About
The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Brazil Baby Affair has been established to support all Brazilians worldwide – and their original families – who have been deprived of their human right to identity through illegal adoption and who are in search of their original families. Brazil Baby Affair takes a stance by encouraging all victims to realize …
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The phenomenon of Intercountry Adoption was established in the 1970s, and gave way to an increase in the practice of newborn children from third-world countries being made available to couples in first-world countries. Brazil became an important country of origin for Intercountry Adoption. Predominantly childless couples from prosperous “receiving” countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, …
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Since late 2019, we do not offer Family Tracing Assistance anymore; this page will be updated later. The Mission of the NGO is to provide assistance in family tracing requests in all de facto intercountry adoption cases from Brazil. The NGO Brazil Baby Affair specifically addresses all Brazilians worldwide, as well as their original families, …
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The vision of the NGO Brazil Baby Affair consists of abolishment of possible reoccurrence of the deprivation of the human right to identity through false birth registration.
To accomplish this vision, the NGO Brazil Baby Affair strives for complete avoidance of any kind of illegal adoption practices through the recognition of the right to a birth certificate to be included in the human right for birth registration. The NGO advocates for the right to a birth certificate to be accompanied by safeguarding measures to ensure the authenticity of the registration.
Cases
Louisa
Louisa grew up in Hamburg in a family with 4 siblings; some of them are adopted as well. She started to think about Brazil when she was about 14 years old.
When she was in her twenties, Louisa started to make her first inquiries about her Brazilian origins. She found it hard not knowing anything about her origins. On top of that, she had to cope with the lack of information available to search for her original family.
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