Just as discrimination against women in the Netherlands and around the world is still problematic, so can the system of (international) adoption be problematic. Hardly anyone knows this as well as Ina Hut.
From 2003 till 2009 she was the Executive Director of the organisation Wereldkinderen, one of the biggest adoption agencies in the Netherlands. During her time at this organisation, she started to investigate the background of adoptions of children from China and was multiple times pressured by the Dutch ministry of justice to put her investigation to an immediate stop on pain of revoking the license of Wereldkinderen.
In 2009 she resigned from her position as the Executive Director as a whistleblower which got a lot of media attention in the Netherlands and forced the minister of justice to face his responsibilities in the Tweede Kamer oft he Dutch parliament a.o. for trying to intimidate Ina Hut. For this debate she wrote a report about the system of intercountry adoptions (a.o. from China). Since 2015 is Ina Hut Executive Director of the Dutch Coördinatiecentrum against Mensenhandel (CoMensha) and expert opinion leader in the fight against human trafficking.

Website Coordinationcenter against Human Trafficking/ Coördinatiecentrum tegen Mensenhandel: https://www.comensha.nl/

Special thanks for the voice-over to Martina Novak: https://www.martinan.com/

Produced by Sarah Tekath in collaboration with Broadcast Amsterdam
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