Fears that child traffickers are targeting Haitian orphans in quake chaos

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Haiti's PM in Canada for International Meeting on Earthquake Recovery

VOA News 25 January 2010

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A Haitian flag attached to a motorcycle's handlebar is seen as police walk by collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, 22 Jan 2010

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Disaster in Haiti gives adoption 'new energy'

By Luis Fabregas

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Nigeria: Citizens Tasked On Child Adoption

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Sunday, January 24, 2010

Lagos — A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Education House Foundation (EHF), has appealed to privileged Nigerians to embrace its programme, tagged, "Adopt a Child" to address the menace of street urchins.

The Founder of EHF, Mr Dick Tamunoemi-Amos, made the call in an address he presented at the launch/scholarship award and academic support programme on 'adopt a child programme' on Monday in Port Harcourt.

He said under the programme, interested persons were expected to adopt a child and undertake full responsibility of giving them qualitative education.

Haitian girl arrives safely in Utah for adoption

Relief » St. George volunteers and an Ogden agency hope to get more orphans out of Haiti.

by Christopher smart

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 01/23/2010 07:03:05 PM MST

EU-KOMMISSION MAHNT ZU "VORSICHT" BEI ADOPTION VON WAISEN AUS HAITI

25.01., 15:07 Uhr

"Wohlergehen des Kindes im Vordergrund"

Die EU-Kommission hat die Mitgliedsstaaten zu "Vorsicht" in den Adoptionsverfahren für Waisenkinder aus Haiti ermahnt. Einige Regierungen von EU-Staaten hätten angekündigt, sie wollten die Adoptionsverfahren beschleunigen, sagte Kommissionssprecher Michele Cercone am Montag in Brüssel. Nach dem Erdbeben in Haiti sei die Lage dort "sehr schwierig", aus Sicht der EU-Kommission stehe bei Adoptionen "das Wohlergehen des Kindes im Vordergrund".

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Evacuation des enfants en cours d’adoption en Haïti : c’est la honte…

Il y a assez de souffrance dans ce monde pour que la générosité, lorsqu’elle se manifeste sincèrement et massivement, ne soit pas entravée. Pourtant, la France, patrie des droits de l’Homme, 15 jours après le séisme, refuse toujours d’organiser le rapatriement massif des enfants haïtiens en cours d’adoption par des familles françaises.

Prés de 1200 enfants, toujours à Haïti pour la plupart, vivent dans des conditions inhumaines, le plus souvent dans la rue où ils dorment à même le sol. Les orphelinats qui élèvent ces enfants ne peuvent faire face. C’est pour cette raison que le Président Haïtien a depuis plusieurs jours autorisé les pays « adoptants » à organiser le départ des enfants.

Malawi: Madonna, Mercy And Neocolonialism

Ama Biney23 July 2009

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Madonna's ability to adopt a Malawian child in spite of an original court verdict against her is deeply worrying, writes Ama Biney. Madonna's action belongs in an established neocolonial tradition, Biney argues, one in which Malawi's Supreme Court judges have played a role not dissimilar to that of slavery-era African chiefs as the facilitators of human transfer. Recalling the forewarnings of Kwame Nkrumah around the shadow of neocolonialism, Biney contends that retaining Africans' self-respect will depend on challenging dehumanisation and putting such subjugation to an end.

In 19th century England it was fashionable for the middle-class and aristocratic English gentlemen and ladies to return from the West Indies with a black male or female domestic servant to serve in their lavish homes; such Africans were at times painted with this genteel class sitting by their feet like pet dogs or accessories. It exemplified that they were well-to-do, had travelled and had money. It set a trend among the English elite. Today, the vogue among Western celebrities such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie has reconfigured this practice.