Topic: Unicef

Challenges, disputes lie ahead as advocates push for more adoptions from HaitiLogistical challenges and potentially bitter disputes lie ahead as passionate advocates of adoption press for changes that might enable thousands of Haitian children affected by the earthquake to be placed in ...

Nepal's stolen children point to flawed system

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.By the time Nepali returned to retrieve the children his three-year-old ...

Nepal's stolen children highlight flawed adoption system

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.By the time Nepali returned to retrieve the children his three-year-old ...
Americans rushing to adopt children left orphans from Haiti quakeTammy Gage cries every time she turns on the TV and sees the devastation in Haiti. I think it's a way that people are opening up their heads and their hearts," said Mary ...
UNICEF has been waging war against international adoption for many years contrary to popular understanding. It?s a war with results that fall far short of real time solutions to the spoils of its victories. UNICEF?s premise that parents in underdeveloped countries should ...

Nepal restarts international adoptions

Nepal has begun accepting applications from foreigners who want to adopt Nepalese children, 18 months after the practice was stopped because of widespread malpractice, officials said Friday.Adoptions were suspended after reports that foreigners paid up to 20,000 dollars to adopt children, most ...

Foreign adoptions in U.S. drop

For Third Straight Year, Foreign Adoptions in U.S. DeclineThe number of foreign children adopted by Americans has dropped for the third year in a row, a consequence of tougher policies in the two countries — China and Russia — that over the ...