标签: 被收养人权利
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Why do Intercountry Adoptees want to know their Origins?
The desire to know my origins is an innate and fundamental human need (and right). My need to know my origins is akin to your need to breath air that keeps you alive. We only know our origins are important when we don’t have it, or access to it. For people like me, this is…
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An Accounting from One Adoptee
Mary shares her journey of coming to terms with being adopted, the impacts, the legacy, and how she moves forward to bring together voices of Greek adoptees.
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The Unaware Adoptee
Krishna shares what it feels like to find out about being adopted years later, the secrets and lies, the impacts. Late discovery intercountry adoptee.
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毛利人收养者致新西兰司法部长的信
Bev Reweti, transracial Maori adoptee, shares about her fight for justice and recognition of the historical wrongs to Maori adoptees like herself, in New Zealand.
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The Bearable Pain of Being Adopted
Kara Bos shares about learning of her father’s death and the ongoing pains of adoption.
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Distorted Priorities
It has come to my attention that the US Senate and Congress members have recently been sending letters to push for their agenda in intercountry adoption. The first I attach here to Assistant Secretary Carl Risch requesting attention to recommit to one of the purposes of the Intercountry Adoption Act, “to improve the ability of…
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The Importance of Including Those Most Impacted in Policy Discussions
Why it’s important to include the triad in policy forums.
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新连接
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…