Who's really profiting from international adoptions?By Fusion | November 8, 2016

Often adoption starts out with good intentions, but the desire to adopt internationally can lead to the exploitation of some of the world’s most vulnerable children. In this episode of The Traffickers, Nelufar Hedayat learns that money meant to care for children who are being adopted doesn’t always end up in the right hands.The Traffickers airs Sundays at 10 PM on Fusion.

GOOD INTENTIONS, SAD EFFECTS 11/9/16 4:30 PM

How international adoption creates a market for child trafficking

By Sarah McClure

International adoption is often presented in the U.S. as a morally justified way of helping poor children around the world. But there’s a criminal side of this business that makes victims of everyone, from families in America who pay tens of thousands of dollars in adoption fees, to those in developing countries who are conned into giving up their children.

In Episode 1 of Fusion’s new investigative series The Traffickers, correspondent Nelufar Hedayat travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she finds herself at the intersection of international adoption and child trafficking. Here, seeming acts of kindness can be easily derailed by fraud and corruption.

Is this adoption agency selling children?By Fusion | November 8, 2016

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nelufar visits a school and center for abandoned children. Here she meets the woman in charge, who tells Nel how she convinces parents to relinquish rights to their kids.The Traffickers airs Sundays at 10 PM on Fusion.

Plan to deregulate council social workers is a bad idea that has not been properly evaluated, says Lord Ramsbotham

House of Lords chamber

Peers voted 245-213 in favour of an amendment to scrap clause 29 of the bill in its entirety. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA

Tuesday 8 November 2016

The government has suffered a defeat in the House of Lords over plans to allow councils to opt out of legal obligations to vulnerable children.

November 7th, 2016

Journalist explores the dark world of trafficking in riveting TV seriesBritish journalist Nelufar Hedayat is hosting the new Fusion show “The Traffickers,” which looks at the dark underside of the black market in adoptions, pharmaceuticals and human organs. The former Afghan refugee tells Kathie Lee and Hoda she wants to give a voice to the people who are impacted by illicit trade.

Calls for interpretation wider than Hague

and Right to a family

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Roemenië heeft nu zelf jeugdzorg

adoptiestop | Roemeense kinderen waren populair op de adoptiemarkt: zielig en toch niet zwart. Roemenië stopte met internationale adoptie in 2001.

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Roemenië weet alles van de schaduwzijde van internationale adoptie. Toen begin jaren negentig de beelden de wereld over gingen van naakte, vervuilde en broodmagere kinderen in naargeestige tehuizen, die bezoekers vanuit hun spijlenbed met holle ogen aankeken, voelden vele West-Europeanen en Amerikanen zich geroepen om zo'n kind te helpen.

Hedge funds

Bubble bursts for hedge fund gala that celebrated age of excess

Ark founding chairman Arpad Busson

APRIL 28, 2013 by: Sam Jones, Hedge Fund Correspondent

As with the bottles of Krug, the Ark gala – once the lavish pinnacle of London’s boomtime financial social scene – has been put on ice.

American arrested on illegal adoption, human trafficking charges in Guatemala

Published December 18, 2014Fox News Latino

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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Stop adoption of children from abroad

The Netherlands must stop the adoption of children from abroad. The right of children to grow up in a family in the country of origin should be unconditionally paramount. This advises the Board of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (RSJ) Wednesday to the Cabinet.

"A child is always better off in a family than in a home and it is very important that a child has continuity of upbringing," said juvenile court Jolande Calkoen, who is a member of the RSJ Wednesday in Trouw. "So that it remains in an environment where it knows the culture, the social environment and the language."

The Council examined the request of the government on how prospective adoptive children can best be protected. The RSJ finds that adoption offers many benefits to the individual child, but feels that too much insoluble risk are sticking in its entirety to the system. The RSJ does emphasize in the report that adoptive parents and agencies did nothing wrong.