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South Korea National Assembly Conference on International Adoption

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National Assembly Debate to Seek the Current Status of International Adoptees’ Human Rights and Ways to Guarantee Human Rights Survey results https://www.youtube.com/live/TuzWJzl5YhA?feature=share LEARN HOW HARRY HOLT STARTED THE OVERSEAS ADOPTION PROGRAM IN SOUTH KOREA, WHICH NOW SERVES AS THE FOUNDATION OF IA WORLDWIDE. Publisher’s Summary Has the global manmade market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities? Gain a …

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Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption

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Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …

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The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions

In Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Featured, Korea, Long Lost Family, Media, Rights, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …

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Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Commentary, Europe, Featured, Korea, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

My past is based on a long list of experiences with intercountry adoption, which started when I was adopted overseas to the United States in 1972 with my twin.  I have been researching the issue since my first trip back to my birth country in 2004. From examining the memoirs of the pioneers who set up the intercountry child welfare …

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For the Creation of a Committee Investigating the Illicit Intercountry Adoptions Since ’70s

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Indigenous Communities, Long Lost Family, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

Collective for the Recognition of Illicit Adoptions in France launched this petition addressed to the National Assembly and to 3 others (National Assembly representatives, French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs). CHANGE.ORG Petition is Here. Many of us have been asking, for a few years now, for an investigation into the illegal practices of intercountry adoption in France. As of today, …

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The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions

In Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Featured, Korea, Long Lost Family, Media, Rights, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …

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Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Commentary, Europe, Featured, Korea, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

My past is based on a long list of experiences with intercountry adoption, which started when I was adopted overseas to the United States in 1972 with my twin.  I have been researching the issue since my first trip back to my birth country in 2004. From examining the memoirs of the pioneers who set up the intercountry child welfare …

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The Dark Side of International Adoption and Barbie’s Past Involvement

In About The Book, Adoption, Asia, Commentary, Excerpts, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

Barbieland’s Controversial Partnership with International Adoption In a bid to expand its global reach, toy manufacturing giant Mattel (HK) joined forces with the Chinese-owned White Swan Hotel back in the day when international adoption was at its height. The hotel was also known as the “White Stork Inn” or the “Baby Selling Hotel.” This partnership was aimed at welcoming adoptive …

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Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Commentary, Europe, Excerpts, Featured, Indigenous Communities, Long Lost Family, Oceania, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …

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Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium

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Tyler Graf and fellow panelists at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium. Adopted? Your opinion matters. Fill out the survey here. What are adult adoptees saying about adoption today? Hear the stories from across the nation and overseas, representing the U.S., First Nations, India, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Haiti, New Zealand, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, and Colombia for an all-day private event …

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Adoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Excerpts, Korea, Long Lost Family, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

In the Danish adoption papers, I was an orphan found in Busan. In 2016, after I requested adoption documents from Korea, the Korean Social Service Society (KSS) sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised, and made by someone. “I finally found my mother after …

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Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption

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Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …

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Danish International Adoption Has Been Reported to the Police

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Featured, Rights by Adoptionland News

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 …

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Adoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Excerpts, Korea, Long Lost Family, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

In the Danish adoption papers, I was an orphan found in Busan. In 2016, after I requested adoption documents from Korea, the Korean Social Service Society (KSS) sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised, and made by someone. “I finally found my mother after …

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A Chilean Adoptee intends to initiate the legal process after scandal

In Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Indigenous Communities, Media, Rights by Adoptionland News

Now the criticism is growing among adoptees from Chile. Tommy Leite is one of those who sees himself as a victim of human trafficking after SVT’s and Chilean journalists’ review. He demands that those responsible be held accountable and now plans to initiate a legal process. We meet Tommy Leite at his adoptive parents’ home in an apartment in central …

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Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption

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“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION Élida smiled when I asked for an interview, but she was hesitant to allow her youngest child to leave her lap as we recorded. As a researcher, I had prepared to attend the sixth annual Kuñangue Aty, a large gathering of women from the Kaiowá …

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Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence

In Adoption, Agency Complaints, Indigenous Communities, Rights by Adoptionland News

“The era of closed adoption is not behind us yet, not by a long shot, however that urgently needs to change.” A team of scholars says the legal practice of closed adoption raised “disconnected” people and is a form of violence. The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming …

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The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions

In Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Featured, Korea, Long Lost Family, Media, Rights, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …

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Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Commentary, Europe, Featured, Korea, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

My past is based on a long list of experiences with intercountry adoption, which started when I was adopted overseas to the United States in 1972 with my twin.  I have been researching the issue since my first trip back to my birth country in 2004. From examining the memoirs of the pioneers who set up the intercountry child welfare …

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South Korea National Assembly Conference on International Adoption

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Excerpts, Korea, Long Lost Family, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

National Assembly Debate to Seek the Current Status of International Adoptees’ Human Rights and Ways to Guarantee Human Rights Survey results https://www.youtube.com/live/TuzWJzl5YhA?feature=share LEARN HOW HARRY HOLT STARTED THE OVERSEAS ADOPTION PROGRAM IN SOUTH KOREA, WHICH NOW SERVES AS THE FOUNDATION OF IA WORLDWIDE. Publisher’s Summary Has the global manmade market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities? Gain a …

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Adoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Excerpts, Korea, Long Lost Family, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

In the Danish adoption papers, I was an orphan found in Busan. In 2016, after I requested adoption documents from Korea, the Korean Social Service Society (KSS) sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised, and made by someone. “I finally found my mother after …

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Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Commentary, Europe, Excerpts, Featured, Indigenous Communities, Long Lost Family, Oceania, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …

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Monte Haines: SBS Interview about Korean Adoptee Deportations

In About The Book, Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Long Lost Family, Media, The Americas, Videos by Adoptionland News

Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His adoption was never finalized, and then Monte was again relinquished. He bounced around between several foster homes before his parents legally …

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Private Adoption Industry Reaps Profits

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Featured, Long Lost Family, Media, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

A web of consultants, facilitators, and other middlemen have made private adoption a lucrative business. But the profit motives can leave mothers feeling coerced, and, nationwide, a lack of regulation creates opportunities for exploitation. In partnership with TIME, this Newsy report shows the murky world of the private adoption industry. This story was reported and published by Newsy.

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The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions

In Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Featured, Korea, Long Lost Family, Media, Rights, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …

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Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Asia, Commentary, Europe, Featured, Korea, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

My past is based on a long list of experiences with intercountry adoption, which started when I was adopted overseas to the United States in 1972 with my twin.  I have been researching the issue since my first trip back to my birth country in 2004. From examining the memoirs of the pioneers who set up the intercountry child welfare …

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The Dark Side of International Adoption and Barbie’s Past Involvement

In About The Book, Adoption, Asia, Commentary, Excerpts, The Americas, Uncategorized by Adoptionland News

Barbieland’s Controversial Partnership with International Adoption In a bid to expand its global reach, toy manufacturing giant Mattel (HK) joined forces with the Chinese-owned White Swan Hotel back in the day when international adoption was at its height. The hotel was also known as the “White Stork Inn” or the “Baby Selling Hotel.” This partnership was aimed at welcoming adoptive …

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South Korea National Assembly Conference on International Adoption

In About The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Excerpts, Korea, Long Lost Family, Rights, The Americas, Uncategorized, Videos by Adoptionland News

National Assembly Debate to Seek the Current Status of International Adoptees’ Human Rights and Ways to Guarantee Human Rights Survey results https://www.youtube.com/live/TuzWJzl5YhA?feature=share LEARN HOW HARRY HOLT STARTED THE OVERSEAS ADOPTION PROGRAM IN SOUTH KOREA, WHICH NOW SERVES AS THE FOUNDATION OF IA WORLDWIDE. Publisher’s Summary Has the global manmade market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities? Gain a …

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