Cashing it big on children (Nepali Times)

Cashing it big on children (Nepali Times) Adoption is just one part of the larger trafficking problem in Nepal THOMAS BELL FROM ISSUE #573 (30 SEPT 2011 – 06 OCT 2011) Hundreds of orphanages in Nepal are being run as businesses, filled with children who would have been left with their families if orphanage owners weren’t making money by keeping …

Bal Mandir stops taking new children (Republica)

Bal Mandir stops taking new children (Republica) ARJUN POUDEL KATHMANDU, Sept 16: With indefinite suspension by some European countries and USA of adoption of Nepali children, Nepal Bal Mandir has stopped taking in new children. The organization stopped taking new admissions a year ago as inter-country adoption was its biggest source of income. The non-governmental organization devoted to giving care …

A far-away rescue (Nepali Times)

A far-away rescue (Nepali Times) Young girls from the remote mountains of northwestern Nepal who were trafficked to the southern tip of India are rescued this week RUBEENA MAHATO in COIMBATORE, INDIA FROM ISSUE #571 (16 SEPT 2011 – 22 SEPT 2011) In the suburbs of Coimbatore at Sulur, the first thing that one notices in the impressively walled Michael …

Nepal: Children for sale (Al Jazeera)

Nepal: Children for sale (Al Jazeera) With weak law enforcement, can foreigners adopting children from Nepal be sure that they are really orphans? http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/09/2011920125119853524.html Video: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2012/pieces.php?iid=429797&pid=1Orphaned, abandoned or trafficked? That is the question facing foreigners who wish to adopt Nepali children. International adoption services have provided a lucrative business to poverty-stricken Nepal. But in 2007, Nepal stopped adoptions for two …

The Children Left Behind (The Pulitzer Center)

The Children Left Behind LISA DESAI AND HABIBA NOSHEEN, FOR THE PULITZER CENTER, KATHMANDU, NEPAL Published on June 29, 2011 Nepal became an important source of children for international adoption in part because adoption is not widely practiced or accepted among the Nepalese, an attitude that is prevalent across South Asia. But the United States and several other countries have …

Some background to the TDH/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans

Some background to the TDH/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans The Terre des hommes/Image Ark documentary Paper Orphans was a major reason so many receiving countries suspended adoptions from Nepal. Paper Orphans focuses on three NGOs — Nepal Children’s Organization (NCO/Bal Mandir), the Helpless Children Protection Home (HCPH), and the Education Centre for Helpless Children (ECHC). For background to the documentary, …

Orphanage Operator Held (Republica)

Orphanage Operator Held Republica KATHMANDU, April 2: Police have rescued 20 children from Mukti Nepal, a Maharajgunj-based orphanage, and arrested its operator after finding that the orphanage does not meet minimum standards. The rescued children are aged between five to 15 years. Police arrested Goma Luitel, chairman of the orphanage, at the behest of the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB). …

MEDIA: Voice of America – UNICEF Concern Prompts Cambodian Investigation of Orphanages

UNICEF Concern Prompts Cambodian Investigation of Orphanages Robert Carmichael March 23, 2011 Phnom Penh The Cambodian government has begun investigating the country’s orphanages; just days after the United Nations Children’s Fund expressed its concerns that nearly three out of four children in the country’s orphanages have at least one living parent. Earlier this week, UNICEF said most of the 12,000 …