In an article following up the airlift of 1150 children to the United States after the earthquake in Haiti last winter, Ginger Thompson reports in the New York Times that their adoptions “were expedited regardless of whether children were in peril, and without the screening required to make sure they had not been improperly separated from their relatives or placed in homes that could not adequately care for them.” The story, After Haiti Quake, the Chaos of U.S.
Twentieth Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
November 20 marks the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. As you probably already know, for many years the CRC has been in force for all member countries of the U.N. except Somalia and the United States. Here’s information on the CRC and the celebration from the U.N.; and here’s a press release from Human Rights Watch issued earlier this week urging the U.S.
