Kategorie: ACT in the news

“Das verlorene Kind – Auslandsadoption in Indien”

WATCH ONLINE:   DAS VERLORENE KIND 24. Januar 2013  von alicia ZDFinfo zeigt am Freitag, den 25. Januar 2013 um 9 Uhr eine interessante Reportage über Adoption in Indien und die Welt zwischen Mutterliebe und Kinderhandel.

Adopted children are Ethiopia’s bitter fruits

INFORMAL TRANSLATION – Published in Danish in Politiken Politiken | 27.12.2012 | Page 8 | 815 words | Article ID: e395680a | Original Article The NGO Against Child Trafficking investigating a string of adoption proceedings for a Dutch agency, they found scores of illegal and unethical conditions. by Dorrit SAIETZ How does it work in… Weiter »

Activists work to stop all adoptions

(INFORMAL TRANSLATION) – published in Danish in Politiken, Denmark, 27 December 2012 Adoption from poor to rich countries creates more orphans than it helps, thinks the NGO Against Child Trafficking. by Dorrit SAIETZ One can hardly imagine a more unlikely pair of activists. Dutch Roelie Post’s former civil servant of the European Commission. German Arun Dohle… Weiter »

India’s Orphans: FOR EXPORT ONLY

Source: http://thetehelkafoundation.org A personal Inquiry by Anant Asthana on Thursday, November 1, 2012 Me: I don’t understand you guys’ opposition to inter-country adoption. You are extremists. Arun:  Anjali! Give that book to Anant. Anjali: But I have brought that book for registrar. Arun: No, give it to him. It makes more sense to give it… Weiter »

Adoption, market of corruption and happiness

Source: http://weblogs.vpro.nl 6 October 2012 Adoption is a possibility for parents to get a child. But adoption is also business and the adoption market is sensitive for corruption. Children are being stolen, money is paid. The biological parents who relinquish, often don’t understand what adoption means.

Gandhis vs a Swedish nurse: The murky secrets of international adoptions

Source: http://be.bing.com by FP Staff 10 September 2012 Why are the descendants of the Father of the Nation trying to keep an Indian adoptee from finding out who was her birth mother? Mihir Srivastava’s cover story for Open Magazine about the tangled web of international adoptions tries to shed light on many dark family secrets… Weiter »

India: Family Secrets

Source: http://www.openthemagazine.com 15 September 2012 Cross-border adoption: the trauma of knowing one was given away at birth and the travails of trying to find out why BY Mihir Srivastava EMAIL AUTHOR(S) Tagged Under | adoption | birth | foster parents BELONGING THE QUEST Arun Dohle, in his foster father’s lap

Adopting from Africa, Saving the Children?

Source: http://thinkafricapress.com Intercountry adoption exposes many shortcomings in domestic and international legislation. ARTICLE | 6 AUGUST 2012 – 11:14AM | BY ELIZABETH WILLMOTT HARROP The veneer of philanthropy regarding intercountry adoption is beginning to fade as issues are more broadly and better understood, and a dangerous connection to child trafficking becomes more prominent. It is… Weiter »