Nepal Adoption Notice — U.S. State Department http://adoption.state.gov/news/nepal.html U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEBureau of Consular AffairsOffice of Children’s Issues ________________________________ February 17, 2010 The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recently released a report on its Intercountry Adoption Technical Assistance Program, based on a visit by the Hague delegate to Nepal in November 2010(http://www.hcch.net/upload/wop/nepal_rpt09.pdf). This report is based on an …
Month: February 2010
MEDIA: Ethiopia Adoption in Spotlight Again
Last night CBS ran a story on an adoption from Ethiopia through CWA entitled: Child: US Adoption Agency Bought Me – CBS News Investigates Serious Questions about the Legitimacy of Some Ethiopian AdoptionsThe video can be seen here:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/15/cbsnews_investigates/main6210911.shtml CWA’s statement concerning CBS February 15 broadcast can be read here:http://www.cwa.org/cbsnews-response.htm PEAR understands that CBS is formulating a rebuttal to the CWA …
Nepalese Child Trafficking Abuses Adoption Process (LexisNexis)
Rule of Law 2/9/2010 8:32:35 AM EST Nepalese Child Trafficking Abuses Adoption Process: http://law.lexisnexis.com/webcenters/RuleofLawResourceCenter/Issues-Spotlight/Rule-of-Law/Nepalese-Child-Trafficking-Abuses-Adoption-Process Posted by Rule of Law Resource Center Staff Three years ago, Nepal temporarily suspended international adoptions because children were fraudulently identified as orphans and placed for adoption abroad without parental consent. Although adoptions resumed under new rules, The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recommended …
Nepal — the Hague report
Nepal — the Hague report Intercountry Adoption Technical Assistance Programme – Report of Hague Conference Mission to Nepal (23-27 November 2009): http://www.hcch.net/upload/wop/nepal_rpt09.pdf Ethics, Transparency, Support~ What All Adoptions Deserve.http://www.pear-now.org/
Blog reports Sweden has suspended adoptions from Nepal
A Swedish blog is reporting that Sweden has suspended adoptions from Nepal: Today we received a call from our adoption agency. They stated that the Hague has written a report sighting several things they felt Nepal needed to address with their adoptions. Because of that report, Sweden will no longer allow adoptions from Nepal to be processed. It means that …
German Office of Justice — suspension of Nepali adoptions
German Office of Justice — suspension of Nepali adoptions: Veröffentlicht am 11. Februar 2010 Nepal Am 9. Februar 2010 fand aufgrund der besorgniserregenden Ermittlungsergebnisse und Berichte der deutschen Botschaft in Nepal und des Ständigen Büros der Haager Konferenz ein Treffen mit Vertretern der für Nepal zugelassenen Vermittlungsstellen Diakonisches Werk, Eltern-Kind-Brücke und Help a Child, der aufsichtsführenden Zentralen Adoptionsstellen aus Mainz …
Nepal — 6 more homes licensed for adoption
Nepal — 6 more homes licensed for adoption: 1. Nepal Child Welfare Service Centre — Godawari, Lalitpur 2. Community Child Rescue Centre — Imadol, Lalitpur 3. Nepal Child Protection Home — Khusibu, Kathmandu 4. Subharramva Child Home — Gothathar 5. Child Base Nepal — Gothathar 6. National Widow and Child Home for Helpless — Banepa http://www.mowcsw.gov.np/opensection.php?secid=483 Scroll to document entilted …
Germany Suspends Adoptions From Nepal (Republica)
Germany Suspends Adoptions From Nepal (Republica): http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=15019 KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Germany has suspended inter-country adoptions from Nepal, barely a week after a report of a group of international legal experts accused Nepal´s adoption system of being subject to widespread abuses. Though the German Embassy in Kathmandu circulated the decision among diplomatic missions based in Kathmandu on Wednesday, the embassy is …
UNICEF reiterates calls to halt Inter-country adoptions in Nepal (UNICEF Press Release)
UNICEF PRESS RELEASE UNICEF reiterates calls to halt Inter-country adoptions in Nepal Kathmandu, 8th February 2010: UNICEF has endorsed the findings by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference — delivered to the Government of Nepal today — to suspend inter-country adoptions here. The report on Inter-country adoption in Nepal follows an invitation by the Government of Nepal to the …
Nepal — 17 more agencies licensed
Nepal — 17 more agencies licensed S.N Name of the Agency Address Country 1 Great Wall China Adoption 248 Addie Roy Road A102 Austin, TX 78746 USA 2 Across the World Adoptions 395 Taylor Boulevard Suite 116 Pleasant Hill, California 94523 USA 3 Adoptions Homestudy Agency of Colorado 4685 West Prince to Avenue Denver, Colorado, 80236-3213 USA 4 Humanikat – …