{"id":6905,"date":"2019-03-19T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:38:38","slug":"european-parliament-adoption-policy-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/european-parliament-adoption-policy-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament: Adoption Policy in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adoption-conference-US-EP-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adoption-conference-US-EP-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adoption-conference-US-EP.png 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>We received an invitation to this conference.<br \/>\nThree times even! We declined.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>We\u00a0informed MEP McClarkin that the people and organisations she invited as presenters,\u00a0 are part of a fierce\u00a0adoption lobby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hopeland US was initially co-founded by the now defunct Joint Council on International Children&#8217;s Services, the trade organisation of the US adoption agencies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We have blogged about them before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/2014\/07\/adoption-lobby-alert-jcics-like%E2%80%A6-christmas-in-july\/\">LINK<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPart of Hopeland&#8217;s founders is also Deborah Lee Furness, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoptchange.org.au\/\">Adopt Change<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Their ideas are not compliant with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.\u00a0The UNCRC is the EU&#8217;s legal basis (acquis).<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, let&#8217;s keep those forces far away from the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received an invitation to this conference. Three times even! We declined. We\u00a0informed MEP McClarkin that the people and organisations she invited as presenters,\u00a0 are part of a fierce\u00a0adoption lobby. Hopeland US was initially co-founded by the now defunct Joint Council on International Children&#8217;s Services, the trade organisation of the US adoption agencies. We have&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/european-parliament-adoption-policy-in-the-digital-age\/\" title=\"Read European Parliament: Adoption Policy in the Digital Age\">Weiter &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}