Children trapped between supply and demand Where does adoption end and trafficking begin for Nepal’s children? JENNIFER LOWE Nepali Times (17 JUNE 2011 – 23 JUNE 2011): http://nepalitimes.com/issue/2011/06/17/Nation/18300 [Photo] — SHHH: Sign on the wall of an “orphanage” in Kathmandu housing children like the one, right, who have biological parents. The children are offered for international adoption, often without the …
Category: Hague Convention
Child adoption process to become more credible (The Himalayan Times)
Child adoption process to become more credible The Himalayan Times2011-05-08 KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) is working on the recommendations of the Permanent Bureau of The Hague Conference on Private International Law to make the adoption process more credible and reliable. The ministry is gearing up to implement recommendations forwarded by the Permanent Bureau. …
Commissione per le Adozioni Internazionali (Italy)
Commissione per le Adozioni Internazionali: http://www.commissioneadozioni.it/it/notizie/2011/comunicato-nepal-.aspx COMUNICATO: NEPAL (05/04/2011) Nei giorni 31 marzo e 1° aprile 2011 si è tenuto a Roma un incontro tra una delegazione da rappresentanti del Governo e alti funzionari del Nepal, i vertici del Permanent Bureau della Conferenza di Diritto Internazionale privato de L’Aja e i rappresentanti di 14 Paesi di accoglienza (Belgio, Canada, Danimarca, …
U.S. State Department — Update on Adoptions in Nepal
Nepal — U.S. State Department April 22, 2011 Notice: Update on Adoptions in Nepal Government of Nepal Announces Amendments to 2008 Terms and Conditions On January 5, 2011, the Government of Nepal, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MOWCSW) in its Notice No. 1 announced that children found by the police will not be available for intercountry adoption until …
Some background to the TDH/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans
Some background to the TDH/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans The Terre des hommes/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans was a major reason so many receiving countries suspended adoptions from Nepal. Paper Orphans focuses on three NGOs — Nepal Children’s Organization (NCO/Bal Mandir), the Helpless Children Protection Home (HCPH), and the Education Centre for Helpless Children (ECHC). For background to the documentary, …
Orphaned or Stolen? The U.S. State Department investigates adoption from Nepal, 2006-2008 (The Huffington Post)
by EJ GraffSchuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University Posted: February 18, 2011Updated: February 23, 2011 Exclusive State Department internal cablesfrom Freedom of Information Act requests Children abducted from their families for international adoption, so that middlemen could profit from Westerners’ cash. Families that left their babies temporarily with a child welfare center during times of illness or financial …
West not impressed by changes in adoption process (Republica)
West not impressed by changes in adoption process RepublicaKIRAN CHAPAGAIN KATHMANDU, Feb 19: Recent government efforts aimed at reforming its widely questioned inter-country adoption practices have failed to impress the United States, one of the main Western countries to stop adoptions from Nepal on grounds of lack of integrity in the system. The US said the amendment in the adoption …
US bar on Nepali kids’ adoption to stay (Kantipur)
US bar on Nepali kids’ adoption to stay KantipurBABURAM KHAREL KATHMANDU, FEB 18 – Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affair Janice Jacob has said that the ban on inter-country adoption from Nepal would remain despite some changes to the adoption process in Nepal. “The US suspension of inter-country adoption will remain in place until substantive progress is …
Nobody’s child (The Himalayan Times)
Nobody’s child (The Himalayan Times) Prakriti Pathak January 30, 2011 The international adoption trade is a booming multibillion-dollar industry, as families in the west increasingly adopt more babies from developing countries. Nepal, it seems does not want to miss out on this global opportunity. In 2007, Nepal adoption alter it faced pressure and severe criticism from national and international media …
Hague Secretariat invites Nepal to discuss adoption (Republica)
Hague Secretariat invites Nepal to discuss adoption Bikash Sangraula KATHMANDU, Jan 19: The Hague Secretariat based in the Netherlands that monitors compliance with Hague Conventions has written to the government of Nepal to participate in a meeting in Rome, Italy, to discuss the country´s inter-country adoption process. Nepal amended its inter-country adoption process in December 2010 amid allegations of widespread …