Rwanda has been hailed for her upcoming accession to the Hague convention on protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
The congragulatory message was echoed by U.S. Special Advisor for Children’s Affairs, Ambassador Susan Jacobs while she met with Inyumba Aloisea, Minister for Gender and Promotion of Family.
They two also discussed Rwanda’s child protection initiative that has been approved by the Cabinet. Minister Inyumba and Ambassador Jacobs first met in early May when they discussed child protection at the Christian Alliance for Orphans conference in California.
Susan Jacobs is the Special Advisor for Children’s Issues. She was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Bureau of Consular Affairs and previously served as the Bureau’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.
From 2000-2003 she was the United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Ambassador Jacobs graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was a Regents Scholar, and later studied at Georgetown University Law School and the George Washington University.
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