Sale of children for the purpose of forced labour 2016, para. 62
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- The phenomenon of "voluntourism" deserves particular attention: this is "a term used to describe short-term volunteering placement by tourists as part of their overall vacation or travel in a country". "Orphanage voluntourism" is one such practice, which has fed a system leading to the sale of children for the purpose of labour exploitation. Research has provided evidence of systems in which the owners of orphanages use intermediaries to get children who look poor to orphanages, in order to satisfy a fee-based volunteering demand, generating significant profits. Traffickers lure poverty-stricken families into giving away their children, under promises of good living conditions and education. Children are then often left in poor conditions, in order to prompt foreign charity, and forced to perform activities to please foreign volunteers.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 62
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