Kenya, another adoption scandal. The cost of Impunity.

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There is new adoption scandal. Kenya this time. It seems to never stop as the Western adoption agencies can operate with impunity. This also involves the newly created Danish Agency DIA, which is the agency created by the Danish government, out of a merger of Danadopt and AC Denmark. Why? Because of the Ethiopian adoption scandal. The excellent movie “Mercy …

Child Abuse in the name of Voluntourism

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 Ghana’s undercover reporters expose a local ‘mommy’ who starved orphans whilst making them clap and sing for ‘voluntourists’ “Sing! You must sing when there are visitors. You know that they bring donations but you just sit there looking reluctant. If you don’t sing loudly, and clap, I’ll whip you later, I promise!” The ‘mommy’ of Bawjiase Countryside Orphanage in Ghana, Emma …

Kidnapped and Sold: Inside the Dark World of Child Trafficking in China

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CHARLIE CUSTER Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can Congress do anything about it? In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a small city in South China, the American mother tried hard not to vomit while her traveling companion …

Foreign adoptions ‘make children commodities’, NGO challenges definition of human trafficking

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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 …

Adopted girl wins right to return to biological family after abuse

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‘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 …