Source: news.bbc.co.uk/ Friday, 31 March, 2000, 12:50 GMT 13:50 UK A court in the northern Vietnamese province of Ninh Binh has sentenced 12 people for their roles in selling children for foreign adoption. The leader of the ring, Vu Tien Manh, a senior official in the provincial Justice Department, received the longest term, of four… Read more »
Category: France
El Salvador’s Stolen Children Face a War’s Darkest Secret
Source: New York Times By LARRY ROHTER Published: August 5, 1996 He was only 5 when he saw his mother and younger brother killed and the soldiers took him away to their base in a helicopter. She was just 6 when she was separated from her parents during a bombing raid and delivered to an… Read more »
Baby-trade gangs face global curbs
Source: Date: 1995-03-20 LEONARD DOYLE The Independent In Moscow last year, Laura Binkley, a Canadian aged 36 who was employed by an unlicensed US adoption firm, the Adam Children’s Fund International, was murdered for the takings of her safe. In the safe was between $2,000 ( pounds 1,300), according to her employers, and $40,000, according… Read more »
Booming Polish Market: Blond, Blue-Eyed Babies
Source: New York Times By GABRIELLE GLASER, Published: Sunday, April 19, 1992 Poland’s opening to Western market forces has brought an unexpected side effect: a booming traffic in the country’s blond, blue-eyed babies. Since the fall of Communism two years ago, Western embassies in Warsaw have reported a striking rise in the number of residence… Read more »
Adoption logjam as Romania targets `baby trade’
Date: 1991-06-25 Adrian Foreman Newsday In response to international outrage over the sale of orphaned babies to American, European and Israeli adoptive parents, the Romanian government has banned adoptions through state agencies but left foreign embassies to screen applicants for private adoptions. The temporary ban, an attempt to deal with the “baby trade,” the most… Read more »
Baby Trail Is Leading Couples To Peru
Source:query.nytimes.com By SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN Published: August 16, 1990 THEY attract attention on the sidewalks of the Miraflores and San Isidro neighborhoods of Lima – foreign men and women in jeans and jogging outfits, pushing newborn infants in strollers as passers-by stop to ooh and aah. Thousands of miles from home in the United States, Canada… Read more »
Adoption d’enfants roumains
Source: www.senat.fr M. Edouard Le Jeune attire l’attention de M. le ministre d’Etat, ministre des affaires étrangères, sur le drame particulièrement douloureux que vivent, depuis deux ans, un certain nombre de familles françaises désireuses d’adopter des enfants roumains. En effet, selon une procédure établie et qui avait été jusqu’alors appliquée, des familles françaises… Read more »
L’arrivée en France de 72 orphelins du Bangladesh
Source: www.lemonde.\ ” Partager tout ce que l’on a ” avec des enfants réfugiés Article publié le 07 Octobre 1987 Par MEILLON JACQUELINE Roissy, mardi 6 octobre, 7 h 45, aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle : Jnana, sept ans, pull beige, chemise bleue, pantalon blanc. Dans ses yeux, l’émotion, l’étonnement, le sourire parfois. Mais aussi l’horreur d’une vie… Read more »
War-Babies
Source: Banglapedia War-babies are referred to here as babies born to Bengali women consequent of their being raped by Pakistani soldiers and other criminals who took advantage of the situation of the war of liberation (March 1971 to December 1971).
Bangladesh – war babies (1971)
Source: Banglapedia Date: 1971-01-01 War-babies are referred to here as babies born to Bengali women consequent of their being raped by Pakistani soldiers and other criminals who took advantage of the situation of the war of liberation (March 1971 to December 1971). While they are referred to as the ‘unwanted children’, the ‘enemy children’, the… Read more »
