‘Poverty Porn’ and ‘Pity Charity’ The Dark Underbelly Of a Cambodia Orphanage
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media, Lindsay Murdoch Phnom Penh: She looks dirty, disheveled, and miserable and is labeled a sex worker. Many Australians responded to a plea to save the pretty Cambodian girl called Pisey from child predators. “Teach a sex worker to sew,” declares a glossy internet advertisement for Sunrise Cambodia, an Australian charity that has raised millions of …
Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing
One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 Ethiopia is now definitively closed to Danish families who want to adopt. In March soc ial and Interior Minister Karen …
A new narrative of transnational adoption
Uprooting children from a foreign culture to start a new life in Denmark can be fraught with difficulty. Adoptees and experts reflect on the history of transnational adoption and offer their views on how to ease tensions and create a more inclusive society for children brought up in Denmark with complicated cultural ties. By Natasha Jessen-Petersen When you adopt, you …
Former adoption agency owes clients €190,000
More than 70 prospective parents who wanted to adopt a child from abroad have been left some €190,000 out of pocket following the collapse of an accredited adoption agency. Arc Adoption, which was granted an official licence to facilitate people in Ireland seeking to adopt a child in China, Bulgaria and the US, closed in November last year, leaving substantial …
