April 30, 2008
Two baby girls play on a bed at an orphanage in the Northern province of Hoa Binh, Vietnam. Vietnam will stop accepting new US adoption requests from July 1 and close all US adoption agencies by September 1 when the agreement runs out, said Vu Duc Long, head of the Justice Ministry's International Adoptions Department. Long rejected the US embassy report, which alleged widespread abuses and a flourishing trade in babies since both countries resumed adoptions in 2006, three years after the programme was suspended over similar concerns.
Posted by Gary Holden at April 30, 2008 6:13 AM