Foreign adoptions ‘make children commodities’, NGO challenges definition of human trafficking

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Last year German based adoption-activist Arun Dohle was handed a file of a young Australian woman who wanted to find her birth family in India. Years of searching had proved fruitless up until then. Mr Dohle sent the brief to his Indian colleague Anjali Pawar. With scant details, just the name of the village and the birth date, Ms Pawar …

Adoptee Sold by Doctor 50 Years Ago Reunites With Family

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Kriste Hughes has wondered about her birth parents since she was a teenager. But it was years later that she learned her adoption was far from typical — a doctor in Georgia essentially sold her to her adoptive parents. For Hughes, who is now 51, finding a sibling or even a relative, “would make me feel like I’ve found a …

The Hollywood Baby Snatcher, Georgia Tann.

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For 30 years, Georgia Tann made millions selling children. A network of scouts, corrupt judges and politicians helped her steal babies. She also targeted youngsters on their way home from school, promising them ice cream to tempt them away from their homes

Georgia Tann – The Baby Thief

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From 1924 through 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, from a stately home on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. She used it as a front for an illegal foundling home and adoption agency that placed over 5,000 newborn infants and children, from toddlers up to age 16, to sell to what she called “high type” families in …

Against Child Trafficking

Against Child Trafficking

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About ACT:  Against Child Trafficking is an international nonprofit organization, registered in the Netherlands. ACT’s main focus is the prevention of child trafficking for intercountry adoption. ACT advocates child rights based social policies that are in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the universal standard and the best safeguard against child trafficking. …