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Ethiopia Adoption Connection/Beteseb Felega
Ethiopia Adoption Connection/Beteseb Felega (Facebook)
Ethiopian Adoptees of the Diaspora(Facebook)

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Hana Alemu Befekadu/Hana Williams. June 19, 1999-May 12, 2011

Death of Hana Grace-Rose Williams, Wiki

Light of Day Stories has several pieces on Hana.

Prosecution says adopted girl died in ‘house of horror‘ USA Today, September 6, 2013

The moment adoptive parents broke down in tears as they get maximum sentences for starvation and hypothermia death of teenage girl from Ethiopia Daily Mail, October 29, 2013

Washington couple weep as they are sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for death of Hana Williams, New York Daily News, October 30, 2013
Hana’s Story: An adoptee’s tragic fate, and how it could happen again, Slate, November 9, 2013

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Links

2025

Lawmakers Demand Answers Over 34,000 Lost in Spanish Adoptions, Birr Metrics, December 25, 2025

2021

US-Based Non-Profit Group Reunites Ethiopian Families Separated by Adoption, VOA News, June 7, 2021

2019

An Adoptee’s Return: Lea Wright, Black Identity and International Living, March 12, 2019

Ethiopian adoptees in Nine Mile Falls learn their birth mother who has cancer, HIV is improbably alive. Spokane Spokesman-Review, August 7, 2019

2018

Ethiopia bans adoption of children by foreigners, The Independent, January 10, 2018
Ethiopia Adoption Ban May Curb Trafficking, But Poorest Families Need Support, Voice of America, January 15, 2018
In Ethiopia, A New Ban On Foreign Adoptions Is About National Pride, NPR, April 2, 2018
Ethiopia’s ban on foreign adoption disappoints hopefuls, TRT World, February 18, 2018,
What NPR Got Wrong in its Story About Ethiopia’s Adoption Ban, Light of Day Stories, April 6, 2018
America Soured on My Multiracial Family, The Atlantic, August 25, 2018

2014

Adoption Ethiopia: Babies, Don’t They?” The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, November 24, 2014
International Adoption Made Me a Commodity, Not a Daughter, Guardian, October 31, 2014
International Adoption Made Me a Commodity, Not a Daughter. Africa Speaks 4 Africa, December 24, 2014

2011

How Ethiopia’s Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists, The Atlantic, December 21, 2011
Don’t Adopt from Ethiopia, Amerian Prospect, May 2, 2012

International adoption made me a commodity, not a daughter, The Guardian, October 31, 2016
An Adoptee’s Return: Lea Wright, Black Identity and International Living, March 12, 2019
US-Based Non-Profit Group Reunites Ethiopian Families Separated by Adoption, VOA News, June 7, 2021

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