UNICEF Faces Child Protection Crisis

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says it faces its biggest child protection crisis in Haiti because the devastating quake had added to the country's huge burden of unaccompanied children. UNICEF deputy executive director, Hilde Frafjord Johnson, points out that, "The risks of child trafficking, children being sold to slavery-like conditions or illegally adopted are significant."

About 40 percent of children are already in absolute poverty and some 300 000 are living in orphanages before last month's quake crippled life in the capital Port-au-Prince and surrounding area.

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