Netherlands

Country Code: NL
Area: 25,803 sq mi (41,526km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 542 Billion Dollar
Population: 16,570,613

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Ministry of Justice, Directorate-General for Prevention, Youth and Sanctions	Central authority of	Netherlands

Organizations based in Netherlands:

Adoption Advocates

Organization	State/Province	City
Zuid-Afrika Adoptievereniging PROTEA	Limburg	Cadier en Keer
World Initiative for Orphans (WIO)		Den Haag
Orphan Awareness Foundation (OAF)		Den Haag
Landelijke Vereniging Adoptieouders (LAVA)	Utrecht	Zeist
Belangenvereniding Zelfdoeners in Adoptie (BZA)	Zuid Holland	Sassenheim
Adoptievereniging der Gereformeerde Gezindte (AdGG)	Zeeland	Goes
Adoptievereniging De Rode Draad	Utrecht	Amersfoort
AdoptieOudersOverleg (AOO)	Zeeland	Maassluis
2006 3rd Annual World Conference on Children without Parental Care		The Hague

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Wereldkinderen (N.I.C.W.O.)	Zuid Holland	The Hague
Stichting Hogar	Noord Holland	Alkmaar
Stichting FLASH		Malden
Stichting Afrika	Gelderland	Lochem
Nederlandse Adoptie Stichting (NAS)	Zuid Holland	Oudewater
Kind en Toekomst		Halle

Adoption reform advocates

Organization	State/Province	City
United Adoptees International	Noord Holland	Amsterdam

Foundation

Organization	State/Province	City
Vrienden van FANA Nederland	Noord Holland	Castricum
Stichting Projecten FLASH		Malden
Stichting Kondanani Nederland		Harderwijk
Stichting Bal Mandir		Alkmaar
Stichting "Lang leve het Zambiaanse kind"	Zuid Holland	Wageningen
Libra Cares for Life		Amstelveen
Beautiful Gate Netherlands (De Schone Poort)	Friesland	Dokkum

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
Ministry of Justice, Directorate-General for Prevention, Youth and Sanctions	Zuid Holland	The Hague

Joint action

Organization	State/Province	City
Euradopt		Den haag

Miscellaneous

Organization	State/Province	City
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and International Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption	Zuid Holland	The Hague
Orphan Awareness Foundation	Zuid Holland	Den Haag
Edmund Burke Foundation	Zuid Holland	The Hague
2007 World Conference on Children without Parental Care		The Hague

Parent support group

Organization	State/Province	City
Vereniging van Ouders met Nepalese Kinderen (VONK)		Berkel en Rodenrijs
Guateninos		Rijswijk

Cases:

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Peru - Céline Giraud - "Rayon de soleil" case.	2010-08-14
India - Satheesh Kumar ("Rahul") case	1999-10-01
India - Malaysian Social Services case	2008-08-23
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
China - Family Planning in Longhui County Hunan Province case	2011-05-10
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
China	457	445	510	567	800	666	362	365	299	283	306	197	192	136	137	100	58
Colombia	226	190	197	171	104	89	80	49	51	28	19	18	8	5	6	2	3
Haiti	59	70	83	69	42	51	41	28	91	60	108			7	13	6	6
Ethiopia	61	42	51	39	72	72	48	68	50	39	23	19	16	12	3	6
United States of America	8	12	18	31	18	32	38	39	56	34	34	43	48	27	28	35	20
Taiwan	38	57	63	81	54	44	43	34	40	30	28	20	16	14	15	16	19
South Africa		20	38	43	51	58	50	34	36	30	21	23	21	26	23	26	15
Poland	30	15	22	20	22	30	25	29	28	28	22	10	13	9	5	7	2
Nigeria	1	3	3	9	17	24	28	22	22	19	13	19	17	12	22	17	12
Kenya		3			2	1	1	1	17	18	22	28	22	26	22	3
Democratic Republic of the Congo									2	10	20	24	28	26		17	12
India	64	53	34	21	29	24	15	16	5	9		1					2
Philipines	8	18	13	8	11	9	10	7	6	17	13	13	9	13	9	14	8
Thailand	20	15	14	13	11	13	16	16	10	11	6	8	9	4	2	10	13
Sri Lanka	2	5	6	8	9	9	10	7	7	16	14	19		1	2	2	1
Brazil	38	29	20	25	30	28	14	9	4
Hungary		1			1	4	2	5	7	2	13	13	14	7	10	11	15
Bolivia						6	4	10	12	7	7	14	8	11	5
Slovakia					3	2	3	7	10	9	11	8	10	4	4	8	3
Bulgaria		2	1	1	1	1	1			2	4	14	15	18	26	8	11
Lesotho							6	12		1	9	5	11	4	5	4	1
Republic of Korea (South Korea)	60	61	27	17
Surinam	9	5	10	8	10	6	4	5		8	2	2	1			1
Uganda						1				2	5	12	8	10	2
Guatemala	56	46	3	4	4	1	1	3
Morocco				1	2			5	3	5	2	4	1	6	1
Malawi								2	2	1		4	3
Nicaragua												2	7	16	10	8	5
Ghana						1				4	1	1	4
Benin									1		1	4	3	2
Israel				2			5	3				1	2	2	1	1	1
Nepal	2	6	2	2	1	1	1	2	3
Peru	5	4	1	4	1	2	4
Romania	28	1															1
Ecuador	4	7	3		2	1	1	1
Mongolia						2			2				1
Zambia							2			3
Dominican Republic	1					2				2
Cambodia			1	5	2
Namibia												1	1
Senegal		3	2	1	2
Mexico			3		2			1
other	11
Russian Federation						3	1
Middle East										2
Bangladesh			1					1	1
Ukraine			2	1					1
Tunisia								1	1
Togo		1									1
Rwanda												1
Pakistan			1							1
Lithuania		2				1
Mozambique		2				1
Armenia										1
Costa Rica	3
Liberia		1		1
Madagascar		2
Algeria					1
Burundi					1
Panama					1
Turkey					1									1			1
Croatia				1
Honduras				1
Vietnam			1
Iraq		1
Indonesia	1
Eritrea																	2
Côte d’Ivoire														1
Portugal														1	3	2	3
Total	1192	1122	1130	1154	1307	1185	816	782	767	682	705	528	488	401	354	304	214

Source: Stichting Adoptievoorzieningen

Adoption exports

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

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Dutch adoption annulment case: LJN: BW5204, Rechtbank Zutphen , 125746 FA RK 11/2138	2012-05-09
Dutch adoption annulment case: LJN: BW5040, Rechtbank Haarlem , 179845 / FA RK 11-988	2012-05-03
Dutch adoption annulment case: LJN: BT8475, Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage , 397095/ FA RK 11-4810	2011-10-05
International Adoption: Two Way Street	2010-11-01
Dutch adoption annulment case: LJN: BQ6551, Rechtbank Alkmaar , 122127 / FA RK 10-748	2010-10-20
Dutch adoption annulment case: LJN: BN6040, Rechtbank 's-Hertogenbosch , FA RK 08-971	2008-07-10

Parent topics: Western Europe

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