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Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000
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The final text of the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention), a multilateral treaty, was approved by 66 nations on May 29, 1993 at The Hague. The Convention covers adoptions among countries that become parties to it and sets out for such adoptions certain internationally agreed-upon minimum norms and procedures. The goal of the Convention is to protect the children, birth parents and adoptive parents involved in intercountry adoptions and to prevent abuses.

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