Reader's Blog: Adoptees must receive their basic human rights

A blood relative loses touch with a family member and after many years decides they would like to know how that family member is, perhaps be in touch, but for the moment know that they are alive and well.
The only way to find this person is through a State agency but the State agency says there are no contact details on record. Disappointed, upset, the relative lets the matter drop but continues to think about that missing family member.