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Russian parliament advances bill to ban adoptions by gender-transition countries

MOSCOW — Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday passed final reading of a bill to ban adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The measures, which now go to the upper house of parliament and then to President Vladimir Putin for signing into law, follow an array of acts in recent years suppressing …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

The Independent

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11 months ago

South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for a one-year extension after investigators sought more time to examine human rights violations linked to past military governments, including the widespread falsifying of child origins that fueled a foreign adoption boom in the 1970s and ‘80s. Denmark’s only …

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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 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Does an AI tool help boost adoptions? Key takeaways from an AP Investigation

Associated Press

Former social worker Thea Ramirez has developed an artificial intelligence -powered tool that she says helps social service agencies find the best adoptive parents for some of the nation’s most vulnerable kids. Ramirez declined interview requests but said in an email that “Family-Match is a valuable tool and helpful to users actively using it to support their recruitment + matching …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Does an AI tool help boost adoptions? Key takeaways from an AP Investigation

The Independent

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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3 years ago

Chile’s congress approves same-sex marriages, adoptions

Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile — Both houses of Chile’s congress voted Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill that also includes authorization for adoptions by same-sex couples. Senators initially approved the marriage equality measure July 21 and deputies did so Nov. 23, but modifications introduced by the deputies required a joint committee of both houses to resolve their differences. Among the changes …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Decision strikes key parts of Native American adoptions law

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Parts of a federal law giving Native American families preference in the adoption of Native American children were effectively struck down Tuesday by a sharply divided federal appeals court, a defeat for tribal leaders who said the 1978 law was important to protecting their families and culture. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court’s finding that …

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Russian parliament advances bill to ban adoptions by gender-transition countries

South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases

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

Does an AI tool help boost adoptions? Key takeaways from an AP Investigation

Does an AI tool help boost adoptions? Key takeaways from an AP Investigation

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

South Korea’s truth commission to probe foreign adoptions

South Koreans abroad want probe into their past adoptions

Nearly 300 demand South Korea probe their adoptions abroad

Chile’s congress approves same-sex marriages, adoptions

Decision strikes key parts of Native American adoptions law