SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Fears over ‘trafficking’ of children to the US

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By Conall Ó Fátharta Irish Examiner Reporter Concerns that up to 1,000 children may have been “trafficked” to the US from the Tuam mother and baby home in “a scandal that dwarfs other, more recent issues with the Church and State” were raised by the HSE in 2012. The warning is contained in an internal note of a teleconference in …

Foreigners exploiting law loophole to adopt, say Ugandan MPs

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Kampala (AFP) – Uganda MPs have raised fresh concerns that hundreds of children have left the country through “dubious circumstances” as a result of foreigners working with local lawyers to exploit a loophole in the law, allowing them to be adopted.  Last September, an official report said a boom in Uganda’s “international adoption industry” had led to some children who …

The women who are trafficked on the promise of jobs and exploited sexually so that their babies can be auctioned to city couples

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A new industry is taking deep roots in the Capital’s underbelly. This is the great baby bazaar where bidding for a newborn starts the day a hapless woman gets pregnant, while the kid is still in the womb. Girls and young women, mostly from Jharkhand, are fodder to this illicit business.  Girls and young women are being brought to the …

Adoption Politics

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the untold story of the Romanian ‘ orphans’ gives an insider’s look into the adoption kitchen, where the most used ingredients are political pressure and emotional blackmail. Post kept a diary on her work for the European Commission that aimed to help Romania reform its child protection. She soon found out that the intercountry adoption system in place was nothing …

Mexico Case Reveals Vast Human Trafficking Scheme

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The case of a Mexican organization which allegedly paid mothers to put their children up for adoption has highlighted the fine line between adoption and child trafficking, and suggests that the practice may be widespread in the country. A child trafficking ring uncovered by Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara, Jalisco has not only operated since the 1980’s, a decade …