Purchased in Brazil and raised in France by an adoptive family, Kharla battled to trace her origins. The case of Zoé’s Ark, tried in mid-February, reminds her how French law does not care. By Kharla Livingston-Lorrenzo, documentary film-maker, February 2014. On Friday February 14 [2014], the deliberation of the case known as “Zoe’s Ark” will be released (Eric Breteau and his colleague Emilie …
French authorities say they’ve launched an investigation after a child was found hidden inside a carry-on bag of an Air France passenger. CNN reports a woman was arrested in Paris after allegedly trying to conceal the child in the bag, which she had brought on Air France Flight 1891 from Istanbul to Paris on Monday. The Agence-France Presse (AFP) news …
Zoe’s Ark Zoe’s Ark was a French NGO dedicated to helping orphaned children affected by armed conflict or natural disaster and launched in response to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. By 2007 the focus shifted to Darfur. In October 2007, Chadian authorities nabbed six Zoe’s Ark workers for attempting to evacuate 103 children to France. The workers claimed they were rescuing …
J’ai été vole à mes parents (which in French means “I was stolen from my parents”) is a true story of Céline Giraud, a French woman of Peruvian origins, written by herself with the collaboration of a Émilie Trevert, a French journalist. (1) Céline Giraud was adopted from Peru by French parents at the age of 16 days old in …
“In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called a “nursery” here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back.” Part 1: Interview with Tinan Leroy held in 2010 …
