Major Media Report on VN Adoption News
Jul 2nd, 2008 by Christina
- Monday June 30th, CNN presented this report titled US Vietnam Adoptions End, featuring some very strong statements from U.S. Ambassador Michael Michalak.
- On July 1st PBS’s News Hour did a segment on International Adoption issues, highlighting Vietnam. The report featured a discussion with Susan Soon-Keum Cox, Vice President of Public Policy and External Affairs at Holt International and Congressional Coalition on Adoption Executive Director Kathleen Strottman. Click here to listen to the report on Windows Media. And here for Real Audio.Updated: The full transcript as well as a link to video is now online.
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Here is a link to the Hague Accredited and Approved Adoption Service Providers:
http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/convention/convention_4169.html
and a link to the agencies they denied:
http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/convention/convention_4240.html
Thanks Heather. We keep a cross-referenced list of the agencies from Vietnam and their various states of Hague application/accreditation here:
http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/hague/
What would cause an agency to be denied Hague-accreditation?
The application requires compliance in a number of areas outlined in the Hague (which can be found online). If an agency fails to be mostly compliant it will be denied. Only an agency is told why they were denied. After reading the documents myself, I feel there is *significant* wiggle room for agencies to be considered “mostly compliant”. In fact many people believed there was far too much leniency written within the Hague and it would be insufficient to offer the protections the Hague was meant to offer. Given that, if an agency is denied it is a big red flag.