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A local court has ordered Holt Children’s Services to pay compensation to a South Korean adoptee who was illegally sent overseas despite having biological parents in the country. The Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday sided with the plaintiff, 48-year-old Adam Crapser, born Shin Song-hyuk, ordering the agency to pay 100 million won, or 75-thousand U.S. dollars, plus delayed interest. …
Why do thousands of children in China disappear every year? Adoption Trafficking 200,000 children are believed to be stolen from China every year. In 1994, this Chinese father’s child was stolen in broad daylight. For 2 decades he put up missing children posters (like below) and became a taxi driver so he could look for his daughter while he worked. …
The Hague Adoption Convention (HAC) created a child market for the paying customer, the adoptive parents. This video is an extremely informative presentation on the Adoption Hague Convention (HAC) versus the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The main difference: The UNCRC does not export children. They take care of the children locally. Under the UNCRC, children have …
Prosecute illegal and human rights violations in the adoption process. The Norwegian Korean Rights Group (NKRG) is an ad-hoc committee of adult Korean adoptees established to investigate the degree to which adoptees’ human rights are protected before, during, and after adoption. NKRG was formed voluntarily when all of us filed the case of the 2nd Truth and Reconciliation Committee through …
Danish International Adoption has been reported to the police after the information came to light that several children may have been trafficked to Denmark. Journalist Camilla Boje Hertz and Jessica Skovmose The adoption center DIA (Danish International Adoption) has been reported to the police for possibly being instrumental in illegal adoptions between 1979 and 1995. This happens after a TV …
