For Terre des hommes, advocacy is continuing
In recent years, international adoption ha, bit by bit, lost ground after repeated scandals linked to cases of abuse, trafficking and child prostitution. In our increasingly globalized world, the drift has gone so far that it is even possible to buy a child direct on the internet. Admittedly, irregularities, badly applied laws and procedures and individual shady cases have always existed in all the countries practising international adoption; on the other hand, the fact of a country and its entire system being corrupt is a more recent phenomenon. Among the States with a high risk of trafficking, one thinks primarily of Romania in the '90s, then of other countries like Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Haiti and, more recently, Nepal and Ethiopia being accused of trafficking in children. Meanwhile, the pressure brought by the international community, particularly the host countries, has borne fruit and forced the countries of origin to review the way they function, their legislation and their procedures.
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