Adoption or Trafficking? Fears grow for Uganda’s ‘orphans’

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By Amy Fallon Mpigi (Uganda) (AFP) – When Agatha Namusisi, 64, let her grandson leave Uganda for medical treatment abroad, she assumed he would return, but more than a year later she says he has disappeared.  “They are nowhere to be seen,” Namusisi said of the seven-year-old boy and his Ugandan carer who travelled together to the United States in …

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’ …

Kidnapped and Sold: Inside the Dark World of Child Trafficking in China

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CHARLIE CUSTER Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can Congress do anything about it? In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a small city in South China, the American mother tried hard not to vomit while her traveling companion …

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 …

How do you know if you adopted a real orphan or a kidnapped child?

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China: 200,000 children abducted and sold yearly Around 200,000 children disappear every year, only 0.1% found back, “According to various different statistics, in China the incomplete statistical figure of disappeared children every year is about 200,000. “Those found and returned roughly account for only 0.1% of the figure. “Behind the figure of disappeared children, there are stories of various different …