Category: All news

Child trafficking and intercountry adoption in Romania’s post-communist years

Book Review: Romania For Export Only, The untold story of the Romanian “orphans” by Roelie Post Review by Elizabeth Willmott-Harrop 16 July 2012, updated 14 May 2013 Roelie Post In 2001, I worked on a European Union project euphemistically titled “Public Awareness Campaign to Prevent the Abandonment of Children in Romania”. I say euphemistically because… Read more »

India’s orphans, for export only?

India’s Orphans, FOR EXPORT ONLY? Reflection on intercountry adoptions, after reading ‘Romania for Export only, the untold story of the Romanian orphans’ by Anant Asthana Business of selling children in the garb of “Adoption” goes on and it is hard to dismantle this adoption-mafia which has come up in India. The author is a lawyer in… Read more »

Kim Gohyang

I just finished reading Roelie Post‘s book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of Romanian ‘Orphans’. By reading this book, I’ve learned how the lobby of adoption agencies and NGO are vicious and ferocious. It doesn’t surprise anymore what’s happening in Korea right now. This book is a must read. If you think inter-country adoption… Read more »

Daniel Ibn Zayd

Roelie Post’s account is an insider perspective that is all the more valid coming from someone whose work and very position required a non-resistant stance against the international trafficking of children that we euphemistically refer to as adoption.

Review by Elizabeth Willmott Harrop

Book Review: Romania For Export Only, The untold story of the Romanian “orphans” by Roelie Post In 2001, I worked on a European Union project euphemistically titled “Public Awareness Campaign to Prevent the Abandonment of Children in Romania”. I say euphemistically because it was in essence an anti-child trafficking project. Orphanages, where abandoned children ended… Read more »