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Catalogue by countries / Preliminary Findings of a Joint Investigation"Waiting Period" in Intercountry Adoptions

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ISS/IRC Code	COM-ISS GS-006
Partner	DCI code 1589
Title	Preliminary Findings of a Joint Investigation"Waiting Period" in Intercountry Adoptions
Author	Defence for Children International (DCI)
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General information
Date published/issue	03-00-1991
Date received	00-00-0000
Place published
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Publisher	International Social Service 32, quai du Seujet, CH 1201, Geneva, Switzerland
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Page	17p
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ISBN
Type of material	Book
Language of document	French Spanish

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Document description	Evaluation Report
Country concerned
Index	Practice Adoption-intercountry Statistics Legislation-adoption Adoption-independent Conv-thc Waiting-period
Free text	Data compiled by 3 international NGOs to assist the work of the Special Commission on Inter-country Adoption set up by the Hague Conference on Private International Law to draft a Convention on Inter-country Adoption. Branches and associates of the three organizations were contacted in 13 "receiving countries" and 15 "countries of origin" to carry out an investigation into how children's rights and interests are or not served by the existence of a "waiting period" between arrival in the country of adoption and the granting of the adoption order. (Second study on how "independent" adoptions (i.e. those carried out without the intervention of an accredited or authorized adoption agency) serve these same rights and interests). Receiving countries (12) that participated in study: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, USA. Countries of origin (11): Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka.