore: It’s return of the native
Source: https://www.financialexpress.com By: PTI | Published: January 5, 2019 8:22 PM A 43-year-old man, who was adopted by a Danish-couple some 40 years ago, has come here in search of his roots and biological parents. Rajakumar, born to Ayyavu in 1975 and a resident of Thondamuthu near here, was handed over to the Blue Mountain… Read more »
