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US advisor to discuss foreign adoptions

| Publication date 16 March 2011 | 08:01 ICT

US advisor to discuss foreign adoptions

United States Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Susan Jacobs will arrive in the region today to discuss the proposed resumption of inter-country adoption with Cambodia and Vietnam. Jacobs is expected to meet with government officials and non-governmental adoption organisations. The US government suspended adoptions form Cambodia in 2001.

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