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| A young orphaned Cambodian infant girl infected with the HIV virus sits on a mat in the Phnom Penh Nutrition Center. (Photo: AP) |
Phnom Penh Friday, 18 March 2011
“The United States has not set a date for resumption of inter-country adoption with Cambodia.”
A US envoy for children’s issues declined to lift a ban on US adoptions from Cambodia Friday, despite the 2009 passage of an adoption law, officials said.
The US banned adoptions from Cambodia in 2001, after allegations that mothers were being paid to give up their children to adoption agencies.
Susan Jacobs, the US Ambassador for Children’s Issues, told Cambodian officials the country had made improvements in children’s protection.
But after her two-day fact-finding mission, the US Embassy said in a statement, “The United States has not set a date for resumption of inter-country adoption with Cambodia.”
Cambodian officials say they expect to begin initiating a 2009 law in April this year to bring the country in line with international standards.
The law includes age requirement for prospective parents, between 30 to 45, and an age limit on a child of 18 years. It also includes requirements the adoptive parent is not a criminal and can care for the adopted.
“We aim to prevent human trafficking and child smuggling,” said Koy Kuong, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The law would ensure a child lives with its adopted family, he said, “with proper living, dignity and happiness.”
7 comments:
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It is very sad when our nation is affected by Aids virus and off course no one would want to adopt our children as it will be a burden onto their lives in the near future. This is a sign of devaluing from the west society. We made ourselves looking cheap. We can make our country like a safe haven too if we cooperate and who knows the tie will turn around and do us a favour instead as life is unprodictable.
So, from now on we all needs to put up a system of free health care services like, free care for all and all doctors should recieve gov't incentive like depending on how many patients they cared for and how many hours they put in.
eg their income could be from 2oo p month in rural or 3oo at the city which also depending on the number of patients and timing 40 hours p week if more than that then add more for their income...
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Australian should Maintain Ban on Cambodian Adoption as well like the United States of America too, because Cambodians Government cruel Officers big corrution, any the Cambodian ID & Family Card ( Call by Cambodian is Ban Krosa ) can use money to get it, so I am request the Australian Government to be care full to take the Migrant and as they are sponsor their partner take 2 years before approve the Australian Visa for them to come from Cambodian to Australia, I am very hard to say because the Australians Embassy cruel staffs big corrution as well, Australia next Seventy years will turn to Second Cambodia or Second America September 11, 2001 too.
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