PEAR Ethics Alert – China Special Needs Programs

PEAR Ethics Alert – China Special Needs Programs PEAR has been alerted to some very concerning issues surrounding China’s special needs adoptions. We believe that adoption service providers (ASPs) are stepping up the recruitment and engaging in unrealistic practices due to their financial pressures as well as pressure from CCCWA to place SN children via a rumored reward program: 1 …

PEAR Ethics Alert on Adoption from Uganda

PEAR Ethics Alert on Adoption from Uganda PEAR has received numerous reports from adopting families and NGOs on the ground in Uganda regarding unethical conduct by adoption agencies, adopting families, and local facilitators and officials in Uganda. Due to the seriousness of these reports, the rapid increase in interest in adoption from this country, and the continued abuses of the …

Cashing in on Nepal’s youth (RT television)

Cashing in on Nepal’s youth (RT television) Video: http://rt.com/news/orphanage-child-trafficking-nepal-761/ Published: 03 March, 2012 Child trafficking is rife in Nepal, with many unregistered orphanages in the capital, Kathmandu, housing thousands of trafficked children. The thriving market for illegal adoption has turned the practice into a highly lucrative business. Widespread corruption and a high demand from the West for adoptive children are …

Child care centres running illegally (The Himalayan Times)

Child care centres running illegally The Himalayan Times 2012-01-29 SURENDRA KAFLE NEPALGUNJ: All the child protection centres established here to give shelter to neglected children have not met minimum standards. “District Children Welfare Committee Banke has found that the child centres were set up without meeting the set criteria,” said Child Welfare Officer Shova Shah. There are 14 children homes …

Govt extends deadline for inter-country adoptions (The Himalayan Times)

Govt extends deadline for inter-country adoptionsThe Himalayan Times 2012-02-25KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare has extended the deadline for applications from foreigners to adopt Nepali children after it received only a handful of requests.Foreign parents who want to adopt Nepali children now have two more months to file their application, which was due by mid-February for this …

Great expectations gone awry (Republica)

Great expectations gone awryRepublica:http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=41086 KALENDRA SEJUWALSURKHET, Jan 25: Twenty two children brought to the capital from several villages of Surkhet and Kalikot with the lure of top class education for negligible charges have been rescued by their parents after they found out that the kids were kept as captives in poor conditions at the school. The parents said they suspected …

Govt opens applications for inter-country adoption (Republica)

***Please note: although Nepal has announced it is accepting applications for intercountry adoption, the US Suspension on processing I 600 petitions for abandoned children remains in place. See: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/08/145767.htm Govt opens applications for inter-country adoption REPUBLICA ARJUN POUDEL KATHMANDU, Nov 29: After receiving no application for inter-country adoption in 2011, the government has asked prospective foreign parents to apply for …