South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions
- South Korean governments committed human rights violations in a program that sent at least 170,000 children abroad for adoption, according to a landmark inquiry.
- The commission found that the lack of government oversight led to fraud, falsified records, and coercion by private agencies.
- The commission recommended that the South Korean government deliver an official apology and comply with international adoption standards.
- The South Korean government was found to have violated the human rights of adoptees by neglecting its duty to ensure their basic rights while sending children abroad.
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South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story
Last week, South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that Korean adoption agencies were responsible for widespread fraud, malpractice and even human rights violations. More than 140,000 South Korean children were adopted by families living abroad in the decades after the Korean war. The report documented cases in which agencies fabricated records and others in which abandoned children were sent abroad after only perfunctory efforts…
Calls for international adoption inquiry as South Korea reckons with its past
South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Committee's new report reveals some of the fabrications and falsifications that allowed 20,000 children to be adopted out abroad and names some of the agencies responsible.
Korean commission finds adoption program rife with abuse, highlighting AP investigation - Seymour Tribune
A South Korean commission found the country violated its children’s human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse. The landmark report released Wednesday followed complaints from hundreds of adoptees in Europe, the United States, and Australia, and represented the most comprehensive investigation into a foreign adoption program that sent some 200,000 South Korean children abroad. The report aligns with what Th…
South Korean Adoption Agency Abruptly Halts Operation in Wake of Reports of Widespread Abuses of ‘Fundamental Human Rights of Adoptees’
Human rights investigators and journalists uncover repeated violations by South Korean organizations responsible for sending approximately 200,000 babies and small children to prospective parents around the world beginning after the Korean War.
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