Special US advisor for children's issue to visit India

Special US advisor for children's issue to visit India

Washington, May 12 (PTI) America's Special Advisor for Children's issues Susan Jacobs will travel to India this week to hold talks with Indian officials on cooperation as partners under Hague Adoption Convention.

During her visit to India from May 11 to 14, Jacobs would meet with "government officials to discuss further cooperation as partners under The Hague Adoption Convention," the State Department said in a statement yesterday.

"She will also continue our regular discussions on international parental child abduction," it added.

The Hague Adoption Convention, effective from 1995, is an international agreement to safeguard intercountry adoptions, child laundering, and child trafficking.

The Convention has been ratified by 90 countries. Many countries which have not ratified it do not permit foreign adoptions of their children nor adoptions of foreign children.

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