The following stories were published today concerning the visit by US Department of State officials to Cambodia
Voice of America: US Maintains Ban on Cambodian Adoptions
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh Friday, 18 March 2011
A US envoy for children’s issues declined to lift a ban on US adoptions from Cambodia Friday, despite the 2009 passage of an adoption law, officials said.
The US banned adoptions from Cambodia in 2001, after allegations that mothers were being paid to give up their children to adoption agencies.
Susan Jacobs, the US Ambassador for Children’s Issues, told Cambodian officials the country had made improvements in children’s protection.
But after her two-day fact-finding mission, the US Embassy said in a statement, “The United States has not set a date for resumption of inter-country adoption with Cambodia.”
Full Story: http://www.voanews.com/khmer-english/news/US-Maintains-Ban-on-Cambodian-Adoptions-118241639.html
DAP News: US Adoption Official Visits Cambodia
Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs visited Cambodia March 17-18 for fact finding meetings on inter-country adoptions, the statement from US embassy here on Friday.
It added: ambassador Jacobs met with Cambodian government officials and representatives from other embassies to discuss the state of implementation of prakas and level of compliance to the Hague convention on adoptions. The United States looks forward to working with the Cambodian government as it establishes a child welfare system and will review carefully the implementing regulations related to the new law on inter-country adoptions as they are issued.
“We recommend the Royal Government of Cambodia for their accomplishments to date in increasing protection for vulnerable children. The United States has not set a date for resumption of inter country adoption with Cambodia,” the statement said.
Full Story: http://www.dap-news.com/en/news/4075-us-adoption-official-visits-cambodia.html
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