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Sat 01 Jan 2009Adoption Bill enforces Hague Convention
THE GOVERNMENT says newly published adoption legislation will provide uniform standards of child protection for the approximately 400 intercountry adoptions completed each year.
The Adoption Bill 2009 gives force of law to the Hague Convention, the main international statute governing intercountry adoptions. Ireland signed the convention in 1993, but has yet to ratify it.
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