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State in the dock again over illegal adoption practices
1 year, 4 months ago

State in the dock again over illegal adoption practices

Dutch News  

A group of eight people who were illegally adopted from Sri Lanka are suing the state for negligence and restitution of the money they spent finding their birth parents. Despite reports of illegal practices surrounding adoptions from Sri Lanka dating back to 1979, adoptions went ahead for decades. In 2021 the Netherlands temporarily halted all cross-border adoptions following a highly …

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State in the dock again over illegal adoption practices
1 year, 4 months ago

State in the dock again over illegal adoption practices

Dutch News  

A group of eight people who were illegally adopted from Sri Lanka are suing the state for negligence and restitution of the money they spent finding their birth parents. Despite reports of illegal practices surrounding adoptions from Sri Lanka dating back to 1979, adoptions went ahead for decades. In 2021 the Netherlands temporarily halted all cross-border adoptions following a highly …

Adoption Sri Lanka Adoptions Illegal Practices
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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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