[Hindopia]

The World Assembly,

RECOGNISING every child?s need for the provision of adequate care, nourishment, clothing, shelter and protection from abuse, and to be provided with adequate education and medical care.

UNDERSTANDING that international adoption may be a child?s only chance at achieving those needs.

REALISING that some parties may abuse the system of international adoption by kidnapping, selling or trafficking children, or adopting children with the intent to abuse them.

CONVINCED that to prevent this, every Member State must create an Accredited Authority to handle the international adoption process in their nation.

DEFINING:

- INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION: the process in which a child from one Member State is adopted by prospective parents from another Member State.

- ACCREDITED AUTHORITY: an agency that handles all international adoptions in a nation and ensures that those adoptions adhere to the terms of this resolution.

MANDATES:

(1) Member States shall ensure that no party involved and deemed legally capable of making informed decisions has been coerced into participating in the process of international adoption.

(2) Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that no adoption is made with intent to commit a criminal offence.

(3) The receiving Member State shall ensure that the child meets all the minimum requirements for adoption, as determined by law in that country.

(4) Member States shall ensure that no party involved in the adoption has received financial or compensatory incentive to pursue the adoption, with the exception of legitimate fees resulting from the process.

(5) Both Member States shall ensure that all responsible parties involved are deemed legally competent adults under both nations? laws to proceed with the adoption.

(6) Member States shall ensure that all parties involved in the adoption understand (with the exception of infants and small children not yet at an age of understanding) what the process will entail, and that all parties involved expressly give their consent to the adoption in writing.

(7)Member states shall create an accredited authority, or allow an existing agency simliar in funtion to be appointed to the role, to oversee all international adoptions taking place in that nation. This accredited authority may be created as a new agency or added on to an existing department of government or agency. Member States having more than one system of law, such as Federal States or States having autonomous territorial units, may delegate this responsibility to the governments of these subdivisions.


Hookay, round 2!
Can anyone see anything that would make this illegal? Such as it covering a category other than "Moral Decency?"

Also, anything too add or remove?
Anything to improve it. Thanks!

[Bears Armed]

Looks good to me.

Just one minor quibble _
You refer to the need for nations to create an agency for this role in a couple of places, but some nations might already have one. I know that you said the agency could be added onto a suitable government department that already exists, but that isn't quite the same as saying that the duties could be assigned to an existing agency...
So, something along the lines of "should possess (and therefore should, if they do not already posses one, create)", perhaps?

[Hindopia]

Ok. Updated. I also edited a few sections where wording was wrong etc. Is there anything else that anyone can see? If there is nothing else, then I'll post it to the NS forums tomorrow.

[Jade Tigers]

Again, looks good to me!

[Hindopia]

Thanks! I'll go and post it to the GA forum now.