Cambodia to Resume International Adoptions on January 1
Cambodia will allow inter-country adoptions to resume from January 1 next year, four years after the government stopped adoptions amid claims of corruption and baby selling, government officials confirmed yesterday. Speaking after a meeting with Susan Jacobs, the U.S. State Department’s special adviser on children’s issues, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Long Visalo said that after putting in place new child-protection measures, Cambodia would allow foreign adoptions starting in 2013. Mr. Visalo also said that the U.S. would lift its own ban on adoptions from Cambodia at the same time. … Prior to the adoption ban, Cambodia’s foreign adoption system had long been associated with institutionalized corruption and reports of baby buying from poor parents to provide children for overseas parents. As a result, the U.S. suspended Cambodian adoptions in 2001, as did the U.K. in 2004.
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