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Xinran: China's lost girls

Photograph: Natalie Fobes/Getty Images

Xinran already knew the plight that befell many girl babies in rural China: 'Girl babies don't count,' the older woman had told me. 'The officials don't give us any extra land when a girl is born, so girls will starve to death anyway.' Photograph: Natalie Fobes/Getty Images

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The Guardian Features Sat 23 Jan 2010 14:47 GMT

Ottawa urges prospective parents to be patient over adoptions

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6 HAITIAN ORPHANS TO ARRIVE IN KNOXVILLE

By News Sentinel staff

Published Saturday, January 23, 2010

KNOXVILLE - Six Haitian orphan girls are about start their new lives in Knoxville.

Later today, they arrive in Knoxville from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where they'd earlier united with their adoptive families from Knoxville's White Stone Church. Pilot Corp. provided one of the jet planes used to transport the girls and their new families to Knoxville.

Plane of adopted Haitian children to arrive Sunday

Updated: Sat Jan. 23 2010 12:35:13 PM

ctvmontreal.ca

The first plane of Haitian children to be adopted by Canadian families will arrive in Ottawa Sunday morning, Canada's immigration minister has confirmed.

The government has approved a list of 154 adoption files that had been pending. Another 86 files have been fast-tracked, said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney at a press conference offering updates on Haiti.

Israel mulling Haiti adoptions

Welfare minister orders officials to look into possibility of adopting Haitian orphans; 'We will work vis-à-vis authorities in Haiti to determine number of children to be adopted,' Isaac Herzog tells Ynet

Roni Sofer

Published: 01.23.10, 18:59 / Israel News

Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog has ordered officials to look into the possibility of adopting dozens of orphaned Haitian children.

Haitian girl arrives safely in Utah for adoption

Relief » St. George volunteers and an Ogden agency hope to get more orphans out of Haiti.

by Christopher smart

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 01/23/2010 07:03:05 PM MST

Countries to fast-track Haiti adoptions

From correspondents in Paris From: AFP January 22, 2010 4:43AM

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Children missing from Haiti hospitals: UNICEF

Agence France-Presse Published: Friday, January 22, 2010

Julien Tack/AFP/Getty Images Haitian orphans who are about to be transported to France for adoption are seen at a French military field hospital, Jan. 21, 2010.

GENEVA -- Children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti since the devastating earthquake struck, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday.

"We have documented let's say around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time," said UNICEF adviser Jean Luc Legrand.

Harper says long-term challenge in Haiti is to rescue 'shattered society'

By Stephen Thorne (CP) – 22 January 2010

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the long-term challenge facing Canadian and other relief efforts in quake-stricken Haiti amounts to nothing less than "the rescue of a shattered society."

Canadians are profoundly moved by the suffering in Haiti and through words and actions they have asked the government to do everything in its power to help, Harper told the Conservative caucus on Friday.

Led by the Canadian Forces, co-ordinated by Canada's diplomats and involving a "small army" of emergency-aid workers, Canada's relief effort is unprecedented, said the prime minister.