Angelina Jolie has denied reports adoption of a child from Haiti

Los Angeles : CA : USA | Feb 12, 2011 BY Mohamed Abd el Fattah 10

A spokesman for Angelina Jolie on Friday said that the actress does not intend to adopt any children of Haiti - hit by the earthquake in January 2010 - in spite of frequent reports in British newspapers as well as on the verge of a new baby to six young.

Said Adam Waldman - an adviser to Jolie in its humanitarian efforts - for the site (The Daily Beast) The Daily Beast news website that the U.S. winning actress Oscar was in Haiti to work on a project to improve the situation of children and their safety.

Waldman told the news website that Julie had never met the girl child orphan of four years, the so-called "crown", which alleged that British newspapers and other newspapers that represented the U.S. began to take measures to adopt.

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La fiscalía ha solicitado el traslado de la investigación sobre un presunto fraude en la adopción

February 10, 2011 4:10 PM
Ethiopia: U.S. Adoption Agency Involved in Child Trafficking
Posted by Michael Rey

Children in Ethiopia. (Credit: CBS) A Minnesota-based adoption agency had its license to work in Ethiopia revoked by the government there, according to a letter posted this week on the U.S. State Department's website here.
The letter, dated December 8, 2010, says the agency Better Futures Adoption Services (BFAS), "has been involved in child trafficking." The letter is signed by the director general of the Charities and Society Agency. That agency and the Ministry of Women's Affairs, which both oversee international adoptions of Ethiopian children, had been "researching" allegations into BFAS activities.

According to the letter the adoption agency was, "Falsifying documents of children with biological parents, in collaboration with orphanages involved in illegal acts to show that they are abandoned and using these documents to obtain final court decision for international adoption, on top of many illegal acts that are still being investigated, were confirmed [sic]."

BFAS has the motto, "The child you lift today will lift the world tomorrow!" and calls itself a "unique Christian international adoption agency focusing on adoptions solely from Ethiopia" and has been licensed by the government there as a non-governmental organization since 2007. The agency displays its motto

In e-mails sent to CBS News and posted on its site, BFAS says the accusations against it are false. One email, written by Agitu Wodajo, executive director of BFAS in Ethiopia, says the revocation letter is retaliation for a lawsuit they filed locally against the Ministry of Women's Affairs and that the minister of that agency does not support the charges in the letter.

But the US State Department deemed the allegations strong enough to issue an adoption alert on its website, to notify American families who were using or planning to use the agency to adopt a child from Ethiopia. The alert "strongly recommends" that those Americans seek legal counsel. State Department officials did not respond to a request for comment.

There were 2277 adoptions of Ethiopian children to the US in 2009, up from just 731 three years earlier. As CBS News reported last April, that dramatic spike in the number of foreign adoptions from that country has opened the country up to cases of adoption fraud and trafficking in children.

CICIG is the complainant in the case of illegal adoptions
Guatemala, February 10, 2011. The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) was accepted by the Third Court of First Instance Criminal Court as a plaintiff in the case of Mario Fernando Peralta Castañeda, judge of the Children and Young Escuintla Department , accused of participating in various processes of illegal adoption.

The Supreme Court withdrew the immunity Peralta Castaneda, November 3, 2010, that he be investigated for evidence of his alleged involvement in illegal adoptions while serving as judge of the Children and Adolescents in Escuintla.

In this case also acts as accuser's mother of the children who were given up for adoption in an irregular manner, with the support of the Survivor Foundation, an institution that helped to locate the whereabouts of her daughter.

Norma Cruz, director of the organization, said that there is enough evidence against the judge to be processed, which is checked with the participation of other judicial officers in illegal adoptions. "Also involved are other judges that while they had no direct involvement, they have played a cover-up by not allowing justice to be done and helped to make these structures trafficking act with impunity," he said.

However, he expressed the hope that other judges do not engage in influence peddling, and to resolve attached to Guatemalan law, for this type of case progress in the courts.

Another case
Also, the October 6, 2010, the Supreme Court withdrew the immunity to that court for investigation for having declared abandoned two other children, despite the adoption records showed a series of irregularities.

This case is pending court to appoint the Comptroller of the investigation, that the MP initiated legal action against the judge.

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Ethiopia Revokes License of US Adoption Agency

February 10, 2011

Ethiopia has revoked the license of an American adoption agency, accusing it of child trafficking. The agency has responded sharply, charging it is the victim of government retaliation.

Ethiopia’s Charities and Societies Agency has notified the Minnesota-based Better Future Adoptions Services that its license to operate in the country has been revoked.

The revocation could effectively shut down the agency, which specializes in adoptions from Ethiopia.