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Launch of the Philomena Project
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to visit the Philomena Project website
(Please note that the Philomena Project website content is
not fully up to date and will be undergoing revision in the coming
weeks)
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to sign the petition! - We have reached the target of 10,000
signatures - let's make it 10,000 more! 
NEWS....
18th February 2014
Knowing identity a basic human right denied to adopted
To say a forced adoption policy was not pursued here is laughable,
says Conall Ó Fátharta
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Click
here to read Denying
adoption records ‘horrific’:
President calls on the State and institutions to provide information
President Michael D Higgins has said it is “horrific” that basic
information is denied to adopted people and called on the State to
act on adoption rights.
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here to read
13th February 2014
Media Guide Published
Adoption Rights Alliance has published a media guide to empower and
guide those who wish to share their story publicly.
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Click here
to
view
24th January
2014
Philomena Lee to visit Ireland to launch The Philomena
Project
Philomena Lee will be in Dublin this Friday, 24th
January, to launch The Philomena Project in association with
the Adoption Rights Alliance, which aims to effect legislative
change by calling on the Irish state to grant access to adoption
records for both in-country and Irish-US adopted people and their
families. There are over 60,000 “adoption” files held by the HSE,
private adoption agencies and church representatives all of which
are the sole source of people’s identities. Sixty years after the
introduction of legal but essentially forced adoption,
The Philomena Project is
calling on the Irish government to lead the way and enact
legislation to allow the release of these 60,000 plus files to the
people whose identities these contain.
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