Category: The Netherlands
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Dutch adoption changes close doors on South African children
By Carina Roux Link to story Wandisa Specialist Child Protection and Adoption Services, based in Somerset West, has described 23 June as “a dark day” following the announcement by its Dutch partner agency, Nederlandse Adoptie Stichting (NAS), that it will cease all intercountry adoption mediation by the end of 2028. Wandisa and the NAS have…
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Costa Rica Adoption Review Deepens After Norway Final Report
Link to story Norway’s final report on international adoptions has turned Costa Rica’s recent file review into a sharper official finding: Norwegian authorities did not do enough to understand how some Costa Rican children were declared abandoned before being sent abroad for adoption. The finding follows PANI’s May decision to review 101 adoption files involving Costa Rican…
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Aljazeera: Child of Their Time: The emotional cost of international adoptions
A Dutch filmmaker, whose brother was adopted from Indonesia in the 1970s, shares his family’s painful story. Filmmaker Huibert van Wijk explores the complexities of international adoption through the lens of his own family’s experiences. His adopted brother, Tim, and their father, Lex, have been estranged for years due to tensions surrounding Tim’s adoption. While…
Transnational /Transcultural Adoption Project 