Calls to Action

  • FACE Act
  • Families for Orphans Act
  • Mercy James
  • TVPRA
  • Ethica responds to Center for Adoption Policy and New York Law School’s discussion of Ethica’s legislative proposal to combat trafficking for the purposes of adoption

    Below is a letter Ethica submitted in follow up to the Center for Adoption Policy and the New York Law School’s recent discussion of Ethica’s legislative proposal to combat trafficking for the purposes of adoption.  Ethica continues to encourage organizations to assist us in working to combat trafficking in adoption, especially utilizing legislative approaches that [...]

    Welcoming our newest board member

    Dear friends, Ethica is thrilled to announce that our board is adding a new member.  Farnad J. Darnell is an active member of the adoption community as a researcher, educator, and staunch advocate for justice in adoption.  As an adoptee, he has recently become more involved in the adoption community through regular contributions to the [...]

    Volunteer for Ethica or Donate to Support our Cause!

    Dear Friends, Happy 2012!  We hope your New Year is starting out well. Here at Ethica, we finished out 2011 very quietly as we contemplated our positioning for 2012.  In 2011, we decided to shift our focus from crisis intervention to policy advocacy on a national level, and we worked diligently with officials in Washington [...]

    Update from Washington: Both good news and bad

    Dear friends, Thank you for all that you’ve done to call and email the Senate offices in Washington to ask them to include this small, but critical amendment in the TVPRA 2011.  We are so grateful to have such enthusiastic and committed supporters. I’m writing with some updates, both exciting and a little disappointing.  First, [...]

    Stop Trafficking Into Adoption Today

    Dear Friends, Ethica urgently needs your help. This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be marking up the Trafficking Victim Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011, a lifesaving measure that establishes human trafficking as a crime in the U.S.  Ethica supports this measure, but we also think it could be strengthened with a tiny, one-line amendment [...]