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2 December 1999

International adoption: respecting children’s rights

Report Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee

Rapporteur: Mr Nicolas About, France, Liberal, Democratic and Reformers' Group

Summary

The purpose of international adoption must be to provide children with a mother and a father in a way that respects their rights, not to enable foreign parents to satisfy their wish for a child at any price. The Assembly condemns the current transformation of international adoption into what is nothing short of a market regulated by capitalist laws of supply and demand.

To avoid mercantile practices, member states of the Council of Europe should subscribe to and observe the principles laid down by The Hague Convention on Adoption. The Council of Europe must assert its role in the protection and promotion of children’s rights and pursue that role in the arena of inter-governmental co-operation, particularly in relation to new member states.

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