Summary: IFCO urges the UN CRC, States Parties and international donors to monitor and help develop in-country family-based placement solutions for children in out-of-home care, particularly babies. International adoption should be seen as a last resort where all other options have been fully explored and only where all stages of the process are transparent and demonstrably free from corruption.
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