Feds sorting out status of 2-year-old Haitian orphan flown into PBIA

Samantha Frank

Posted: 01/22/2010 5:57 PM

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A 2-year-old Haitian girl, who survived last week's earthquake only to be taken away crying by federal immigration officials at Palm Beach International Airport Saturday, remains in federal custody while government officials sort through paperwork.

HAITI: ITALY MAY SPEED UP ADOPTION PROCEDURES

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HAITI: ITALY MAY SPEED UP ADOPTION PROCEDURES

(ANSA) - Rome, January 22 - The Italian government would consider placing adoptions if Haitian children by Italian couples on a fast track were asked to do so by the Haitian government, the undersecretary for the family, Carlo Giovanardi, said on Friday.

Italy's regulations on international adoptions, he observed, "are very clear. Italy is a world leader in these matters and has no need to modify its laws. The criteria we use to allow couples to adopt abroad has earned us international credibility and each year some 4,000 children are adopted from 62 countries".

EU wil adoptie van Haïti–wezen regelen

22-01-2010 17:10

TOLEDO (ANP/DPA) – De EU–landen overwegen gezamenlijk weeskinderen uit het getroffen Haíti te adopteren. „We denken na over een Europese oplossing", stelde huidig Europees commissaris voor Justitie Jacques Barrot vrijdag in het Spaanse Toledo bij een informele bijeenkomst met ministers uit EU–landen.

Voor de adoptie willen de lidstaten samenwerken met Unicef, de kinderrechtenorganisatie van de Verenigde Naties.

Unicef klaagde eerder over mensenhandelaars die momenteel op illegale wijze kinderen uit Haïti smokkelen voor adoptie.

One more horror for Haiti kids

ED PILKINGTON AND RICHARD GOTT | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan 22 2010 13:42

There are only three books to be found at the Foyer de Sion orphanage in Port-au-Prince, serving the 18 children cared for here. There's a textbook titled Vive Les Maths!, and another called Histoire d'Haiti.

The third is a children's picture book in English called Prayer for a Child. It's a poem with illustrations, and begins: "Bless this milk and bless this bread; Bless this soft and waiting bed."

The book is lying on a rusty bunk-bed, with a thin, dirty mattress on top. There is no milk or bread. Since the earthquake the organisers of the orphanage have run through their last $100 and are down to emergency rations dished out to the children -- one meal a day.

22.1.10 Deutschland erleichtert Einreise von Adoptivkindern aus Haiti

Deutschland hat die Einreise von Adoptionskindern beschleunigt. Die ersten Jungen und Mädchen könnten bereits in den nächsten Tagen den Flug hierher antreten, sagte eine Sprecherin des Auswärtigen Amts am Donnerstag. Mit dem Einverständnis der haitianischen Regierung will das Ministerium nun "schnell, unbürokratisch und menschlich" helfen. Der beschleunigte Einreiseprozess gilt nach Angaben der Bundeszentralstelle für Auslandsadoption in Bonn allerdings nur für jene Adoptivkinder, bei denen das Vermittlungsverfahren schon vor dem Erdbeben abgeschlossen oder "sehr weit fortgeschritten" war. Nach einer groben Schätzung betreffe das etwa 30 Jungen und Mädchen, sagte ein Spreche

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EU urged to fast-track adoptions from Haiti: Spanish presidency

22 January 2010, 16:27 CET

— filed under: Haiti, quake, children, adoption, Spain

(MADRID) - The Spanish presidency of the European Union will next week urge the bloc to forge a common position on fast-track adoptions from Haiti, Madrid said Friday.

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos "will on Monday propose to the council (of EU foreign ministers) that there could be a joint common response," Spain's Vice-President Maria-Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said.

Haitian girl, 2, still in federal custody

BY JOHN A. TORRES • FLORIDA TODAY • JANUARY 21, 2010

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The 2-year-old Haitian girl detained and taken by immigration officials Saturday night remains in federal custody under mounting pressure to release her for medical care.

Las ONG desaconsejan las adopciones de niños en Haití tras el terremoto

Ampliar foto Varios niños haitianos corren a las afueras de Puerto Príncipe. (Imagen: Logan Abassi / REUTERS)

Tras el terremoto de Haití, se han multiplicado en apenas siete días las solicitudes de adopción en España y en otros países europeos.

Las ONG insisten en que adoptar "no es nada aconsejable".

Preocupa la actuación de las mafias, que aprovechan estas catástrofes para reclutar niños para utilizarles con distintos fines.