They went through a series of artificial insemination procedures • They started adoption • When they hugged their adopted daughter for the first time, everything fell into place. Now they are waiting for the trial to start and hope to return home with the little girl

After five years of relationship, Azra and Zoki decided that they needed help in having a child, and then started artificial insemination. After two operations and seven embryo transfers, great disappointments and emotional and physical exhaustion, they decided to give up. It was a very difficult period for them, their whole life revolved only around that, hormones had a strong effect on Azra's physical and mental state, it was impossible for her not to feel guilty whenever the pregnancy test came out negative, even though she rationally knew that the fault is not theirs. While they were still in the process of medically assisted fertilization, they started talking about how adoption might be a better option. They really wanted to start a family, they were thinking all the time about how they would raise the child, where they would take him, how they would enjoy together. At that time, all of Azra's closest friends had children, with whom she and Zoki spent a lot of time. I will never forget the moment when they definitely decided - they were sitting by the sea and Zoki said to Azra: 'If we adopt a child, little feet could be running around here already next summer', exclusively in 24 hours she began the story of her daughter and son-in-law's difficult journey to child Ivana, mother of Azra Imamovi? Suboši?, who together with her husband Zoran and three other couples were arrested in Zambia on suspicion of child trafficking.

'They were ready to adopt a child with health problems'

Her daughter and son-in-law are not allowed to appear in the media, but she wanted the public to know what they went through in order to have a child and how they were looking forward to the little girl they adopted from the DR Congo, whom Ivana has been calling her granddaughter for a long time, and how much it is difficult for her because of her daughter and son-in-law, she also suffers so much for her granddaughter, who is somewhere in Zambia, about whom she knows nothing.

He continues the story by saying how Azra and Zoki decided to adopt a child after returning from the sea.

Al veertig jaar hopen Braziliaanse moeders op vergiffenis na schimmige adoptieprocedures - NRC (For 40 years, Brazilian mothers have been hoping for forgiveness after shady adoption procedures - NRC)

Foreign adoption Brazil For years, foreign adoptions took place in Brazil under shadowy and illegal circumstances. The Brazilian-Dutch foundation PDBH uses DNA testing to help Brazilian mothers and adopted children in the Netherlands find each other.

With a cotton swab, Liza da Silva-Alijaj carefully scrapes some mucus from the inside of Raimunda Aparecida Vieira da Silva's (54) mouth. She hands the DNA swab to her colleague, who carefully puts it away. “Parabens mamae! Congratulations mom!” exclaims Alijaj. There is loud applause and cheering and Raimunda sighs deeply. “I suddenly feel much lighter, like a weight has been lifted off my shoulder,” she says. "This DNA test is my last hope to find my son."

The next mom sits down, opens her mouth, and gets the swab pressed against the inside of her cheeks.

In the auditorium of the parliament building of the state of São Paulo, Brazilian women who gave their child for adoption in the 1980s and 1990s come and go these days. They were often underage, poor and had unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is forbidden in religious Brazil. Under pressure from family or authorities, they renounced their child – sometimes without realizing it themselves. There are also cases in Brazil of children being stolen from hospitals. For years, foreign adoptions took place under shadowy and illegal circumstances where shady organizations and individuals earned a lot of money, as a subsequent investigation has shown.

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Illegal adoptees have begun receiving a once-off payment of €3,000 from the Department of Children, to help cover the costs of DNA tests and any legal bills.

The money is being paid out following a recommendation last year by the former government Special Rapporteur on Child Protection on foot of an independent review into illegal registrations.

Professor Conor O’Mahony had called for a state inquiry into the issues raised and said the Government should formally apologise to those affected.

It is estimated that as many as 15,000 people were illegally registered as the birth child of their adoptive parents after the adoption act was introduced in 1952.

That law was meant to protect illegal trafficking of children. However, it has since emerged private unlawful adoption arrangements continued until at least the 1970s.

Illegal adoptees have begun receiving a once-off payment of €3,000 from the Department of Children, to help cover the costs of DNA tests and any legal bills.

The money is being paid out following a recommendation last year by the former government Special Rapporteur on Child Protection on foot of an independent review into illegal registrations.

Professor Conor O’Mahony had called for a state inquiry into the issues raised and said the Government should formally apologise to those affected.

It is estimated that as many as 15,000 people were illegally registered as the birth child of their adoptive parents after the adoption act was introduced in 1952.

That law was meant to protect illegal trafficking of children. However, it has since emerged private unlawful adoption arrangements continued until at least the 1970s.

Kinderhandel: EU officials betrokken bij mensenhandel maffia.

Bought children in Congo: European officials supported human trafficking mafia.

