Taken and never returned: When adoption profits the middleman

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Many children in Uganda are taken to Europe and the United States of America for adoption every year by guardians who pay local law firms and agencies between four to nine million shillings. The law firms and agencies have consequently turned adoption into a profitable business. Many of the Ugandan parents do not understand everything in the documents they sign to …

Zoe’s Ark: Charity or child trafficking

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Zoe’s Ark Zoe’s Ark was a French NGO dedicated to helping orphaned children affected by armed conflict or natural disaster and launched in response to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. By 2007 the focus shifted to Darfur. In October 2007, Chadian authorities nabbed six Zoe’s Ark workers for attempting to evacuate 103 children to France. The workers claimed they were rescuing …

JCICS Conference call: Adoptions gone TOXIC

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Presenting themselves as an advocacy group for children, the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS)  is nothing less than the voice of the adoption industry. In view of transparency, Against Child Trafficking hereby make this audio, as well as the full transcript, public:  A letter from a REAL Ethiopian Mother:  Ethiopia, Stop Adoption Trafficking!  Urgent and Extremely Important, Please …

Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports

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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …