Trafficking into alternative care

Kate van Doore - Griffith University Law School, Forget Me Not

In this video, Kate van Doore, founder of Forget Me Not and lecturer at Griffith University Law School, describes the process of 'paper orphaning,' a term coined to characterize how children are recruited and trafficked into orphanages to gain profits through international funding and orphanage tourism. The video was created for the 21-22 June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation for Violence Against Children in Care Settings

van Doore offers four recommendations to prevent child trafficking into orphanages: 

  1. Effective gatekeeping; 
  2. Effective regulation of residential care institutions (RCIs)
  3. Adoption of a deinstitutionalization mandate
  4. Legislative recognition of paper orphaning as a form of child trafficking. 

To read van Doore's article Paper Orphans: Exploring Child Trafficking for the Purpose of Orphanages, click here