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[...] concerned that the process of inter-country adoption is not in full conformity with the Hague Convention on Protection [...] [...]

This is being done with the objective of providing a legal framework to regulate inter country adoption and ensure the protection of children during inter country adoption.

[...] [...] Convention that governs international adoptions, child’s country [...]

To support family reintegration, family support and strengthening, [...] [...]

It is, furthermore, concerned at the lack of adequate oversight for intercountry adoptions, including the absence of a registry for children adopted outside the country.

(d) The paucity of post-adoption services available, particularly for inter-country adopted children and including with regard to addressing the language difficulties faced by such adoptees seeking information on their biological origin

[...] [...] foster or an adoptive family or cannot in any suitable manner be cared for in the child’s country of origin” and “ensure that the child concerned by inter-country adoption enjoys safeguards […] equivalent to those existing [...]

[...] [...] in inter-country adoption procedures

Although, by 2005, the number of adoptions per year had reached nearly 250,000, the majority of adoptions took place in a few countries, in particular the United States, China and the Russian Federation, in order of magnitude.

(c) The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption should be ratified and a bill should be brought before parliament transposing its provisions into domestic legislation

The Committee recommends that the State party incorporate, in its next periodic report, detailed information on the procedural and substantive aspects of the law on adoption including, in particular, the extent to which applicable law and practice are in accordance with article 21 of the Convention and the Hague Convention No. 33 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.

(e) Ratify the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption signed in 2009 as well as the International Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children supplementing the 2000 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Protocol).

[...] technical and financial resources, for the Korea Central Adoption Resources agency to effectively perform its role and function in accordance with article 6 of the Hague Convention, and including with regard to the provision of post-adoption services with due regard to ensuring the practicable access to such facilities [...] [...]

The Committee notes information provided during the dialogue and recommends that the State party develop appropriate safeguards to ensure respect for the “subsidiarity principle”, so that intercountry adoption of a child is only considered after all possibilities for domestic adoption have been exhausted.

The Committee urges all States parties to inform the child, if possible, about the effects of adoption, kafalah or other placement, and to ensure by legislation that the views of the child are heard.

In December 2008, Parliament approved the accession of Liechtenstein to the 1993 Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption.

As regards subparagraph 1 (f) of article 16, the United Kingdom does not regard the reference to the paramountcy of the interests of the children as being directly relevant to the elimination of discrimination against women, and declares in this connection that the legislation of the United Kingdom regulating adoption, while giving a principal position to the promotion of the children’s welfare, does not give to the child’s interests the same paramount place as in issues concerning custody over children.

[...] [...] in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.

The children from the following groups are considered particularly vulnerable in the Republic of Serbia: children from impoverished families, Roma children, children from families of refugees and displaced persons, children without parental custody and/or children separated from parents, children in institutions, children with disabilities, children in the readmission procedure.

[...] [...] their capacity to collect and compute price [...] [...]

[...] [...] in fostering national capacities for country-led evaluation systems, UNICEF published and widely disseminated — in partnership with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Food Programme, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation and the International Development Evaluation Association — a book collecting the wisdom and experiences [...]

MINUSTAH continued to contribute to building the capacity of the Haitian National Police for child protection and to provide technical assistance for reform of adoption legislation as well as policy on detention of minors.

And certain reservation clauses even impose such a provisional nature (cf. article 25, para. 1, of the 1967 European Convention on the adoption of children and article 14, para. 2, of the 1975 European Convention on the legal status of children born out of wedlock, whose wording is identical: “A reservation shall be valid for five years from the entry into force of this Convention for the Contracting Party concerned.

The Committee recommends that the State party ensure compliance with the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption at all stages of the adoption procedure, by providing adequate human and financial resources to the central adoption authority so that it can implement its programmes adequately, including by maintaining the oversight and control of all the different phases of the adoption proceedings and adoption agencies and by building the capacity of civil servants involved in the process.

[...] [...] development issues related to violence against women and enhancing the technical and analytical capacity of national statistical offices to collect and analyse data on those issues.