The Uncomfortable Place of Inter-Country Adoption in the Human Rights Arena

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ICA is largely the response to a demand for children in developed countries rather than to absence of care in the countries of origin. Taking children away does not lead to any improvement of the protection of children in those countries but rather the contrary.  (Chou and Browne, 2008) Inter-country adoption (ICA) occupies a very marginal place within the UNCRC. …

Guilty Plea In Adoption Fraud Case

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SEATTLE – A baby-selling scandal targeted local couples anxious to adopt. The families thought they were adopting orphans from overseas, but in many cases the babies weren’t orphans. Wednesday, the woman who helped set up the adoptions pleaded guilty. Lauryn Galindo has claimed all she wanted to do was give poor third world children a loving home. But, federal investigators …

Cambodia-Adoption Scandal

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Published on May 29, 2012 The Cambodian Adoption Scandal involving Lauryn Galindo- the facilitator that Angelina Jolie used. SEATTLE – A baby-selling scandal targeted local couples anxious to adopt. The families thought they were adopting orphans from overseas, but in many cases, the babies weren’t orphans. To read more, click the news below. Read Vice’s Cambodian Adoption Fraud here. Help …

Your child is missing, would you want their adoption to be easier?

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“Parents are targeted by recruiters and children are bought or stolen or sold.” ‘Millions of children in overseas orphanages … would dearly love to have parents’, claims Tony Abbott, and his government is making intercountry adoption easier. Screenshot/Intercountry Adoption Australia Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be …

The Dark Side of Chinese Adoptions

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Six orphanages were found to have been buying babies who were then adopted by families from other countries. One of the convicted middlemen in that case is now out of jail. He and his mother spoke to our China correspondent, Marketplace’s Scott Tong. SCOTT TONG: As Chen Zhijing tells it, her family stumbled into the baby-selling business. In the late …