Thu, 29 Nov 2007
DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's long-awaited new legislation on inter-country adoption was yet to be drafted but was still expected to be passed by the end of next year, Cambodian media quoted a senior Foreign Affairs Ministry official as saying Thursday. Secretary of State for the Foreign Ministry Long Visalo made the promise to US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Maura Harty Wednesday, Khmer-language daily Koh Santepheap reported.
"We are passing a law relating to adoptions but in drafting it we must consider all the benefits," the paper quoted Visalo as saying.
He said most importantly the law must be in line with other international and individual nations' legislation and ensure "the reasons behind the adoptions are beneficial to the children and not just the individual who comes to take them."
"Children are not some sort of goods to be sold at markets," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
The US announced an immediate suspension of the processing of adoptions from Cambodia in December 2001 citing fraud and a lack of legal framework to ensure the children were protected. Other countries, including France, Canada and Australia, quickly followed.
In June 2004, a US court convicted one of Cambodia's most prominent international adoption agents, Lauryn Galindo, and her sister Lynn Devin on a range of charges including falsely representing some of their adoption candidates as orphans.
Since then the US and others have accused the Cambodian government of dragging its feet on drawing up effective adoption legislation and warned the adoption moratorium will remain in place until it is passed.
"We are passing a law relating to adoptions but in drafting it we must consider all the benefits," the paper quoted Visalo as saying.
He said most importantly the law must be in line with other international and individual nations' legislation and ensure "the reasons behind the adoptions are beneficial to the children and not just the individual who comes to take them."
"Children are not some sort of goods to be sold at markets," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
The US announced an immediate suspension of the processing of adoptions from Cambodia in December 2001 citing fraud and a lack of legal framework to ensure the children were protected. Other countries, including France, Canada and Australia, quickly followed.
In June 2004, a US court convicted one of Cambodia's most prominent international adoption agents, Lauryn Galindo, and her sister Lynn Devin on a range of charges including falsely representing some of their adoption candidates as orphans.
Since then the US and others have accused the Cambodian government of dragging its feet on drawing up effective adoption legislation and warned the adoption moratorium will remain in place until it is passed.
12 comments:
Adoption is small areas of anti-corruption laws. This government is so corrupted that no one in world would be able to list them all. It starts from top to the bottom. Any enforcement exit is a way to take bribe in term of money or peoples or property. What I could not understand are the true nationalists, not those who take advantages over the opportunity. How could you generate a corruption law when the persons who will write the law are so corrupted?
When shit happens in the Western Hemisphere country -- they called it "Scandal." And when shit happens in Cambodia -- they called it "Corruption."
When we need land for business investments for job creation -- they called it "Land grabbing." And when the Western Hemisphere country government steals land from its people-- they called "Imminent Domain."
WOW! Now, I just lost my land to the government because of the new law so called "Imminent Domain." Now, I need to apply for welfware to subsidize my living during this inflationary period.
MOI
Surely I am more stupid than any man, And do not have the understaning of a man.Where there is no revelation,the people cast off restrain;But happy is he who keeps the LAWS.
End of next year? that's like 2009? They've been say thing for the longest.
Hun Sen cannot get the nation's priorities straight. It has been more than a decade the corruption law still has not been passed - one law and one reason they don't want to pass it; they are the corrupts.
ah Soy MOI (chinese word for little sissy gal) sucks big time! lmao...hahaha!
Gentleman
Corruption is complaited by both nationally and internationally, however it is not urgent for government to do anything about it.
Corruption creates instability, insecurity to cambodians, but CPP is using that as controlling mechanism for its master. Cpp officals are rich enough by diverting national wealth to their own pocket, proving that it is not individual greed but collective purposes of holding poor cambodians die slowly under vietnamisation after killing khmer intellectuals, khmer strugglers of revolution, K5 plan for remained youth of cambodia and killing of political framing.
We cambodians notice this plan apart from those blind slaves.
Neang SA
So what do you want the government to do about corruption, 7:23?
Gentleman
7:56AM
Firstly, government is prepared to listen to the call of cambodians form all walks of life.
Secondly, government is prepared to work with organisations of same ends,ie human rights, anti corruption group,independent law enforcement for effectiveness, social development group, and world bank and NGOs.Simply listening to their views and ideas in order to transform to a better governing system with transparency and accountability.
Thirdly,an effective system with computerised transaction should be installed, as computer is becoming cheaper.Therefore real tax revenue can be created, and better salary for proper performance can be achieved.Thus it would reduce corruption significantly.
Essentially, reduction of corruption is eliminating most of the abuse currently happening in our society.Growth and fair economic distribution can be promoted after that.
Please feel free to comment.
Neang SA
Okay 11:31, if we were to implement your proposal, we'll end up with 2-3 millions corrupted people. What should we do with them?
duh! Reform the them you fool!ahahh
But how? give me some idea, will ya?
Here, we are spending over half of billion of dollars ($300/person) to convict 2-3 millions people of corruption and you won't even tell us what to do with them? What type of bullshit is that, huh, fellows?
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