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Last year German based adoption-activist Arun Dohle was handed a file of a young Australian woman who wanted to find her birth family in India. Years of searching had proved fruitless up until then. Mr Dohle sent the brief to his Indian colleague Anjali Pawar. With scant details, just the name of the village and the birth date, Ms Pawar …
Kriste Hughes has wondered about her birth parents since she was a teenager. But it was years later that she learned her adoption was far from typical — a doctor in Georgia essentially sold her to her adoptive parents. For Hughes, who is now 51, finding a sibling or even a relative, “would make me feel like I’ve found a …
The High Court has stopped two Swedish couples and a Danish couple from taking three Kenyan children out of the country. This was after it was discovered that the minors were not abandoned orphans but had families. Consequently, the court ordered the adoption proceedings stopped until an application filed by their birth families determined. Issuing the order on Friday, vacation …
China: 200,000 children abducted and sold yearly Around 200,000 children disappear every year, only 0.1% found back, “According to various different statistics, in China the incomplete statistical figure of disappeared children every year is about 200,000. “Those found and returned roughly account for only 0.1% of the figure. “Behind the figure of disappeared children, there are stories of various different …
‘Highly exceptional’ ruling allows 14-year-old who was abused by adoptive couple’s relatives to revert to legal status of birth family A 14-year-old girl has won a “highly exceptional” legal ruling that revokes an adoption order made more than 10 years ago. The teenager was also given the go-ahead by a high court judge in London to change her surname to …