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  2. 1980s–1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    After the fall of the communist regime, after the conditions in the orphanages were made public, adoption was promoted as a solution. As a result, large numbers of children were adopted by foreigners in the 1990s and early 2000s. Nevertheless, there were many irregularities, fueled by corruption and loose regulations.

  3. Romani Americans - Wikipedia

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    Schools for young Roma students have been set up in California, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and Camden, New Jersey. [17] Pennsylvania, Indiana, Georgia and New Jersey, passed discriminatory laws that targeted Romani people. [18]

  4. Romani people in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Romani people in Chicago are an ethnic group in the Chicago area. Around 5,000 to 10,000 Roma reside in the Chicago area. [1] Romani people first came to Chicago in the 1880s. In 2023, the Romani flag was raised for International Romani Day in Chicago. [2]

  5. Mercy Home for Boys and Girls - Wikipedia

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    Mercy Home began accepting girls in 1987. Three years later, it was renamed Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are cared for—the Boys' Campus, located in Chicago's West Loop area, and the Girls' Campus, located south, in Chicago's Morgan Park community.

  6. Category:Romanian adoptees - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Romanian adoptees" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Diicul Buicescul; C.

  7. Anti-Romani sentiment - Wikipedia

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    In 2007 the Romanian government established a panel to study the 18th- and 19th-century period of Romani slavery by princes, local landowners, and monasteries. This officially legalized practice was first documented in the 15th century. [8] Slavery of Romani was outlawed in the Romanian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in around 1856. [19]

  8. George Clements - Wikipedia

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    George Clements was born George Harold Clements in Chicago on January 26, 1932, to Samuel George, a Chicago city auditor, and Aldonia (Peters) Clements. He attended Corpus Christi Elementary School in Chicago, and graduated from Chicago's Quigley Academy Seminary in 1945.

  9. List of international adoption scandals - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers Home was one of the adoption centers that engaged in the trafficking in South Korea and the adoption agencies and South Korean government destroyed tons of documents to hide their activities and gave false identities to the children while selling them. The Brothers Home Facility sold the adoptees to Australia, Europe and North ...