Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare Notice on domestic adoption Date: October 23, 2011 In accordance with the details received from Land Reform and Management Department, this is to inform that 48 Nepalese children from the children’s homes enlisted in the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare and 11 children from other children homes have been adopted by …
Category: Nepal Process
Paper Orphans documentary posted on the web
Nepal — Paper Orphans documentary posted on the web: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5QiFFxAu4 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0adJdVBPvtoPart 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsUWaToRWuQPart 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Fyy3UY_U0 It would be useful if the FBI and Interpol took a good look at the Western organizations that worked with these homes. Some background to the TDH/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans. The Terre des hommes/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans was a …
Swiss National Radio on Nepali adoptions (English translation)
Swiss National Radio on Nepali adoptions (English translation): Soundbite Music Kamala Tamang lives in a mountain village far off Katmandu. She is the mother of two sons and one girl. After divorce, she went to the city where she found work in a hotel. She gave her children to an orphanage because she believed that they would get good education …
Disabled kids to get priority in adoption (The Himalayan Times)
Disabled kids to get priority in adoption (The Himalayan Times) 2011-09-10 HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE KATHMANDU: The government is to give priority to ‘children with special needs’ –– those who have some kind of disability –– for inter-country adoption, said a committee established to monitor inter-country adoptions. To pave way for the new provision, the government in January amended the Inter-Country …
Renewal of Foreign Organizations or Agencies (MOWCSW notice)
Government of Nepal Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare Notice on Renewal of Foreign Organizations or Agencies http://www.mowcsw.gov.np/inter-country-adoption-15-en.html Date: 4 September 2011 Upon scrutiny the applications submitted by the following foreign organizations along with other documents for renewal pursuant to the notice published on 2 January 2011 for renewal of the foreign organizations enlisted for two years with effect …
U.S. Still Suspects Fraud In Nepalese Orphanages (NPR)
U.S. Still Suspects Fraud In Nepalese Orphanages by Monica Brady-Myerov May 10, 2011 Listen to the Story: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/10/136179395/u-s-still-suspects-fraud-in-nepalese-orphanages All Things Considered — National Public Radio Photo — Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images The Helpless Children Protection Home is an orphanage in Katmandu. Last August, the U.S. government suspended adoptions from Nepal because it was concerned about fraud in Nepal’s adoption system — …
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. …
Left in limbo: Nepalese adoptions halted (PBS)
Left in limbo: Nepalese adoptions halted (PBS) On Mother’s Day weekend, adoptive parents on the verge of bringing home a child find themselves caught between two governments. By Habiba Nosheen and Lisa Desai May 6, 2011 The U.S. State Department has suspended adoption of abandoned Nepalese children, citing numerous examples of unreliable and possibly fraudulent documents. For Dee Dee Milton …
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 …