More than half of Australian universities could be supporting child slavery in Asia by advertising “orphanage placements” as part of their global volunteer programmes, a Queensland law academic has told a federal inquiry.
Griffith University children’s rights lawyer Kate van Doore said that in countries like Cambodia and Nepal, children were being recruited from poor families to meet a growing demand for “orphanage tourism”.
“This an increasingly popular tourism attraction,” she said.
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