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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity</title>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Embassy in Hanoi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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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 the specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam&#8217;s hill tribe children &#8220;stolen&#8221; for adoption</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/23/vietnams-hill-tribe-children-stolen-for-adoption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/23/vietnams-hill-tribe-children-stolen-for-adoption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From www.monstersandcritics.com via Deutsche Presse-Agentur:
Hanoi &#8211; High among the jagged limestone peaks that mark Vietnam&#8217;s border with Laos, Cao Thi Thu squats on the stone floor of her family&#8217;s hut and pleads, “Please help bring my daughters home.”
It is more than three years since officials came to Thu&#8217;s village and offered her the chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child rights and adoption seminar held in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/25/child-rights-and-adoption-seminar-held-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/25/child-rights-and-adoption-seminar-held-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ireland officially suspends adoptions from Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/16/ireland-officially-suspends-adoptions-from-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/16/ireland-officially-suspends-adoptions-from-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though the bilateral agreement on adoption between Ireland and Vietnam expired on May 1, 2009, Irish officials had reported that a new agreement between the two countries was being negotiated. However, Irish Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews announced this week that Ireland has decided to suspend adoptions from Vietnam until both Vietnam and Ireland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Adoptions:  One agency&#8217;s perspective and future outlook.</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/02/vietnam-adoptions-one-agencys-perspective-and-future-outlook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/02/vietnam-adoptions-one-agencys-perspective-and-future-outlook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In August 2009, Pearl S. Buck International&#8217;s Program director for Nepal, Philippines, SWAN, Post-Permanency, and Independent programs, as well as Vietnam Coordinator while that program was open, traveled to Vietnam.  VVAI had the chance to interview Ms. Carter-Tryon and ask her about her impressions, the work PSBI does and PSBI&#8217;s outlook for any future adoptions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNICEF Report and its impact</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/24/unicef-report-and-its-impact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/24/unicef-report-and-its-impact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There were two articles in Irish publications this week that referenced UNICEF&#8217;s report on Vietnamese adoptions.
The irishtimes.com article states:
The final report from the UN body, released yesterday, also found that “the level and nature of inter-country adoptions from Vietnam are essentially influenced by foreign demand”.
It also called into question the manner by which many children [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two Arrested For Trafficking In Southern Vietnamese Province</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/09/two-arrested-for-trafficking-in-southern-vietnamese-province/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/09/two-arrested-for-trafficking-in-southern-vietnamese-province/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dong Nai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Agence France-Presse 
Police in Vietnam have arrested two people suspected of trafficking 20 babies in the communist country since 2007, a report said Monday.
The two suspects, a man and a woman detained Saturday in the southern province of Dong Nai, had confessed to buying the babies at hospitals in the south of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Hands defends its role in Vietnam Adoptions</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/10/26/helping-hands-defends-its-role-in-vietnam-adoptions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/10/26/helping-hands-defends-its-role-in-vietnam-adoptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon O&#8217;Driscoll, chief executive of Helping Hands in Ireland, this week defended her agencies use of funds and the process by which monies are distributed in Vietnam.
According to the article,
Parents who have adopted from Vietnam in recent years paid $11,100 (€7,400) to Helping Hands. Of that, $9,000 was paid as ‘‘humanitarian aid’’ to regional authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dept. of State Posts New VN Adoption Notice</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/10/23/dept-of-state-posts-new-vn-adoption-notice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/10/23/dept-of-state-posts-new-vn-adoption-notice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[US Department of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption Notices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam Adoptions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nearly all cases for which an official referral was issued before September 1, 2008, have now been processed to completion.&#8221;  So says the U.S. Department of State in a new Adoption Notice posted today on the Office of Children&#8217;s Issues Vietnam adoption page.
The Notice goes on to say that under no circumstances should any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty Verdicts in Nam Dinh Case</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/28/guilty-verdicts-in-nam-dinh-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/28/guilty-verdicts-in-nam-dinh-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adoption fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Than Nien News  reports that all sixteen defendants in the adoption corruption case in Nam Dinh province have been found guilty.  Six were sentenced to jail sentences of two and a half to four years.
The six were found guilty of “abuse of power in public duty,” said Nguyen Tien Hung, vice-president of the [...]]]></description>
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