JCICS was part of a meeting yesterday with three congressional offices, two from Kentucky and one from Illinois. Through a meeting with Chris Smith, they were referred to the Helsinki Commission, one of the largest Human Rights watch groups in the world, and a meeting has been set with them for 3pm today. Also discussed was the February 2004 letter from Pierre Poupard of UNICEF to the Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase as it directly contradicts the UNICEF statement from January 2004 that indicated international adoption is one viable form of child welfare. (See attachment to minutes.)

It was learned that there are several leaders in the U.S. that may be able to help influence the situation. Senator Landrieu is on the subcommittee for the U.N. and also serves on the appropriations committee which governs funding for UNICEF. Also, there are several EU parliamentarians from within the U.S. government that serve as direct liaisons. Tom Lundsford who works within the DOS is also a liaison.

A summit will be held between the European Union and President Bush in D.C. starting Monday. There will be a meeting between the EU officials and congressional leaders next Thursday, and For the Children (a pipeline advocacy group) is trying to get pending cases on the agenda as private comments.

DOS continues to help advocate for the pipeline cases as well. Maura Harty had a recent meeting with President Basescu, which led to the President writing a letter to the EU requesting permission to process the remaining pipeline cases.

Rosemary shared that one of her clients is good friends with Tony Lake, who used to be the National Security Advisory during President Clinton’s first term. He is now the chairman of the funding committee for UNICEF in NY. He was made aware of the negative impact of UNICEF’s stance and action regarding inter-country adoption in many countries. He is very interested in what is going on, and Rosemary is trying to gather information to give him. Hannah Wallace is working on a committee that is coming up with a report on inter-country adoption based on documentation they are working with. Rosemary would like to provide him with any information she can before his next meeting in July.

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Rosemary shared that one of her clients is good friends with Tony Lake, who used to be the National Security Advisory during President Clinton’s first term. He is now the chairman of the funding committee for UNICEF in NY. He was made aware of the negative impact of UNICEF’s stance and action regarding inter-country adoption in many countries. He is very interested in what is going on, and Rosemary is trying to gather information to give him. Hannah Wallace is working on a committee that is coming up with a report on inter-country adoption based on documentation they are working with. Rosemary would like to provide him with any information she can before his next meeting in July.

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Google Translation:

Adecop, Phew"

Submitted by clooney18 on June 15 at 16:45

My experience with adecop say that was rare, not in the sense of the adoption, if not in what I could see in terms of what surrounds it. If you go to their offices alicante look weird stuff, there is a private agency, which apparently is the president of ADECOP, because I saw him over there, and within it, sharing space ADECOP this, I would imagine that all that is not ADECOP subsidized, because when it presents the accounts of adecop see a point in their budgets for rent. I only had to go once there, talk to the director of ADECOP, who is the wife of the president, and in order, are rare that you see things and do not know or do not want to explain to imagine weird stuff, as I imagine it must have a salary women and I imagine that the accounts of the ADECOP should make anyone who imagine that it must be one's own consultants, who charged for this service, so that everything stays at home. I only say this, he gave me the impression that this was more than an ECAI looks like a well-structured business, I can not imagine anything, just talking to me the impression that da.Pero that's not my job, that should resolve the administration, that is what is responsible for all subsidize the cost for the maintenance of these partnerships. my nana certainly the most beautiful.

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Foreign adoptees always have a social security number with a relatively high serial number, but you cannot determine from the serial number whether the child is adopted. However, special conditions apply to foreign adoptees who came to Denmark between 1976 and 1984.

For adoptees who arrived in Denmark in 2001 or later, many have been surprised that the child has been given a very high serial number, but there is a natural explanation for this.

A CPR number consists of 10 digits: ddmmåå xyzw

ddmmyy is the date of birth, 6 digits.

xyz is a 3-digit serial number, 3 digits

3.5 Sri Lanka

Binnen het bestuur was reeds eind 2004 de discussie

opgestart of we wel verder willen gaan met de toenmalige

contactpersoon. Dit omdat wij van mening waren dat het

aantal adopties achterbleef bij onze verwachtingen. Tijdens

1. The CRC and Intercountry Adoption The CRC appears to take a very limited view of when intercountry adoption is appropriate. The critical text requires that state parties “[r]ecognize that inter-country adoption may be considered as an alternative means of child’s care, if the child cannot be placed in a foster or an adoptive family or cannot in any suitable manner be cared for in the child’s country of origin.”

The CRC’s preference for in-country over intercountry adoption is compatible with the Hague Convention. However, the CRC also specifically prefers in-country foster care over intercountry adoption, and initially appears to favor in-country institutional care over intercountry adoption. These latter positions are more controversial, and appear to conflict with the Hague Convention.

It is notable, in this regard, that the United Nations Children’s Fund (“UNICEF”) recently issued a public position on intercountry adoption which appears to favor intercountry adoption over incountry institutional care.24 The statement cites both the CRC and the Hague Convention with approval. In regard to institutional care, however, UNICEF states: For children who cannot be raised by their own families, an appropriate alternative family environment should be sought in preference to institutional care, which should be used only as a last resort and as a temporary measure. Inter-country adoption is one of a range of care options which may be open to children, and for individual children who cannot be placed in a permanent family setting in their countries of origin, it may indeed be the best solution. In each case, the best interests of the individual child must be the guiding principle in making a decision regarding adoption. 

One could argue that, under the language of the CRC, institutional care is not a “suitable manner” for the permanent care of a child. Therefore, a plausible interpretation of the CRC is that it prefers intercountry adoption to in-country institutional care. By such interpretations, the international community is apparently working toward a harmonization of apparent conflicts between the CRC and the Hague Convention.