India ratifies Intercountry Adoption Convention
On 6 June 2003, India deposited its instrument of ratification to the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, thus bringing the total number of Contracting States to 53. The Convention will enter into force for India on 1 October 2003. Photo: On the right: Mrs Jayati Chandra, Joint Secretary to the Government of India,...
United Kingdom ratifies the 1993 Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention
Switzerland becomes 50th State Party to the Intercountry Adoption Convention.
On 24 September 2002, Switzerland deposited its instrument of ratification to the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, thus bringing the total number of Contracting States to fifty. The Convention will enter into force for Switzerland on 1 January 2003....
Slovenia signs and ratifies the 1993 Intercountry Adoption Convention
On 24 January 2002, Slovenia signed and ratified the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, thus bringing the total number of Contracting States to thirty-three. The Convention will enter into force for Slovenia on 1 May 2002. ...
Communication from the Romanian Committee for Adoptions informing of suspension of adoptions with Romania since 14 December 2000
Special Commission on the operation of the 1993 Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention
From 28 November to 1 December 2000, a Special Commission meeting to review the operation of the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption will be held in the Academy Building, on the grounds of the Peace Palace at The Hague.There will be simultaneous interpretation in French, English and, exceptionally, in Spanish....
Switzerland for ratification of Intercountry Adoption Convention
Published in Le Temps of Thursday 28 September 2000: "(...) Dans sa séance de mercredi, le Conseil national s'est aussi: prononcé à l'unanimité pour la ratification de la Convention de La Haye sur l'adoption internationale. Les enfants étrangers adoptés en Suisse devraient ainsi bientôt bénéficier d'une meilleure protection. Il a apporté quelques corrections à la loi qui permettra de mettre...
Congressional approval of Intercountry Adoption Convention
On 20 September 2000 the Senate of the United States of America(1) approved a resolution of advice and consent to U.S. ratification of the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, and(2) passed the identical lengthy and detailed implementing legislation passed a few days earlier by the U.S. House of Representatives. President...
House enactment of Intercountry Adoption Act
The Intercountry Adoption Act 2000 (HR 2909), which makes provision for the eventual implementation in the USA of the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, was passed in the US House of Representatives on 18 July 2000....
