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Many cases of missing children, some barely a few days old, are reported in Kenya. While some eventually end up as cases of kidnapping by ransom seekers, many children are literally sold to buyers seeking a shorter route to child adoption or to traffickers eyeing international child markets. Citizen’s TV Michael Njenga went undercover to unmask the faces behind the criminal …
Cath Turner is a reporter for Al Jazeera news channel. Cath also happens to be a victim of the “Operation Babylift” that was organized by the US Government during the Vietnam war, flying-out thousands of babies during the conflict. Cath has been a subject of an award-winning documentary that investigates her life story of searching and meeting her biological mother …
Frequently Asked Questions Why are so many children placed in orphanages in countries like Nepal? The initial rise in orphanages in developing countries cannot be attributed to the same factors. Context specific history, poverty, natural disasters, epidemics (such as AIDS) and conflicts are all things connected to the global rise in orphanages. However, in most cases, one of the reasons …
Families in a poor mountainous region have had children seized, and apparently sold, in the name of China’s one-child policy By Shangguan Jiaoming, October 2011 (Shaoyang) – On a long journey in search of his lost child, Yang Libing carries a single photograph. It’s a faded snapshot of his daughter Yang Ling, who this year turns seven years old. Family …