Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark’s only international agency winds down work
11 months, 1 week ago

Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark’s only international agency winds down work

Associated Press  

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency said Tuesday that it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children’s biological origins abroad. The Danish agency announced it was getting out of the international adoption business on the same day Norway’s top regulatory body recommended stopping all overseas adoptions for two years pending an investigation into several allegedly illegal cases. In November, the directorate also stopped adoptions from Madagascar, citing a lack of security to ensure they would “be carried out in accordance with international principles for adoption.” Norway has three private adoption agencies. Sweden’s only adoption agency said in November that was halting adoptions from South Korea following claims of falsified papers on the origins of children adopted from the Asian country.

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Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years
2 weeks ago

Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years

NL Times  

Prospective adoptive parents will have another six years to complete their ongoing procedure for the adoption of a child from abroad. Earlier this year, the government already stopped accepting new intercountry adoption applications. The Kamer wanted to do away with this form of adoption after a devastating report from 2021 about numerous abuses that had been going on for years …

South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children
3 months, 1 week ago

South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children

CNN  

Seoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby exporter” – sending hundreds of thousands of children overseas after the country was ravaged by war and many mothers left destitute. “It’s truly terrifying to hear how systemic these issues were, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily surprising,” said Susanné Seong-eun Bergsten, who …

Norway tightens controls over adoptions from abroad but won't ban practice as investigation unfolds
6 months ago

Norway tightens controls over adoptions from abroad but won't ban practice as investigation unfolds

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The move to keep allowing …

South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered origins
1 year, 6 months ago

South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered origins

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday it will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States. The new cases in the commission’s expanded inquiry into South Korea’s foreign adoption boom involve adoptees in 11 nations including the …

South Korea to look into more cases of adoptees whose records might have been falsified
1 year, 6 months ago

South Korea to look into more cases of adoptees whose records might have been falsified

LA Times  

Peter Moller, second from right, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, submits documents to South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday that it would investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the U.S. The new …

Swedish investigator says S. Korea key to her adoption probe
1 year, 9 months ago

Swedish investigator says S. Korea key to her adoption probe

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — A Swedish legal expert investigating the country’s international adoption practices said Tuesday she’s trying to determine whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children. She said such findings would be key in determining whether Sweden had effective safeguards or monitoring measures to ensure South …

South Korea’s truth commission to probe foreign adoptions
2 years ago

South Korea’s truth commission to probe foreign adoptions

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid- to late-1900s. The decision Thursday opens what could be South Korea’s most far-reaching inquiry into foreign adoptions yet, …

South Koreans abroad want probe into their past adoptions
2 years, 1 month ago

South Koreans abroad want probe into their past adoptions

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — A group of South Korean adoptees in Europe rallied in Seoul with their local supporters on Tuesday, urging South Korean authorities to investigate their adoptions decades ago that they say were based on falsified documents and involved rights abuses. “We are now fighting for the rights to know our own true story.” Møller said his group …

Nearly 300 demand South Korea probe their adoptions abroad
2 years, 3 months ago

Nearly 300 demand South Korea probe their adoptions abroad

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — For 40 years, Louise Kwang thought she was an orphan baby found on the streets of the South Korean port city of Busan before her adoption by Danish parents in 1976. I have been made non-existent in Korea, to get me out of Korea as fast as possible.” Kwang is among nearly 300 South Korean adoptees …

Cabinet wants adoption from abroad to happen through the State: report
2 years, 8 months ago

Cabinet wants adoption from abroad to happen through the State: report

NL Times  

The Dutch government wants to ban adoption from abroad through intermediaries and only allow it through a new to-be-established government organization. The Netherlands halted adoption from abroad last year after a committee of inquiry revealed severe abuses in the practice. According to the Tjibbe Joustra committee, past adoptions from countries like Brazil and Sri Lanka involved children placed up for …

Adoptive parents launch petition against NL's halt on foreign adoptions
3 years, 10 months ago

Adoptive parents launch petition against NL's halt on foreign adoptions

NL Times  

A group of "adoptees, adoptive parents and those whose lives were positively influenced by adoption" launched a petition asking the Dutch government to reverse its decision to halt all adoptions from abroad. Last week, Minister Sander Dekker for Legal Protection completely halted all adoptions from abroad with immediate effect, after the Joustra committee identified "structural abuses" in the adoption system. …

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