2021年3月14日 · Thousands of Sri Lankan babies were put up for adoption between the 1960s and 1980s - some of them sold by "baby farms" to prospective parents across Europe. The Netherlands, which accepted...

2017年9月21日 · Crimes of this type were widespread in Sri Lanka during the 1980s, until a 1987 raid on a baby farm found 22 women and 20 infants living in "prison-like" surroundings and adoptions in the...

2017年9月21日 · Up to 11,000 children may have been sold to European families, with both parties being given fake documents. Some were reportedly born into "baby farms" that sold children to the West. Sri...

2019年4月5日 · She also learned of the chilling existence of ‘baby farms’ in Sri Lanka: homes in which women were kept for the sole purpose of giving birth to babies that would be given away for adoption. Why had these women—mothers like herself—participated in this …

2017年9月20日 · The existence of so-called ‘baby farms’ was the most important reason for the Sri Lankan government to suspend intercountry adoption in 1987. At these baby farms, women were impregnated to meet the demand for adoptive children. This is confirmed by Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, in response to the investigation by ZEMBLA.

Sri Lanka is to launch an investigation into adoption fraud following claims that thousands of babies were sold to foreign nationals in the 1980s. Rajitha Senaratne, Sri Lanka’s health minister, said the government would set up a DNA databank

2017年9月21日 · Up to 11,000 children may have been sold to European families, with both parties being given fake documents. Some were reportedly born into "baby farms" that sold children to the West. Sri...

2017年9月21日 · Thousands of children born in Sri Lanka were sold into overseas adoption in the 1980s, the country's health minister has admitted in a Dutch documentary. Rajitha Senaratne said the government was not aware of the trade, but has confirmed that up to 11,000 babies could have been sold internationally.

The government of Sri Lanka has launched an investigation into illegal child adoptions in the 1980s, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. Sri Lankan Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne announced during an interview to Dutch current affairs program Zembla that he would set up a DNA data bank that would enable identity verification of Sri Lankan ...

2023年1月23日 · In the 1970s, Sri Lanka had several "baby farms" that sold minors to European couples providing them with false papers. In 2017, Sri Lankan authorities admitted that 11,000 children may...