The Dark Side of Tourism

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by Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit YANGON, 28 October 2015: Tourism operators must be key players in introducing a comprehensive action plan to protect Myanmar children from abuse by foreign tourists. Myanmar Times quoted Nature Dream travel and tours company managing director, Daw Sabei Aung, saying the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism should draw up an action plan to raise public awareness to …

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 …

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 …

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’ …