Switzerland

Country Code: CH
Area: 25,653 sq mi (41,285km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 264 Billion Dollar
Population: 7,507,000

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Bundesamt für Justiz Zentralbehörde zur Behandlung internationaler Adoptionen	Central authority of	Switzerland

Organizations based in Switzerland:

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Alpes-adoption		Gland
Arc en Ciel, Switzerland		Tannay
Association Christina		Genève
Bras Kind Familien für Kinder		Dübendorf
Bureau genevois d'adoption		Geneve
Chaba Adozioni		Minusio
Emmanuel S.O.S. Adoption		Choëx
Familles sans frontières		Lausanne
Fondation Enfants-Espoir	Vaud	Bretigny
HELVIET-Adoption		Fribourg
LankaChild		Rothenburg
Le Bureau Genevois d'Adoption	Geneva	Geneve
Mouvement Enfance & Foyers		Fribourg
Primaverii		Zurich
Pro Kind	Zurich	Winterthur
Terre des Hommes Switzerland	Geneva
Verein ProAdoption		Freiburg
Vereinigung für Adoptionshilfe (Adoption Assistance Switzerland)		Bettlach

Foundation

Organization	State/Province	City
Children Action		Geneva

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
Bundesamt für Justiz Zentralbehörde zur Behandlung internationaler Adoptionen	Bern	Bern

Miscellaneous

Organization	State/Province	City
International Social Service (ISS)	Geneva	Geneva

Cases:

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
El Salvador - Michael Kennedy (Jose Oliva) and his 3 sisters case	1981-01-01
Peru - Céline Giraud - "Rayon de soleil" case.	2010-08-14
Vietnam - An Giang Province - Le Quoc Binh case	1995-01-01

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
miscellaneous						220	211	213	227
Thailand	26	47	41	64	82	63	68	61	52
Colombia	60	54	60	66	73	43	48	43	35
Ethiopia	7	25	31	58	43	55	54	58	51
India	68	61	42	80	51	25	37	38	18
Russian Federation	33	37	56	46	51	25	33	21
Brazil	51	36	36	32	22	19	19		20
Morrocco	16	13	14	13	23	19	17	16	35
Romania	38	43	45	52	22
Philippines	9	13	12	9	21	15		14	25
Vietnam	29	20	25	48	33
United States of America	13	10	9	14	9			24	17
Ukraine	6	10	7	19	21	16	22
Cameroon	11	12	5	3	6		12		17
Bulgaria	13	15	15	19	15
Haiti	9	6	8	9	7			16
Serbia	5	7	14	17	20
Madagascar	13	8	11	22	3
Guatemala	5	10	11	12	14
Portugal	23	9	8	12	4
France	10	4	9	6	10
Dominican Republic	12	12	6	6	5
Peru	2	1	4	4	2		12
Poland	5	3	3	8	9
Germany	8	1	5	3	5
Ecuador	4	5	6	5	2
Cambodia		2		3	11
Bosnia Herzegovina	4	4	4	5	3
Italy	9	6	1	1	4
Nepal	3	2	4	6	3
Chile	9	7	3	1	1
Kenya	4	1	3	4	4
Turkey	1	2	4	2	3
Republic of the Congo			2	2	6
El Salvador	5	2	2	2	2
Spain	2	4	1	3	1
Sri Lanka	2	2	2	1	3
China		3		2	4
Bolivia	2	2	3		3
Rwanda	4		1	3	2
Burkina Faso	2	1	4	2	1
Latvia	2	5			3
Macedonia			1	5	2
Hungary	3	1		3	2
Cote d'Ivoire		1	1	6
Austria	5		1	1	2
Venezuela	2	4		3
Algeria	2	2		2	2
Nigeria			1	1	4
Ghana	1		1	5
Czech Republic	4	2			2
Slovakia	4	2	1	1
Croatia	4	1		1	1
Indonesia	1			1	3
Argentina	2	4	1
Angola	2			2	1
South Africa	2	1		1	1
Chad	1	2	1		1
Kazakhstan				4
Lebanon	2	1	1	1
Senegal	3		1	1
Mongolia			1		2
Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
Canada			1	2
Togo	1		1		1
Pakistan		1	1	1
Bangladesh	2				1
Mauritius					2
Sao Tome e Principe					2
Nicaragua	1		2
Dominica			1	1
Afghanistan	1				1
Cape Verde	1				1
Tunesia		1		1
Costa Rica			2
Eritrea			2
Cuba	1		1
Uzbekistan	1		1
Uganda		2
Guinea	2
Iran	2
Sweden	2
Azerbaijan					1
Honduras					1
Ireland					1
Malaysia					1
Somalia					1
Zimbabwe					1
Egypt				1
Georgia (country)				1
Israel				1
Netherlands				1
Taiwan				1
Namibia			1
Liechtenstein			1
Luxembourg			1
Singapore			1
South Korea			1
Zambia			1
Jamaica		1
Laos		1
Armenia	1
Belarus	1
Burundi	1
Central African Republic	1
Fiji	1
United Kingdom	1
Total	588	532	546	712	644	500	533	504	497

Source:

Sweitzerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bundesamt für Justiz

Adoption exports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2009
Sweden	1			2
Germany	2	2
United States of America			1
Total	3	2	1	2

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

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Million Dollar Baby	2005-07-07

Parent topics: Western Europe

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