Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption

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“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION Élida smiled when I asked for an interview, but she was hesitant to allow her youngest child to leave her lap as we recorded. As a researcher, I had prepared to attend the sixth annual Kuñangue Aty, a large gathering of women from the Kaiowá …

Hopeful adoptive parents looking for loving children to complete thier family.

Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence

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“The era of closed adoption is not behind us yet, not by a long shot, however that urgently needs to change.” A team of scholars says the legal practice of closed adoption raised “disconnected” people and is a form of violence. The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming …

Adoption Mafia

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Roelie Post is a whistleblower who has worked more than 35 years for the European Commission but has recently been fired because she refused to put up with the threats and bullying she has received after exposing a child trafficking scandal in Romania.

BBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine

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It was front-page news around the world when a mass grave was discovered at a Mother and Baby Home in Ireland. The remains of almost 800 babies were found. But research by Paul Redmond showed that this was only “the tip of the iceberg”. He collected evidence of high death rates at homes for illegitimate children across Ireland and also …

Child Trafficking: Victim representatives call for immediate help for adoptees

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by Samuel Thomi – Northwestern Switzerland The officials Switzerland knew already in the early 1980s of irregularities in adoptions of babies from Sri Lanka. Swiss adoptee-led association “Back to the Roots,” asks for immediate action by the Swiss government: English translation: After Canton of St.Gallen admits to illegal adoption practices, victims’ representatives call for federal and cantonal support. The conclusion …