Adoptions from Ethiopia Unsafe

Fruits of Ethiopia - A study on intercountry adoption in Ethiopia

Wiht courtesy of Pound Pup Legacy - Sat, 2011-02-12 21:49 - Niels

See also

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• ETHIOPIA: Human Trafficking Hub in the Horn of Africa
• From Guatemala to Ethiopia
• Fly Away Children
• International adoptions by Americans get really tough
• Vietnamese adoptions thrown into doubt
• Ina Hut on adoption from China
• Children for Sale- KRO Brandpunt- Part 1
• Since Angelina Jolie Adopted Zahara Adopting Ethiopian Children has quadrupled

In 2009, Dutch adoption agency Wereldkinderen contracted Against Child Trafficking to conduct research into the correctness of adoption files of children adopted from Ethiopia. In October 2009, a report was finished, which summarized investigations into 25 randomly selected adoption files of children adopted from Ethiopia between 2004 and 2009. 19 of these 25 cases contained at least some irregularities, which are analyzed in the report.

The executive summary reads as follows:

The findings of the research:

Overall, the current adoption system actively creates an unwarrantedly high number of children available for adoption. Intercountry adoption is in reality privileged to any other in-country suitable manner of care.

Local child protection policies, while existing, are not implemented, while the intercountry adoption market is more and more taking control of the local child protection, as well as the social and health sector.

The adoption process is riddled by fraud and other criminal activities. Parents are stated dead, whereas they are not, dates of birth are falsified, false information is provided to the Courts.

But most important: The demand-driven intercountry adoption process is breaking up families, who could be helped in building up their lives with a fraction of the money involved in intercountry adoption.

Especially the statement "parents are stated dead" is important, because the report lists three such cases.

FULL REPORT IN PDF

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