{"id":351,"date":"2010-01-23T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/new\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-07-29T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:42:13","slug":"agencies-warn-against-quick-adoptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/agencies-warn-against-quick-adoptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Agencies warn against quick adoptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globe-democrat.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.globe-democrat.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Saturday, January 23, 2010<\/p>\n<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 23 (UPI) &#8212; International agencies have warned against fast-tracking adoptions of Haitian children, saying the practice could encourage trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF, the U.N. children&#8217;s agency, has also warned against immediate adoptions. Luc Legrand, a UNICEF adviser, said at least 15 children have vanished from hospitals in Port-au-Prince since the earthquake, possibly kidnapped by child traffickers, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Save the Children, World Vision and the British Red Cross called for a moratorium on Haitian adoptions in the aftermath of last week&#8217;s devastating earthquake, newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking children out of the country would permanently separate thousands of children from their families &#8212; a separation that would compound the acute trauma they are already suffering,&#8221; Jasmine Whitbread, head of Save the Children, said.<\/p>\n<p>European Union foreign ministers are expected to discuss a Spanish proposal to speed up adoptions from Haiti in all member countries. Roelie Post of Against Child Trafficking in Brussels called the suggestion &#8220;madness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dixie Bickel, head of God&#8217;s Littlest Angels, an adoption agency in Haiti, said fast-tracking adoptions for children who were already orphaned when the earthquake hit would free up space for children made homeless by the quake.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2010 by United Press International.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.globe-democrat.com Saturday, January 23, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 23 (UPI) &#8212; International agencies have warned against fast-tracking adoptions of Haitian children, saying the practice could encourage trafficking. UNICEF, the U.N. children&#8217;s agency, has also warned against immediate adoptions. Luc Legrand, a UNICEF adviser, said at least 15 children have vanished from hospitals in Port-au-Prince&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/agencies-warn-against-quick-adoptions\/\" title=\"Read Agencies warn against quick adoptions\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}