In the July 2017 issue of Adoption Advocate, CAP Director Elizabeth Bartholet discusses recently introduced legislation, S.1177 and H.R.2643, that has the potential to transform our understanding of child rights by requiring the Department of State to include in its annual reports on human rights violations the deliberate denial to children living in institutions around the world of the opportunity to be placed in adoptive families. She explains why this legislation is needed, and why the opposition to it is unjustified.
Click here to read Bartholet’s article in Adoption Advocate issue No. 109.