{"id":3913,"date":"2013-09-24T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2013-09-24T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:14:27","slug":"acts-letter-to-the-guardians-of-the-convention-on-protection-of-children-and-co-operation-in-respect-of-intercountry-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/acts-letter-to-the-guardians-of-the-convention-on-protection-of-children-and-co-operation-in-respect-of-intercountry-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT&#8217;s letter to the Guardian of the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23 September 2013<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to their reply.<\/p>\n<p>ACT&#8217;s \u00a0letter from The Hague Conference to the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brief-Degeling-11-Dec-2008-article-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From:\u00a0<strong>Roelie Post<\/strong> &lt;<a href=\"mailto:info@againstchildtrafficking.org\" target=\"_blank\">info@againstchildtrafficking.org<\/a>&gt;<br \/>\nDate: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:19 PM<br \/>\nSubject: 1993 Hague Adoption Convention<br \/>\nTo:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:secretariat@hcch.net\" target=\"_blank\">secretariat@hcch.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Madam\/Sir,<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>We refer to the article <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/16\/world\/international-adoption-us-children-adopted-abroad\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Overseas adoptions rise &#8211;for black American children&#8217;<\/a> as published on the website of CNN on 17th September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes experts as stating that the US laws allow birth mothers to choose the adoptive family of their children.<\/p>\n<p>However, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brief-Degeling-11-Dec-2008-article-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter of 11 December 2008<\/a>, the Secretary of the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Convention informed the Dutch Government that the birth mother&#8217;s preference for intercountry adoption cannot override the subsidiarity principle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We hereby kindly request you to address this issue and to keep us informed of any actions taken.<\/p>\n<p>We also seek your opinion on a related issue:\u00a0concurrent planning, where in- and out-of-country options are explored simultaneously. Would such a practice be compliant with the subsidiarity principle?<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<br \/>\nRoelie Post<\/p>\n<p>Against Child Trafficking<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/againstchildtrafficking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/againstchildtrafficking.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romania-forexportonly.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.romania-forexportonly.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 September 2013 We are looking forward to their reply. ACT&#8217;s \u00a0letter from The Hague Conference to the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands: \u00a0HERE From:\u00a0Roelie Post &lt;info@againstchildtrafficking.org&gt; Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:19 PM Subject: 1993 Hague Adoption Convention To:\u00a0secretariat@hcch.net Dear Madam\/Sir, We refer to the article &#8216;Overseas adoptions rise &#8211;for black American&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/acts-letter-to-the-guardians-of-the-convention-on-protection-of-children-and-co-operation-in-respect-of-intercountry-adoption\/\" title=\"Read ACT&#8217;s letter to the Guardian of the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}