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Haiti: Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs to Travel to Haiti
From the US Department of State: Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs Travels to Haiti to Discuss Intercountry Adoption Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC June 21, 2011 Special Advisor for Children’s Issues, Ambassador Susan Jacobs, will visit Haiti June 22 – 24 to discuss how the United States can support [...]
Are Christian advocacy groups hiding behind Jesus to steal babies?
From The Atlanta Post: If you get an opportunity, check out the 2002 flick “Rabbit Proof Fence,” which tells the tale of two mixed race Aboriginal Australian girls who run away from a government-sponsored settlement camp. The girls walk for nine weeks, while being pursued by a tracker through Australia’s outback, in hopes of returning [...]
For-Profit Orphanages Keep Haitian Families Apart
From The Huffington Post: Port-au-Prince, Haiti — “Stop reunifying children with their families!” These were the words that greeted me when I arrived at work one morning a few months ago, from the director of a Port-au-Prince orphanage, furious at me for doing my job: tracing the relatives of children separated from their families. “You [...]
Haitian children sold for only $1.20 (Canadian)
From SOS Childrens’ Villages Canada: “Human beings,” said former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, “are not property.” Yet, forms of modern-say slavery persist wherever there are vulnerable people. The trafficking of vulnerable children in Haiti, for instance, has continued to flourish more than one year after the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake of January 2010. [...]
Haiti: US Department of State Adoption Notice – January 31, 2011
From the U.S. Department of State: Haiti Adoption NoticeU.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues IBESR Accepting New Adoption Cases January 31, 2011 Haiti’s adoption authority, the Institut du Bien-être Social et de Recherches(IBESR), has informed the U.S. Government that they are accepting new adoption applications for Haitian children who [...]
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