Child rights and adoption seminar held in Vietnam
Jan 25th, 2010 by Tracy
On January 14th and 15th, Vietnamese and foreign officials met in Da Nang to discuss child rights issues and adoption. The workshop was sponsored by Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice.
VietnamPlus reported:
According to the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam has about 1.47 million disadvantaged children, including 85,000 orphans, 1.3 million disabled, 21,900 street kids and 10,300 Agent Orange victims.
The government has provided numerous conditions to take care of these children, including adoption and sponsorship. More than 90,500 disadvantaged children are monthly provided with the State’s subsidy on healthcare and education.
Among 378 care centres for disadvantaged children nationwide, 91 establishments are permitted to provide international adoption service.
Nguyen Cong Khanh, deputy head of the Justice Ministry’s Child Adoption Agency, said an Adoption bill to be submitted to the National Assembly next May will prohibit and punish actions which harms the humanity of child adoption, abusing it for profit-seeking purposes.
The entire article can be accessed here.
A similar article on the subject can be accessed here.
I hope that this will mean good news, in the end, for the (legitimately) orphaned children of that country.
I share the same hope Ruby. Does anyone know if this bill is being submitted this coming May or is it May 2011?