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	<title>Ethica&#187; An Independent Voice for Ethical Child Adoption</title>
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		<title>Ethiopia: Change in Processing Timeline for Adoption Cases</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Department of State:
The Department of State shares  families’ concerns about recent media reports alleging direct  recruitment of children from birth parents by adoption service providers  or their employees.  In response to these  reports, the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa has implemented some changes to  adoption visa processing.  Adoptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOS Notice: Caution About Pursuing an Adoption in Nepal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Department of State:
The U.S. Department of State strongly discourages prospective  adoptive parents from choosing Nepal  as a country from which to adopt due to grave concerns about the  reliability of Nepal’s  adoption system and the accuracy of the information in children’s  official files.  The Department also strongly  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to legislators in opposition to the FFOA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 23, 2010, Global Action for Children sent the following letter to the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee stating its opposition to the Families for Orphans Act.  Ethica was one of several child welfare organizations that signed on to the letter:
February 22, 2010
The Honorable John Kerry
Chairman
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
218 Russell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mother and Child, Divided After Earthquake, Reunite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haiti—The baby, his left leg amputated, arrived by helicopter at a  hospital in northern Haiti early this month with a wristband that simply  said &#8220;Boy.&#8221; The staff there called him &#8220;Jean Pierre.&#8221; On Thursday, he  became Kervins Noel again, after he was flown back here by the  International Committee of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer Chinese children available for adoption in US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is becoming increasingly difficult for  American couples to adopt a Chinese baby because the number of available  children is diminishing despite soaring interest, a senior US official  told China Daily on Wednesday.
More than 3,000  children from China were adopted in the United States last year, the  largest number among [...]]]></description>
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