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International adoption from Guatemala increased fourfold from 731 in 1996 to 3289 in 2002, when Guatemala ratified the Hague Adoption Convention in response to widespread reports of corruption and coercion in the system. However, in late 2003 the ratification was overturned by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, and adoptions resumed. They ...
Guatemalan security agents arrested 25 mostly active police officers implicated in a human trafficking network that operated along a route used by mostly U.S.-bound migrants, Interior Minister ...
For the past few years, Guatemala has become a hot spot for multiple types of sex trafficking. [1] Sex trafficking, kidnapping, and illegal adoption rings are part of a larger string of criminal acts. [2] Part of the reason for this is the failure of the peace accords and the government not being able to implement tax reform. [2]
Forced adoption in the United Kingdom removed children permanently from their parents. 1960s-1980s Highlighted by the Dutch current affairs show Zembla in 2017, purportedly 11,000 babies were fraudulently sold for adoption in the 1980s from Sri Lanka to western countries, with the use of baby farms to meet the apparent high demand. [3] [4] [5 ...
Guatemala said it is open to engaging in a "constructive and respectful dialogue" with the new administration of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, though no agreement has been made on ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo’s new administration says it will make addressing widespread extortion its top security priority.
12 July: President Arévalo makes an official apology on behalf of the Guatemalan state to victims of widespread illegal adoptions during the 1990s and 2000s. [9] 24 July: Authorities announce the arrival of 600 refugees from Mexico fleeing drug-related violence in Chiapas. [10]
Amid recent investigations on systemic adoption fraud by the Chinese and South Korean governments, adoptees are speaking out on a narrative they should be "grateful."