The Minister of Social Affairs of Cambodia is visiting with officials in Spain and Malta to discuss intercountry adoptions of Cambodian children to those countries, according to this article from the Phnom Penh Post. Intercountry adoptions out of Cambodia were banned for four years due to allegations of human trafficking. The ban was lifted in 2013 and so far Italy has been the only country to re-establish adoptions from Cambodia.
According to the article, Cambodia does not have enough social workers to provide thorough case management and gatekeeping services. “With necessary human resources not yet in place even for those basic elements, it does not appear that all the requirements to resume inter-country adoptions have been met,” says the article.