The Committee was established when possible abuse concerning the adoption of babies in the 1970s and 1980s in which Dutch government officials might have been involved were discussed. The need to investigate more closely is primarily due to grown-up adoptees,...
- 16 February 2021
Le rapport final de la commission d’enquête sur les foyers pour mères et bébés en Irlande a été publié en 2021 (1). Le rapport, ainsi que les travaux menés par des personnes adoptées et des survivants dans le cadre du Projet...
- 15 January 2021
The latest report, building on a commissioned study by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) of February 2020, exposes serious irregularities in some cases in child adoptions from Sri Lanka between 1973 and 1997. The Federal Council “has acknowledged...
- 11 December 2020
20 million child brides (under 18) live in Sahel today. As a consequence, 95% of married adolescent girls do not attend school and most do not have anything to say in major decisions in their homes. More generally, this harmful...
- 07 December 2020
The report reminds us that “society first acknowledges a child’s existence and identity through birth registration ». It then mentions that « of the 168 million unregistered children worldwide, more than half (around 96 million) live in Africa, nearly all of them...
- 10 November 2020
