‘Poverty Porn’ and ‘Pity Charity’ The Dark Underbelly Of a Cambodia Orphanage

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South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media, Lindsay Murdoch Phnom Penh: She looks dirty, disheveled, and miserable and is labeled a sex worker. Many Australians responded to a plea to save the pretty Cambodian girl called Pisey from child predators. “Teach a sex worker to sew,” declares a glossy internet advertisement for Sunrise Cambodia, an Australian charity that has raised millions of …

Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing

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One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 Ethiopia is now definitively closed to Danish families who want to adopt. In March soc ial and Interior Minister Karen …

Thousands of children being stolen from Africa: Atlanta Black Star

Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption

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Each year hundreds of African children are abducted and brought to the United States….. Source: Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption   https://adoptionland.org/huffingtonpost-article/ https://adoptionland.org/p/6471/manufactured-orphans/ For news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

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Compiled by the Vance Twins,  Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, is an indispensable contribution to adoption literature. The essays, poems and letters in this compilation reflect the thoughts, the feelings, the souls of those who inhabit AdoptionLand — a place of truth and acceptance for the casualties of the demand for children. “I feel like a stolen heart from a corpse, …

Lebanon’s disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption

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By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …