News of the parade sparked outrage on social media, prompting organisers to defend the event.
Organizers of a ‘catwalk’ of adoptable children and adolescents in Brazil are on the defensive following sharp criticism of the event, held in a shopping mall
The parade – organised by the local chapters of the Brazil Bar Association’s Childhood and Youth Commission and the Adoption Research and Support Association – was held in the Pantanal shopping mall in the capital Cuiaba. An undated photo published on G1 news site purportedly showed a girl wearing a white t-shirt and a short pink skirt walking down a catwalk in front of onlookers, who were recording images with their smartphones.
“It was never the goal… to introduce children and adolescents to families in order to achieve adoption,” the Brazil Bar Association of Mato Grosso said on its Facebook page.“The OAB-MT and AMPARA reject any kind of distortion of the event by associating it with dark periods of our history,” it added, referring to Brazil’s past as a slave trader.Echoes of that period continue to reverberate today in a country where racism is deeply embedded.
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