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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many families into difficulties. And it has increased the risk of children being lured or forced into different types of work that are hazardous for their health, wellbeing and development.
In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Hani Mansourian from the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action talks to Selim Benaissa, Chief Technical Officer from the ILO on the…
The growing emphasis on recognizing, addressing, and preventing human trafficking is an emerging issue challenging many government and human service agencies. Child welfare is especially affected because children and youth placed in out-of-home care due to abuse and neglect, along with runaway and homeless youth, are at high risk of trafficking.
Effectively addressing human trafficking requires agencies to collaborate on providing judicial, therapeutic, and prevention services. …
This podcast is a presentation given by Kate Van Doore at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking held on October 9-11 2014 at the University of Nebraska. Kate van Doore talks about the convergence of trafficking, orphanages and ‘orphans’ and how orphanhood and tourism are essential to a new business model.
This podcast from the Guardian shines a light on the harms of orphanage voluntourism. "A holiday helping out in an orphanage can be a rewarding experience. But voluntourism supports a system that is breaking up families," says the podcast.
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This episode of BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine program features an interview with Rukhiya Budden, who grew up in an orphanage in Kenya. The episode explains that the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) issued a statement that orphanages are bad for children and explores why this is so. In the interview, Budden tells her story of being placed in an orphanage as a child in Kenya when her mother was unable to care for her, and the conditions and treatment she experienced and witnessed while in the institution, including chronic neglect and abuse. She also explains…
World Challenge announced that it will no longer be offering orphanage volunteer placements overseas for students; in this radio interview, Kate van Doore explains why institutional care is harmful to children and how orphanage volunteering perpetuates and contributes to the harm children experience in institutions.
In an interview with David Bevan of ABC Radio, child protection advocate Karen Flanagan, Save the Children, discusses the harms of orphanage tourism and funding as well as the Australian government's consideration of a ban on orphanage tourism.
To hear the interview, please visit the ABC News website by clicking the link above.
This podcast episode of Reveal explores the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children involved in Texas's foster care system. Children involved in the system tell their stories of their lives in foster care and how their experiences led them to run, and then recruited into the sex trafficking industry.
To listen to the podcast episode "No Place to Run," please click the link below. To read the podcast summary from the Texas Tribune, please click the image to the right.
In this episode of “Crossing Continents” from BBC Radio 4, Ed Butler reports on a cycle of abuse in the orphanages of Bali, Indonesia. According to the radio episode, there are about seventy orphanages on the Indonesian island of Bali, housing thousands of children. Many of these children have been recruited from poor families, on the promise of decent food, education, and healthcare. However, in many instances, these orphanages are turned into money-making operations and the children are not provided with the services promised. Instead, orphanage owners may abuse and exploit the children,…