On 28 September 2022, a joint statement on illegal intercountry adoptions was issued by the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, three different Special Rapporteurs and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The statement aimed to “remember States about their obligation to prevent, punish and repair illegal intercountry adoptions”. One year after the adoption of the joint statement, “the involved mechanisms organize an event to further disseminate and promote its content and foster its implementation, to remind all stakeholders of the importance of its content, bringing together victims and other civil society actors, States, UN human rights mechanisms, National Human Rights Institutions and other stakeholders to recall and highlight the content of the statement and to think about future steps to be taken to promote the implementation of its recommendations”. The objectives of the event include to present and discuss the content and objectives of the Joint Statement, to highlight the importance of the Joint Statement for victims and to identify future actions to promote the implementation of the Joint Statement. The event gives the centre stage to voices of adoptees, who have been victims of these illicit practices and how the UN mechanism can support them in giving full reparations. CHIP welcomes this occasion to measure and discuss the impact of the statement, which is essential to prevent and to repair illegal intercountry adoptions.

Source: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/ced/2022-09-29/JointstatementICA_HR_28September2022.pdf; to follow the event live: https://lnkd.in/gw6F3GZC