{"id":5360,"date":"2015-09-08T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2015-09-08T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:51:00","slug":"act-in-the-news-foreign-adoptions-make-children-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/act-in-the-news-foreign-adoptions-make-children-commodities\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT in the NEWS: Foreign adoptions &#8216;make children commodities&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 September 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-08\/indian-adoption-photo-2\/6759188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Debate raging for and against inter-country adoption in India\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/6759110-3x2-340x227.jpg\" alt=\"Debate raging for and against inter-country adoption in India\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-08\/indian-adoption-photo-2\/6759188\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong> &#8220;What is the definition of human trafficking? When there is an exchange of money for a human body, this is trafficking,&#8221; Anjali Pawar said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excellent article by ABC Australia, reporting on ACT&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Dohle and Ms Pawar, of the Europe-based NGO Against Child Trafficking (ACT), have long been involved with child protection and adoption issues.<\/p>\n<p>They are highly regarded for their abilities to search for and locate Indian birth families.<\/p>\n<p>After working on almost 50 such cases, often with limited information, they have built up a solid network of trusted contacts in government agencies and at the community level.<\/p>\n<p>In a country as bureaucratically dense as India, they regularly manage to do the seemingly impossible: locate women who lost or gave up children decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, ACT is a strident voice, aiming to shut down inter-country adoption, arguing it almost always amounts to child trafficking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-08\/inside-indian-adoptions-children-caught-in-human-trafficking-we\/6758798\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 September 2015 PHOTO: &#8220;What is the definition of human trafficking? When there is an exchange of money for a human body, this is trafficking,&#8221; Anjali Pawar said. Excellent article by ABC Australia, reporting on ACT&#8217;s work. Mr Dohle and Ms Pawar, of the Europe-based NGO Against Child Trafficking (ACT), have long been involved with&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/act-in-the-news-foreign-adoptions-make-children-commodities\/\" title=\"Read ACT in the NEWS: Foreign adoptions &#8216;make children commodities&#8217;\">Read more &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":[3,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}