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Vietnam ‘ready to sign up to adoption convention’
From the Irish Examiner: It has emerged that following discussions between the Irish and Vietnamese authorities, Vietnam is preparing to ratify the Hague Convention on inter-country Adoption. The international agreement, which Ireland signed up to last year, is a system of co-operation among countries ensuring that adoptions take place in the best interests of the [...]
Child trafficking in China raises fears for adoptive parents
From SOS Children’s Villages: Reports from government officials emerging from China are having some adoptive parents of children from that country fearing that their children may have been stolen from their birth parents and sold on the black market. Child abduction and trafficking has been making headlines in China recently, and many parents of adopted [...]
Nepal to Ethiopia: A Study in Corrupted Adoption
From The Independent: …But being a mum isn’t something that came easily to Victoria. As an international adoptive parent, determined not to cut corners or resort to bribery, she was forced by a rapidly corrupting system to fight tooth and nail for her little girl. It was a fight that took its toll and almost [...]
How flawed is the international adoption process?
From Slate: It is impossible to know exactly how many international adoptions are similarly tainted. The underlying problem is that the developing world does not have as many young children who need families as the West has families who want a young child. Many Westerners have heard that there is a massive worldwide orphan crisis [...]
China: Doctor helped in selling of children to Chinese families
From Shanghai Daily: An obstetrician was among those found helping human traffickers sell Vietnamese children to Chinese families in a cross-border case cracked by police in south China. Police in Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday revealed details of their operation on July 15 in which they broke up a trafficking gang, saving [...]
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