- 23 - 51 Cf. CICIG, Report on irregular adoptions in Guatemala, p. 23 (evidence file, folio 3020). 52 Cf. Expert opinion of Nigel Cantwell provided by affidavit on May 5, 2017 (evidence file, folio 6942). Cf. Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Guatemala, July 9, 2001. CRC/C/15/Add.154, para. 34; Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography following the July 1999 visit, UN Doc. E/CN.4/2000/73/Add.2, para. 11 (evidence file, folio 2729), and IACHR, Fifth Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Guatemala, April 6, 2001, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.111, Doc. 21 rev., p. 183, para. 39. 53 Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Guatemala, June 7, 1996. CRC/C/15/Add.58, paras. 21 and 34. 54 Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Guatemala, July 9, 2001. CRC/C/15/Add.154, para. 34. 55 Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Guatemala, July 9, 2001. CRC/C/15/Add.154, para. 35. According to expert witness Cantwell, contrary to the 2001 recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to suspend adoptions, an increased number of adoptions were permitted between 2001 and 2002. Based on figures he indicated were from the Guatemalan Attorney General’s Office, the expert witness explained that adoptions rose from 2,246 in 2001 to 2,931 the following year. Cf. Expert opinion of Nigel Cantwell provided by affidavit on May 5, 2017 (evidence file, folio 6948). 56 The CICIG indicated that child-trafficking networks were established that, among other activities, were dedicated to forging documents, stealing children, falsifying DNA tests, and threatening mothers so that they would hand over their children for adoption. Cf. CICIG, Report on irregular adoptions in Guatemala, pp. 20 and 23 (evidence file, folios 3017 and 3020). 57