Kris shares as an Indian adoptee after listening to a podcast on why India's orphans are abandoned twice -- but for international adoptees, its three times.
Tag: rights of the child in adoption
Voices Against Illegal Adoptions Speak at the United Nations
Lynelle represents Voices Against Illegal Adoption (VAIA) to the United Nations Committees who drafted a joint statement about illegal intercountry adoptions.
What I Lost When I Was Adopted
Stephanie shares questions and thoughts about the complex path traversed to come to integrate losses and gains into a sense of identity as a Filipino adoptee.
To Know Your Origins is a Privilege!
Lynelle shares the life experience of intercountry adoptees who don't know anything about their origins.
Implications of China’s One Child Policy Expansion
Chinese Canadian adoptee shares the impacts to her with the latest expansion of China's One Child Policy to now allow 3 children in a family.
I Want My Brothers Back
Erika shares the complications after reunion with her biological siblings.
The Right to Identity
Maria Diemar shares her experience of multiple identities and the right to her original identity as a Mapuche person.
Orphan Bennie
Benjamin responds via artwork on the UN's Resolution on the Rights of the Child
NAAM 2019 AdopteeVoices #10
NAAM 2019 AdopteeVoices #10
Adoption: Neat & Tidy? Not So Much!
Jessica Davis shares the complexities of intercountry adoption gone wrong.
Adoptee Academic on UNCRC and Intercountry Adoption
Patrick Noordoven provides a critical look at the UNCRC vs The Hague on Intercountry Adoption.
Why is it important to have Intercountry Adoptee Voices?
Lynelle writes about the importance of having voices from those who live the experience of adoption, involved in policy and debate.