Closed adoption system helping traffickers
Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb September 09, 2013 12:35 AM By India Stoughton The Daily Star BEIRUT: Adoption is often seen as a benevolent act. Rather than being brought up in an orphanage, a...
View ArticleU.S. adoptive mother guilty of homicide in death of Ethiopian girl
Source: http://www.reuters.com By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington | Mon Sep 9, 2013 11:09pm EDT (Reuters) – A U.S. adoptive mother accused of starving her 13-year-old Ethiopian-born daughter and...
View ArticleDer Kampf um die Waisenkinder
Source: http://www.blick.ch Trotz Überbevölkerung tobt zwischen den Industrieländern ein Konkurrenzkampf um Waisenkinder – Paare haben es zunehmend schwer, ein Kind zu finden. Immer stärker mischt...
View ArticleDer Kampf um die Waisenkinder
Source: http://www.blick.ch Trotz Überbevölkerung tobt zwischen den Industrieländern ein Konkurrenzkampf um Waisenkinder – Paare haben es zunehmend schwer, ein Kind zu finden. Immer stärker mischt...
View ArticleInternational adoptions in decline as number of orphans grows
Source: http://www.cnn.com By Kevin Voigt and Sophie Brown, CNN Mon September 16, 2013 After rising for decades, overseas adoptions have dropped by nearly half since 2004 Closure of Russia for U.S....
View ArticleACT’s calls on Unicef to clarify its position on ‘orphans’
Today CNN has launched today the first article of a series of articles about intercountry adoptions. Coincidence or not, it follows right after a critical series done by Reuters: The Child Exchange...
View ArticleInternational adoption: Saving orphans or child trafficking?
Source: http://www.cnn.com By Kevin Voigt, CNN Mon September 16, 2013 Advocates say the current international adoption system is holding orphans hostage in red tape Critics say the hunger for adopting...
View ArticleRising overseas adoptions — for black American children
Source: http://www.cnn.com By Sophie Brown, for CNN Mon September 16, 2013 While adoptions to the U.S. are in steep decline, more U.S. children are being adopted abroad The rise of “open adoptions”...
View ArticleInternational adoption: I was stolen from my family
Source: http://www.cnn.com By Tarikuwa Lemma, Special to CNN 16 September 2013 Tarikuwa Lemma: When she was 13, she went to the U.S. thinking she would be studying abroad Inside a few weeks, it became...
View ArticleDrive to speed up adoptions means children ‘may be removed from parents too...
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk Britain’s most senior family judge has issued a pointed warning that Michael Gove’s drive to speed up adoptions should not be allowed to break up families...
View ArticleIndia-born adopted Dutchman reunites with family in Moodabidri
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Stanley Pinto, TNN | Sep 17, 2013, 10.07 PM IST India-born adopted Dutchman reunites with family in Moodabidri India-born Dutch national Martijn Boerkamp was...
View ArticleU.S. Senator: Russia Stalling On Adoption, Children’s Rights Ombudsman An ‘Ass’
Source: http://www.rferl.org By Richard Solash September 20, 2013 WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. Congress’s leading adoption advocates says negotiations with Russia over its politically charged ban on...
View ArticleDutchman meets biological father in Mumbai
Source: http://m.timesofindia.com Sep 21, 2013, 05.05AM IST TNN[ Stanley Pinto ] MANGALORE: India-born Dutch national Martijn Boerkamp met his biological father in Mumbai on Wednesday. And the meeting...
View ArticleACT’s letter to the Guardian of the Convention on Protection of Children and...
23 September 2013 We are looking forward to their reply. ACT’s letter from The Hague Conference to the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands: HERE From: Roelie Post...
View ArticleChinese village ‘in lockdown’ as parents sue government over lost child
Source: http://www.theprovince.com BY TOM PHILLIPS, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 31, 2013 A rural village in northern China has reportedly been placed under “curfew” after a disabled couple accused the...
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The stolen children of India
Source: http://www.aljazeera.com Heart-rending story of parents seeking to get back children snatched from them and then sent for adoption abroad. Shaikh Azizur Rahman 06 Nov 2013 11:29 Nagarani,...
View ArticleOrphans ‘happy’ to go with Italian couple
Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com DC | Shilpa P. | 06th Nov 2013 Children Ullas and Anand with their guardians in a file photo. Mysore: In a new twist to the case of the two orphans transferred...
View ArticleReminder sent to Hague about subsidiarity
Failing a reply, ACT sent a reminder to the secretariat of the Hague Conference From: Roelie Post <info@againstchildtrafficking.org> Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:18 PM Subject: 1993 Hague...
View ArticleCheating case against Ullal adoption centre
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Stanley Pinto, TNN | Nov 9, 2013, 03.16 AM IST Prayer issue leads to clash, 6 injuredTourist from Mysore presumed drowned at SomeshwarAttacks, counter attacks...
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Adoptee Chaya Maria Schupp
Countries: India, Germany Adoption Agencies: Nirmala Social Welfare Centre (India); Pro Infante (Germany) Chaya Maria Schupp was given for adoption to a German couple in 1981. ACT helps Chaya to...
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