Study on illegal adoptions 2017, para. 86

Párrafo
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Various countries emerging from conflict or an authoritarian regime have been confronted with allegations of systematic illegal adoptions as part of past large-scale abuses. Few countries have responded to victims' calls for truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, however, and none have done so in a comprehensive manner. Argentina has pioneered such responses, in particular in relation to enforced disappearances, through truth-seeking and accountability. Genetic tracing and the establishment of a national genetic database have played a key role in identifying disappeared children who were subjected to illegal adoption and in efforts to seek judicial accountability. Moreover, the "disappeared" children, now adults, are stepping forward to uncover their biological origins and some are playing a role in the prosecution of their adoptive parents.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
  • Violence
Personas afectadas
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
Año
2017
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Paragraph number
86