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Corruption in international adoptions
Orphaned or Stolen?
The U.S. State Dept.
investigates adoption
from Nepal, 2006-2008
"Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis," ForeignPolicy.com, September 12, 2010
- Map: Geography of an Adoption Crisis
- Experts respond
to "Anatomy of an
Adoption Crisis"
- Primary sources: U.S. government documents, 2007-2008 (obtained via Freedom of Information Act)
- Startling quotes from released documents
- By province: References to adoption problems
- Denying an orphan visa: USCIS appeals
- Visa denied: The story of one family
- U.S.-VN Memorandum of Agreement, 2005
- U.S. Department of State: Vietnam adoption notices
- Licensed adoption agencies listed by province, 2006-2008
- Adoption agencies licensed to work in Vietnam, 2006-2008
"The Baby Business," Democracy Journal, Summer 2010
- "The Baby Business"
with footnotes - Experts respond
to "The Baby Business" - Policy proposals for
fairer international
adoption practice - Key documents:
Hague regulation - Specific regulation changes
- Cash required: Bad practice
"The Lie We Love," Foreign Policy magazine, Nov./Dec. 2008
- “Where do babies come from?”: country-by-country map of reported adoption irregularities
- "The Orphan Trade: A look at families affected by corrupt international adoptions," Slate.com,
May 8, 2009 - "The Adoption Underworld," The Washington Post,
Jan. 11, 2009- "The orphan manufacturing chain," The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2009
- "Out of Cambodia," The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2009
- Awards for "The Lie We Love"
Commentary:
- "Adopting new standards on adoption," "Comment is Free," Guardian.co.uk, Sept. 10, 2010.
- "Preventing Adoption Disasters," The Boston Globe, April 17, 2010.
- The New York Times "Room for Debate": "Haiti's Children and the Adoption Question," with commentary by E.J. Graff and other prominent experts, Feb. 1, 2010.
- "The Seamier Side of International Adoption,"
The New York Times Opinion Blog, May 10, 2009. - "The problem with saving the world's 'orphans'," The Boston Globe,
Dec. 11, 2008.
- “Where do babies come from?”: country-by-country map of reported adoption irregularities
- Map: Geography of an Adoption Crisis
- Experts respond to
"Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis"
- Experts respond
to "The Baby Business" - Reader responses
to "The Baby Business" - Reader responses to
"The Lie We Love" - The orphan myth:
Responses to criticisms
Country by country: adoption corruption reports from around the world:
- ALBANIA
- ARMENIA
- BELARUS
- CAMBODIA
- CAMEROON
- CHAD
- CHINA
- COLOMBIA
- CONGO
- EL SALVADOR
- ETHIOPIA
- GUATEMALA
- HAITI
- HONDURAS
- INDIA
- INDONESIA
- KENYA
- KYRGYZSTAN
- LIBERIA
- MARSHALL ISLANDS
- MEXICO
- MOLDOVA
- MOZAMBIQUE
- NEPAL
- NIGERIA
- PARAGUAY
- PERU
- PHILIPPINES<
- POLAND
- ROMANIA
- RUSSIA
- SAMOA
- SIERRA LEONE
- SWAZILAND
- UGANDA
- UKRAINE
- VIETNAM
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Photos in collage above
left: Street scene
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Child © Sirgain | sxc.hu
Photo above: Manilla
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NOTE: Unlike the other country pages grouped under “Corruption in International Adoption,” this page from the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism website offers news reports about an international adoption system that many experts praise as exemplary. Most of the other pages in this grouping offer documentation of and background about serious irregularities in international adoption. For the systemic analysis of corruption in international adoption, please read “The Lie We Love,” Foreign Policy magazine, Nov./Dec. 2008, and visit our webpages dedicated to international adoption. For ideas about fairer policy solutions, please read “The Baby Business,” Democracy Journal, Summer 2010.
News Reports of Adoption
Practice in the Philippines
“RP's exemplary practices in the field of int'l adoption hailed,” December 13, 2009, Philippines News Agency.
Manila—The Permanent Bureau of The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recognized the exemplary practices of the Philippines in the field of International Adoption.
“RP Adoption system Gets Global Recognition,” Ellalyn B. De Vera, December 4, 2009, Manila Bulletin
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Esperanza Cabral said the Permanent Bureau of The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recognized the exemplary practices of the Philippines in the field of international adoption.
“Moratorium on Accepting New Applicants,” May 1, 2009, U.S. Department of State, Pound Pup Legacy.
As of May 1, 2009 The Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB) has announced a moratorium on accepting new applications from prospective adoptive parents seeking to adopt a child between of 0-2 years of age with or without medical/developmental concerns. "Due to the large number of unmatched approved adoption applications for prospective adoptive parents wanting to adopt children" in this age group and the limited number of children currently available for inter-country adoption, ICAB has indicated that the moratorium will be lifted after it has processed at least 50% of these current cases.
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