Two researchers, Fabio Macedo and Yves Denéchère, attached to the University of Angers, with whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) signed an agreement in December 2021 to prepare this independent report, released their findings on 6 February. Nigel Cantwell,...
  • 23 February 2023
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Following the French government’s commitment in February 2022 to shed light on the phenomenon of illicit intercountry adoptions from the 1980s onwards, a new step has been taken. The Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Justice (le...
  • 11 November 2022
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During a public debate in the Senate on 15 December 2021, Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Child Protection officially announced the establishment, during the first half of 2022 a ministerial commission to investigate illegal adoptions and provide a response...
  • 22 December 2021
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The bioethics law adopted on 29 June 2021, which should be promulgated during the summer, recognises for the first time for people born through donor conception, a right to know their personal origins. When the law enters into force, which...
  • 08 July 2021
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