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Documents

Title	Publication date
Explainer: State Department releases annual report on intercountry adoptions	19 July 2023
Latvia: Parliament Passes Amendments That Will End Intercountry Adoptions to the United States	29 December 2021
TWO MOTHERS	20 June 2021
Country Programs | Department of Social Services,…	26 August 2020
Saeima commission agrees to at least temporarily ban child adoption to foreign countries	18 June 2020
Latvian Welfare Minister receives letters asking to not ban child adoption by foreigners	11 March 2020
Latvian Welfare Ministry rejects Saeima’s proposal to ban child adoption by foreigners	10 March 2020
Latvia: Latvian Government Clarifies Transition Case Processing After Passing New Adoption Regulations	21 December 2019
Politicians lean towards limiting Latvian child adoption to foreign countries	17 December 2019
Latvia Money intended for child protection used instead to pay bonuses to officials in Latvia	17 May 2019
ORPHANAGE CARE IN BULGARIA: A TWO-PART BLOG	25 March 2019
Minister on adoption in Latvia: people want children no older than five	11 March 2019
Alarms about irregularities from the majority of major countries Sweden adopted from	21 February 2019
Latvian government approves changes to foreign adoption rules	31 October 2018
Foreign host families misinformed over children's fates in Latvia	27 February 2018
Over one thousand children are without families in Latvia. “Empty the orphanages”	22 December 2017
Latvia Adoption Notice: Proposed Changes to Hosting Programs and Intercountry Adoption	8 December 2017
Accessing adoption files and information on the biological family | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	2017
International adoptions account for more than half of all adoptions in Latvia this year	5 June 2016
European Parliament: Briefing - Adoption of children in the European Union	1 June 2016
Police ignore judge’s order, to help Latvian family escape British social workers	28 November 2015
Latvian child must be adopted in the UK, judge rules (Laila Brice)	13 August 2015
American adoption services count millions in annual turnover at Latvian children’s expense	29 May 2014
Police are asked to investigate the selling of Latvian children to foreigners	7 May 2014
The ‘price’ of adoption of Latvian children by American families is made known	6 May 2014
Latvian authorities suspect child trade from Latvian orphanages to USA	28 April 2014
Australia: Adoption breakthrough for families seeking to adopt overseas children	26 April 2014
DUTCH SOCIAL SERVICES SEIZED 10-YEAR-OLD TWINS FROM RUSSIAN-SPEAKING FAMILY	26 March 2014
Australia simplifies overseas child adoption	26 January 2014
Latvia - intercountry adoption - info from Latvian Ministry - only Hague countries	1 January 2014
International adoption: Saving orphans or child trafficking?	16 September 2013
Unfinished business	11 August 2010
Lettonia: stop alle adozioni internazionali, ma non per i bimbi special needs	2 March 2010
Latvia: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children,	July 2009
A couple's adoption plans hit a regulatory brick wall	9 June 2008
Children in Residential Care Conference, Stockholm 12-15 May 2003	15 May 2003