Volkskrant – Van onze verslaggeefster Margreet Vermeulen − 06/06/07, 02:46 Een Nederlandse EU-ambtenaar schreef een boek over ervaringen met Roemenië… Roelie Post, Nederlands ambtenaar bij de Europese Commissie, schreef het boek ‘Romania: for export only’. ‘Het is een heel zware boodschap. Maar interlandelijke adoptie is gelegaliseerde kinderhandel. Een blank kind is duurder dan een zwart… Read more »
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Volkskrant: ‘Internationale adoptie is eigenlijk kinderhandel’
Source: Volkskrant INTERVIEW, Van onze verslaggeefster Margreet Vermeulen op 06 juni ’07, 02:46, bijgewerkt 06 juni ’07, 09:44 Roelie Post, Nederlands ambtenaar bij de Europese Commissie, schreef het boek ‘Romania: for export only’. AMSTERDAM – Een Nederlandse EU-ambtenaar schreef een boek over ervaringen met Roemenië. ‘Internationale adoptie moet uitgebannen’ ‘Het is een heel zware… Read more »
Broken, Broken by the “Adoption Mafia’
De Telegraaf, 2 June 2007 The scandal around fifty illegally adopted Indian children is only the tip of the iceberg. Only in recent months similar practices came to light in Sri Lanka and Nepal, where hundreds of children are being channeled for big money to Western (probably Dutch) adoptive parents, pedophile rings and possibly even… Read more »
Mirah Riben:
I have only just begun reading Roelie’s book. I cannot wait to complete it to write a full review.For now, I can say: This is a MUST READ for anyone interested in adoption or child welfare….especially anyone from one of the “importing” countries who is planning to adopt. It is “an insiders” view of the… Read more »
Hilbrand Westra, United Adoptees International:
12 April 2007 Roelie Post publishes a remarkable book. A book about export of Romanian children for adoption. A book, that when one reads the first chapters, overwhelms you if the issue is new. Unfortunate for the undersigned it is not. I even wished that a similar empirical and personal book had been written by… Read more »
supercostica:
It’s great that finally someone tries to expose the propaganda lies of the child trafficking gangs that masquerade as “charity organizations”.
Iza Niewiadomska:
I read it over the weekend: forget Agatha Christie if you get real stories like this! I could not put it down till the very last page. Respect, Roelie and others who worked on this.
David Haworth, Irish Daily Mail:
This is a shocking and forensic case history of how the lobbying nexus can work in Brussels, threats and all, as children’s lives are cynically disposed of between the “In” files and the “Out”. Few players emerge well from this story and some are out-and-out black hat villains. A salutary antidote to the EU’s 50th… Read more »
Marc Raeymaeckers, Consultant Child Protection Romenia 91-94:
Even if this book is not going to change the world, or Romania for that matter, at least you have been on the side of the good guys/girls. “Bad things happen because good people fail to act”, you did. Noroc
“Copiii albi, marfa de pret pentru adoptii”
Romania Libera – 12 Martie 2007 “Copiii albi, marfa de pret pentru adoptii” Dupa ce a monitorizat, ca membra a Delegatiei CE, protectia copilului din Romania, Roelie Post a scris o carte in care sunt relevate aspecte importante despre adoptiile internationale din Romania. Roelie Post considera ca miza lobby-ului feroce pentru reluarea adoptiilor internationale este… Read more »