Update on the adoption debate in Denmark following the revelation of “Child Harvesters” in Ethiopia.

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By Anders Riel Müller / 송연준 The Danish Social Appeals Board withdrew the license of Danish adoption agency DanAdopt to work with the Ethiopian orphanage Enat Alem on February 27, 2013. The decision was made because “fundamental ethical principles” were breached at the orphanage. Following further investigations by the Social Appeals Board, DanAdopt had its license for adoption from Ethiopia revoked …

‘Making mistakes with people’s lives’: the ethics of orphanages and voluntourism

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Tara Winkler thought she was doing the right thing when she travelled to Cambodia to volunteer in an orphanage, but she unwittingly became part of an industry that relies on taking children from their families and keeping them in institutions. Now she hopes to raise awareness of the problems with both orphanage tourism and other kinds of voluntourism. Late Night …

Nepal – Children for Sale

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For every inter-country adoption the orphanage earns $5,000.00 and the government receives $3,000. One third of it’s population makes $1.25 per day. Children are easy to obtain and the orphanages falsify papers and present the children as orphans, meanwhile the parents believe their children are in a children’s home getting an education. Unknowingly the children are processed for foreign adoption. …

Spain’s Stolen Babies

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Up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from ‘undesirable’ families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco’s Secret police. Now, decades on, some of these stolen children are trying to find their biological families. The racket began shortly after the Spanish Civil War as a way of stopping a new generation of ‘Reds’ …