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Illegally adopted Filipino babies traced
In the news:
Humanitarian workers using DNA tests are offering to help track down Filipino babies illegally sent to Singapore for adoption in affluent countries.
“Women posing as their mothers would go to Singapore using fake identification to make authorities believe that the babies are theirs,” said Amihan Abueva, regional coordinator of the NGO Asia Against [...]
Inter-country adoption bill pushed in the Philippines
Partylist lawmakers pushed Saturday for the approval of their proposed measure, which seeks to strengthen the rules governing inter-country adoption of Filipino children, to spare such adoption from being exploited by syndicates engaged in human trafficking.
CIBAC Party-list Reps. Cinchona Cruz Gonzales and Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva pushed for the passage of [...]
Malysian Baby-for-sale racket crippled
From The Sun Daily:
A baby-for-sale racket that is said to have sold dozens of newborn babies of single mothers over the past five years was crippled by police in an operation in Klang over the past two weeks.
The single mothers were Indonesians, Filipinos and Vietnamese, who were either legal or illegal workers here. There were [...]
Philippines: Simpler child adoption laws pushed
From ABS-CBN News
The Philippines needs simpler laws for potential parents who want to adopt orphans and neglected children, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said on Tuesday
Pimentel said he is drafting a bill that prescribes new ways of alternative child care and will consolidate all laws on domestic adoption and inter-country adoption, foster care and [...]
Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment
Changes to Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment for immigrants are being implemented in stages in different geographic areas; these changes may affect travel for adoptive families, particularly for those families adopting HIV positive children. Specifically, on October 6, 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease Control (CDC) published an Interim Final [...]
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