I have SO much information coming across my desk right now that I'm backed up to my eyeballs in stuff I want to share. So, without further procrastination ... Informed Adoptions is an organization set up to help members of the international adoption community educate themselves and share resources on a wide range of topics. They offer, "on-line education, resources, and training for parents, guides, social workers, etc. on the various issues, such as signs of grieving, post institutional... more

Continued from here where we've been looking at news from Cambodia ...

While the Spanish may lend one kind of support, other countries are also ponying up. The German government has donated 7.6 million Euro (about US... more

I would love someone to explain THIS to me? A story titled, "Cambodia, U.S. joining hands in migration, trafficking issues" talks about a meeting between the Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey where the Cambodians enjoyed no shortage of great praise for work well done. Toward... more

Continued from here ... Here's an article looking at new figures from India's National Family Health Survey that indicates nearly half of that country's children are malnourished.

With about 46 percent of children underweight _ a negligible improvement over the last survey, conducted in 1998-99 _ India is in the... more

A few bits of news have crossed my desk this morning that I feel I should pass along. First, from the US State Department, this notice that an adoption service provider in Guatemala is under investigation.

The Office of Children’s Issues has learned from official sources of the arrest of American adoption service facilitator Mary Bridget Bonn in Florida . It is our understanding that Ms. Bonn is charged with... more

This year's Academy Awards will shine more than one light toward the plight of the world's children. As always, the "Best Documentary Short" category offers some of the best films made. "Recycled Life", the story of Guatemalans living in the garbage dump there is a nominee, and "The Blood of Yingzhou District" appears to be a worthy contender for the prize,... more

Because this is my blog and I can, I'm starting with a couple of articles that are less than complimentary about Mel's Mayan Mess, aka "Apocalypto". (It's almost as much fun trashing Mel Gibson as pointing out disgusting details about the UN ... and I have SO much more respect for Homer Simpson than for either ... or both.)

First, this review that points out how much this movie has to say about the person that is Mel ... the... more

Continued from here ... On the up side, this article gives a look at some terrific people really helping.

A survivor of Cambodia's notorious Killing Fields era, Phaly Nuon is a woman that has woven the painful bits of her life into a successful retail silk business that has expanded from her home in Phnom Penh to Hawaii's... more

Continued from here ... Oh! Oh! Here's something that won't help, either"

The Cambodian government must do more to help more than 1.4 million of the country's children estimated to be working, many for 50 cents a day or less, the World Bank said in a report released Wednesday.

The... more

Continued from here ...

KHMER ROUGE TRIALS:

The Washington Post has a good article on how victims of the Khmer Rouge are losing hope that justice may still come to pass.

Rather than providing a promised airing of truth, the proceedings have become mired in a debate over legal standards that... more