Children’s Rights Group Urge Stricter Measures for Cross-Border Adoptions in Africa

While international adoptions have decreased for the past years, international adoptions of children from Africa are on the rise. This can be caused in part by the fact that countries such as China and Russia are tightening up (or even halting) adoptions by other countries, particularly the United States. In turn, the numbers indicate that…

Donaldson Report Shows Changing Climate of International Adoptions

International adoptions increasingly involve older children, rather than infants and toddlers. In a report released by The Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI) last October 2013, results showed that more and more adoptions made internationally are of older children. Entitled “A Changing World: Shaping Best Practices through Understanding of the New Realities of Intercountry Adoption”, the report…

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