Guatemala Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEBureau of Consular AffairsOffice of Children’s Issues Hogar Listserve Updates The Office of Children’s Issues provides regular updates to families and adoption service providers specifically affected by legal actions taken regarding hogares or child care centers for children in Guatemala awaiting international adoptions. If you received this e-mail in error and do not wish …
Month: March 2010
Adoptee Voice: Camryn Mosley
Camryn Mosely recently completed an interview with Guam Family Magazine. The resulting article was published in November 2009 and is now available online at: http://issuu.com/guamfamilymagazine/docs/nov09issuehires Camryn was adopted from Cambodia in December 1999. Her adoption adoption story was highlighted in the Washington Post and People magazine after it was discovered and reported that her history and documents had been falsified. …
MEDIA: CAMBODIA plans to reopen the door to foreign adoptions by the end of March 2011
The following article was reported at http://khmernz.blogspot.com/2010/03/foreign-adoptions-by-2011.html via CAAI News Media Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:05Mom Kunthear and Irwin Loy CAMBODIA plans to reopen the door to foreign adoptions by the end of March 2011, officials said Monday, meaning the Kingdom has one year to meet strict international guidelines put in place to prevent child trafficking. The announcement comes after …
Adoptee Voice: Camryn Mosley
Camryn Mosely recently completed an interview with Guam Family Magazine. The resulting article was published in November 2009 and is now available online at: http://issuu.com/guamfamilymagazine/docs/nov09issuehires Camryn was adopted from Cambodia in December 1999. Her adoption adoption story was highlighted in the Washington Post and People magazine after it was discovered and reported that her history and documents had been falsified. …
UPDATE: Haiti & Nepal – ISS March 2010 Monthly Review
Excerpts from the International Social Services March 2010 Monthly Review HAITI: Update on child protection measures post earthquakeUNICEF has published a short report summarising the situation in Haiti post earthquake, paying specific attention to the needs of children. ISS is working on a report (which is still at a draft stage) with UNICEF on the adoption situation in Haiti post-earthquake. …
Media: Ethiopia revokes licences of nine charitable organizations
http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=120802 APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)Ethiopia revoked the license of nine orphanages (charity organizations) who they claim to be involved in ‘illegal’ activities of child rights abuse, APA learns here on Wednesday.The nine charity organizations have been working to adopt children for the past few years to Europe and America.However, the office, which is in charge of registering charity organizations at the …
Paper OrphanKishan Sharki (Kantipur Daily)
Paper OrphanKishan Sharki (Kantipur Daily) Translated from Nepali By Deepak Adhikari. Lalitpur – The language and gestures of Kishan Sharki show that he is a young boy of Catalonia, Spain where he is living now. His English is influenced by Spanish accent. He uses Facebook and helps his mother in arranging spoons and forks in the kitchen. Before this, he …
Adoptee Voice: Journee Bradshaw
The below poem was written by Journee Bradshaw. Journee was adopted from Ethiopia and is attempting to come to terms with the circumstances of her adoption.Her story was highlighted in the ABC Australia news story Fly Away Home http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2834100.htm We are honored to reprint Journee’s poem: It is Everything ~ Journee Bradshaw “Hold your head up”, they say.I walk with …
Paper orphans (The Kathmandu Post)
Paper orphans (The Kathmandu Post): http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2010/03/23/Oped/Paper-orphans/206483/ Anita Krishnan MAR 23 – I have had opportunities to work with institutionalised children, and somewhere a question that always hung silently was: “what end does institutional care hold for the children?” Not that I left it to silence. As a student I talked about it, among friends we discussed it and once I …
UPDATE: DOS Adoption Notice on Cambodia
Adoption Notice U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEBureau of Consular AffairsOffice of Children’s Issues March 2010 On December 3, 2009, new legislation on intercountry adoption was signed into law in Cambodia. The new law seeks to create a country-wide comprehensive child welfare system and an intercountry adoption process in compliance with the Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention (the Convention) to which Cambodia is …