Category: birth parents
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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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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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Birth Mothers Harmed by Overseas Adoption Speak Out: “Government Negligence Must Be Thoroughly Investigated”
by Bae Kyunghwan Link to story Birth Mothers Harmed by Overseas Adoption File Petition with TRCCall for Dedicated Investigative Body on Forged Documents and Human Rights Violations The Coalition for the Truth and Accountability on Overseas Adoption and Children’s Rights (hereinafter TRACE) submitted a petition for truth-finding on behalf of five birth mothers who suffered…
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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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