On Friday, November 6, a hearing panel of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear a petition filed by the Child Advocacy Program at Havard Law School and the Center for Adoption Policy in New York, arguing that restrictions on intercountry adoption from countries such as Guatemala violate the human rights of unparented children. Here’s a press release about the hearing from the petitioners, and here is the written testimony they intend to present. Audio recordings of the hearing will be available afterward on the IACHR website.