by Sabine Isabelle adopted from Haiti to Canada. Restore the links between adoptees from Haiti born as unknown parents and their biological parents. The dark side Before April 1, 2014: date of the signing of the Hague Convention in Haiti. Thousands adopted without identity were adopted internationally with a mention born of an unknown mother …
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Netra Sommer is adopted from India to Denmark and endured abuse in her adoption and talks about undoing her adoption and the lengthy process to reclaim herself.
Erika shares the complications after reunion with her biological siblings.
Maria Diemar shares her experience of multiple identities and the right to her original identity as a Mapuche person.
Atamhi shares about his search for first family and activism as an adoptee.
Lily shares about the fight for her rights as an intercountry adoptee.
Bina shares on what can be learned from adoption and surrogacy.
By Maria Diemar from her blog at I own my Story Maria Diemar Who I am now, after my life story changed I always thought that my mom gave me up for adoptionI was an abandoned childI learnt to believe that adoption is something beautifulEven though it hurtEven though I felt abandonedEven though I felt …
Benjamin responds via artwork on the UN's Resolution on the Rights of the Child
Lynelle shares what she would suggest IF adoption laws could be changed.
Lynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.
Jessica Davis shares the complexities of intercountry adoption gone wrong.
Adoption is not heroism. It does not fight poverty, disease nor the root causes of inequality. Adoption doesn't even raise awareness about the real causes of poverty, inequality, parent-child separations, disease or social immobility. Instead it creates idolatry of those who look to adoption in a world which stigmatises infertility, disease, poverty and poor access …
ICAV invited to be an Observer at the Hague Working Group.
Dear Intercountry Adoption Board (ICAB) of the Philippines, I'm a 33-year-old Filipino American adoptee and I refuse to be erased. I refuse to be ignored. I was born in the Philippines and it was not my choice to leave. But it is my choice to return as an adult and to regain my citizenship. Because, …
A post from an adopter on my Facebook page got me thinking about an issue. Is there an exception to the rule where intercountry adoptions should be allowed? The woman stated that, “All 13 of my children from China have special needs. Some pretty severe. One thing for sure ... no-one in-country stepped up to …
At this current moment I'm flying thousands of kilometres through the air to reach my destination - The Hague, Netherlands. It's going to take me 24 hours and you all know what that's like - cramped in a stuffy space with people coughing, kids crying, airplane food, almost-can't-turn-around-in spaces they call "toilets" and trying to …
Rachel Kim Tschida share her special essay on the topic of American Citizenship for intercountry adoptees.
How the Korean Government Fails I was stationed in Korea for eight years and have made more than a dozen trips to Korea since I left in 2007. During my last visit to Itaewon, I came across a small bronze statue of a girl sitting on a chair, next to an empty chair, located at …
Ethiopian adoptee shares her journey of loss and more loss in relinquishment and adoption.
I normally tiptoe around adoption and never say the A word because people just don't respond well to "adoptee anger". But during the month of November, I feel it is appropriate to air my feelings on what I have anger about, in intercountry adoption. I hate that our original identities are ignored and get obliterated …
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Joey shares after the death of 4 chinese adoptees.
Lynelle shares how difficult it can be not knowing who we are or having any documentation.
UK transracial adoptee shares her thoughts on being adopted.
