This article from the Epoch Times describes the continued risk of child trafficking in intercountry adoption procedures, and the recent trends of some countries to ban foreign adoptions. The author notes that despite recent legislation requiring federal review and accreditation of all U.S. adoption agencies and the ban on intercountry adoption in countries like Guatemala, trafficking in the adoption system is still taking place throughout the world, including through illegal adoptions.
The article also discusses the ways in which natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti are exploited for human trafficking purposes as well as the use of re-homing in adoption cases.