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Abuse cases

Title Date
Felicity and Barrett Kreb 2021 Oct 30
Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto 2013 Sep 27
Romanian boy adopted by Spanish couple 2006 Jun 16
Yuri Pintus Fiori (Kirill Pushkin) 2005 Jul 6
Children living at Casa Pia de Lisboa 1981 Jan 1

Child trafficking cases

Title Date
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Croation couples case 2020 Dec
Romania - Italian couple case 2011 Mar 10
Nepal - Smriti, daughter of Sarita Bhujel 2010 Jun 22
Vietnam - Ruc children of Quang Binh Province 2010 Mar 14
Philippines / Singapore - Irene Low Ai Lian case 2008 Dec 15
Vietnam - Nam Dinh province case 2008 Jul 1
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case 2007 Mar 7
Nepal - Kobi Raj Shahi case 2006 Jun 2
India - Ashwini and Komal, Satara case 2005 Jan 1
Roma children in Europe case 2005 Jan 1
Nepal - Nirmala Thapa's children 2004 Jan 1
Nepal - Ayush son of Sunita Bhattarai case 2003 Jan 1
Nepal - Pawan Karki son of Mitra Bahadur Thapa and Rama Karki case 2003 Sep 25
Nepal - Sabina Sunuwar daughter of Shushila Sunuwar case 2003 Aug 1
Pakistan - Dennis and Concetta Charles case 2002 Mar 1
Guatemala - Kimberly Xiomara Pineda Albizurez (or Siomara Arbizurez) case 2001 Jan 9
Russia - Nadezhda Fratti case 2001 Jan 1
Guatemala - Pablo son of Elivia Ramírez Caño 1997 Aug 13
India - misc Child trafficking cases 1995 Jan 1
Brazil - Judge Luiz Beethoven Giffoni Ferreira case 1992 Jan 1
Greece - child trafficking case 1989 Jan 1
Brazil - Arlete Hilu case 1982 Jan 1
El Salvador - Rosa Alicia Campos Mancia's 3 children - Jane Weideman Viasana case 1982 Nov 16
Brazil - misc trafficking cases 1980 Jan 1
Peru - misc child trafficking cases 1980 Jan 1
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case 1979 Jan 1
Guatemala - more trafficking articles and stolen children cases 1979 Jan 1

Deportation cases

Title Date
Various adoptee citizenship and potential deportation cases USA 2000 Sep 25

Disrupted placement cases

Title Date
3 children from India adopted by couple from Malta 2023 Jan

Documents

Title Publication date
Committee on Enforced Disappearances Marks First Anniversary of the Joint Statement on Illegal Intercountry Adoptions 2023 Sep 20
European Bureaucrats May Be involved in Child Smuggling 2023 May 31
Maltese couple abandon 3 children adopted from India, activists want action 2023 Feb 22
NCPCR lashes out at CARA over 'casual approach' in case of 3 Indian kids abandoned in Malta 2023 Feb 13
Govt takes cognizance of adopted Indian children abandoned in Malta, calls for case details 2023 Feb 11
NCPCR asks CARA to furnish all details of 3 siblings reportedly abandoned by their adoptive Maltese parents 2023 Feb 10
Adoptive parents ‘return’ three children, opening Pandora’s box 2023 Jan 2
Guardians get time in adoption case of orphan children in Mysore 2013 Nov 9
66 Bulgarian Children Trafficked in 2012, Greece Hot Destination 2013 Oct 28
"Maria" mystery lifts lid on bumbling Greek state 2013 Oct 23
Greece's child-trafficking problem 2013 Oct 21
Searching For My Daughter, A Human Trafficking Tale 2013 Sep 3
Five Bulgarians arrested for baby trafficking in Thessaloniki 2013 Jun 11
Alert: Serbia Adoption 2013 Mar 29
Adoptions to Italy halted 2013 Mar 25
Italy Signs Agreement to Resume Adoptions 2013 Feb 15
Spain’s Baby-Snatching Scandal Focuses on Nun’s Alleged Role 2012 Apr 11
Families fight to find children stolen as infants in Spain 2011 Dec 16
300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal 2011 Oct 16
Spain Confronts Decades of Pain Over Lost Babies 2011 Jul 6
Spain probes 849 cases of alleged baby trafficking 2011 Jun 18
Spain's Stolen Babies: A Nation Confronts Its Dark Past 2011 Mar 18
Spanish mother reunited with daughter she was told had died at birth 2011 Feb 20
Hundreds of Spanish babies 'stolen from clinics and sold for adoption' 2011 Jan 27
Spain seeks truth on baby-trafficking claims 2011 Jan 27
Spain, Italy suspend adoption from Nepal 2010 Jul 14
Selling poor children to rich parents (translated from Spanish) 2010 May 24
Sixteen adopted children returned last year 2010 Apr 1
Portugal sets up children’s shelter as concerns grow over child trafficking 2010 Jan 30
Agencies warn against quick adoptions 2010 Jan 23
Revisiting Messina vs. USCIS 2010
Two arrested in Vietnam for baby trafficking: report 2009 Nov 9
Italians make best parents for adopted Indian children 2009 Oct 18
Faith moves families to adopt children from overseas 2009 Oct 11
Orphanage worker jailed for sex abuse loses appeal 2009 Oct 7
Three Bulgarians arrested in Greece for selling newborn for 13 000 euro 2009 Oct 7
The lost children of Franco-era Spain 2009 Aug 25
Teenage mother stages protest after son is given for adoption 2009 Jun 6
Portugal placed on Iraqi child trafficking route 2009 Apr 18
Streit um Adoptionsfall 2009 Apr 17
about Catalonia adoption law.. 2009 Apr 8
Cambodge (20.03.09) 2009 Mar 20
International adoptions, talks between the EU and Romania 2009 Mar 20
Cambodia, adoptions: a mission 2009 Mar 13
The good Italians 2009 Mar 13
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS. ROUTE TO THE TESTING OF A NEW SERVICE 2009 Mar 4
Padres nepaleses reclaman a sus hijos adoptados en España (also in English) 2009 Mar 3
Adoptions, CAI: Soon 63 children from Bulgaria 2009 Mar 2
Families Search for Truth of Spain’s ‘Lost Children’ 2009 Feb 28
Kosovo: increase in abandoned children 2009 Jan 22
Judge orders probe into Franco-era missing children 2009 Jan 11
Judge orders probe into Franco-era missing children 2009 Jan 10
2009: un anno di ripresa per l'adozione internazionale 2009 Jan 3
Adozioni ormai impossibili 2008 Dec 29
Greece: Government Failing Migrant Children 2008 Dec 22
Una triste historia, los niños que robo Franco 2008 Nov 30
Difficulties in Adoption 2008 Nov 27
Adoption: 70 children returned to the institutions 2008 Nov 16
Spain has arrested fraudsters adopting children from Russia 2008 Oct 28
Adoptions needlessly tough 2008 Sep 18
Kosovo, AiBi enters the Government Panel for the rights of children 2008 Sep 16
Blog: What does a child cost? 2008 Jul 6
Paedophile adoption: change in law needed 2008 Jul 3
Prosecutor defends legislative amendment to prevent adoption by pedophiles 2008 May 20
Frattini, children: "From Belarus signs of openness" 2008 Jan 28
Italian Police Smash Nigerian Drug Gangs 2008 Jan 15
Parliament Adopts Accord on Adoptions with Macedonia 2007 Nov 22
Priest to pregnant teen: "Deliver in Gozo and give baby for adoption" 2007 Oct 27
Switzerland: 70 Portugese children adopted since 91 2007 Mar 2
The shocking truth about the baby factories 2006 Dec 22
The shocking truth about the baby factories 2006 Dec 22
Baby trafficking is thriving in Greece 2006 Dec 18
Baby trafficking is thriving in Greece - Europe - International Herald Tribune 2006 Dec 18
Renault's children 2006 Nov 11
Interpol search for Romanian children adopted abroad 2006 Sep 29
Prosecutor takes to money in international adoptions 2006 Aug 16
Romania - 31 children disappeared abroad 2006 Jul 27
Romania: 408 europarlamentari, di cui 64 italiani, chiedono la riapertura delle adozioni internazionali 2006 Jul 17
Probe into newborn not registered under name of biological parents 2006 Apr 16
Trafficking of children in adoptions by foreigners 2005 Oct 24
Trafficking of children in adoptions by foreigners 2005 Oct 24
Adoptii Internationale Cu Substituire De Copii. 2005 Oct 20
The nightmare to eight thousand meters 2005 Jun 29
Danut, orphan requested by the Spanish, no longer can stay in Madirjac 2005 Feb 17
Danut: Do Not Sell Me, Mr. Prime Minister 2004 Oct 1
Trafficking of babies : also in Portugal and Italy 2004 Aug 2
Red light on human traffic 2004 Jul 1
Child traffickers prey on Romania 2004 May 9
International organ trafficking 2004 May 1
Bosnia: Parents of children disappeared in Italy began with protests at the Embassy 2004 Apr 12
Trafficking of children in Mozambique? Coelho in an interview with newspaper The Crime'''' 2004 Apr 11
Romania-Adoption Secrets 2004 Feb 13
ROMANIAN OPPOSITION POLITICIAN THROWS 'ADOPTION BALL' INTO EU COURT 2004 Feb 9
Adrian Nastase confirm the involvement of heads of state and Prime Ministers in adoptions of children 2004 Jan 31
Berlusconi and Nastase, trafficking in children 2004 Jan 24
Prestigiacomo wants ban lifted 2004 Jan 8
En marge du scandale des adoptions, des roumains évincés dans leur démarche d'adoption . 2004 Jan 1
Sarajevo: Dirty game around adoption of children 2004 Jan 1
Special Commission on Intercountry Adoption 2003 Jun 23
Italian police 'buy' auctioned baby 2003 May 12
Franco también robó niñas y niños a combatientes republicanos 2002 Oct 22
Abandoned Parents 2002 Sep 3
Unlocked the adoption of Romanian children by 20 Spaniards 2002 May 31
When they closed the Romanian “baby shops” 2002 Mar 12
BILATERAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN AND THE REPUBLIC OF BOLIVIA IN THE FIELD OF ADOPTIONS 2001 Oct 29
Rwanda's tug-of-war children 2001 Apr 12
The supermarket closed 2001
"In Romania, coruptia este o metastaza" 2000 Jan 1
The roads of the baby trafficking 1999 Feb 16
Dispute over a five-year old 1997 Feb 27
Dozens of Spanish couples 'bought' children in illegal adoption in Romania 1996 Nov 1
All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise 1995 Apr 4
Adoption guide praises US law-breaker 1995 Mar 27
Italy illegally adopted 1500 Romanian children 1994 Dec 20
Babies for Export 1994 Aug 22
The East, a mine of children 1992 Oct 31
ROMANIAN ORPHANS FINALLY ARRIVE HOME NEW LEADERSHIP LETS ADOPTIONS GO THROUGH 1990 Jan 7
Romanian kids freed for Western adoptions 1990 Jan 7
ROMANIAN ORPHANS IN DEMAND NEW RULERS LIFT ADOPTION RESTRICTION 1990 Jan 4
They took my baby boy 1965 Feb 3
Italians finally give back stolen Romania children
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