Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’

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Up until 1970, the UK regularly shipped thousands of orphans and illegitimate children abroad to a life of virtual slave labour and, often, abuse. Giulia Rhodes meets two victims of a policy that robbed them of a childhood and a family Sunday evenings were the highlight of the week when Tony Costa was a child. Then, he and the other …

The Parallels between International Adoption and Slavery

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By Peter F. Dodds “There is no greater sorrow on Earth than the loss of one’s native land.”      International adoption is a type of adoption in which parents adopt a child who is a national of a different country. Since 1990, close to a quarter million foreign children have been brought to the United States on orphan visas for …

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. …

Protecting Kenyan Children from Inter-country Adoption by Foreigners.

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The Cabinet has approved “an indefinite moratorium on inter-country adoption of Kenyan children by foreigners. The decision was informed by Kenya’s current ranking by the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, United Nations Office on drugs and crime, citing Kenya as a source, transit and destination country in human trafficking. The move is a response to concerns about increased …