Category: transnational adoption
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The Korea Herald: South Korea moves to end ‘baby exports,’ state to take full responsibility
By Choi Jeong-yoon From story: Link to article.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees raise alarm over NCRC’s handling of records
By Antonia Giordano Link to story. Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing scrutiny over mismanagement and technical errors. Hopes were initially high when the NCRC took over from private agencies that…
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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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Big Issue: Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their families before it’s too late
By Isabella Mcrae Link to story. Marie Maubouche has always felt a close connection to her Vietnamese roots, and she wants to learn more. Image: Supplied Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam…
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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…
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