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Intercountry Adoption: The Rights of the Child? or the “Harvesting” of Children Submitted by Kerry and Niels In 2009, Dutch adoption agency Wereldkinderen contracted Against Child Trafficking to conduct research into the correctness of adoption files of children adopted from Ethiopia. In October 2009, a report was finished, which summarized investigations into 25 randomly selected adoption files of children adopted from Ethiopia between …
Fatima and Salya are the parents of four children. In 1998, one of them, then two-year-old was kidnapped then sold to a corrupt adoption agency that forged records to make it appear she had been abandoned. She was adopted by a family in Queensland, Australia. Indian police uncovered the scam in 2005 and arrested the child-stealers who provided details of …
Police in the Indian capital said Wednesday they have broken up an illegal adoption racket in which newborn babies were stolen from hospitals and sold to couples. Police have arrested three members of a group operating a fake charity in New Delhi that allegedly sold two dozen babies and toddlers to couples for up to 550,000 rupees ($8,600) each. “The …
A surge in private adoptions of U.S.-born Marshallese infants in northwest Arkansas led award-winning journalist Kathryn Joyce, an expert on international adoption and child trafficking, to travel to the Ozarks to investigate. We talk with Joyce about her findings, as well as with Melisa Laelan, a northwest Arkansas Marshallese community leader who is monitoring the situation. To listen to interview …