South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story

Deann Borshay Liem's adoption paperwork contained two childhood photographs from 1964 and 1965, both labeled with the name Cha Jung Hee. But the images are of two different girls. Liem is on the right. Deann Borshay Liem hide caption toggle caption …

South Korea’s international adoption program under fire

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: Holding South Korea accountable. There’s a new report from South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It says the government played a direct role in violating the rights of …

South Korea Adoption Scandal: Mass Forgery Exposed

  A government-led inquiry in South Korea has uncovered a shocking legacy of systemic abuse in the country's international adoption practices, revealing that hundreds of thousands of children were "exported" to foreign countries, with their …

UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Albania, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Montenegro And Zimbabwe

GENEVA (28 March 2025) – The UN Human Rights Committee issued today its findings on Albania, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Montenegro, and Zimbabwe after examining the five States parties during the latest session. The findings contain the Committee’s main …

Judge: human embryos can’t be partitioned

Human embryos may not be partitioned under Virginia Code § 8.01-83 or § 8.01-93, despite earlier statements by a judge to the contrary, a Fairfax County Circuit Court judge has found in an issue of first impression. Unable to agree on how to distribute two …

Amnesty International welcomes UN report on protecting human rights of African descent groups

Amnesty International voiced its support on Friday for a report issued by the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), stating that it “fully supports” a more detailed …

The European Convention on Human Rights: A 75-year milestone or at risk of erosion?

In November of this year, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) will reach a significant milestone, its 75th anniversary. Since its adoption in Rome on 4 November, 1950, the Convention has been instrumental in shaping human rights law and practice …

South Korean Adoption Agency Abruptly Halts Operation in Wake of Reports of Widespread Abuses of ‘Fundamental Human ...

SEOUL — A message on the website of a South Korean agency famed for putting Korean children up for adoption by American families for more than 60 years comes as a shock after reports of widespread abuses of “fundamental human rights of adoptees.” “Intake …

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

The agency that facilitated Ryan’s adoption was the Seoul-based Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS), which is Australia’s partner agency for South Korean adoptions. It has facilitated 3600 adoptions from South Korea since the late 1970s. Loading The …

South Korea violated human rights to meet adoption demand