Adoption or Trafficking? Fears grow for Uganda’s ‘orphans’

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By Amy Fallon Mpigi (Uganda) (AFP) – When Agatha Namusisi, 64, let her grandson leave Uganda for medical treatment abroad, she assumed he would return, but more than a year later she says he has disappeared.  “They are nowhere to be seen,” Namusisi said of the seven-year-old boy and his Ugandan carer who travelled together to the United States in …

Spain’s Stolen Babies

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Up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from ‘undesirable’ families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco’s Secret police. Now, decades on, some of these stolen children are trying to find their biological families. The racket began shortly after the Spanish Civil War as a way of stopping a new generation of ‘Reds’ …

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 …