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Ethiopia: Change in Processing Timeline for Adoption Cases
From the Department of State:
The Department of State shares families’ concerns about recent media reports alleging direct recruitment of children from birth parents by adoption service providers or their employees. In response to these reports, the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa has implemented some changes to adoption visa processing. Adoptive [...]
Ethiopian Revised Family Code: Adoption Section
Ethica is pleased to make available online relevant portions of the Ethiopian Revised Family Code which governs adoptions as applicable to Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.
The Family Revised Code: Federal Negarit Gazetta Extra Ordinary Issue No. 1/2000 The Revised Family
Code Proclamation No. 213/2000
Survey for U.S. Adoption Service Providers Placing Children from Ethiopia
The number of adoptions and the number of service providers in Ethiopia has greatly increased in the last few years, and uncertainty about existing laws and inconsistent policy among various agencies has caused confusion within the adoption community. Ethica receives numerous requests for information about agency practices in Ethiopia.
In the interest of advancing transparency in [...]
Australia suspends adoptions from Ethiopia
From ABC (Australia):
The Australian Government has suspended all child adoptions from Ethiopia over fears that it could be breaking human rights laws against child trafficking.
Read the rest of the article here.
Woman hopeful as adoption agency revived
From CBC News:
A New Brunswick woman says her dream of adopting two children from Ethiopia has been revived along with the international adoption agency she had been dealing with.
Debbie Thomas, of New Maryland, was one of hundreds of people who had filed mountains of paperwork and paid thousands of dollars to Ontario-based Imagine Adoption when [...]
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