Overview

• Denmark's only adoption agency, Danish International Adoption (DIA), has announced it is ceasing operations amid reports of irregularities.
• DIA facilitated international adoptions from six countries: the Czech Republic, India, the Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, and Thailand.
• Norway is considering halting all overseas adoptions for two years pending an investigation into several allegedly illegal cases.
• Norway has suspended adoptions from the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, and South Korea, but families already assigned a child from these countries will be allowed to complete the adoption process after an assessment by the agency.
• International adoptions have significantly decreased in Denmark over the past decade, from about 400 to 500 children per year in the 1970s to 20-40 adoptions in the past three years.