Estela looks down at her hands and her eyes easily well up with tears. She has shed so many over the last 31 years regarding the whereabouts of her daughter, it is clear that this is an emotional wound from which she may never recover. Her hardened face gives way.

“All I want to know is that she’s healthy and doing okay,”

We meet in a non-descript social room in a downtown apartment compound in Bogota where 26 other people are here for the same thing. They are here to meet one another, share their experience of giving up a child for adoption either legally or pressured, or as an adoptee to locate their parents or siblings and submit their DNA with the tireless help of a Dutch foundation called Plan Angel and try and locate their families.

“The trauma of being tricked into giving a child up for adoption is for life,” one participant says, gesticulating. “This is worse than having the fetus taken out, it’s emotional damage,” she continues.

The conversation is constant and it jumps rapidly from threats to sue the Colombian state for its complicity in what is referred to by Marcia Engel, director of Plan Angel and herself an adoptee raised in Holland as, “legalized child trafficking,” to real fear that their children may have been sold for their organs or into the sex trade.

Author

Author(s):

Collective of French Adoptees of Mali (Collective AFM)

Recipient(s):

Emmanuel Macron (President of the Republic)

Family Action’s PAC-UK reveals new insights and experiences of adoptees and birth parents with the launch of The Big Consult.

Adoption Support Agency, Family Action PAC-UK, reveals the findings of The Big Consult, the largest piece of research into birth parents and adopted people’s experiences and feelings around the adoption process, in over 20 years.

Adopted people and birth parents launching The Big Consult with PAC-UK and the National Adoption Strategy Team in Leeds in April 2023

The Big Consult was funded by the National Adoption Strategy Team and is a major consultation of birth parents whose children have been adopted, and of people adopted from the 1950s to the present day.

PAC-UK, part of national charity Family Action, is the country’s largest independent Adoption Support Agency, and launched The Big Consult to gain an understanding of birth parents and adopted people’s feelings and experiences around the adoption process, the services they received before and after, their thoughts on how these can be improved, and their suggestions for the future of adoption.

After a long interview with Sam Zirah a few days ago, Dylan Thiry is once again in the news. On Twitter, old videos of the former Koh-Lanta candidate making revelations about alleged child trafficking have just resurfaced…

Pointed out because of many questionable product placements , Dylan Thiry has just delivered his truth through a long and rare interview with Sam Zirah. The opportunity for the former reality TV candidate to make his mea culpa regarding a story shared on social networks, in which he extolled the merits of pills capable of curing cancer.

“ I just explained that there were pills that killed carcinogenic cells. I didn't do it as product placement,” he nuanced before offering his half-worded apologies. " I shouldn't have, it was a mistake […] I'm not an expert in this, but when I was presented with the product, I could only believe it, and I explained it in my Story" he assured.

The day after this interview in which he returns to several other points of his career as an influencer, Dylan Thiry finds himself at the heart of all discussions on social networks and in particular on Twitter. Several old videos of the young 28-year-old Luxembourger have, for example, just resurfaced.

Dans l’une d’entre elles, il explique avoir été approché afin de jouer les intermédiaires dans les procédures d'adoption à

TitleAdoption can be revoked, even if application is submitted too late

PubDate18/04/2023

CategoriesPerson-and familyright

AgencyCourt of Rotterdam

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Spotlight on Westminster after Labour-led Welsh administration says sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children

UK ministers are under renewed pressure to formally apologise for the practice of forced adoption after the Labour-led Welsh administration said sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children.

Julie Morgan, the deputy minister for social services in Wales, said on Tuesday in the Senedd that the whole of the Welsh government was “truly sorry” for the cruelty of forced adoptions.

The move, which follows the Scottish government’s apology last month, was welcomed by campaigners who called for the UK government to follow suit for England.

Morgan said: “Regardless of the societal pressures or social norms of the day, such cruelty should never be an acceptable part of our society in Wales. I would like to convey my deepest sympathy and regret to all affected, that due to society failing you, you had to endure such appalling historical practices in Wales. For this, the whole of the Welsh government is truly sorry.”

An East Coast iwi is partnering with the government to give iwi and local groups more say in decisions about uplifting children.

The move is part of a wider plan to make Oranga Tamariki more community-led, and aims to get iwi and local organisations more involved in interventions from the outset.

Te Ara M?tua is a partnership between the iwi Ng?ti Kahungunu, Oranga Tamariki and local health advocacy group Te Tumu Whakahaere o Te Wero.

It aims to get iwi and local organisations more involved in decision making at the start when wh?nau require intervention.

Minister for Children Kelvin Davis said it was expected there could be a continued reduction in the number of children in care by using community relationships to intervene earlier and more effectively.

The stars of HGTV's Fixer to Fabulous open up to PEOPLE about the harrowing three-year process of bringing their daughter Sylvie home

Dave and Jenny Marrs' adoption story was "100 percent a miracle," according to the Fixer to Fabulous stars.

What should have been a six-month process to bring their daughter Sylvie, now 11, home from the Democratic Republic of Congo turned into a harrowing three-year ordeal for the new co-hosts of Home Town Takeover (premiering April 23).

The couple always knew they wanted to adopt, so when they were struggling to start a family of their own, it was an easy decision to start the paperwork. That journey hit its first bump when Jenny unexpectedly got pregnant with twins. It was a high-risk pregnancy, she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, and when she went into labor prematurely, she had to be airlifted to a hospital in Little Rock from their home in Bentonville, Ark.

"We were given every worst-case scenario for when the boys were born," she says. Thankfully, Nathan and Ben, now 12, arrived "perfectly healthy and awesome."

After eight Croatian citizens ended up in a Zambian prison on suspicion of child trafficking from DR Congo, a woman from central Croatia managed to adopt a child from that country, from the same orphanage, and bring him to Croatia, 24 Hour has learned .

"The woman adopted a child from the same orphanage as the arrested Croats, and the adoption process was identical. The girl she adopted received all Croatian documents," people familiar with the case told 24sata .

Our adoption story begins around May 1997, we wondered if our family could have another girl. A baby didn't seem to fit into the age chain, because our son Björn was already 10 years old at that time. That's how we came up with the idea of ??adoption, and adoption didn't pose the risk that it could end up being a boy. Because my wish (Peter) was another daughter, but it should be 2. More on that later. After a while we both made up our minds.

So our way led us to our youth welfare office. The social worker was very nice and helpful. So we submitted the adoption application and our adoption suitability report should also be prepared quite quickly.

But there was also disillusionment: Adopting even an older child in Germany is almost hopeless.

Some time later she visited us to get to know us and our home better.

It was here that the question of "foreign adoption" came up for the first time. She reported from the ISD in Frankfurt.