Dear Sir/Madam, 

In 2013 I handed in a FOIA request. I had requested to communicate by mail, since I live in Brussels/Europe. 
I did not hear anything back. 

Now this FOIA overview was send to me by someone who found my name on it. 
It states 'other reasons', and it is not clear to me what that means. 

Could you please clarify? 

Thank you in advance, 

Roelie Post

I kindly request a confirmation of receipt and confirmation that my FOIA request is in process.

Best regards,



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For many other adoptees they were able to find their biologcal family by doing DNA tests. They were the fortunate ones to be reunited with their family. This begs the question as to when it will be my turn

Fardau’s search has led her back to Sri Lanka five times since 2005. Her adoption papers listed a woman named Redige Baby Nona as her birth mother, but a DNA test in Colombo proved otherwise

For 20 years, Fardau Huisman has been searching for a missing piece of her identity—the truth about her birth family. Born in Sri Lanka in January 1985 and adopted by a Dutch family as a baby, she grew up in Holland with little knowledge of her origins. Her Sri Lankan name was Ganga, but the identity of her biological parents remains a mystery.

Fardau’s search has led her back to Sri Lanka five times since 2005. Her adoption papers listed a woman named Redige Baby Nona as her birth mother, but a DNA test in Colombo proved otherwise. That revelation uncovered a darker truth—Baby Nona

Children are separated from their parents unjustly and for years, or never allowed to return home: that is what Hungarian child protection has done in recent years. The Flemish government is going to investigate in Hungary whether adoption from that country may still be possible.

'If I hadn't gotten help, my children wouldn't be with me now.' Barbara, a woman with curls and an engaging smile, sits beaming with pride in a grimy armchair. Next to her sit four mischievous little rascals, her sons. They were taken away one by one by the Hungarian child protection services. The reason? Poverty in the family.

Civil rights organization TASZ (also known abroad as HCLU) helps Barbara and other parents to challenge unfair decisions. For Barbara, it took years, and she will never get that lost time back. She is the victim of a child protection system that is flawed on all sides.

'Families in Hungary should primarily solve their own problems, rather than seek support and guidance from the state,' says the international children's rights organisation ISS. In 2022, the organisation conducted an analysis of adoption and child protection in Hungary on behalf of the Flemish government. The aim? Based on this information, the Flemish Centre for Adoption will decide whether adoptions from Hungary will continue to be permitted in the future.

Poverty or neglect?

"There was even an incident where a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old sister were forcibly taken away by the local government as if they were kidnapped"

“Indiscriminate child separation is taking place in Korea”… Interview with Kim Soo-bin, President of the Nabu Association

Editor's Note= The interview article with Kim Soo-bin, the president of the 'I am a Parent Association', is so long that it will be sent in three parts. This is the first article, and it contains information about his own growth process, his experience of separation crisis from his children, and the forced separation of infants. The second article, which will be sent early next week, will cover various forms of forced separation. The third article, which will be sent early the following week, will cover institutional and structural issues related to child separation. Life is an autobiographical interview, so it contains many personal stories and personal photos.

Kim Soo-bin, Chairman of the Nabu Association, and his first baby

Campaigners demand government issue formal apology to women forced to give up their babies in 1950s-70s

Time is running out for the UK government to issue a formal apology to women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, campaigners have warned.

Most of the estimated 185,000 women involved in forced adoptions are now in their 70s and 80s, and some have died without an apology on behalf of the state being issued.

Klaus Chikufenji, a prominent businessman, music promoter, and aspiring Member of Parliament, is at the center of a sprawling scandal involving human trafficking, forged documents, and the illegal adoption of vulnerable children. A damning investigation by the Investigative Platform-MW (PIJ) reveals how Chikufenji, in collusion with the Good Samaritan Children's Home, orchestrated the theft of children from their living parents, falsified death certificates, and profited from unethical international adoptions.

The investigation uncovers a chilling pattern of criminality, implicating Chikufenji in a network of corruption that preys on Malawi's most vulnerable. At the heart of the scandal is the case of Agness (name changed to protect her identity), a mother from Mulanje District whose three children were stolen from her while she was hospitalized.

The Stolen Children

In 2016, Agness was admitted to Mulanje District Hospital for an illness. When she returned home, her three children were gone. Her grandmother informed her that the children had been taken to the Good Samaritan Children's Home, allegedly at the behest of former Minister of Gender, Community Development, and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati.

Agness later discovered that her children had been declared orphans, with forged death certificates claiming both she and her ex-husband were dead. The certificates, obtained by Chikufenji, were used to facilitate the illegal adoption of her children by an American couple, Priscilla Garner and her husband.

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A mother is speaking out after she says her 12-year-old daughter was denied a place on the heart transplant list at Cincinnati Children's Hospital because of her vaccination status.

Brayton and Jeneen Deal, who adopted Adaline from China, said she was born with two heart conditions that will now require a transplant.

When the Deals were in the process of adopting Adaline, the adoption agency told them to pick another child because "her heart was so bad, she wasn't going to make it," they wrote in a GoFundMe campaign.

"We continued to support Adaline so she could stay in a foster home, but shortly after we arrived home with our other adopted child, the agency stopped taking the funds out of our account," they wrote.

"So, we thought she had passed away."