Category: illegal adoption
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Al Jazeera: A woman’s search for a lost childhood in South Korea
By Susan Kim Link to story
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Inkstick: The Quiet Displacement and Disappearance of Colombia’s Children
As Colombia’s “Total Peace” plan falters, children face exploitation by traffickers and adoption pipelines abroad. Words: Lisa Munro Pictures: Niels van Altena Link to story In June, a 14-year-old boy was arrested in Colombia for assassinating Senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay. When he was arrested, he said he did it, “for money, for my family.”…
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The Korea Times: Swedish-Korean adoptee’s pioneering research on flawed adoptions gains belated recognition
By Lee Hyo-jin Link to story. Tobias Hubinette’s findings on illegal international adoptions confirmed by investigations in Seoul and Stockholm
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She was adopted at 11 by a French family, but there’s a legal twist: her biological family didn’t agree
Yooree Kim was sent from South Korea to France, but her parents thought she was abandoned. By Joe Brennan Link to story.
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Arise News: Police dismantle transnational child trafficking rings, rescue 40 foreign victims
By Linus Aleke From story: The Nigeria Police Force said operatives of the Zone-13 Police Command have dismantled two major transnational child trafficking syndicates operating within the country and rescued multiple victims, including children, pregnant women, and 40 foreign nationals. The Police also disclosed no fewer than eleven suspected child traffickers were apprehended across two…
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The Conversation: ‘Next time bring back my daughter’: Barbara Demick reunited a Chinese family with the stolen ‘missing twin’ adopted in the US
By Kathryn Shine Link to story.
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Havana Times: El Salvador children demand the right to know their origins after separation from war
By Edgardo Ayaya Link to story After a DNA test confirmed the family connection, New York resident Sarah Kanfer traveled to El Salvador in November 2024 to reunite with her mother, Eusebia Portillo. The reunion is one of several cases in which children were separated from their parents during the Salvadoran civil war and fraudulently…
