Foreign adoptions 'make children commodities', NGO challenges definition of human trafficking

Aarti Betigeri - ABC News

The debate on intercountry adoption is currently “heating up” in India, according to this article from Australia’s ABC News. The article discusses the work of Against Child Trafficking (ACT), a Europe-based NGO that has been involved in child protection and adoption issues, to help adoptees from India to locate their birth families. The article discusses the financial nature of intercountry adoption and the ways in which some advocates describe it as a form of child trafficking.