Category: adoption trafficking
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Inside a major baby trafficking trial in Indonesia
Podcast link. Asia Specific podcast Multiple families in Singapore are facing an unimaginable possibility that the children they legally adopted from Indonesia may have been victims of an alleged baby trafficking network. A major trial is underway in Indonesia involving 19 defendants accused of buying babies, forging documents, and arranging adoptions of the children, including…
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Stolen Identities: Thousands of Sri Lankan Adoptees Still Searching for the Families They Lost
Thousands of Sri Lankan Adoptees Still Searching for the Families They Lost Link to story Decades after thousands of Sri Lankan children were adopted overseas, growing efforts to reconnect them with their biological families are revealing personal stories, disputed records, and the lasting legacy of a little-examined chapter in the country’s adoption history. For more…
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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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Chilean American stolen as a baby reunites with his mom, gets second chance at family
For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother By Vanessa A. Alvarez, Associated Press May 28, 2026 Full story here MIAMI — Kyle Adler’s discovery that he was stolen from his Chilean mother as a baby came as a shock, sparking an identity…
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Korean adoptees submit new round of investigation requests to Truth and Reconciliation Commission
BY KIM CHANG-YONG Link to story Overseas adoptees submit a petition to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in central Seoul seeking an investigation into forced overseas adoption of mixed-race children and abuse at child care facilities on March 30. [NEWS1] Korean adoptees who were sent abroad between the 1970s and 1990s filed a new round…
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Swedish Adoptee Discovers She Was Kidnapped From Colombia at 1 Year Old
By Emma Tiger Link to story Paula Dahlberg from Vittaryd, Sweden, was born in Colombia and adopted as a child by a couple in Härnösand, where she grew up. In the adoption papers, she was given a new name: Paola Andrea became Paula, with Andrea as a middle name. As a teenager, she began to…
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Korean-born Australian woman overturns adoption as federal inquiry launched
By Alex Turner-Cohen, James Oaten and Giselle Wakatama Link to story A Korean-born Australian says she struggled to remove her adoptive parents from her birth certificate. (ABC News: Maren Preuss) A Korean-born Australian is calling for changes to adoption laws after enduring an onerous process to nullify her “cruel” adoption, which included years of sexual and physical abuse. Last…
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London Review of Books: The Grandson of Estela
By Rachel Nolan Link to full story Week after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military dictatorship, as Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have circled the pyramid monument in the square in central Buenos Aires, arm in arm, to demand the return of their forcibly disappeared…
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The New York Review: Torn Asunder
By Oscar Lopez Link to story (paywalled) As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.
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Live Action: Authorities investigate transnational baby trafficking ring from Indonesia
By Angeline Tan Link to story
Transnational /Transcultural Adoption Project 