schinternationaladoption

 **Name: Michelle Luo Period: 0 **
 * Committee: SCH**
 * Topic: International Adoption**

 ** I. **__** COUNTRY PROFILE **__** : **

Republic of India Varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north **    **
 * A. **** Physical Geography **
 * 1. ** **Official Name of Country:**
 * 2. Climate: **
 * 3.

a. ** **Location Absolute and Relative:**  20 00 N, 77 00 E; located in Southern Asia, bordering Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Burma, and also borders the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal ** b. Physical Features: ** upland plain, flat and rolling plain along the Ganges river, and the Himalayas in the north   <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** c. ** **Size:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">3, 287,590 sq km

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">** B. Political Geography ** Federal republic, President Prathiba Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** 5. Capital :** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> New Delhi    <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 6. International Organization Affiliations :** ADB, ARF, ASEAN, BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CP, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM,IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OPCW, PCA, PIF, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNCHR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 7. Size of Armed Forces: ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Male: 11,592,111 Female: 10, 636, 857 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">** C. Cultural Geography ** Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2 %, other 5.9; Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 1,147,995,904 people; 1.578%; 1.06 male (s)/female  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 10. Major Cities :** New Delhi, Chandigarh, Shimla, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Poona <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 11. ** **Infant Mortality Rate and Average Life Expectancy:** 32.31 deaths/1000 live births; 69.25 years <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 12. ** **Teachers and Doctors Per Population:** 3.2% <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * 4. ** **Type of Government, Names of Government Officials, and Political Parties:**
 * 8. Official Language, Other Languages Spoken, Ethnic Composition and Major Religions :**
 * 9.** ** Population, Population Growth Rate, and Population Distribution :**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">** D. Economic Geography ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">$1.099 trillion total; $2,600 per capita <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 14. Percentage of Land That is Arable Used for Agriculture :** 48.83% <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 15. Natural Resources: ** Coal, iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 16. Major Agricultural and Industrial Products :** Rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water, buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish-textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 17. Major Exports and Imports: ** Exports: petroleum products, textile, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, leather manufactures Import: crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;">** 18. Currency: ** Indian Rupee (INR) is the official national currency; 49.16 INR to one USD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 19. Balance of Trade: ** Export: $151.3 billion Import: $230.5 billion <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ** 20. Historical Events: **  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">1981: Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated 1981: National Referendum 1984: Egypt rejoins Islamic Conference 1989: Egypt rejoins the Arab League 1990 - 1991: Gulf War 1991: Half of national debt was forgiven <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);"> ** <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">SOURCES ** https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html **
 * 13. GNP or GDP :**

II. __Background__: ** International adoption is where an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parents of a child born in another country. This problem has increased mostly by the cause of bad economy. International adoption all started from World War II when many orphans suffered from refugee migrations. Through the years 1988 to 1998, the amount of adoption went from 5,000 to 16,000. This is a big issue in China due to the law of only having one child. This worries some countries because it might lead to Child trafficking. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> International adoption was not a major issue to the United Nations, but recently they have realized that it is becoming worst. When it comes to this issue, the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children must remain our of armed conflict and that children should be guaranteed natural human rights. UNICEF has took action in facing international adoption. The United Nations is ensuring that children are not abused or mistreated, and that they have the human rights as well as others. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This situation arises because adoption is still a bit of a stigma in India. Indians are not very open to the idea of adoption. It was in the news once that a number of cases where the child has gone to an alien land only to be mistreated. A Social or Child Welfare Agency licensed or recognized by the government of the country in which the foreigner resides must sponsor every application of a foreigner for adoption of an Indian child. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> India would agree with the law they have in China that families should not have children if they are not going to be responsible for them. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">
 * III.** ** __UN Involvement__: **
 * IV. __ Country Policy/Possible Solutions __ : **

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