Lotte Debrauwer is a Belgian freelance investigative journalist.

She is passionate about exposing injustice and inequality. After participating in Journalism Fund’s IRJ training programme, she published about the funding of intercountry adoption to Flanders, an investigation that got her a nomination for a Belfius press prize. 

Lotte Debrauwer

Basic information

Name
Lotte Debrauwer
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
injustice and inequality
Country
Belgium
City
Roeselare
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Supported projects

Children Wrongly Placed in Adoption System

  • Social affairs
  • Youth
  • Human Rights

AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS/SOFIA - Adoption is often linked to poor countries in the global South. Yet Flanders and the Netherlands adopt children from other European countries, such as Bulgaria and Hungary. This cross-border research shows that Roma children in these countries face discrimination and fall into the adoption system due to stigma, poverty and lack of support for families. 

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