What is Hague Adoption Convention?
[[File:Map adoptionconvention.png|thumb|right|300px|{{Center|Members of the Hague Adoption Convention (blue: members, purple: non-members; green: [[:wikt:signatory|signatories]] to the convention)}}]] The '''Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption''' (or simply '''Hague Adoption Convention'''), provides certain [[:wikt:protection|protections]] to [[children]]. It [[:wikt:guarantee|guarantees]] the protection of children from [[Human trafficking#Child_trafficking|child trafficking]]. It also guarantees them safe [[adoption]] and a quick adoption process. == History == In May 1993 the [[proposal]] was presented at the seventeenth [[:wikt:session|session]] of [[The Hague]] [[:wikt:convention|Convention]].<ref>Peter H. Pfund, 'Remarks', ''Law and Contemporary Problems'', Vol. 57, No. 3 (Summer, 1994), p.159</ref> It became effective in 1995. The [[United States]] [[Ratification|ratified]] the Hague Adoption Convention in December 2007.<ref>'United States Ratifies Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption', ''The American Journal of International Law '', Vol. 102, No. 1 (Jan., 2008), p. 194</ref> Forty-six countries had ratified the treaty as of May 2002. Thirteen more had yet to ratify it.<ref>''Americans Living Abroad: What You Should Know While You Are There'', ed. Gladson I. Nwanna (Baltimore, MD: Frontline Publishers, 2004), p. 143</ref> Many countries which have not ratified the Convention do not permit foreign adoptions of their children nor adoptions of foreign children. For example, Muslim countries do not permit foreign adoptions.<ref name=Wrobel62>''International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice'', eds. Gretchen Miller Wrobel; Elsbeth Neil (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), p. 62</ref> == Concerns == Adopting children from one [[country]] into a [[family]] from another is a relatively new idea. It developed after [[World War II]].<ref name=Hague1>''Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention: Outline'' (The Netherlands, Hague Conference on Private