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Ghana’s undercover reporters expose a local ‘mommy’ who starved orphans whilst making them clap and sing for ‘voluntourists’ “Sing! You must sing when there are visitors. You know that they bring donations but you just sit there looking reluctant. If you don’t sing loudly, and clap, I’ll whip you later, I promise!” The ‘mommy’ of Bawjiase Countryside Orphanage in Ghana, Emma …
By STEPHEN BEVAN, November 25, 2007 Her credentials as a caring superstar could hardly be bettered. Angelina Jolie, a mother of four, is as famous for her well-publicized adoptions of children from Third World countries as she is for her Oscar-winning movies and marriage to Brad Pitt. As a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees for the …
A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in May found that child traffickers bribed, tricked and coerced Ugandan families into giving up their children for adoption. NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Legislators in the United States are lobbying the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to give 400 adopted children exit visas, after it suspended international adoptions because of fears …
‘Saving orphans’ has become an industry that irrevocably harms children and undermines the development of child welfare systems. We must replace the drive to rescue with the desire to protect. On a recent flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi, I was wedged into a seat next to a chatty young man. He told me he worked at a group home for …
ICA is largely the response to a demand for children in developed countries rather than to absence of care in the countries of origin. Taking children away does not lead to any improvement of the protection of children in those countries but rather the contrary. (Chou and Browne, 2008) Inter-country adoption (ICA) occupies a very marginal place within the UNCRC. …
