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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity &#187; Christina</title>
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		<title>Adoption approved for West Palm Beach mom, daughter after 4 years</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2012/01/26/adoption-approved-for-west-palm-beach-mom-daughter-after-4-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBS12 : Angie adopted Jada as a seven-month old baby from a Vietnam orphanage. But Vietnamese and U.S. officials stalled the adoption process. Angie&#8217;s very public fight for her daughter last year, resulted in other families joining with her. The Vietnamese government approved the stalled adoptions. The email that changed everything came two days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish-VN Adoptions To Resume In Coming Months</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2012/01/17/irish-vn-adoptions-to-resume-in-coming-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam is set to ratify the Hague Convention on February 1, and Ireland has been taking steps toward a new adoption agreement, with an eye on resuming adoptions early this year. According to The Irish Times: Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald, who recently returned from talks with officials in Hanoi, said she had made significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption issues clearer following Vietnam&#8217;s backing of accord, says [Irish] Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/11/28/adoption-issues-clearer-following-vietnams-backing-of-accord-says-irish-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/11/28/adoption-issues-clearer-following-vietnams-backing-of-accord-says-irish-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Irish Times: THERE ARE issues still to be addressed in the area of adoption between Ireland and Vietnam, Minister of State for Trade And Development Jan O’Sullivan said yesterday, but the situation had improved considerably since Hanoi ratified the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. “There is more clarity about what the issues are, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Police Rescue Trafficked Vietnamese Babies</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/08/03/chinese-police-rescue-trafficked-vietnamese-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/08/03/chinese-police-rescue-trafficked-vietnamese-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late July Chinese police broke up two trafficking rings and rescued 89 Vietnamese children ranging in age from 10 days to 4 years. According to Thanh Nien News, A total of 369 suspects have been detained in a series of coordinated raids throughout China, the report said, citing China’s Ministry of Public Security. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Ambassador To Vietnam Confirmed</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/08/03/new-ambassador-to-vietnam-confirmed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Shear is on his way to Vietnam to take up his post as ambassador there after Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) lifted her hold, which she placed in order to pressure the State Department to act on Vietnamese adoption and custody problems. Marco Rubio&#8217;s hold was lifted in mid-June. In his confirmation hearing testimony given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Does Feature On Waiting Bac Lieu Cases</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/06/15/ap-does-feature-on-waiting-bac-lieu-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[16 Vietnamese kids, US families in adoption limbo Most of the adoptions already in the pipeline went forward under exceptions to the 2008 moratorium, but paperwork problems delayed the Bac Lieu cases. Vietnam now says it hopes to join the international Hague Convention on adoptions in October and that the pending cases must start over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going To The Source: Vietnam September Adoption Issues Cable</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source-vietnam-september-adoption-issues-cable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source-vietnam-september-adoption-issues-cable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chosing An Agency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Document Number: 2007HANOI01820 From: American Embassy in Hanoi To: Secretary of State Date: October 2007 Subject: Vietnam September Adoption Issues Cable {approximately half of this document is redacted} Summary: During the month of September post [US Embassy in Hanoi] issued 65 adoption related immigrant visas. Post also significantly expanded its field verification of adoption cases. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going To The Source</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we mentioned last week, EJ Graff and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism obtained hundreds of pages of documentation relating to Vietnam adoptions from the U.S. government through a Freedom of Information Act request. All of these documents are available at their website for anyone to view, and we highly recommend doing so. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unprecedented Look Behind The Scenes In Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/13/unprecedented-look-behind-the-scenes-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/13/unprecedented-look-behind-the-scenes-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E. J. Graff&#8217;s article, Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis, online today at ForeignPolicy.com, pulls back the veil to reveal details and information only previously hinted at and corruption beyond what many of us could have imagined. &#8230; inside their fog of secrecy, the faceless bureaucrats were also agonizing about the well-being of the children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Questions Than Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/25/more-questions-than-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After posting the story yesterday about the Vietnamese Ruc people and their complaints about how they were deceived into relinquishing their children for adoption, I remembered where I had read this story before. Anthropologist Peter Bille Larsen wrote an extensive article about their case back in May 2008. In this article, I point raise to [...]]]></description>
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