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Experts urge Nepal to ban international adoptions
Legal experts have called for international adoption of Nepalese children to be suspended after an investigation uncovered widespread abuse of the system.A team of adoption law experts who visited Nepal in November found documents were routinely falsified and children’s homes were largely unregulated, with the interests of the child often not considered at all.
In a draft report seen by AFP on Thursday, they urged authorities in Nepal to suspend international adoptions so that new legislation to prevent such abuses could be put in place.
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