Update on the adoption debate in Denmark following the revelation of “Child Harvesters” in Ethiopia.

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By Anders Riel Müller / 송연준 The Danish Social Appeals Board withdrew the license of Danish adoption agency DanAdopt to work with the Ethiopian orphanage Enat Alem on February 27, 2013. The decision was made because “fundamental ethical principles” were breached at the orphanage. Following further investigations by the Social Appeals Board, DanAdopt had its license for adoption from Ethiopia revoked …

Please help me find my long-lost brother, pleads Buryat woman

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Separated for 10 years after being sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas, Sofia is desperate for information about younger sibling Yuri. A Siberian woman has made a heart-felt plea for information about the brother she has not seen for a decade after he was sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas. Sofia Khabtageva, 21, was just 11 …

Spanish couple accused of murdering adopted Chinese daughter reiterate innocence

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Madrid (AFP) – A Spanish couple accused of drugging and suffocating their 12-year-old adopted Chinese daughter reiterated their innocence on Friday on the last day of their trial, in a case that has drawn the attention of Beijing. Rosario Porto, a former lawyer, and her ex-husband, journalist Alfonso Basterra, are accused of murdering Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto, whom they …

Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’

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Up until 1970, the UK regularly shipped thousands of orphans and illegitimate children abroad to a life of virtual slave labour and, often, abuse. Giulia Rhodes meets two victims of a policy that robbed them of a childhood and a family Sunday evenings were the highlight of the week when Tony Costa was a child. Then, he and the other …

The Parallels between International Adoption and Slavery

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By Peter F. Dodds “There is no greater sorrow on Earth than the loss of one’s native land.”      International adoption is a type of adoption in which parents adopt a child who is a national of a different country. Since 1990, close to a quarter million foreign children have been brought to the United States on orphan visas for …