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Portugal

Subdivisions

Autonomous region
District
Instituto de Segurança Social, I.P., Portugal
Casa Pia de Lisboa

Adoption imports

 
Mozambique  
Eastern Africa  
China  
Eastern Asia  
Bulgaria  
Eastern Europe  
Sao Tome e Principe  
Middle Africa  
Brazil  
South America  
Thailand  
Southeastern Asia  
Cape Verde  
Côte d'Ivoire  
Guinea Bissau  
Western Africa  
France  
Western Europe  
Total
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
total
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
3
2
3
3
11
3
2
3
3
11
4
7
6
1
2
1
1
22
4
7
6
1
2
1
1
22
1
1
1
1
1
7
2
11
11
6
5
1
1
2
2
49
1
1
2
2
4
2
7
2
11
11
6
7
3
1
2
2
54
1
1
1
1
2
4
2
15
8
12
12
8
7
7
3
5
5
1
1
1
93

Abuse cases

Title Date
Children living at Casa Pia de Lisboa 1981 Jan 1
Southern Europe

Documents

Title Publication date
Sixteen adopted children returned last year 2010 Apr 1
Portugal sets up children’s shelter as concerns grow over child trafficking 2010 Jan 30
Teenage mother stages protest after son is given for adoption 2009 Jun 6
Portugal placed on Iraqi child trafficking route 2009 Apr 18
Difficulties in Adoption 2008 Nov 27
Adoption: 70 children returned to the institutions 2008 Nov 16
Paedophile adoption: change in law needed 2008 Jul 3
Prosecutor defends legislative amendment to prevent adoption by pedophiles 2008 May 20
Switzerland: 70 Portugese children adopted since 91 2007 Mar 2
Trafficking of babies : also in Portugal and Italy 2004 Aug 2
Trafficking of children in Mozambique? Coelho in an interview with newspaper The Crime'''' 2004 Apr 11