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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 »
Children for Sale, Brandpunt, KRO (English sub-titles)
March 2013
Roelie Post van de organisatie Against Child Trafficking legt uit
Feb 25, 2013 Video can be watched here Roelie Post van de organisatie Against Child Trafficking legt uit wat Nederlandse adoptieouders kunnen doen als ze onzeker zijn over het adoptieproces van hun kind.
Adopted kids in US not supervised by state officials – Roelie Post to RT
20 February 2013
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 »
Janine Vance author of The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption
June 2012 Roelie Post’s book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of the Romanian ‘Orphans’, exposes the formation of an unjust legalized system called inter-country adoption, in which children are taken from their families and sent to foreigners. By reading the book, I was given insights into how adoption lobbyists forcefully and subtly manipulate… Read more »