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 …
Category: Ethics/Unethical Practices
US warns against adopting in Nepal (AFP)
US warns against adopting in Nepal (AFP) http://www.rnw.nl/int-justice/article/us-warns-against-adopting-nepal The United States has warned its citizens against adopting children in Nepal, saying it has “grave concerns” about the reliability of that country’s adoption system. The government urged prospective adoptive parents to choose another country, citing the case of a young Nepalese girl placed in the custody of an American couple without …
Adoption Alert — Nepal (U.S. State Department)
Adoption Alert — Nepal (U.S. State Department) Nepal Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEBureau of Consular AffairsOffice of Children’s Issues ________________________________ Caution About Pursuing an Adoption in Nepal March 04, 2010 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 …
What do you do when the authorities are suspected traffickers?
Interesting article by Lt. Col. Holmes (below). He has a point. Some of the alternatives to adoption seem better suited to Sweden than to South Asia. Nonetheless, his article contains a huge flaw. Lt. Col. Holmes: “The latest report from the Hague Conference raised the very serious concern over ‘paper orphans’, children who were designated as being orphans when they …
Nepal’s stolen children highlight flawed adoption system (AFP)
02 March 2010 Nepal’s stolen children highlight flawed adoption system (AFP) AFP – Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The owners of the children’s home had promised to take care of his son and …
PEAR Statement on Nepal Adoptions
PEAR Statement on Nepal Adoptions The country of Nepal reopened its intercountry adoption program in January of 2009 after closing in 2007 due to allegations of trafficking and corruption. At the time it reopened, PEAR was cautiously optimistic that Nepal would be able to follow this new program and adoptions would be transparent, ethical and in the best interests of …
Dalit Couple Foils Adoption Of Offspring (Republica)
Dalit Couple Foils Adoption Of Offspring OM ASTHA RAI KATHMANDU, Feb 24: After desperate searches, a downtrodden Dalit family from Nuwakot district has retrieved its lost children, who were nearly adopted by an American couple. Rajan Nepali, 27, who works as a manual laborer in Kathmandu to feed his family, had sent his children–son Kaushal, 7, and daughter Karuna, 3, …
Observations of Nepal’s Troubled Adoption System from a Past Perspective
By Barbara McArtneyAttorney at LawDirector, Graham’s Gift Children’s FoundationBoard Member, PEAR The Government of Nepal suspended international adoptions in 2007 in order to reform its process, then widely criticized as being corrupt and rife with irregularities. Under new terms and conditions written in 2008 that accredited orphanages and licensed foreign agencies, Nepal reopened to US adoptions in 2009. At the …
Statement by International Adoption Working Group
Embassy of the United StatesPublic Affairs OfficeKathmandu, Nepal Tel: 400-7200 February 24, 2010 Statement by International Adoption Working Group The ad hoc International Adoption Working Group strongly encourages the Government of Nepal to act swiftly to strengthen the adoption process by implementing all 1993 Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption regulations, including implementing measures aimed at ensuring authenticity and accuracy of …
UPDATE: Poland – PEAR’s Cautionary Statement on Adoption from Poland
PEAR’s Cautionary Statement on Adoptions from Poland Over the past four months PEAR has received numerous complaints and requests for assistance from families who are in the process of adopting from Poland or who have completed a recent adoption from Poland. The majority of these situations involved inaccurate, incomplete, or falsified medical and psychosocial histories of the children to be …