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By Rachel Nolan Link to full story Week after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military dictatorship, as Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have circled the pyramid monument in the square in central Buenos Aires, arm in arm, to demand the return of their forcibly disappeared…
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By Kim Tong-hyung – Associated Press Link to story. SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, began accepting…
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By Oscar Lopez Link to story (paywalled) As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.
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By Nicole Chang February 26, 2026 Link to story
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Link to story Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File South Korea’s international adoption program, spanning 72 years from the post-Korean War era, has been exposed as a profound failure of state policy that prioritized cost-cutting over human rights. Once portrayed as a compassionate solution for war orphans, it systematically falsified documents and exported children to the US, Europe, and…
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By Juliana Kim Link to full story
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“We are particularly troubled that no prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigation has been conducted into the alleged involvement of some State authorities in these processes,” the experts said. Link to full story
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International adoptees in Finland want their voices to be heard in discussions about Finnish identity, immigration, and working life. Link to full story
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By Jodie Halford Link to full story
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