TY - JOUR
T1 - The aftermath of transnational illegal adoptions: Redressing human rights violations in the intercountry adoption system with instruments of transitional justice
AU - Loibl, Elvira
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - A growing movement of illegally adopted individuals request remedies and reparations for the human rights violations that they and their biological families had suffered. This article explores a number of measures that the stakeholders in the receiving countries can use in an effort to repair the human rights violations caused by illegal intercountry adoptions, borrowing ideas from transitional justice. In order to effectively redress the harm inflicted upon victims of illegal adoptions, a policy on remedies should combine instruments of retributive justice, aimed at holding wrongdoers accountable, with measures of restorative justice that focus on the victims’ needs and interests.
AB - A growing movement of illegally adopted individuals request remedies and reparations for the human rights violations that they and their biological families had suffered. This article explores a number of measures that the stakeholders in the receiving countries can use in an effort to repair the human rights violations caused by illegal intercountry adoptions, borrowing ideas from transitional justice. In order to effectively redress the harm inflicted upon victims of illegal adoptions, a policy on remedies should combine instruments of retributive justice, aimed at holding wrongdoers accountable, with measures of restorative justice that focus on the victims’ needs and interests.
KW - Illegal intercountry adoptions
KW - receiving countries
KW - transitional justice
KW - human rights violations
KW - remedies and reparations
U2 - 10.1177/09075682211064430
DO - 10.1177/09075682211064430
M3 - Article
SN - 0907-5682
VL - 28
SP - 477
EP - 491
JO - Childhood
JF - Childhood
IS - 4
M1 - 09075682211064430
ER -