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Rwanda: U.S. Department of State Adoption Alert – August 27, 2010
From the U.S. Department of State: Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues __________________________________________________________________ August 27, 2010 Effective August 31, 2010,the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MGFP) in Rwanda is temporarily suspending all new applications for intercountry adoptions so they can prepare for accession to the Hague [...]
States gathered in The Hague admit the existence of child trafficking in the context of adoption
From Terre des hommes: After nine days of heated and intense discussions, the Hague Special Commission, a kind of general assembly of Member States to The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, was concluded. The discussions and the resulting conclusions will certainly have an important impact on the protection of children deprived of family care and [...]
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