A group of donor-conceived and surrogate-born people have spoken out at the UN in a renewed push to improve the rights of access to biological information.

Giselle Newton, a PhD research student at UNSW, is one of 16 donor-conceived and surrogate-born people from around the world who are leading a renewed push to change laws which govern their access to information about their genetic heritage.

For the first time, the group told their own stories at a historic visit to the United Nations to mark the 30-year anniversary of the Convention for the Rights of the Child in Geneva on November 19.

They presented their five recommendations* to the Human Rights High Commissioner Michele Bachelet, and received a standing ovation from the audience.

“We highlighted the consequences of ignoring the voices of those most affected by these practices,” Ms Newton says. “Donor-conceived people are experts on this issue and our voices need to be listened to and acted upon.”

Arun Dohle

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In 1973 I was adopted from India to Germany, like many of you who may read this. My views on adoption were bottom-line quite positive, just as my view on organisations involved in this, like International Social Service (ISS). Little did I know…

In 1999 I got my first access to the Internet and started searching. The Internet provided the first chance to get some information. Still little did I know…

Today we are faced with the fact that the governments of the receiving countries are funding ISS for various services. One important aspect is that ISS receives funding to assist adoptees with roots searches. They are considered the expert on whom the governments in the receiving countries rely.

In the coming weeks we will share bits and pieces about the involvement of ISS in intercountry adoptions, including their direct or indirect complicity in the trafficking of children for adoption.

I fully understand that this may be hard to believe. I could not imagine myself for many years. I thought ISS is the expert organisation who ensures ethical and legal adoptions, understands adoptees’ and children´s needs, as well as their rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pof_S0oFg0&authuser=0

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From: Arun Dohle

Date: Fri 1. May 2020 at 12:06

Subject: linkedin chat with Fiom / ISS / Sandra de Vries

90 years of IST: the structural and substantive change in the International Social Service from its beginnings to the present day - Part I.

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From: Per Sundberg

Date: Thu 2. Jul 2020 at 13:50

Subject: SV: MFoF redovisar slutrapport om indikatorer

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From: ACT

Date: Sun 5. Jul 2020 at 18:34

Subject: Adoptee voices

To: Laura Martinez-Mora

The dubious connections of the mercenary politician Siegfried Mure?an with Klaus Iohannis and Oana Paraschiva Harvalia, also an "expert" in international adoptions, like the Iohannis. Sibiu Mayor Klaus Werner Iohannis was the one who officiated Paraschiva's marriage in 2010, in Sibiu, with Gunther Krichbaum, politician, member of the German Parliament and from the same political gang as the "German" Siegfried Mure?an. Read here about the political-economic entanglements between these tools of the German state, some with Romanian citizenship and representing - the faces! – Romania's interests: Siegfrid Mure?an, Germany's Trojan horse in the European Parliament

International social services, from India to Romania

Posted April 30, 2020 by Roelie Post (guest blogger)

When in 2011/2012 the filming of Stolen Children - International Adoptions from India took place at the ACT office in Brussels, I was drawn into the details of the German / Indian trafficking case.

Arun was speaking in German to the journalist, explaining the involvement of the German branch of International Social Services. He appointed her to the International Sozialdienst Deutscher Zweig.

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 child adoption, however, society accepts this.

Let´s have a closer look.

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