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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...
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...
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 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 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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