French historians released a report on France’s history and involvement in intercountry adoption, finding decades-long evidence of illicit practices, fraud, and child trafficking.
Swiss Report on Intercountry Adoption: English Translation
Swiss researchers describe fraught and haphazard practices that over decades established a “fait accompli” approach to transnational adoption, which facilitated child trafficking, led to falsified birth records, and ultimately promoted adoptive parent desire for a child over the best interests and welfare of vulnerable children and their families.
Netherlands Report on Intercountry Adoption: English Translation
A government committee in the Netherlands released its report on intercountry adoption. We are providing links to it here so that adoptees, friends, and allies are able to download and read it.