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Foreign adoptions by Americans decline again, to lowest level since 1994
From The Washington Post: The number of foreign children adopted by Americans fell by 15 percent last year, reaching the lowest level since 1994 due largely to sharp cutbacks by China and Ethiopia, sources of most adoptees in recent years. Figures released Tuesday by the State Department for the 2011 fiscal year showed 9,320 adoptions [...]
Maltese authorities investigating trafficking case of unborn Filipino child
From The Malta Independent: The police, Department for Social Welfare Standards and Aġenzija Appoġġ are looking into the case of unborn child trafficking reported in the international media in the past days, the Education, Employment and Family Ministry said yesterday. Their reaction came after this newspaper yesterday reported that an expectant Filipino mother was reportedly [...]
Philippines: US Department of State Adoption Notice – January 31, 2011
From the U.S. Department of State: Philippines Adoption Notice U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues ICAB Announces Temporary Moratorium January 31, 2011 The Philippine Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB) has announced a moratorium on accepting new applications from Adoption Service Providers (ASPs) who submitted more than 10 adoption cases [...]
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 [...]
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 House Bill 6964 [...]
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