Buying people in Africa, cash for children from the Congo – the “adoptive parents” in Europe paid up to 40,000 euros, including even lawyers. The journalist Aurora Weiss, UN Global Reporter, reports exclusively for the eXXpress on the unbelievable scandal.

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After months of silence, Dickson Matembo, undersecretary at the Zambian ministry, confirmed the information for the first time: Eight Croatians arrested in Zambia last December for attempted child trafficking used travel documents obtained thanks to forged adoption documents.

A newborn was left in one of Italy's safe haven baby boxes over Easter, sparking a fierce debate around motherhood and women's rights in the country.

In Italy, a woman who -- for whatever reason -- decides she can't take care of her baby can leave it in a safe haven baby box, in complete anonymity.

It’s increasingly rare for Italian women to choose this option, but it still happens.

Over Easter, one woman decided to anonymously drop her baby boy into such a box at one of Milan’s biggest hospitals, Policlinico di Milano.

Many would say the event should have been private, as the concept of anonymity suggests.

The civil court had in its order said since Ms Ansari was a working woman and a divorcee, she would not be able to give personal attention to the child and that the child ought to be with her biological parents.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has said refusing a divorced woman to adopt a child on the ground that she is working and hence would not be able to give personal attention to the child reflects a "mindset of medieval conservative concepts".

The court in its order on Tuesday allowed a 47-year-old woman to adopt her four-year-old niece.

A single bench of Justice Gauri Godse in the order said a single parent is bound to be a working person.

A single parent cannot be held ineligible to be an adoptive parent on the ground that he or she is a working person, it said.

The top court on October 1, 2021 had issued notices to the Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Women & Child Development while seeking their responses on the PIL, which said Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 was discriminatory and arbitrary.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to hear on April 28 a plea challenging the Constitutional validity of a provision of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 which states that a woman who legally adopts a child below the age of three months would be entitled to maternity leave.

The petition submitted that the purported 12 weeks of maternity benefit to adoptive mothers is not only a "mere lip service but when juxtaposed with the maternity benefit of 26 weeks provided to biological mothers, fails to stand even the basic scrutiny of Part III of the Constitution which is wedded to the concept of non-arbitrariness."

A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala took note of the submissions of a lawyer who mentioned the matter seeking urgent hearing.

The top court on October 1, 2021 had issued notices to the Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Women & Child Development while seeking their responses on the PIL, which said Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 was discriminatory and arbitrary.

There’s a resounding silence around the world from the majority of adoptive parents when adult intercountry adoptees start to talk about whether our adoptions are illegal or illicit. Why is that? Let’s begin the conversation and unpack it a little.

As an intercountry adoptee, I was purchased through illicit and illegal means and it has taken me years to come to terms with what this means and how I view my adoption. I’m not alone in this journey and because of what I hear and see amongst my community of adoptees, I believe it’s really important for adoptive parents to grapple with what they’ve participated in. This system of child trafficking in intercountry adoption is widespread! It’s not just a Guatemalan, Vietnamese, Sri Lankan or Russian issue – it impacts every country we are adopted to and from, beginning back in the 1950s enmasse, through to current day adoptions. The 1993 Hague Convention came about because of the vast number of illegal and illicit adoptions. The Hague could possibly blind adoptive parents into believing their adoptions cannot be illegal or illicit because they went through the “approved” process and authority. But while a Hague adoption is less likely than a pre-Hague private or expatriate adoption to have illegal and illicit practices within, it is no guarantee because the Hague lacks mechanisms to enforce and safeguard against child trafficking.

To date, most adoptive countries have also not curbed or stopped private and expatriate adoptions that bypass the Hague processes. This means illegal and illicit adoptions are very much still possible and facilitated through a country’s immigration pathways and usually the only role an adoptive country will play in these adoptions, is to assess visa eligibility. This remains a huge failing of adoptive countries who assume a birth country has all the checks and balances in place to prevent illegal and illicit practices within private and expatriate adoptions.

If you aren’t grappling with what you’ve participated in as an adoptive parent, you can be sure your adoptees are, at some point in their lives. More so these days, as the world around us changes and country after country (Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, France) eventually investigates and recognises the wrongs done historically in intercountry adoption. Germany, Denmark and Australia are countries where adoptees are currently pushing for their governments to investigate. Support comes from the UN who last year, issued their joint statement on illegal intercountry adoptions.

It’s important we have these discussions and be truthful with adoptees about illegal and illicit practices that are our adoptions. In ICAV, we grapple with the reality, especially when it comes to searching for our origins and finding out the truth. Here’s a webinar I co-facilitated two years ago on this topic. As you’ll see from the webinar, we are all impacted by these practices – adoptees, adoptive parents, and our original families.