Newsweek Report: Organ Trafficking is No Myth.(Brief article)
Srinagar, Asharq Al-Awsat- The horrific killings of 19 children and women in the Indian slum of Nithari, close to the affluent area of Noida on the outskirts of India’s capital, Delhi, has brought into focus the horrific trade of human organ trafficking that is claiming the lives of thousands of children worldwide. The Jan. 19 issue of Newsweek magazine detailed an investigation into organ trafficking by Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who spent more than a decade tracking the illegal sale of human organs across the globe. Posing as a medical doctor in some places and a would-be kidney buyer in others, she has linked gangsters, clergymen and surgeons in a trail that led from South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations all the way back to some of this country's best medical facilities, the magazine reports.
Few happy cases in international adoptions repeated all over the internet
Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:35
There are organizations that have found it fit to repeat infinitely the few happy dozen cases of international adoption, and this happens several months on some blogs, Youtube channels, personal pages, and adoption agency web pages that deals with this subject, there are no older posts than 3-4 years, coinciding with the beginning of pressure on the European Commission for reopen intercountry adoptions. For example the new Minister of Health of Germany in the person of Mr. Philipp Röslau, some girls in the United States, boys in Italy, similar cases in France and elsewhere in Europe, and it is true that the situation is as the authors describe, but these journalists, bloggers, heads of adoption agencies and others who write do not know two very important aspects: 1. to their 100 of happy cases, I can come up with 1,000 cases of child trafficking, sexual abuse, pedophilia, murder, trafficking of children for organs and other similar issues. 2. I and other friends of mine have lived what they just heard, namely that adoptions made from Romania and from where I grew up, were not only done for the good of the child but especially for the welfare of the intermediary and the future "owner"
For this reason please be more objective when you support the relaunch of international adoptions, it would be better for you to find another occupation, another business in which to invest time and money, and not to play with children's lives. Or make your own baby(child) and sell him to see how it is.
Across the U.S., as many as 300,000 children may be sexually exploited each year
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 05:11
When Americans think of human trafficking, we tend to visualize far-off lands. Little girls are prostituted in Southeast Asia. Women are coerced into forced labor in Eastern Europe.
But while this problem is massive and global - Interpol calls it the world's third-largest criminal enterprise - its tentacles reach right into the five boroughs. Next week, we'll be reminded of this local link when Jamaica resident Jamaal Watkins appears in a Queens courthouse on a 95-count indictment stemming from his alleged involvement in luring a 14-year-old girl from an out-of-state group home to New York. Authorities charge that Watkins then forced the girl to have sex with 500 men over two months.
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION Child Protection or a Breach of Rights?
Roelie Post wants to distance herself from pro and anti-adoption labels and direct the discussion back to the heart of the matter: whether intercountry adoption is a child protection measure, if children have rights in their own country, and if intercountry adoption is ultimately a breach of such rights? Post ends with the crucial question: can intercountry adoption be legislated without it leading to a demand-driven child market? Romanian banned intercountry adoptions, Post will describe the experience and the consequences for other countries.
The last fifty years an adoption industry has developed that serves the growing demand for children in the Western world. An industry in which huge sums of money are involved.
Children are obtained for adoption through coercion, fraud and kidnapping, but also through too permissive laws on child relinquishment and/or too rapid termination of parental rights. In many cases unscrupulous go-betweens have found that large profits can be made by arranging the transfer of children from poverty-stricken homes to people with means.
Many such children are sold for money (disguised as adoption fees) either through independent adoptions or through licensed and accredited adoption agencies and regulated by adoption laws.
ACT considers that this represents a demand-driven market in children, which should be labelled as child trafficking.
