Child Abduction

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The Barnardo Boys: Thousands of British 'Home Children' were shipped to Canada as child labourers in a plot right out of Dickens
Sanders, Carol
Article
2012
Between 1868 and the 1930s, more than 100,000 destitute children in Great Britain were shipped off to Canada. An estimated two-thirds of the Home Children, as they were known, were under the age 14.
China's stolen children: parents battle police indifference in search for young
Article
2013
Tens of thousands of children are snatched and sold into slavery every year, but parents say they get little help with their search.

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Devsirme
Wikipedia article
Devsirme (literally collecting in Turkish) was chiefly the practice by which the Ottoman Empire took sons from their Balkan Christian every year. They were then converted to Islam with the primary obj...
Duplessis Orphans
Wikipedia article
The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which approximately 20,000 orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the ...
Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany
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Kidnapping of non-Germanic European children by Nazi Germany (Polish: Rabunek dzieci), part of the Generalplan Ost (GPO), involved taking children from the rest of Europe and moving them to Nazi Germa...
Lost children of Francoism
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The lost children of Francoism were the children abducted from Republican parents, who were either in jail or had been assassinated by Francoist troops, during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spai...
Uganda's lost innocents
Andersson, Hilary
2003