In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves and their birth families and communities, adoption stakeholders in both sending and receiving countries have remained largely passive, lacking a coherent strategy to confront and rectify illegal intercountry adoptions. This inertia is exacerbated by the wide gap in adequate regulations regarding remedies and reparations for illegal intercountry adoptions. Facing the Past: Policies and Good Practices for Responses to Illegal Intercountry Adoptions aims to fill this critical gap by offering insights and recommendations to guide the process of reconciliation. Bringing together the contributions from scholars from various disciplines and adoptees themselves, this volume presents and discusses actionable measures that adoption stakeholders in both sending and receiving countries can employ to address the injustices inflicted upon victims of illegal intercountry adoptions. Targeting a diverse audience, including academics, policymakers, and adoption stakeholders, the book seeks to foster a path toward healing and accountability within the complex terrain of intercountry adoption.

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Inhoudsopgave:

1. Introduction; 2 Pursuing Truth, Justice and Rectification of the Global Orphan Adoption System: the Legacy of South Korea’s Case; 3 ‘Quien Soy Yo?’: The Right to Identity and Colombian Adoption Reparations; 4 Obstacles in the Search for Origins and Identities of Brazilian-Israelis Adopted Through Child Trafficking; 5 Finish What You Start: The Cold War Greek Adoption Experience and Recommendations for Current Policy Reform; 6 Switzerland Takes First Steps to Deal with Illegal Intercountry Adoptions; 7 The Struggle Towards Collective Justice Through Financial Compensation for Intercountry Adoptees in the Netherlands; 8 Changing the Historiographical Paradigm: Towards an Alternative Genealogy for Intercountry Adoption; 9 The Baby and the Bathwater: Resisting Adoption Reform; 10 Receiving States’ Obligations in the Aftermath of Illegal Intercountry Adoptions as Enforced Disappearances; 11 Individual Criminal Responsibility for Illegal Intercountry Adoptions Following the Crime of Enforced Disappearance