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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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Countries: Haiti, Germany

Organizations: European Commission

Disaster in Haiti gives adoption 'new energy'

By Luis Fabregas

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Countries: Haiti, United States of America

Organizations: Bresma, Haiti, All Blessings International

Girls’ Rescue From Haiti Expands Family by Two

By SUSAN SAULNY

Published: January 25, 2010

ROCA, Neb. — Dieunette babbles a constant stream of baby talk and flashes big expressive eyes, but she has trouble sleeping and is fussy from fighting a tapeworm. Bettania is a quiet explorer, spending her days walking from room to room, running her hands over the grand piano, flicking light switches on and off, staring at the billiards table and fireplace, all the while silent but clearly in fascination.

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Countries: Haiti, United States of America

Keine EU-Regeln für Adoptivkinder aus Haiti

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25. Januar 2010, 14:52

Keine EU-Regeln für Adoptivkinder aus Haiti

Brüssel (dpa) - Die europäischen Länder können die Adoption von Waisenkindern aus dem Erdbebengebiet in Haiti eigenständig regeln - eine EU-weite Vorgabe wird es nicht geben. Die EU-Kommission wolle keinen Anlauf dazu machen, sagte ein Kommissionssprecher am Montag in Brüssel: «Es scheint uns voreilig, einen europäischen Rahmen zu schaffen, zudem ist die Kompetenz der EU-Kommission in dieser Frage sehr begrenzt.» Die 27 EU-Mitglieder könnten selbst entscheiden.

So hätten die Niederlande und Italien angekündigt, bereits laufende Adoptionsverfahren für Kinder aus Haiti zu beschleunigen. «Wir bitten die Staaten, vorsichtig zu handeln, da die Lage sehr unübersichtlich ist», betonte der Sprecher.

Countries: Haiti

Organizations: European Commission

Plane with 1st group of Haitian orphans arrives in Canada

By Allison Jones (CP) – 1 hour ago

OTTAWA — Twenty-four orphaned Haitian children, weary from their long journey, arrived in Canada early Sunday into the open arms of their new adoptive parents.

The Air Canada Airbus A-330 touched down in Ottawa around 6:55 a.m. Most of the passengers had deplaned by 7:30 a.m.

The children were escorted off the plane wrapped in blue blankets to protect against the cold. Several of the older children flashed bright white smiles as they peered above their blankets and walked swiftly.

Countries: Haiti, Canada

Organizations: God's Littlest Angels (Haiti, orphanage)

A family in China made babies their business

The lucrative trade in newborns was fueled by an adoption frenzy that saw government-run orphanages paying for children who they then made available to Westerners.

Duan Yuelin and Chen Zhijin, his mother, who get children from the rural poor and adopt them out to foreigners, talk about their business in their home in Changning, China. Chen says the children are better off with their new parents. (Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times / January 15, 2010)

Countries: China

Lassegue told the German Press Agency dpa that the government has put a halt to new adoptions

Aid trickles to Haiti countryside after quake of the century

Jan 24, 2010, 19:12 GMT

Port-au-Prince - Aid this weekend started trickling through to outlying towns crushed by the recent Haitian earthquake, which is now officially one of the worst of the past 100 years as the government confirmed a death toll of at least 112,000.

In Leogane, about 40 kilometres west of Port-au-Prince, hundreds of women waited in 30-degree-Celsius temperatures for food coming from various German and other aid organizations.

Doctors from Japan, Canada and Germany have already arrived here, but the first food aid was being distributed on Saturday and Sunday. The town of 120,000 was nearly leveled by the quake.

Countries: Germany, Haiti