According to this article in The Telegraph, a UK newspaper, many charitable and non-profit organizations are warning against the rush to adopt children from Haiti.

Similar to what Astrid blogged about in the previous post:

“Save The Children, World Vision and the British Red Cross have called for an immediate moratorium on new adoptions until sustained efforts have been made to trace and reunite children with their families.”

Sadly, we are once again reminded of the potential for human rights abuses that are driven by a billion dollar industry:

“… the UN said Haitian children had also been abducted from hospitals by people traffickers taking advantage of the chaos to trade “orphans” on the international adoption market.

Luc Legrand, an adviser to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) in Geneva, said there was evidence of children being stolen amid the death, upheaval and destruction in Haiti.

He said they had received reports of unauthorised people taking children by road to the neighbouring Dominican Republic and of planes illegally loading children before they left the airport.

“We have documented around 15 case of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time,” he said. “Unicef has been working in Haiti for many years and we know the problem with trade of children in Haiti and unfortunately many of these trade networks have links with international adoption ‘market’.”

A little closer to home, follow these links to see where other organizations stand on the issue: the Evan B. Donaldson Institute, the International Social Service organization, the National Council for Adoption, and the Hague Conference on Private International Law

The adoption blogosphere is full of writings by bloggers who have distilled  information from the blogosphere more thoroughly than I have.  Here are a couple great links: Adoption Talk, and Outlandish Remarks.