Category: transnational adoption
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Haitian adoptee with disabilities returns to U.S., seeks ‘freedom’ after years of ordeal
Adopted by an American family as a child, Joie Laughlin endured years of abuse in the U.S. and at a Jamaican boarding school, which left her stranded in Haiti for three months— now back in the U.S., she hopes to reunite with her older sister and rebuild her life Link to story. By Onz Chéry
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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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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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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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Devdiscourse: UN Experts Alarmed by Allegations of Illegal Adoption of Indigenous Children in Guatemala
“We are particularly troubled that no prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigation has been conducted into the alleged involvement of some State authorities in these processes,” the experts said. Link to full story
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YLE:”Finnish is my native language, yet people still speak to me in English” – How international adoptees feel marginalised in Finland
International adoptees in Finland want their voices to be heard in discussions about Finnish identity, immigration, and working life. Link to full story
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BBC: ‘I was born in China but raised in Billericay’
By Jodie Halford Link to full story
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AsAM News: Reports of ICE send shockwaves through Korean American networks
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