The Murky World of Foreign Child Adoption in Africa DeutscheWelle: Africa
Since December 2020, the Croatians have spent at least a month in detention and were only recently granted bail by a Zambian court.
"As an institution, we are interested in this case because it involves citizens from a European country," Elias Banda, the EU Delegation in Zambia Press and Information officer, said. "Lately, there's been a lot of [human] trafficking cases that have been intercepted by the police, especially enroute to other countries," Josphat Njovu, Executive Director of Advocacy for Child Justice in Zambia, told DW."It's a concern that we have as a country and also civil society organizations," Njovu said, stressing that Zambia must strengthen the laws and policies surrounding child trafficking and human trafficking.
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