Guatemala to resume int’l adoptions in June By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA (AP) – 1 day ago GUATEMALA CITY — International adoptions will resume in Guatemala this June after a nearly two-year suspension prompted by the discovery that some babies were being sold, officials announced Wednesday. Four foreign adoption organizations will be selected to be part of the pilot program, said …
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PEAR launches Adoptive Parent Survey on Ethiopia Adoptions
Over the past two years, PEAR has received numerous comments and complaints concerning adoptions from Ethiopia. PEAR has launched a survey for US citizens who are adopting from or have adopted from Ethiopia. The survey requires you to give PEAR your contact information which will not be published. The survey can be accessed at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22ACQ3YKFXA PEAR intends to report results …
Care homes make false papers for fast buck (Kathmandu Post)
Care homes make false papers for fast buck INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION KATHMANDU POST REPORT http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2010/03/15/Nation/Care-homes-make-false-papers-for-fast-buck/6198/ KATHMANDU, MAR 15 – Controversy has not stopped dogging Nepal’s inter-country adoption. There are cases galore that expose how adoption has become a money-making tool for some. Officials at the Ministry Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) say use of falsified reports is rampant in lower …
Eyes on Money (Nepal Magazine)
“But, the stakeholders have questioned the legality of the fund established by the government.… ‘This is like depositing the government money in the private account by the minister’ one of the finance ministry official said.” Eyes on Money Nepal Magazine, 3-14 March 2010 By Upendra Pokhrel Translated from Nepali On Feb 10th, German Embassy declared the closure of adoption from …
Innovative Program Returns 20 Trafficked Children Home to their Families in Nepal
Innovative Program Returns 20 Trafficked Children Home to their Families in Nepal (press release) Thousands of children taken from Nepal’s rural villages by traffickers end up on the streets of Kathmandu. Through the efforts of Next Generation Nepal, a small nonprofit group, trafficked children are reconnected with their families and reunited with their communities. Thanks to the reunification efforts of …
Minister Ojha lands in thick soup (Kathmandu Post)
Minister Ojha lands in thick soup (Kathmandu Post) inter-country adoption http://www.ekantipur.com/2010/03/12/top-story/minister-ojha-lands-in-thick-soup/310070/ BABURAM KHAREL KATHMANDU, MAR 11 – Amid claims from different quarters that Nepal’s international adoption system is full of loopholes, it has been disclosed that a British couple managed to adopt a Nepali child flouting the law earlier this month. The British couple–Christopher Grice Lloyd and Caroline Ann Lloyd–managed …
Prachanda Raj Pradhan — head of the Child NGO Federation Nepal (CNFN)
Prachanda Raj Pradhan (the head of the CNFN — the Child NGO Federation Nepal) is a controversial figure in Nepali adoptions. For allegations regarding unethical conduct by Pradhan, see Nchild posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nchild/message/11331 and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nchild/message/10459 (In order to respect the terms of service for Yahoo groups and Nchild in general, specific content of messages cannot be reprinted here. However, membership in …
UDATE: Ethiopia – Australian Government Set to Reopen Program
Australian Government, Attorney-General’s Office Future of the Ethiopia–Australian Intercountry Adoption Program The Attorney-General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, has decided to lift the suspension of the Ethiopia–Australia intercountry adoption program. The program will recommence accepting new referrals of children in need of intercountry adoption and matching these children with prospective adoptive parents as at 6 April 2010. The Ethiopia–Australia program …
Adoption Notice U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEBureau of Consular AffairsOffice of Children’s Issues Change in Processing Timeline for Adoption Cases March 5, 2010 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 …
Media: Vietnam’s hill tribe children “stolen” for adoption
Vietnam’s hill tribe children “stolen” for adoption By Simon Parry Feb 23, 2010, 3:08 GMT Hanoi – High among the jagged limestone peaks that mark Vietnam’s border with Laos, Cao Thi Thu squats on the stone floor of her family’s hut and pleads, ‘Please help bring my daughters home.’ It is more than three years since officials came to Thu’s …