Aid agencies are concerned that child trafficking will
transpire in Haiti, due to the circumstances surrounding the 7.0 earthquake
that recently hit the island.
Video: Haiti to Relocate 400,000 Quake Homeless
Many international adoption agencies are against
children being removed from their parents care in Haiti and placed in
adoptive homes abroad.
The best solution is to get aid into Haiti as quickly as possible, to
help keep families together and raise the standard of living.
Unicef Says 15 Kids Snatched from Hospitals in Haiti
GENEVA – At least 15 children have disappeared from Haiti’s hospitals
since the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation, the
United Nations Children’s Fund said Friday.
“We have documented around 15 cases of children disappearing from
hospitals and not with their own family at the time,” Unicef adviser
Jean-Luc Legrand said in Geneva...
An estimated 3 million people – a third of Haiti’s population – have
been affected by the quake, and as many as 200,000 may have died...
Haiti earthquake: aid agencies fear child trafficking
Friday 22 January 2010 18.56 GMT -
Haitian Red Cross volunteer Jean Zacharie helps one-month-old Deborah
Fatima in Port-au-Prince, where her mother died in the 12 January
earthquake. Amid the chaos and destruction, aid agencies fear children
missing from hospital may have been stolen by child trafficking gangs.
Aid agencies continued to warn against adopting children from Haiti
today, amid unconfirmed reports that a number of children who had gone
missing from hospitals in the devastated country may have been
trafficked.
An adviser for Unicef told reporters that about 15 children had
disappeared from hospitals, presumed taken...
Bethany Christian Services, a US adoption agency, said it had received
more than 1,000 requests for adoption applications, while the Joint
Council on International Children's Services, a US advocacy organisation,
said it had received 150 enquiries about Haitian adoption in three days,
compared with 10 a month normally...
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