23 January 2017. Source: Reuters Speaking from her office in Leiden, Roelie Post, author of “The Perverse Effects of the Hague Convention”, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation a Dutch ban on intercountry adoption would signal the end of the practice everywhere. [The vote] would be a recognition that the Convention hasn’t lived up to its… Read more »
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The Traffickers
07 November 2016 Preview (13 minutes) Available on NETFLIX
Whistleblowing Conference Serbia
28 October 2016 Dutch whistleblower Roelie Post from the European Commission speaks at Pištaljka’s conference “For Every Truth There is a Source: Protection of Whistleblower and Journalistic Sources” in Belgrade.
Dr. Catherine Lynch JD
26 June 2016 Source: www.academia.edu Book Review of Romania For Export Only; The untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ by Roelie Post. Dr. Catherine Lynch JD As a child and an adoptee I, like most other adoptees, had known that something was extremely wrong with my world – I felt like I was being punished… Read more »
curious george: A must read for those who care.
Source: Amazon 5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for those who care. By curious george on January 5, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition A must read book on intercountry-adoption by a civil servant who did her job. This diary gives demonstration on the damage done by adoption profiteers at the highest levels. Those who have… Read more »
Arun Dohle (ACT) blows the whistle in the European Parliament about Roelie Post
June 2015
Roelie Post: A Living Legacy
22 March 2014 My name is Janine Vance and I am one of the Vance Twins. When my sister and I were sent to the United States from South Korea in 1972, the pioneering adoption agency gave our adoptive parents adocument called “Certificate of Orphanhood”.This piece of paper gave the impression that we were orphans…. Read more »
Re-opening Romania’s intercountry adoptions: THE “LOBBY” FAILED!
18 March 2014 The Romanian Members of the Committee for Labour and Social Protection of the Chamber of Deputies unanimously decided in its meeting of March 11, 2014 , not to endorse the legislative proposal on adoption prepared by the Adoption Lobby. It is soon 10 years after the Romanian government ruled that adoption by… Read more »
A Romanian Adoptee: If there is no problem with adoptions, then why are there threats?
August 30, 2013 If there is no problem with adoptions, then why are there threats? Romania for Export Only One of the things that I have major questions about is: if there is no problem with the adoptions that have happened in Romania and around the world, then why are civil servants, who have worked… Read more »
WOMEN WITH GUTS
Dutch Feminist Monthly Magazine: OPZIJ – Summer 2013 July/August 2013 In my fight against the trade in children, I will not bow to intimidation (informal translation from Dutch) As Dutch civil servant at the European Commission Roelie Post was confronted with child trafficking for adoption. But if one dares to touch that issue, one gets to do… Read more »