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Arun was adopted and now fights against adoption: ‘authorities refused to...
Source:https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/arun-werd-geadopteerd-en-strijdt-nu-tegen-adoptie-instanties-weigerden-al-die-jaren-informatie-te-geven~a8a91701/(google translation) There are about 30 million...
View ArticleSuccess: Dutch Minister of Justice finally acknowledges the UN Convention on...
ACT has over the years tirelessly advocated for the correct implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child in the context of adoption and against the adoption system. –...
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A chronology of the rise and fall of intercountry adoption from Congo
Today we publish the Congolese NGO Dynamique de lutte contre le trafic humain (DCTH) about illegal adoption and trafficking of human beings, true crimes in silence. It’s in French. In short, it calls...
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How the EU failed the Ukrainian children
Guest Blog, by Roelie Post From 1999 till 2006 the European Commission supported Romania to reform its child protection. Old-style children’s homes were wrongly labeled ‘orphanages’ by the adoption...
View ArticleThe adoption lobby, stupid!
Interview with Nigel Cantwell For decades the adoption lobby denied that the Hague Adoption Convention and the Guidelines for Alternative Care were tools of the adoption industrial complex. Both bring...
View ArticleWhistleblower testifies in Krichbaum trial
It was an intense interrogation: a former EU official who describes herself as a whistleblower sat on the witness stand in the Pforzheim district court for four hours. In the appeal process, a...
View ArticleI ask myself every day who I actually am
(unpolished google translation) Source: DER SPIEGEL 3/2023 By Fiona Ehlers; January 13, 2023, 1 p.m. Since the 1960s, 60,000 children from countries such as Chile and South Korea have been adopted in...
View ArticleReply from the Ministry of Justice
ACT had decided to support the idea of an independent Expertisecentrum. We still believe that something like this is needed. Therefore we participated in the meetings regarding the design process as...
View ArticleReaction to France Inter’s reporting on so-called lucrative profit-making...
Yesterdays French reporting on the so-called lucrative profit-making search business calls for some clarification from our side. Against ChildTrafficking (ACT) is a registered non-profit organisation...
View ArticleOpen letter to the UN Committees
Amsterdam, 21 September 2023 To (via email): • The Committee on the Rights of the Child; • The Committee on Enforced Disappearances; • The Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice,...
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