ROMANIA - FOR EXPORT ONLY |
ROMANIA - FOR EXPORT ONLY |
‘A nest of scorpions of big (business) interests inter-woven with political and social actors, and the large demand for adoptable children, creates indeed a market functioning that until now has been systematically denied.’ |
‘Roelie Post ... ran into the powerful, international lobby of Western business-men, politicians and even government officials who want to maintain the foreign adoptions stream and at best see it grow. Her resistance got her into trouble’ De Telegraaf |
But no longer. Roelie Post worked for the European Commission on Romania’s reform of child protection. Romania wanted to become a member of the European Union, and therefore had to take better care of their ‘orphans’. But when this meant that the intercountry adoption market needed to be closed a ferocious lobby stepped out. This book tells what happens if a country wants to look after its own children. It unveils the lobbies, the interests in Romanian children at world level. The reader is taken along on an eight-year-travel, from 1999 to end 2006, and will be shown the story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ from a different light, where global politics and private interests compete with the rights of the child.
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