The research foundation RETHINKIN has released a book entitled ‘The Right to Identity and Access to Information on Genetic Origin and Parentage,’ which explores the right to identity from an international human rights perspective. This volume compares the national regulations...

Following the Dutch report in January 2021 placing a moratorium on intercountry adoptions, there is now a focus on the loopholes in the receiving State – in particular related to recognition of questionable birth certificates. It seems that at the...

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,...