Belarus Marriage Agency
International Adoption Belarus
Fax: 375 – 17-231-0617 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS: A prospective parent may be single, divorced or widowed. A prospective parent must be at least 16 years older than the adoptive child. Single parents are permitted to adopt a child of either sex. RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS: There are no residency requirements for Belarusian adoptions. [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
The Peoples Republic of China is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. A significant number of Chinese women and children are trafficked internally for forced marriage and forced labor. Chinese women are at times lured abroad with false promises of legitimate employment and then trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to destinations throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, while Chinese men have been trafficked for forced labor to Europe, South America, and the Middle East. A large number of Chinese men and women are smuggled abroad at enormous personal financial cost and, upon arrival in the destination country, are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation or other forms of exploitative labor to repay their debts. They often face exploitative conditions that meet t ... [Read More]
2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Belarus
The IOM, UNDP, and La Strada/YWCA conducted national awareness campaigns and provided training to NGOs in regional towns. La Strada/YWCA and IOM continued to open and operate hotlines throughout the country. These hotlines provided opportunities for women to seek information about agencies, laws, and risks before accepting employment or marriage offers from overseas. In the summer, the NGOs managed to switch the hotlines to free "green line" numbers and create new billboards and brochures informing women to call the hotlines before making decisions to work or live abroad. The Government did not conduct independent awareness campaigns, but did increase trafficking coverage in state controlled news. ... [Read More]
Adoption Notices
U.S. Department of State [Read More]
The U.S. Governments International Anti-Trafficking Programs Fiscal Year 2003
Description: Sanlaap will survey child marriage patterns in rural West Bengal areas that are source areas for child trafficking/sexual exploitation; develop projects that deter child marriage; increase networking on prevention of child trafficking between NGOs and government and law enforcement at both the rural and urban level; provide police training divisions with comprehensive reference material on child trafficking/sexual exploitation; and provide grass-roots government officials with the training necessary to recognize and fight trafficking in children. ... [Read More]
The U.S. Governments International Anti-Trafficking Programs Fiscal Year 2004
For regular meetings with government marriage register (ZAGS) representatives, leaders of higher education institutions, NGOs, and Ayil Okmotu (local administration). To prepare and disseminate handouts and brochures, gathering statistics on marriage registration and civil divorces in the courts. ... U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ... [Read More]
International Adoptions
Washington, DC 20520-2818 I. General Information The Role of the State Department: The State Department CAN: ... [Read More]
Working for Women, Worldwide: The U.S. Commitment
Katya is one of those unlucky women trafficked across borders. With a two-year-old daughter and a failing marriage in the Czech Republic, Katya took the advice of a "friend" and decided to make good money as a waitress in The Netherlands. Leaving her daughter behind, she and four other young women were driven to Amsterdam, where a Dutch trafficker joined their Czech trafficker. Katya was taken to a brothel. After saying "I will not do this," she was told, "Yes, you will, if you want your daughter back in the Czech Republic to live." ... [Read More]
Authentication of Documents For Use Abroad
U.S. Department of State [Read More]
IV. Country Narratives: Europe and Eurasia
Yelena is a 25-year-old Belarusian with a college degree. She responded to a Minsk employment agencys advertisement seeking nightclub dancers in Cyprus. The agency provided Yelena with a work visa, a three-month employment contract, and a written guarantee that the job would not require any sexual activities. Immediately upon arrival in Cyprus, the owners of the nightclub where she was to work confiscated her passport and told her she would be forced to work as a prostitute at the club. They also told Yelena that she would have to repay a "debt" to cover her travel and visa expenses. Over the next three months she was forced to work in the Cypriot sex industry, suffering physical and psychological abuse. The club owners confiscated her earnings as "debt" payments. Once the owners recovered their expenses, they released Yelena with nothing.The Government of Albania does not fully comply with the minimum stan ... [Read More]
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