Suspicions of irregular adoptions in Mali: Rayon de Soleil already involved...
Source: https://www.franceinter.fr by Hélène Chevallier June 10, 2020 The adoption agency against which 9 people adopted in Mali in the 1990s complained had already been involved in an illegal...
View ArticleOpen letter to Minister Dekker: Tony Holten / police
From: ACT<info@againstchildtrafficking.org> Date: Sat 13. Jun 2020 at 11:44 Subject: open letter : Tony Holten / police To: Aldewereld MSc, A.L. – BD/DSenJ <a.l.aldewereld@minjenv.nl>,...
View ArticleMust read: Bengali Children in Foreign Brothel
By now there are two cases of adoptees from Bangladesh who are suing – the Dutch State, – the adoption agency Wereldkinderen aka Netherlands International Child Welfare Organisation (NICWO), – and the...
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DOCUMENT! The decision that the Orban Government is preparing to take on...
(google translation) Author: Valentin VioreanuAugust 28, 2020 The Orban government is preparing to take a surprising decision during the government meeting on Monday. The draft Decision is already on...
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International Social Service and the Hague Permanent Buro (Part 4)
Corruption has many shapes and the higher one gets, the more blatant and at the same time subtle it becomes. No one would really accept if tobacco companies make public health policies. In the area of...
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Court: case of Sri Lankan woman on adoption is time-barred
Source: NOS The court in The Hague will not deal with the substance of the case of a 28-year-old woman about her adoption in Sri Lanka. The case was brought by Dilani Butink, who was adopted by Dutch...
View Article“Crown witness in adoption fraud case is threatened with death”
Source: https://www.nieuwsblad.be Today at 03:00 by Dirk Coosemans Crown witness Dieumerci K. was in a Congolese cell for a long time, but the investigation would have shown that he and his entire...
View ArticleDutch NGO calls for probe after KZN girls adopted without father’s consent
Date: 2020-09-28 Source: https://www.iol.co.za/sunday-tribune By Siboniso Mngadi Time of article published 15h ago Durban – A Netherlands based non-governmental organisation, Against Child Trafficking...
View ArticleDenmark shut down investigation on child trafficking?
After the Dutch documentary in 2017, Ankestyrelsen (the National Board of Appeal, a department under the Ministry of Social Affairs) has, like Switzerland also conducted an investigation into adoptions...
View ArticleTough report on adoptions from abroad: cabinet urged to stop
Source: https://www.ad.nl The adoption of children from abroad must be stopped completely for the time being. A committee led by former top civil servant Tjibbe Joustra draws this conclusion in a...
View ArticleIntercountry adoption, child protection?
During a conference organised by Terre des Hommes International Federation on Children on the Move, Arun Dohle questioned the European Commission on adoptions from Serbia. The issue remains unsolved....
View ArticleRoot Searches and Child Rights
Author: Arun Dohle; The original article was published by the swiss foster care and adoptive parents organisation “PACH” https://pa-ch.ch/ in their magazine ” Netz Spezial” Nr.3 ; 2020 . Translation...
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Dutch Report on Intercountry Adoption – English Translation
With courtesy to ISS-SSI Geneva hereby the unofficial English translation of the Dutch report on Intercountry Adoption. This report makes a lot of waves since it basically announced the end of...
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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...
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