{"id":4966,"date":"2015-01-29T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2015-01-29T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:56:20","slug":"child-trafficking-opponents-criticise-federal-governments-decision-to-lift-series-of-overseas-adoption-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/child-trafficking-opponents-criticise-federal-governments-decision-to-lift-series-of-overseas-adoption-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Child trafficking opponents criticise Federal Government’s decision to lift series of overseas adoption bans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-28\/calls-for-end-to-overseas-adoption\/6051990<\/a>
\nBy South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley, ABCJanuary 28, 2015, 12:30 pm<\/p>\n

Opponents of child trafficking have criticised the Federal Government’s decision to lift a series of bans on foreign adoptions, saying Australians should stay out of overseas arrangements.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced new adoption arrangements with at least three countries and is reportedly in discussions to free up adoptions in other countries, including Thailand and Cambodia.<\/p>\n

He said there were millions of children there who needed parents.<\/p>\n

But child advocates disagreed with the sentiment.<\/p>\n

Arun Dohle, head of the organisation Against Child Trafficking, argued inter-country adoption should always be the last resort.<\/p>\n

“This is a result of huge pressure from the adoption lobby and it is clearly against the UN convention on the right of the child,” Mr Dohle said.<\/p>\n

“There is no need for it, Australia should assist these countries in such a manner that they can take care of their own children.”<\/p>\n

Mr Dohle said there were many documented cases of vulnerable children being sold to orphanages or kidnapped and then adopted.<\/p>\n

It is a concern shared by James Sutherland of Friends International.<\/p>\n

He pointed to research which found that 80 per cent of children in orphanages in Cambodia still had parents.<\/p>\n

“I see it as being some way off really before there’ll be anywhere near a situation where inter-country adoption would be cut and dried,” Mr Sutherland said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very complex issue and it can’t really be addressed in countries like Cambodia with just [a] one-stop solution, it doesn’t work like that.”<\/p>\n

However, not all child welfare advocates are opposed to inter-country adoptions.<\/p>\n

Michael Brosowski, the head of the Vietnamese children’s foundation Blue Dragon, said with the right safeguards in place, it was a welcome move.<\/p>\n

“The most important thing is making sure that children who are put up for adoption genuinely need to be adopted,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That their families are unable to care for them, or they have no family to care for them and nobody’s profiting from their adoption.”<\/p>\n

It is not clear when the inter-country adoption plan with Cambodia might go ahead.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Attorney-General’s Department said Australia continued to monitor Cambodia’s progress.
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Source: http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-28\/calls-for-end-to-overseas-adoption\/6051990 By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley, ABCJanuary 28, 2015, 12:30 pm Opponents of child trafficking have criticised the Federal Government’s decision to lift a series of bans on foreign adoptions, saying Australians should stay out of overseas arrangements. Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced new adoption arrangements with at least three countries and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966"}],"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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}