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Nepal
Babies just another commodity
From The New Zealand Herald: In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing. They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising parents they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. [...]
Nepal: Children trapped between supply and demand – Where does adoption end and trafficking begin for Nepal’s children?
From the Nepali Times: Kathmandu Valley has dozens of children’s homes and orphanages, Thamel is plastered with fliers looking for volunteers and donations to help parentless children. Foreigners can often be seen holding their newly adopted Nepali babies as they dine in hotels. It is clear that the business of adopting orphans has taken off [...]
U.S. still suspects fraud in Nepalese orphanages
From NPR: Last August, the U.S. government suspended adoptions from Nepal because it was concerned about fraud in Nepal’s adoption system. The suspension left dozens of American families in limbo. After months of investigations almost all of those American families have been granted visas for their adopted Nepali children. But there’s still concern about whether [...]
Left in limbo: Nepalese adoptions halted
From PBS (video): The U.S. State Department has suspended adoption of abandoned Nepalese children, citing numerous examples of unreliable and possibly fraudulent documents. For Dee Dee Milton and 70 other American families who were in the midst of finalizing adoptions from Nepal, the new U.S. policy left them in limbo. The onus was now on [...]
Nepal: US Department of State Adoption Notice – April 22, 2011
From the US Department of State: Nepal April 22, 2011 Notice: Update on Adoptions in Nepal Government of Nepal Announces Amendments to 2008 Terms and Conditions On January 5, 2011, the Government of Nepal, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MOWCSW) in its Notice No. 1 announced that children found by the police will [...]
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