MEDIA: Hindu Times – Supreme Court notice to Centre, CARA on plea to review adoption policy

Supreme Court notice to Centre, CARA on plea to review adoption policyJ. VenkatesanPublished: April 22, 2011 23:06 IST | Updated: April 23, 2011 02:44 IST NEW DELHI, April 22, 2011 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1718716.ece?css=print ‘Government has failed to ensure a record of adoptable children is maintained’ The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) and the Union government …

MEDIA: The Adoption Commandment

The role of religion in the creation of adoption law and policy is something all prospective and adoptive parents should closely consider. The Evangelical Christian Adoption Movement has raised many issues in the discussion of ethics in adoption. Some of these issues are addressed in a recent article in The Nation by PEAR member Kathryn Joyce:http://www.thenation.com/article/160096/adoption-commandment Ethics, Transparency, Support~ What …

Orphanage Operator Held (Republica)

Orphanage Operator Held Republica KATHMANDU, April 2: Police have rescued 20 children from Mukti Nepal, a Maharajgunj-based orphanage, and arrested its operator after finding that the orphanage does not meet minimum standards. The rescued children are aged between five to 15 years. Police arrested Goma Luitel, chairman of the orphanage, at the behest of the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB). …

MEDIA: Voice of America – UNICEF Concern Prompts Cambodian Investigation of Orphanages

UNICEF Concern Prompts Cambodian Investigation of Orphanages Robert Carmichael March 23, 2011 Phnom Penh The Cambodian government has begun investigating the country’s orphanages; just days after the United Nations Children’s Fund expressed its concerns that nearly three out of four children in the country’s orphanages have at least one living parent. Earlier this week, UNICEF said most of the 12,000 …

Twenty Children Rescued from Mukti Nepal

Mukti Nepal rescue photo (Nepali Times): http://www.nepalitimes.com/gallery/mainphoto.php?id=1259 LET US OUT: Human Rights Organisations recently rescued 20 children from Mukti Nepal, an orphanage in Maharajgunj. The orphanage had failed meet even the minimum requirements, housing 24 boys and girls, aged between 7 to 15, in a single room. PHOTO: BIKRAM RAI Posted on: 22 MARCH 2011 For the story of the …

Media Coverage of US DOS Visit to Cambodia

The following stories were published today concerning the visit by US Department of State officials to Cambodia Voice of America: US Maintains Ban on Cambodian Adoptions Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh Friday, 18 March 2011 A US envoy for children’s issues declined to lift a ban on US adoptions from Cambodia Friday, despite the 2009 passage of an …

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 …