THE HAGUE: After a nearly two-year-freeze on new international adoptions the Dutch government on Wednesday announced plans resume adoptions of children from the Philippines, Hungary, Lesotho, Taiwan, Thailand and South Africa.
The Netherlands froze international adoptions in February last year, after a government commission found some children had been stolen or bought from their birth parents in cases going back to the 1960s.
Dutch Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind said in a statement the decision to partially resume international adoptions signified "an end to a time of uncertainty".
