International Adoption Guide

2 years after Haiti disaster over 6000 children still have not found their families: “There are thousands upon thousands of children in institutions in Haiti. I’ve never seen anything quite like it,”

I knew that adopting a child from the Democratic Republic of the Congo would not be easy. But I never expected to be stuck on a pitch-dark road in the middle of the night, somewhere outside the city of Kinshasa, wondering if I was about to become another grim statistic in this troubled country.

Tightening of rules and preferential treatment to government facilities has lead to closures of Indian adoption agencies

2 December 2011, Ha Noi, Viet Nam – UNICEF applauds the recent ratification by Viet Nam of the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption. Following the signature of the Hague Convention by Viet Nam in…

Chinese police have arrested more than 600 people and rescued 178 children in crackdowns on two trafficking networks.

Russia makes moves to change the Constitution and the Criminal Code to make it possible to bring criminal charges against foreigners who have committed crimes against Russian Federation citizens.

KATHMANDU, Nov 29: After receiving no application for inter-country adoption in 2011, the government has asked prospective foreign parents to apply for adopting Nepali orphans for the year 2012.

Concerned parties believe that some abandoned or orphaned babies are robbed of the opportunity to be adopted by loving families.

VIETNAM HAS ratified the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, allowing Irish couples to adopt children from the country once more. The ratification will come into force on February 1st.

A universtity study in Australia has found potential adoptive parents are not coming forward or are questioning whether to apply at all because the adoption processes in Victoria (Australia) has been described as  "difficult, annoying, frustrating and antagonistic".