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This article features the 6-part web-series "Manufacturing Orphanages," which follows of Jyothi Svahn as she returns to India several years after her adoption in search of her birth family and reveals the "demand-driven" nature of the international adoption system and how it fuels the trafficking of poor children living in residential care.
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Following allegations that a home in Kerala, India had misappropriated funds and detained children, including 54 from Tamil Nadu, a child welfare committee in Ernakulam has directed the institution to trace their biological families.
This news article describes the plight of India's missing children, focusing on efforts to end child trafficking in the country.
Activists push for India’s government to move forward with long-awaited anti-trafficking legislation.
Voice of Asia reports that Indian police arrested heads of an adoption centre said to have trafficked at least 17 children to couples in foreign countries.
Indian government finds that increased wait for adoption related to rise in human trafficking.
In the wake of a child smuggling racket being unearthed in the state, the West Bengal government on Monday announced setting up a panel for prevention of child trafficking.
This article describes how fraudsters in Nepal persuade vulnerable families to hand over their children to the "orphanage industry." This practice has been occurring for over two decades in Nepal's remote mountain villages. As the author notes, well-dressed men promise education and a better life for children, but "behind the traffickers’ crocodile smiles lies a life of sexual slavery, forced labour, or destitution as a commodity in the huge orphanage industry."
Child trafficking became a significant problem in Nepal with the armed conflict that began in 1996. Families wishing to…