Adoption

Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children - English
International Social Services and UNICEF in collaboration with NGO Working Group on Children without Parental Care | 2007 | 208 KB
Welcomed international guidelines seeking to ensure that children do not find themselves in out-of-home care unnecessarily and that out-of-home care provided is of a type and quality that corresponds to children's rights and needs. Designed to promote, facilitate and guide the progressive implementation of the CRC. View document

Child Adoption: Trends and Policies
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN Population Division | Monday, May 18, 2009 | 3.6MB
The study provides a solid foundation for furthering research on child adoption and, more specifically, on the demographic factors that shape the demand for and the availability of adoptable children. View document

The Rights of the Child in Domestic and Intercountry Adoption: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for Practice
International Social Service (ISS) | 1999 | 299KB
A set of ethical principles and practice guidelines to protect the welfare of children in domestic and intercountry adoptions. View document

National Care Standards: Adoption Agencies
Scottish Executive | 2005
A set of standards guiding services for children who have been adopted, birth families, and adoptive parents. View document

Adoptions from Viet Nam: Findings and Recommendations of an Assessment
ISS for UNICEF and Department of Adoption of Ministry of Justice of Viet Nam | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Independent assessment of the situation of Intercountry adoption in Vietnam. View document

The Rights of the Child in Internal and Intercountry Adoption - Ethical Principles - Guidelines for Practice
ISS-IRC | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Defines the ethics and principles that should govern adoption. View document

International Adoption Policy Brief
Save the Children UK | Friday, February 19, 2010
Brief recognizes the potential opportunities ICA can provide a child but examines the problems and risks frequently associated with the practice.
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Earthquake in Haiti: Intercountry Adoption Cases
International Social Service | Thursday, January 21, 2010
Discusses risks associated with using adoption in emergency settings. Additional consideration given on where adoptions can be safely and appropriately facilitated for children with adoptions underway prior to the earthquake. View document

How to Help Children in the Aftermath of Hurricane Mitch
ISS, ICCB, DCI, and Save the Children Alliance | Wednesday, January 21, 1998
Guidance on the importance of preventing family separation and ensuring reintegration within their families, communities or country of origin. View document

Intercountry Adoption in Emergencies: The Tsunami Orphans
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute | Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Adoption Institute offers this policy brief, with the purpose of examining the role of intercountry adoption in situations such as the one caused by the tsunami – that is, during natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other complex human emergencies View document