Democracy, Human Rights, Refugees: Special Advisor for Children's Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs to Travel to Guatemala

Media Note

Office of the Spokesman

Washington, DC

December 6, 2010

Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs will visit Guatemala December 7 – 11 for meetings on intercountry adoption. She will meet with government officials and nongovernmental adoption stakeholders to discuss the status of U.S. citizen adoption cases that have been pending since the suspension of new adoptions by Guatemala in 2007. She will also discuss Guatemala’s efforts to implement new intercountry adoption safeguards that would provide a path toward future adoption processing.

For more information about Guatemala adoption, visit http://adoption.state.gov/country/guatemala.html.

PRN: 2010/1759

Democracy, Human Rights, Refugees: Special Advisor for Children's Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs to Travel to Guatemala

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