UNICEF Report and its impact
There were two articles in Irish publications this week that referenced UNICEF’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 [...]

Two Arrested For Trafficking In Southern Vietnamese Province
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 [...]

Helping Hands defends its role in Vietnam Adoptions
Sharon O’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 [...]

Dept. of State Posts New VN Adoption Notice
“Nearly all cases for which an official referral was issued before September 1, 2008, have now been processed to completion.” So says the U.S. Department of State in a new Adoption Notice posted today on the Office of Children’s Issues Vietnam adoption page. The Notice goes on to say that under no circumstances should any [...]

Guilty Verdicts in Nam Dinh Case
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 [...]