Paper Orphans
2014 Human Rights and Transitional Justice Film Series
Film: Paper Orphans.
Date: Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 12.00pm
Where: Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Law Building (N61 1.02).
The first film of the 2014 series curated by Dr Olivera Simic, will be presented by Ms Kate van Doore.
Created by Terre Des Hommes and UNICEF, Paper Orphans exposes glaring malpractices prevalent in Nepal´s inter-country adoption system. It is a story of parents who have lost their children to trafficking and intercountry adoption and are looking for them. In Nepal, and other developing countries, it is quite easy to "manufacture" an orphan - traffickers beguile remote villagers into sending their children to Kathmandu for their education with promises that they will return well educated and able to support the family. However, the reality is that traffickers majoritively sell the children into intercountry adoption or orphanages for profit without the family's consent or knowledge. Paper Orphans tells the story of one such child who was adopted from Nepal into Spain. and the ramifications for both his adoptive family and his birth family.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/criminology-law/griffith-law-school/news-events/paper-orphans
Please watch this trailer. I've read many accounts of this type of preying upon the poor for their children from several "underdeveloped" countries. Preying on the poor is evil. Preying upon the poor for their children is beyond evil.
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