Inter-Country Adoption Racket Exposed!

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For tourists the pediatric ward resembled a supermarket  When a DNA database is created it was certain that our papers were fraud, because through DNA we have the proof of family ties.    Sometimes these contact persons say I have located your mother, but they don’t reveal the address.    The adoption agencies from western countries treated me as a …

African Children being sold to U.S. families — CNN report

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The Davises shared their story exclusively with CNN, saying they believe that Ugandan children like Mata are being trafficked, with American families not knowing the real stories behind their adoptions. An investigation by CNN into this alleged trafficking scheme found that children are being taken from their homes in Uganda on the promise of better schooling, placed into orphanages even …

Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions

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By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world. On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted till the 1980s, by agreeing to pay …

Demand for an investigation into Holt International

Adoption Agency Complaint

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Do You have an Adoption Complaint? Every Life Matters. Below is a list of questions. Feel free to answer one or all of them and return email to actusa@riseup.net with Adoption Complaint on the subject line. And then share this questionnaire with your adopted friends. We want to leave no adoptee behind. *If you were not adopted from South Korea, but were abused inside the adoptive …

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

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“We are the parents of the missing children. …I am a parent of a missing child. I don’t know where she is. I’ve had a reunion. I’ve seen her for five minutes in 32 years. I don’t know where she is.” Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists