12) Educate yourself on the International Documents that are applicable to International Adoption:

–”The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)”

–”The Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol (Sale of Children)”

–”Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption”

–Human Rights documents, including the “Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.”

–Educate others in the adoption community and in the general community about what these documents say about human rights and adoption, including the fact that they state a hierarchy of care for children.

–Lobby for laws and enforcement that takes these human rights documents seriously.

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