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 …

How do you know if you adopted a real orphan or a kidnapped child?

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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 …

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 …

The cognitive dissonance between child rescue and child protection

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‘Saving orphans’ has become an industry that irrevocably harms children and undermines the development of child welfare systems. We must replace the drive to rescue with the desire to protect. On a recent flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi, I was wedged into a seat next to a chatty young man. He told me he worked at a group home for …

The Hollywood Baby Snatcher, Georgia Tann.

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For 30 years, Georgia Tann made millions selling children. A network of scouts, corrupt judges and politicians helped her steal babies. She also targeted youngsters on their way home from school, promising them ice cream to tempt them away from their homes