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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 ...
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo’s new administration says it will make addressing widespread extortion its top security priority.
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 ...
In October 2003, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights requested that Guatemala adopt precautionary measures to protect the life and person of Méndez in the wake of death threats made against him and the murder of another CERJ activist. [3] On 17 August 2007, his son José Emanuel was murdered in Guatemala City. [4]
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."