1) Assessment of the Adoption and Child Protection framework

In May 2013, ISS has conducted a review of the adoption and child protection framework in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). This study, done in collaboration with the local UNICEF office, was aimed at establishing a first assessment of the adoption procedures and practices, in a country which is increasingly targetted by adopters and foreign agencies, despite the lack of adequate structures and legislative framework. The mission report should enable local authorities to both identify the various measures to ake in order to reform the current system, and to alert the authorities of the host countries to the risks of a too rapid development of international adoptions in a context that is not prepared to it.

Similar missions have been conducted in over 10 countries of origin to date (Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Laos, Ivory Coast, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, etc.).

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I worked in an adoption agency the summer of 2012 and have been very interested in the subject for a while. I decided to

combine this with my interest in international relations by analyzing how adoption takes place on a global scale. My sociology

background from studying at Colorado College also made me interested in the interactions between vulnerable less developed

countries and wealthy western countries when sending children abroad for adoption. Children’s rights is something that I feel strongly

about and this report has allowed me to research a children’s rights issue in depth, while taking advantage of Geneva’s international

Der Kampf um die Waisenkinder

Trotz Überbevölkerung tobt zwischen den Industrieländern ein Konkurrenzkampf um Waisenkinder – Paare haben es zunehmend schwer, ein Kind zu finden. Immer stärker mischt sich die Politik ein, doch die Schweiz hat nicht viel mitzureden. Ein exklusiver Report über Interessen und Hintergründe in der Welt der Adoption.

Publiziert: 08.09.2013

Voraussetzungen für eine Adoption

Der Weg zum Wunschkind ist dornig: Informations-­Seminare, Interviews mit ­Sozialarbeitern, Inspektion der Wohnung, der Finanzen, des Privatlebens. Die Abklärungen der Aufsichtsbehörden können ein Jahr dauern. Erst danach kann man Kontakt zu einer ­Vermittlungsagentur aufnehmen. Weitere Abklärungen folgen, sie können ein weiteres Jahr kosten.

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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism.

From WOB Ketenoverleg

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