Date: 2011-06-27 Source: http://www.lenouvelliste.com Haïti: Cet article est dédié à tous les parents haïtiens qui jusqu’à ce jour gardent l’espoir de retrouver leurs enfants séparés d’eux à la suite du tremblement de terre du 12 janvier 2010. Quelques jours après le tremblement de terre de 2010, un journaliste étranger écrivait : l’adoption internationale n’est pas une aide… Read more »
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Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions
Date: 2011-06-05 Source: http://www.independent.co.uk Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world By Laurie Penny Sunday, 5 June 2011 In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing…. Read more »
Paedophile Will Heume sentenced to 10 years in jail
Date: 2011-05-26 Source: http://www.google.de
China’s government trafficking babies from poor families
Date: 2011-05-15 Source: http://www.youtube.com
Family-planning officials took & sold babies: report
Source: http://china.globaltimes.cn May 10 2011] By Liu Linlin Alleged child trafficking involving family-planning officials in Hunan Province stunned the nation on Monday. Over the last 10 years, family-planning “enforcers” in Shaoyang have seized at least 20 children from Longhui county, who were born outside their parents’ birth quota, and dispatched them to a local children… Read more »
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk By IAN BIRRELL 10th April 2011 As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti. ‘Outside it is… Read more »
Trafficking of women and children is an organised crime: DGP
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com PTI | 07:03 PM,Mar 26,2011 Bhubaneswar, Mar 26 (PTI) Identifying trafficking of women and children for the purpose of commercial and sexual exploitation as an organised crime, DGP Manmohan Praharaj today opened up an Integrated Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (IAHTU) at the crime branch headquarters in Cuttack.”Trafficking in persons, particularly women and children for… Read more »
Request Indian parents for DNA testing rejected
Source: http://www.rechtspraak.nl Zwolle-Lelystad, March 7, 2011 – The Family Court of Zwolle-Lelystad has ruled on March 4 in the case of the Indian couple. The Indian couple’s request for a DNA test to determine that a boy adopted by Dutch parents is their biological son, was dismissed by the Court. Kidnapping The Indian couple was… Read more »
Ethiopia to Cut Foreign Adoptions by Up to 90 Percent
Source: http://www.ethiopian-news.com March 5th, 2011 Peter Heinlein, VOA Ethiopia is cutting back by as much as 90 percent the number of inter-country adoptions it will allow, as part of an effort to clean up a system rife with fraud and corruption. Adoption agencies and children’s advocates are concerned the cutbacks will leave many Ethiopian orphans… Read more »
Arib wants clarity on adoption from Ethiopia
Source: http://www.tweedekamer.nl 11 January, oral questions – Fake adoption papers and parents who under false pretentions relinquish their children. Arib (PvdA) aks clarity about these ‘horrible’ adoption practices in Ethiopia. According to minister Opstelten (Justice) there is no reason to interfere: “Each signal of child trafficking is reason for investigation.”
