Category: transnational adoption
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Washington Times: South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
By Kim Tong-hyung – Associated Press Link to story. SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, began accepting…
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American Community Media: More than 17k Korean Adoptees in US Lack Citizenship. Many Live in Minnesota.
By Nicole Chang February 26, 2026 Link to story
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Impact International: From Orphans to Victims: How State Policies Fueled 72 Years of South Korea Adoption Abuses
Link to story Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File South Korea’s international adoption program, spanning 72 years from the post-Korean War era, has been exposed as a profound failure of state policy that prioritized cost-cutting over human rights. Once portrayed as a compassionate solution for war orphans, it systematically falsified documents and exported children to the US, Europe, and…
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NPR: A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her
By Juliana Kim Link to full story
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Hundreds of Danish Adoptees Still Denied Records
Link to story By Irina Hundreds of adoptees in Denmark are still waiting for access to their own case files as the country continues to reshape its international adoption system following the closure of the nation’s last adoption agency. Hundreds Waiting for Case Insight Nearly 400 adoptees in Denmark are still waiting for access to…
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Maeil Broadcasting Network (MBN: The Journey of Overseas Adoptees Searching for Their Roots
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HuffPost: I’m A U.S. Citizen. I’m Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
“I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again.” By Barbara Parker Nov 23, 2025, 08:47 AM EST Link to story The first time I saw a photo of my adopted South American son Michael (not…
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CBC: Bill restoring citizenship for ‘Lost Canadians’ becomes law
Court ruled government must pass law covering some children born abroad By David Baker Link to story
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VietNam Net: Vietnamese father, 74, seeks American birth mom for adopted daughter
Link to story In his final years, a 74-year-old man from Ho Chi Minh City searches for his daughter’s American birth mother. Since losing his wife during the Covid-19 pandemic, the modest home of 74-year-old Le Trong Toan in an alley on Xom Chieu Street, Ho Chi Minh City, has remained quiet. He only opens…
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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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