What is Orphanage Trafficking

Author(s): IRC Anti-Trafficking Response
Date: 2025
Topic(s): Child Trafficking, Introduction to Human Trafficking

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References

Cheney, Sinervo (eds.) (2019), Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention, Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01623-4_2 

Cheney, Rotabi (2017). Addicted to Orphans: How the Global Orphan Industrial Complex Jeopardizes Local Child Protection Systems. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-038-4_3 

ECPAT (2021). Voluntourism and Child Trafficking into Orphanages. Forget me not Australia. Available at: Forget-Me-Not-Australia-Voluntourism-and-child-trafficking-into-orphanages-Final.pdf 

The Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking (ITHT) (2024). A Lawmaker’s Guide to Stopping Orphanage Trafficking. Available at: ITHT-A-Practical-Guide-to-Stopping-Orphanage-Trafficking-Booklet-WEB.pdf 

van Doore (2022). Orphanage Trafficking in International Law. Cambridge University Press. 

OSCE (2025). The role of OSCE participating States in combating orphanage trafficking. Available at: The role of OSCE participating States in combating orphanage trafficking | OSCE 

Parliament of Australia (2024). Orphanage Trafficking. Available at: 8. Orphanage trafficking – Parliament of Australia 

UN (2019). Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. Available at: United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty | OHCHR 

Yale School of Public Health (2024). Intentional, Systematic and Widespread: Russia’s Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children. Available at: LINK.