Report criticising Vietnamese adoptions to be published

A MAJOR UNICEF report, believed to be behind the Government’s failure to renew a bilateral agreement with Vietnam on adoption, is to be made public later this month.

UNICEF’s International Social Service (ISS) draft report is believed to be critical of adoption procedures in the country.

Some of the criticisms include the fact that intercountry adoptions from Vietnam are demand-driven, meaning the availability of children who are adoptable relates more to the number of foreign adopters than to the actual needs of abandoned or orphaned children.