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by Lynelle Long, Founder of InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)
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Around the world, intercountry adoptees have been steadily breaking the silence and finding legal avenues to challenge the injustices committed against them. These legal actions span continents and decades, revealing systemic failures in how intercountry adoptions were facilitated, documented, and inadequately monitored.
What began as isolated individual struggles h...
On 15 Sept 2025, I was asked by Fireside Adoptees to speak at their webinar on Amplifying Adoptee Advocacy. Here is what I shared.
Thank you Amanda for inviting me to speak at Fireside Adoptees today. I’m honoured and ho...
This legal-technical report, authored by Andrea Maldonado Leguizamón, documents how Colombia’s child protection system facilitated unlawful adoptions during the armed conflict (1985–2001). It reveals that children, particularly from vulnerable families or disaster-affected regions like Armero, were institutionalized and adopted without due legal safeguards. Through a crit...
by Andrea Kelley, adoptive mother based in the USA, founder of Beteseb Felega – Ethiopian Adoption Connection : providing search/reunion for Ethiopian adoptees and families
Many Ethiopian adoptees are labeled “abandoned,” meaning no f...
