Nepal’s Adoption System Unreliable: US (Republica)

Nepal’s Adoption System Unreliable: US KIRAN CHAPAGAIN KATHMANDU, Feb 23: The United States has accused Nepal´s inter-country adoption of being unreliable and cautioned prospective adoptive US parents to find out orphan status of the minors before taking any decision on adoption from Nepal. “We caution prospective adoptive parents who have yet to choose a country that the inter-country adoption system …

“Choose a different country” — Dawn Davenport

“Choose a different country” — Dawn Davenport I urge potential adoptive parents to be extremely cautious before choosing Nepal as a country from which to adopt. Adoptions from Nepal are highly unstable now. The Nepali government has said each agency may only process 10 adoptions per year. Children that have already been referred but not adopted are not grandfathered in …

Two articles in the Nepali Times

Two viewpoints on suspending adoptions from Nepal: Looking for a home A suspension on inter-country adoption will give the government time to work on strict adoption legislation MALLIKA ARYAL FROM ISSUE #490 (19 FEB 2010 – 25 FEB 2010) The Nepal Government suspended inter-country adoption in 2007 following evidence that Nepali ‘orphanages’ were selling children for thousands of dollars to …

MEDIA: Ethiopia Adoption in Spotlight Again

Last night CBS ran a story on an adoption from Ethiopia through CWA entitled: Child: US Adoption Agency Bought Me – CBS News Investigates Serious Questions about the Legitimacy of Some Ethiopian AdoptionsThe video can be seen here:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/15/cbsnews_investigates/main6210911.shtml CWA’s statement concerning CBS February 15 broadcast can be read here:http://www.cwa.org/cbsnews-response.htm PEAR understands that CBS is formulating a rebuttal to the CWA …

Nepalese Child Trafficking Abuses Adoption Process (LexisNexis)

Rule of Law 2/9/2010 8:32:35 AM EST Nepalese Child Trafficking Abuses Adoption Process: http://law.lexisnexis.com/webcenters/RuleofLawResourceCenter/Issues-Spotlight/Rule-of-Law/Nepalese-Child-Trafficking-Abuses-Adoption-Process Posted by Rule of Law Resource Center Staff Three years ago, Nepal temporarily suspended international adoptions because children were fraudulently identified as orphans and placed for adoption abroad without parental consent. Although adoptions resumed under new rules, The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recommended …

Germany Suspends Adoptions From Nepal (Republica)

Germany Suspends Adoptions From Nepal (Republica): http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=15019 KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Germany has suspended inter-country adoptions from Nepal, barely a week after a report of a group of international legal experts accused Nepal´s adoption system of being subject to widespread abuses. Though the German Embassy in Kathmandu circulated the decision among diplomatic missions based in Kathmandu on Wednesday, the embassy is …

UNICEF reiterates calls to halt Inter-country adoptions in Nepal (UNICEF Press Release)

UNICEF PRESS RELEASE UNICEF reiterates calls to halt Inter-country adoptions in Nepal Kathmandu, 8th February 2010: UNICEF has endorsed the findings by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference — delivered to the Government of Nepal today — to suspend inter-country adoptions here. The report on Inter-country adoption in Nepal follows an invitation by the Government of Nepal to the …

Children of the night (Kathmandu Post — editorial)

KATHMANDU, FEB 07 –The process of inter-country adoption of children from Nepal has never been free of controversy. In 2007, when it surfaced that many orphanages made lucrative business sending children out of the country, inter-country adoptions from Nepal were temporarily suspended; the orphanages that didn’t meet the minimum government criteria were closed down. Inter-country adoptions were restarted in 2008 …

Minister bats for tighter adoption policy (Himalayan News Service)

Last Updated : 2010-02-06 10:51 PM Himalayan News Service KATHMANDU: State Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Ram Bachan Aiyar today said that the government was committed to ensure that adopted Nepali children were not abused at home and abroad. The minister’s statement follows a public outcry over the adoption of children to foreign countries without following procedural rules. …