Actions of adoptees and adoptees’ associations around the world are manifold and provide invaluable support to other adoptees and their families. More recently, one can observe that many of these actions target how to respond to the discovery of – systematic or individual – illicit adoption practices and seek to mitigate their impact on an adoptee’s life and find solutions of different nature (legal, psycho-social, etc.); motivation for ISS/IRC to reflect on these more recent actions through this editorial.