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Article: The baby harvest: scandal over Westerners 'shopping' for children in India.(Child Rights)
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- August 1, 2003
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Much as Northern corporations outsource their manufacturing in the sweatshops of the South, rising infertility rates in the rich world, particularly the US, are leading couples to 'shop' for a child in poorer countries. Korea, Vietnam, Russia, China and India are among the favoured destinations.
A series of scandals uncovered in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh over the past six years is finally laying bare the criminal network that has been built up around the traffic in girl babies. Private adoption agencies in the state capital, Hyderabad, networked with foreign placement agencies to set up a baby-trafficking system which made a mockery of India's ...