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6 HAITIAN ORPHANS TO ARRIVE IN KNOXVILLE

6 HAITIAN ORPHANS TO ARRIVE IN KNOXVILLE

By News Sentinel staff

Published Saturday, January 23, 2010

KNOXVILLE - Six Haitian orphan girls are about start their new lives in Knoxville.

Later today, they arrive in Knoxville from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where they'd earlier united with their adoptive families from Knoxville's White Stone Church. Pilot Corp. provided one of the jet planes used to transport the girls and their new families to Knoxville.

Plane of adopted Haitian children to arrive Sunday

Plane of adopted Haitian children to arrive Sunday

Updated: Sat Jan. 23 2010 12:35:13 PM

ctvmontreal.ca

The first plane of Haitian children to be adopted by Canadian families will arrive in Ottawa Sunday morning, Canada's immigration minister has confirmed.

The government has approved a list of 154 adoption files that had been pending. Another 86 files have been fast-tracked, said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney at a press conference offering updates on Haiti.

Israel mulling Haiti adoptions

Israel mulling Haiti adoptions

Welfare minister orders officials to look into possibility of adopting Haitian orphans; 'We will work vis-à-vis authorities in Haiti to determine number of children to be adopted,' Isaac Herzog tells Ynet

Roni Sofer

Published: 01.23.10, 18:59 / Israel News

Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog has ordered officials to look into the possibility of adopting dozens of orphaned Haitian children.

Haitian girl arrives safely in Utah for adoption

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

Countries to fast-track Haiti adoption

Countries to fast-track Haiti adoptions

From correspondents in Paris From: AFP January 22, 2010 4:43AM

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Children missing from Haiti hospitals: UNICEF

Children missing from Haiti hospitals: UNICEF

Agence France-Presse Published: Friday, January 22, 2010

Julien Tack/AFP/Getty Images Haitian orphans who are about to be transported to France for adoption are seen at a French military field hospital, Jan. 21, 2010.

GENEVA -- Children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti since the devastating earthquake struck, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday.

"We have documented let's say around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time," said UNICEF adviser Jean Luc Legrand.

Harper says long-term challenge in Haiti is to rescue 'shattered society'

Harper says long-term challenge in Haiti is to rescue 'shattered society'

By Stephen Thorne (CP) – 22 January 2010

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the long-term challenge facing Canadian and other relief efforts in quake-stricken Haiti amounts to nothing less than "the rescue of a shattered society."

Canadians are profoundly moved by the suffering in Haiti and through words and actions they have asked the government to do everything in its power to help, Harper told the Conservative caucus on Friday.

Led by the Canadian Forces, co-ordinated by Canada's diplomats and involving a "small army" of emergency-aid workers, Canada's relief effort is unprecedented, said the prime minister.

Al red je er maar één

Al red je er maar één

Eva Maria Staal op 22 januari '10, 21:02, bijgewerkt 22 januari 2010 21:06

Mijn dochter komt uit China, zij was 5 maanden oud toen zij bij ons kwam en is inmiddels 14 jaar. Regelmatig wordt ons gezin geconfronteerd met kritische vragen over het heil van adoptie. We denken daar al die tijd het onze van; en dat laat zich het best verwoorden aan de hand van het adoptieverhaal van popster Madonna en haar Afrikaanse zoon David Banda.

In oktober 2006 haalde Madonna baby David uit Malawi. Hij was 13 maanden oud. Zijn moeder overleed kort na zijn geboorte, vader Yohame Banda bracht zijn zoontje daarop naar het kindertehuis. Daar verbleef David tot zijn vertrek naar Engeland, waar hij de eerste anderhalf jaar mocht blijven als interim-adoptiezoon van Madonna en haar toenmalige echtgenoot Guy Ritchie, zo besliste de rechtbank in Malawi.

De reacties op de adoptie waren heftig. De Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), waarin 67 Afrikaanse hulporganisaties zetelen, beweerde dat de adoptie ongeldig was, omdat Madonna niet de wettelijke termijn van 18 maanden in Malawi had gewoond, zoals de adoptiewet voorschrijft. De HRCC ondernam stappen om de voorgenomen adoptie ongedaan te maken. Tegelijkertijd beweerde minister van Ardenne (Ontwikkelingssamenwerking) dat Afrikaanse kinderen horen op te groeien in Afrika. Ze kreeg bijval van Ina Hut, directeur van Stichting Wereldkinderen, een van de grootste Nederlandse bemiddelaars bij adoptieprocedures: ‘Je mag een kind niet zomaar losscheuren van zijn cultuur, zijn gemeenschapsbanden en tradities. Zoiets levert later problemen op. Pas als er in het land van herkomst echt geen plaatsingsmogelijkheden zijn, is interlandelijke adoptie een mogelijkheid. Er had grondiger moeten worden onderzocht of de vader van David met wat financiële steun van Madonna niet beter zélf voor zijn zoon had kunnen zorgen.’

Adopted orphans arrive in France as UNICEF raises trafficking fears

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Adopted orphans arrive in France as UNICEF raises trafficking fears

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced Friday that several children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti in the aftermath of the killer earthquake, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad.

"We have documented let's say around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals, and not with their own family at the time," UNICEF adviser Jean Luc Legrand said.

The UN agency said it expected trafficking networks to spring into action, taking advantage of weakened local authorities to kidnap children and eventually getting them out of the country.

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

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.