Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
A series looking at how wartime rape in 1971 resulted in an unprecedented number of abandoned babies and allegations of children going missing in the international adoption system
The stranger across from me was my sister: how one adoptee uncovered a tragic past
A Dutch group that reunites children with their birth parents in Bangladesh is fighting to change the international adoption systemRead more: Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseas
‘I was told I could visit. Then she went missing’: the Bangladeshi mothers who say their children were adopted without consent
Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseas
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part three
What would you do if everything you believed about your childhood was wrong? Rosie Swash and Thaslima Begum investigate an international adoption scandal that is still shattering lives today
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part two
What would you do if everything you believed about your childhood was wrong? Rosie Swash and Thaslima Begum investigate an international adoption scandal that is still shattering lives today
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part one
What would you do if everything you believed about your childhood was wrong? Rosie Swash and Thaslima Begum investigate an international adoption scandal that is still shattering lives today
‘My mother spent her life trying to find me’: the children who say they were wrongly taken for adoption
‘I’ll never know where I’m from’: plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh’s Birangona women
‘We lay like corpses. Then the raping began’: 52 years on, Bangladesh’s rape camp survivors speak out
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told
