Belgium

Country Code: BE
Area: 18,969 sq mi (30,528km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 316 Billion Dollar
Population: 10,511,382

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country
ACC, Autorité Centrale Communautaire, Belgium	Central authority of	Belgium
Vlaamse Centrale Autoriteit Adoptie (Kind en Gezin) - Belgium	Central authority of	Belgium
Zentrale Behorde der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft fur Adoptionen	Central authority of	Belgium

Organizations based in Belgium:

Accreditation office

Organization	State/Province	City
ACC, Autorité Centrale Communautaire, Belgium		Brussels
SPF-Justice, Service de l'Adoption Internationale - Belgium	Brussels	Brussels
Vlaamse Centrale Autoriteit Adoptie (Kind en Gezin) - Belgium		Brussel

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
A La Croisée des Chemins asbl	Brabant Wallon	Loupoigne
Adoptiedienst Horizon	Oost-Vlaanderen	Beveren-Waas
AMARNA	Brussels	Brussels
De Vreugdezaaiers (The Joy Sowers/Les Semeurs de Joie)	Oost-Vlaanderen	Gent
Enfants de l'Espoir	Hainaut	Charleroi
Flanders Intercountry Adoption Care vzw (Interlandelijk Adoptiecentrum Vlaanderen)	Antwerpen	Geel
Het Kleine Mirakel	Antwerpen	Beerse
Larisa asbl	Liege	LIEGE
Los niños de Colombia asbl	Namur	Bioul
Ray of Hope	Oost-Vlaanderen	Lokeren
Service d'Adoption du CPAS de Liege	Liege	Liege
Service d'Adoption Therese Wante	Brabant Wallon	Ottignies/Louvain-la-Neuve
Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary	Brussels	Brussels
Sourires d'Enfants	Liege	Louveigné

Conference

Organization	State/Province	City
A European Policy on Adoption - 9 Nov 2006		Brussels
European Parliament Hearing - 2006		Brussels

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
European Parliament		Brussels
Zentrale Behorde der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft fur Adoptionen	Liege	Eupen

Miscellaneous

Organization	State/Province	City
European Commission		Brussels

Cases:

Abuse cases

Organization	Province	City
Girl adopted by a couple of Jurbise, Beligum	Hainaut	Jurbise
Two girls adopted in Fosses-la-Ville, Belgium	Namur	Fosses-la-Ville

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
China - Family Planning in Zhenyuan county Guizhou province case	2009-07-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case	2007-03-07
Vietnam - An Giang Province - Le Quoc Binh case	1995-01-01
Vietnam - Vu Tien Manh case	1998-01-01

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Ethiopia	38	41	52	62	112	88	124	118	143	120	147	92	69	28
China	95	138	138	205	203	153	109	76	77	59	32	20	5	9
Kazakhstan							26	26	88	69	28			2
Colombia	29	27	23	28	38	29	24	18	12	26	15	11	5	6
South Africa	1	5	13	18	14	11	12	14	22	18	23	23	28	16
Russian Federation	20	25	29	29	36	35	9	8	18	8	12	8	9	13
Thailand	22	22	22	32	12	13	20	16	13	14	13	12	18	18
India	45	28	27	29	23	28	6	6	6	15	5	4	5	4
Haiti	44	47	12	6	4	1		3	4	14	3	11	6	7
Mali			2	2	5	6	7	14	17	8	2	15
Philippines	15	14	10	20	10	12	12	9	3	3	3	3	2	1
Morocco									22	19
Vietnam	37	36	10								4	3	1
Poland	2		1		1	1			2		11	10		7
Ukraine	18	14	13	3	3	1	4	5	3	2		1
Peru	4	3	2	3	1	1	3	3	1	6	4	2	1
Sri Lanka	3	7	7	3	5	3	3	2	3	3	3
Belarus	7	11	27	22
Democratic Republic of The Congo											6	10	24	7
Madagascar	17	11	13	4					2		1	1	1	1
Nigeria								5	2		5	3	1	1
Nepal					1			1			10	1
Côte d’Ivoire										4	1	5	3	2
Cambodia		1	20								1	1
Ecuador	11	9	6	2	1								1
Togo					1						1	4		3
Guinea											1	4	3	4
France	2	1	3		1						2	1	3	1
Burkina Faso											2	2	2	5
Niger											2	2	3	2
Kenya									1		3		3
Switzerland												3
Bulgaria	3	2										2	1
Burundi											1	2
Rwanda											3		2	1
Lebanon												2
Zambia											1	1
Luxembourg											1	1	2	2
Malawi											2			1
Mexico											2		1
United Kingdom											2			3
Central African Republic												1
Djibouti												1
Mongolia												1
Cameroon												1	1	1
United States of America												1	2	4
Chile											1
Kosovo											1
Malaysia											1
Papua New Guinea											1
Turkey											1
Argentina											1		1
Spain											1			1
Netherlands											1		2	1
Armenia				2
Mozambique						1							1
Mauritius		1
Romania	1
Benin														1
Brazil														1
Croatia													1
Cyprus													1
Dominican Republic														2
Ghana														1
Greece														1
Hungary													1
Japan													1
Namibia														1
Nicaragua													1
Republic of The Congo (Brazzaville)													1
Singapore													1
Slovakia													1
Tanzania													2
Uganda													1
Germany													1	2
Guatemala													1	1
Total	414	443	430	470	471	383	359	324	439	388	360	265	219	161

Source: Autorité centrale communautaire and Vlaamse Centrale Autoriteit Adoptie

Adoption exports

This information is compiled from the figures as reported by the receiving countries.

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise	1995-04-04

Parent topics: Western Europe

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