After being sold in the brothels of India for as little as $300, many Nepali girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking are now finding ways to empower themselves in their home country.
Nepal: Adoption Limbo
Published September 12, 2011
The U.S. State Department has suspended adoption of abandoned Nepalese children, citing numerous examples of unreliable and possibly fraudulent documents.
For American families who were in the midst of finalizing adoptions from Nepal, the new U.S. policy left them in limbo. The onus was now on those families to prove that the child they wanted to adopt is a legitimate orphan. Habiba Nosheen traveled to Nepal to meet American adoptive parents who are fighting to bring their adopted children home, as well as Nepalese biological parents whose children were put up for adoption without their consent.
Habiba Nosheen delivers keynote lecture at Womanity, a summit on global women's issues at Arizona State University.
Short films and discussion on the global phenomenon of child brides, honor killings in Pakistan, adoptions and trafficking in Nepal, and reproductive health in Liberia.
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Habiba Nosheen is a Gemini-nominated Pakistani-Canadian multimedia journalist who now lives and works in New York. She is a videographer and a radio reporter who is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi...
