Federal government wants to clarify origin of illegal adoptions with strategy day
Published: Friday, Feb 16th 2024, 13:50
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Federal Councillor Beat Jans met with representatives of the cantons on Friday to discuss the organization of the search for origin. The focus was on failures by the authorities in international adoptions between the 1970s and 1990s. Initial decisions are to be made at a strategy day in fall 2024.
The federal government wants to support the cantons in finding a solution, the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) announced. The responsibility to support those affected in their search for their origins lies with the cantons. The irregularities have shaped the lives of the people adopted at the time to this day.
In December 2023, a report by the Conference of Cantonal Justice and Police Directors (KKJPD) formulated concrete recommendations for bundling responsibilities and supporting those affected, as the FDJP wrote.
Today, international adoptions are processed according to clearly defined, internationally recognized standards. Nevertheless, the Federal Council sees a need for action and initiated a corresponding revision of adoption law in December last year, it added.
Between 1970 and 1999, several thousand children probably came to Switzerland for adoption from abroad through child trafficking, forged documents, missing information on origin or other illegal practices. This was revealed in a report published by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) last December.
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