From: ACT<[email protected]> Date: Sat 13. Jun 2020 at 11:44 Subject: open letter : Tony Holten / police To: Aldewereld MSc, A.L. – BD/DSenJ <[email protected]>, [email protected]<[email protected]></[email protected]></[email protected]></[email protected]> Dear Minister Dekker, Dear Ms. Aldewereld, as you may have seen in the media, in March we lost another member of our adult adoptee community. This time prima facie due to excessive… Read more »
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Open Letter to President Von der Leyen
From: ACT <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 at 14:41 Subject: Open letter To: <[email protected]> Dear President Von der Leyen, I know that your Cabinet is treating the case of whistle-blower Roelie Post, and the child rights issue that goes with it, as a closed chapter. It is not. Hereby I ask you to review the situation… Read more »
International Social Service, little did I know – Part 2
Arun Dohle Part I International Social Service, little did I know Little did I know, but bit by bit I got to know more: Around 2002/2003 child trafficking for intercountry adoption got uncovered in Andhra Pradesh (India). One of the human rights defenders involved in this entered into a direct online dialogue with a group… Read more »
Commission Joustra: a spin-doctor hiding in plain sight
Commissie Joustra weigerde de @2eKamertweets een interim rapport. In plaats daarvan werd een artikel gepubliceerd op de website. Geschreven door oud VVD spindoctor Henri Kruithof 🤔#adoptie #kinderhandel https://t.co/xGmvy2y7wj — Roelie Post (@roelie_post) February 22, 2020 ACT’s founder and child-rights expert of ACT from 2009 till 2014 noted that the news item was written, in interview… Read more »
International Social Service, little did I know
Arun Dohle In 1973 I was adopted from India to Germany, like many of you who may read this. My views on adoption were bottom-line quite positive, just as my view on organisations involved in this, like International Social Service (ISS). Little did I know… In 1999 I got my first access to the Internet… Read more »
Conflict of Interest of FIOM-ISS in roots searches for adoptees
Last year ACT wrote to the Dutch Minister of Justice to inform him about the serious conflict of interest that the FIOM-ISS has regarding the roots-searches of adoptees. Note about FIOM/ISS 15 November 2019 The Ministry of Justice considers the involvement of the FIOM in the planning of the funding for organisations which execute searches… Read more »
Ten Years On… Mission Accomplished!
Ten years ago, 22 December 2009, Dutch newspaper Trouw published the very first interview with Against Child Trafficking (ACT). Set up in 2008 by Roelie Post and Arun Dohle, at the behest of the European Commission, we claimed that intercountry adoption was a legalized form of child trafficking and that we wished it to be… Read more »
Revisiting China’s adoption policy
It was in 2008 that documentary-maker Geert-Jan Lassche asked Arun Dohle (ACT) for help in regard to adoptions from China. He needed background information, contacts. In short: ACT’s knowledge. The outcome: two dramatic documentaries, which shook the Dutch adoption world. Wereldkinderen’s biggest adoption agency’s director resigned. Because of admitting she did wrong by ignoring previous… Read more »
Shocking revelations about the Caracal case #Alexandra
Please look for Alexandra Any news, please inform her uncle [email protected] On the International Day Against Trafficking in Human Beings, investigator and journalist Mircea Opris tagged Arun Dohle and Roelie Post on Facebook – thanking us for our help in the fight against trafficking – and expressing his opinion that the Caracal case… Read more »
The Caracal criminal and the monstrous cases of kidnapped children of the last 30 years, for which the police did nothing!
This is a must read. In light of the dramatic events in Romania Romanian journalist Adriana Oprea gives a chilling message, but a message of hope too. In fact, what she describes was the driving force of Roelie Post and Arun Dohle for setting up Against Child Trafficking (ACT). To ACT. To be back. Reporting… Read more »
