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Last year I published the book titled Romania For Export Only, The Untold Story Of The Romanian ‘Orphans.’ The book focused on my work for the European Commission in relation to the reform of Romania’s child protection. In this book, I describe the facts that led to the moratorium on intercountry adoptions and the pressure to re-open adoptions in Romania. …
ARUN DOHLE In historical terms, intercountry adoptions from India have had a short run. Within thirty years of its inception, murky scandals of child kidnapping, falsifying paperwork, outright trading,and other tragic stories have ridden these intercountry adoptions. Worldwide, adoption experts widely believed that ratifying the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (1993) would …
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 …