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Cantwell, Nigel
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The Best Interests of the Child in Intercountry Adoption
From the perspective of intercountry adoption, this study responds, in particular, to the question: what is it that enables a policy, process, decision, or practice to be qualified as either respectful of or in violation of the best interests of the child
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Intercountry Adoption- An African Perspective
Africa has become the new frontier for intercountry adoption. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of children adopted from Africa increased three-fold, yet Africa seems to be ill-equipped in law, policy and practice, to provide its children with enough safe
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Moving Forward: Implementing the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
The handbook 'Moving Forward: Implementing the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ was developed by the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELSIS) together with a team of child protection experts, governments, UN A
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Assessment tool for the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the alternative care of children
SOS Children's Villages has produced this assessment tool to benchmark the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children. It has been designed as the principal research tool of SOS Children's Villages to support advocacy activit
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Adoption from Viet Nam: Finding and Recommendations of an assessment
The 82 page report is based on an independent assessment by ISS in 2009, commissioned by UNICEF Viet Nam and by the Department of Adoption of the Ministry of Justice of Viet Nam. The main aims were to firstly identify and address problems in the adoption