Broadcaster KRO-NCRV is 'happy to talk' to a woman who was linked to the wrong family in the program Spoorloos . The broadcaster announced this in response to an article in the Volkskrant , in which the woman told her story on Wednesday. Her real family has already passed away.

The woman, Marthainès de Vries, was linked by Spoorloos to a family that turned out not to be her real family more than twenty years later. De Vries later found her real family herself, but her father and mother had already passed away. "I am so sad, and so angry with Spoorloos . If the editors had done their job properly, I could have spent another nine years with my real mother and eleven years with my father. Now they are dead. I will never get that time back," De Vries told the newspaper . De Volkskrant also writes that De Vries has started a crowdfunding campaign to finance a possible lawsuit.

KRO-NCRV states in a written response that it finds it 'very sad and regrettable' that an incorrect match has been established. "We have been in discussions with Mrs. De Vries for months about her doubts and have immediately offered her to conduct further DNA research, which she has not wanted to use." KRO-NCRV writes that it is happy for her that she has found her own biological family in Colombia.

"We realise that she still has many questions and so do we. Mrs De Vries has informed us that she will contact us further. We would like to talk to her personally. We believe that this constructive approach does more justice to the situation, in which there is a lot of personal suffering." The broadcaster believes that it is 'not the right route' to discuss it via the media.

Dear Sir/Madam, 

In 2013 I handed in a FOIA request. I had requested to communicate by mail, since I live in Brussels/Europe. 
I did not hear anything back. 

Now this FOIA overview was send to me by someone who found my name on it. 
It states 'other reasons', and it is not clear to me what that means. 

Could you please clarify? 

Thank you in advance, 

Roelie Post

I kindly request a confirmation of receipt and confirmation that my FOIA request is in process.

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For many other adoptees they were able to find their biologcal family by doing DNA tests. They were the fortunate ones to be reunited with their family. This begs the question as to when it will be my turn

Fardau’s search has led her back to Sri Lanka five times since 2005. Her adoption papers listed a woman named Redige Baby Nona as her birth mother, but a DNA test in Colombo proved otherwise

For 20 years, Fardau Huisman has been searching for a missing piece of her identity—the truth about her birth family. Born in Sri Lanka in January 1985 and adopted by a Dutch family as a baby, she grew up in Holland with little knowledge of her origins. Her Sri Lankan name was Ganga, but the identity of her biological parents remains a mystery.

Fardau’s search has led her back to Sri Lanka five times since 2005. Her adoption papers listed a woman named Redige Baby Nona as her birth mother, but a DNA test in Colombo proved otherwise. That revelation uncovered a darker truth—Baby Nona

Children are separated from their parents unjustly and for years, or never allowed to return home: that is what Hungarian child protection has done in recent years. The Flemish government is going to investigate in Hungary whether adoption from that country may still be possible.

'If I hadn't gotten help, my children wouldn't be with me now.' Barbara, a woman with curls and an engaging smile, sits beaming with pride in a grimy armchair. Next to her sit four mischievous little rascals, her sons. They were taken away one by one by the Hungarian child protection services. The reason? Poverty in the family.

Civil rights organization TASZ (also known abroad as HCLU) helps Barbara and other parents to challenge unfair decisions. For Barbara, it took years, and she will never get that lost time back. She is the victim of a child protection system that is flawed on all sides.

'Families in Hungary should primarily solve their own problems, rather than seek support and guidance from the state,' says the international children's rights organisation ISS. In 2022, the organisation conducted an analysis of adoption and child protection in Hungary on behalf of the Flemish government. The aim? Based on this information, the Flemish Centre for Adoption will decide whether adoptions from Hungary will continue to be permitted in the future.

Poverty or neglect?

"There was even an incident where a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old sister were forcibly taken away by the local government as if they were kidnapped"

“Indiscriminate child separation is taking place in Korea”… Interview with Kim Soo-bin, President of the Nabu Association

Editor's Note= The interview article with Kim Soo-bin, the president of the 'I am a Parent Association', is so long that it will be sent in three parts. This is the first article, and it contains information about his own growth process, his experience of separation crisis from his children, and the forced separation of infants. The second article, which will be sent early next week, will cover various forms of forced separation. The third article, which will be sent early the following week, will cover institutional and structural issues related to child separation. Life is an autobiographical interview, so it contains many personal stories and personal photos.

Kim Soo-bin, Chairman of the Nabu Association, and his first baby

Campaigners demand government issue formal apology to women forced to give up their babies in 1950s-70s

Time is running out for the UK government to issue a formal apology to women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, campaigners have warned.

Most of the estimated 185,000 women involved in forced adoptions are now in their 70s and 80s, and some have died without an apology on behalf of the state being issued.

Klaus Chikufenji, a prominent businessman, music promoter, and aspiring Member of Parliament, is at the center of a sprawling scandal involving human trafficking, forged documents, and the illegal adoption of vulnerable children. A damning investigation by the Investigative Platform-MW (PIJ) reveals how Chikufenji, in collusion with the Good Samaritan Children's Home, orchestrated the theft of children from their living parents, falsified death certificates, and profited from unethical international adoptions.

The investigation uncovers a chilling pattern of criminality, implicating Chikufenji in a network of corruption that preys on Malawi's most vulnerable. At the heart of the scandal is the case of Agness (name changed to protect her identity), a mother from Mulanje District whose three children were stolen from her while she was hospitalized.

The Stolen Children

In 2016, Agness was admitted to Mulanje District Hospital for an illness. When she returned home, her three children were gone. Her grandmother informed her that the children had been taken to the Good Samaritan Children's Home, allegedly at the behest of former Minister of Gender, Community Development, and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati.

Agness later discovered that her children had been declared orphans, with forged death certificates claiming both she and her ex-husband were dead. The certificates, obtained by Chikufenji, were used to facilitate the illegal adoption of her children by an American couple, Priscilla Garner and her husband.

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