From the UK Times Online:
Last year both America and Sweden suspended new adoptions from Vietnam. According to the state department’s annual report on human-rights practices, released last month, there are serious problems with the Vietnamese system.
It said: “There were multiple arrests of private citizens and government officials for offering payments to birth parents in exchange for relinquishing infant children for adoption, creating fraudulent documents to conceal the child’s identity and trafficking these children to other provinces where they were offered for adoption.
“In addition, there were documented cases in which small children and infants were kidnapped and sold for adoption to persons in Europe, north America or China.
“The [Vietnamese] ministry of public security identified the problem of kidnapping and trafficking in children for purposes of adoption as one of increasing concern.
The rest of the article concerning the future of adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam can be read here.
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