Hague Conference On Private International Law, Child Trafficking In Nepal
Dept: Ottawa resident Adrian Gollner and his wife are among 11 couples who had started the process of adopting children in Nepal in the hopes of bringing them to Canada in 2009. That decision left Gollner's family plans in limbo. He and his wife have a four year old biological son, but were hoping to add another child to the family and had tried adopting from China. A group of Canadian couples hopes to convince the federal government to overturn a recommendation last month to suspend all adoptions from Nepal. But a February report from the Hague Conference on Private International Law raised concerns of fraudulent adoptions and child trafficking in Nepal. In response, federal agencies called on provinces to suspend adoptions from the South Asian country. The report followed visits from international monitors in the fall of 2009 that found widespread evidence of falsification of records. As
reported in the news.
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