Source: http://m.timesofindia.com Sep 21, 2013, 05.05AM IST TNN[ Stanley Pinto ] MANGALORE: India-born Dutch national Martijn Boerkamp met his biological father in Mumbai on Wednesday. And the meeting went well. Against Child Trafficking (ACT) consultant Anjali Pawar who did the ground work for the reunion said: “In fact, Martijn’s father said it was a really pleasant… Read more »
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India-born adopted Dutchman reunites with family in Moodabidri
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Stanley Pinto, TNN | Sep 17, 2013, 10.07 PM IST India-born Dutch national Martijn Boerkamp was adopted by Dutch couple Bertus and Lies Boerkamp in 1982. MANGALORE: In the second such reunion here, India-born Dutch national Martijn Boerkampfinally met his family at Moodabidri on Sunday. The first was German national Eva Dohle who met… Read more »
Rising overseas adoptions — for black American children
Source: http://www.cnn.com By Sophie Brown, for CNN Mon September 16, 2013 While adoptions to the U.S. are in steep decline, more U.S. children are being adopted abroad The rise of “open adoptions” where birth mothers choose adopting parents has led this trend Most U.S. children being adopted abroad are African American babies, adoption attorneys say Experts:… Read more »
Closed adoption system helping traffickers
Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb September 09, 2013 12:35 AM By India Stoughton The Daily Star BEIRUT: Adoption is often seen as a benevolent act. Rather than being brought up in an orphanage, a parentless child is given a home, stability and a loving family. In Lebanon, however, the closed adoption system has helped to transform the practice into… Read more »
Adoption Scandal hits now Colombia
Google Translation – Part of Article. For Full Text see LINK Corrupt orphanage and deprived poor families who lose their children to the State shakes Colombia which is among the major give countries of adopted children also to Denmark. …/… “A mother visited the orphanage seven times, but eventually got to know that her boy… Read more »
Adoption children’s home questioned (Pisingos)
Date: 2013-04-27 [GOOGLE TRANSLATION] Source: http://www.elespectador.com Investigting mysterious donation in London for $ 3.4 million With nearly half a century of tradition in child protection and adoption, cFoundation was suspended. By: Hernández Quevedo Norbey In order to help homeless children, in May 1968 a group of 22 couples decided to create Pisingos Foundation in Bogota…. Read more »
Chinas Baby Export
Adoptions: Used false death certificates
Source: http://www.dr.dk I have used fake death certificates of biological parents of Ethiopian adopted children who have come to Denmark. 08TH APRIL 2013 KL. 21:34 By: Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen Ethiopian adopted children have come to Denmark, in which were used fake death certificates for the biological parents. The children’s parents have been declared dead… Read more »
Slovakia: Adoptions to Italy halted
Source: http://spectator.sme.sk Missing Documentation Led To Suspension Of Adoptions 25 Mar 2013 Roman Cuprik Politics & Society ADOPTIONS of Slovak children to Italy were put on hold on February 19, due to what Slovakia identified as missing post-adoption reports on the fate of 72 Slovak children adopted by Italian families. The moratorium will remain in effect… Read more »
Scourge of Child Trafficking
Date: 2013-03-02 Indian bi-lingual magazine. Cover Story is about “Foreign Adoptions” in India and story is rooted in recent 19th Feb Press Conference organised by Against Child Trafficking (ACT) and HAQ Centre for Child Rights. Page 14 to 18. Full article in English HERE
