Month: June 2026
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Dutch adoption changes close doors on South African children
By Carina Roux Link to story Wandisa Specialist Child Protection and Adoption Services, based in Somerset West, has described 23 June as “a dark day” following the announcement by its Dutch partner agency, Nederlandse Adoptie Stichting (NAS), that it will cease all intercountry adoption mediation by the end of 2028. Wandisa and the NAS have…
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Costa Rica Adoption Review Deepens After Norway Final Report
Link to story Norway’s final report on international adoptions has turned Costa Rica’s recent file review into a sharper official finding: Norwegian authorities did not do enough to understand how some Costa Rican children were declared abandoned before being sent abroad for adoption. The finding follows PANI’s May decision to review 101 adoption files involving Costa Rican…
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Mixed-race daughter Korea tried to send away is now helping adoptees return home
By Hankookilbo Link to story Meeky Woo Flippen, head of 325KAMRA Korea, speaks during an interview with Hankook Ilbo at the organization’s office in Jung-gu, central Seoul. Korea Times photo by Park Ji-yeon Overseas Korean adoptee calls for state apology over forced adoptions of mixed-race children “578 Ganeung 3-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province. 3-tong, 2-ban,” she said…
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Washington Has Yet to Account for Russian Adoptees’ Welfare, Moscow Says — and Journalists Are Being Blocked Too
A new Russia-Belarus human rights report says Washington has never answered requests about children adopted before the 2013 ban — or about journalists facing restrictions. MOSCOW – The children were placed with American families years before the adoption ban took effect, handed across borders under a program that was once the largest of its kind…
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Judge grants asylum to woman adopted by a US veteran from Iran after deportation threats
By Claire Galofaro Link to story A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted by an American war veteran, who immigration officials threatened earlier this year with deportation to the country with which the U.S. is now at war. Judge Andrew Fishkin’s ruling likely ends a monthslong ordeal…
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A wall of nametags at a South Korean park testifies to adoptees’ longing for their birth mothers
Link to story By Kim Tong-Hyung PAJU, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of Korean adoptees from North America and Europe recently gathered to leave their names on a wall at a former U.S. military base, hoping that, after decades, a birth mother might still be looking for them. Misted in rain, they fastened ceramic nametags onto mesh…
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