LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, CRC/C/LAO/CO/2

45. While noting that the State party has temporarily suspended adoption requests by foreigners and that it is working on guidelines for inter-country adoptions based on amendments to the Family Law (2009), the Committee regrets that the State party has no mechanism to monitor national and international adoptions that have taken place and has not ratified the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry adoption of 1993.

46. The Committee urges the State party to put in place a mechanism to monitor all adoptions, national and international in order to ensure that the rights of the children who are adopted are fully respected. The Committee also encourages the State party to consider ratifying the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry adoption of 1993.