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106TH CONGRESS ExEc. RPT.
2d Session J SENATE 106-14
CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND CO-
OPERATION IN RESPECT OF INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
APRIL 27, 2000.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HELMS, from the Committee on Foreign Relations,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany Treaty Doc. 105-51]
The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the
Convention on Protection of Children And Co-operation in Respect
of Intercountry Adoption, adopted and opened for signature at the
conclusion of the Seventeenth Session of The Hague Conference on
Private International Law on May 29, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 105-51),
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon, with six
declarations, and recommends that the Senate give its advice and
consent to the ratification thereof as set forth in this report and the
accompanying resolution of ratification.
CONTENTS
Page
I. P u rpose ........................................................................................................... 1
II. B ackground ................................................................................................... 2
III. Sum m ary ........................................................................................................ 2
IV. Entry Into Force and Termination ............................................................... 8
V . Com m ittee A ction ......................................................................................... 8
VI. Com m ittee Com m ents ................................................................................... 8
VII. Text of the Resolution of Ratification ......................................................... 11
I. PURPOSE
The Convention on Protection of Children And Co-operation in
Respect of Intercountry Adoption (hereinafter, the Hague Conven-
tion or Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption) is intended
to protect the rights of, and prevent abuses against, children, birth
families, and adoptive parents involved in adoptions (or prospective
adoptions) subject to the Convention, and to ensure that such adop-
tions are in the children's best interests. It is also intended to im-
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