An executive order to restore original birth certificates to adult adoptees by enacting the Adoptees Restoration Act

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For the President to enact an executive order which would restore the Original Birth Certificate to every adult adoptee in America in one fell swoop because it is a civil and constitutional right! Petition Background For almost an entire century, adopted adults have been denied access to their medical history, their culture, their genealogy and ancestry and the answer to …

Why did an adoption agency tell Angelina Jolie I had died of AIDS when they gave her my baby?

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By STEPHEN BEVAN, November 25, 2007 Her credentials as a caring superstar could hardly be bettered. Angelina Jolie, a mother of four, is as famous for her well-publicized adoptions of children from Third World countries as she is for her Oscar-winning movies and marriage to Brad Pitt. As a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees for the …

Against Child Trafficking

Chennai couple’s last-ditch effort to meet kidnapped daughter adopted in Australia 14 years ago

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The last time Fatima saw her two year-old daughter Zabeen in the flesh was in 1998 when she was playing with her four year-old brother Hussain outside a tea shop near their house in Washermanpet in Chennai. Sixteen years down the line, Zabeen now lives over 7000 kilometres away in Australia under a different name with her Australian adoptive parents. …

Li’l Adoption Truth Seeker

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The ‘Speak up for South Korea’s waiting Children’ youtube video was made by an adoption agency’s CEO and a Korean Pastor in hopes of encouraging American’s support of gaining more children for international adoption. This is a response video to them. Agencies should not be allowed to label children as “orphans” unless the agency can provide proof with the death …

USA pushes Congo to allow adoptions despite trafficking fears

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A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in May found that child traffickers bribed, tricked and coerced Ugandan families into giving up their children for adoption. NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Legislators in the United States are lobbying the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to give 400 adopted children exit visas, after it suspended international adoptions because of fears …