By Associated Press, Published: January 23
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan is allowing foreign adoptions to resume, issuing the first permit to a U.S.-based Christian organization.

The Social Development Ministry said Monday it chose Christian World Adoption after a rigorous selection process. (more…)

BUSTED! – Suspected human trafficker arrested
Cops: Alleged human trafficker paid $60,000 per child

Saturday, December 17, 2011

THE lives of 17 Jamaican children in the United States may today be in danger after they were adopted and shipped off to that country by a woman the local police believe may be part of a major human trafficking ring operating between both countries.
Local police, with the help of US law enforcement officials, are currently trying to track down the children, aged between five and 16. Detectives believe that more than the 17 children could well have been victims of the illicit trade. (more…)

Posted: Sun Dec 11 2011, 16:50 hrs Moscow:

Russia’s ombudsman for child rights, Pavel Astakhov, said on Saturday he did not rule out that a moratorium for adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens may be imposed.

“It is not ruled out that after the joint activities with the Prosecutor-General’s office, the Foreign Ministry and the Education Ministry we will propose to impose a temporary moratorium on adoption of our children and their transportation to America until the concluded agreement is ratified,” he said after the meeting with Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika. (more…)

Ibrahim Jaffa Condeh
16 November 2011

Freetown — Parents of 29 children reportedly trafficked years back by the Help A Needy Child International HANCI have vent their dissatisfaction with the Justice Adeliza Shower’s Commission of Inquiry set up by President Ernest Koroma to look into their matter and are planning to demonstrate later this month.

“…we the parents have decided to stage a protest on the 28th, 29th and the 30th of November 2011 in diverse locations: State House, America Embassy, The British High Commission and the ERSG (UNIPSIL) in a bid to vent our dismay,” a protest letter from the parents stated. (more…)

Special prosecutor Lorena Maldonado said the sentences handed down to a lawyer and the legal representative of an adoption agency will reinforce the birth mother’s bid to get her daughter returned from the United States.

“Even though the criminal proceedings are separate from the adoption process, these sentences help, and confirm the argument of the mother, Loyda Rodriguez, that this girl is her daughter and was stolen from in front of her house, and that there is a criminal structure in Guatemala that steals children,” said Maldonado. (more…)

published: October 20, 2011

Chances are the boy is unaware of the battery of lawyers debating his future. He’s probably oblivious to the national immigration debates he has stirred, the newspaper headlines he has generated, the two school-district employees whose firings are directly linked to his circumstances. He very likely has no idea that the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington, D.C., is in his corner, or that a lone circuit court judge will decide his fate this winter. (more…)

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit against a Tennessee family that sent an adopted young boy back to Russia has been scheduled for trial early next year.

A motions hearing scheduled for Oct. 27, however, could end the litigation, according to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette (http://bit.ly/mQ8IZY ).