Adoption
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‘It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions
For couples in the US mid-way through the adoption process, news of an end to international adoptions has been…
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China says it is ending foreign adoptions, prompting concern from US
US families have adopted 82,674 children from China, the most of any country, with diplomats seeking clarity f…
- Adoption, Bangladesh, Europe, Global development, Netherlands, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
The stranger across from me was my sister: how one adoptee uncovered a tragic past
A Dutch group that reunites children with their birth parents in Bangladesh is fighting to stop all internatio…
- Adoption, Bangladesh, Children, Europe, Global development, Netherlands, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseas
Police start to interview witnesses following Guardian reports on adoptions to the Netherlands nearly 50 years…
- Adoption, Bangladesh, Global development, Pakistan, Rape and sexual assault, South and Central Asia, Violence against women and girls, War crimes, Women's rights and gender equality
‘I’ll never know where I’m from’: plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh’s Birangona women
Thousands of children born to victims of rape during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 were adopted by …
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‘My mother spent her life trying to find me’: the children who say they were wrongly taken for adoption
For years, Bibi Hasenaar felt rejected because she was adopted aged four. Then she saw a photo that described …
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A moment that changed me: I travelled to India – and discovered what really defines me
I was adopted as a baby and was hoping to answer the question of where I’m from. Instead, the trip reminded me…
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South Korea’s truth commission to investigate dozens of foreign adoptions
Adoptees sent to Europe and the US say they were wrongly removed from their families as government in Seoul ac…
- Adoption, Children, Family, Global development, Home Office, Human rights, Immigration and asylum, Life and style, Pakistan, Politics, Society, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Visa delays leave UK families with adopted babies stranded in Pakistan
Home Office accused of leaving mothers and traumatised children stranded for months while priority is given to…
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Same-sex couple become first in Taiwan to legally adopt child
Wang Chen-wei and Chen Chun-ju sign papers after ruling allows Chen to register as parent alongside WangA marr…
- Adoption, Children, Global development, India, Poverty, Social exclusion, South and Central Asia, Transgender, World news
‘I want to give what I never had’: the trans mum taking in abandoned children in India
Manisha was shunned as a child by her family and ended up on the streets – now she dreams of opening an orphan…
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Vietnamese airlift orphans land in the UK – archive, 7 April 1975
7 April 1975: Flight organised by the Daily Mail sees 105 orphaned children evacuated from SaigonThe mercy air…