Adoptions

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairwoman Park Sun Young, right, comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul (Ahn Young-joon/AP)

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Commission highlights fraud and abuse in South Korea foreign adoption programme

The report followed a nearly three-year investigation into complaints from 367 adoptees in Europe, the United States, and Australia

Peter Moller, fourth from left, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, attends a press conference with a group of South Korean adoptees in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea (Ahn Young-joon/AP/PA)

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South Koreans demand probe into their past adoptions

<p>The Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman welcomed the report into illegal adoptions, registrations and falsified death certificates, stating he would act on some of the recommendations.</p>

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Campaigners demand full state inquiry into illegal adoptions and falsified death certs

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Surge in adoption tracing expected

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Secondary school pupils to learn about Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home abuses

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Concerns raised about Dublin adoption society sending children abroad in the 1970s and '80s

File Photo Problems with cleanliness and other issues in the neonatal units of two Dublin maternity hospitals Holles Street and

Illegal adoptions: 'I don't have an identity now. It's like a tree falling over and the roots gone'

A Dublin woman believes her illegal adoption and the adoption of many others amounted to "child trafficking"

Wed, 03 Mar, 2021

Questions over illegal birth registration numbers

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) has claimed that the 126 illegal birth-registration cases discovered by Tusla in May are “the only cases in which clear evidence of incorrect registrations has been found”.

Thu, 25 Oct, 2018

Less Irish couples adopting foreign children due to complex system

The number of Irish couples adopting foreign children has plummeted since 2010 because the system has become too complex.

Mon, 07 Dec, 2015

Adoptions

Commission highlights fraud and abuse in South Korea foreign adoption programme

South Koreans demand probe into their past adoptions

Campaigners demand full state inquiry into illegal adoptions and falsified death certs

Surge in adoption tracing expected

Secondary school pupils to learn about Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home abuses

Concerns raised about Dublin adoption society sending children abroad in the 1970s and '80s

Illegal adoptions: 'I don't have an identity now. It's like a tree falling over and the roots gone'

Questions over illegal birth registration numbers

Less Irish couples adopting foreign children due to complex system

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Mick Clifford

Adoptions

Commission highlights fraud and abuse in South Korea foreign adoption programme

South Koreans demand probe into their past adoptions

Campaigners demand full state inquiry into illegal adoptions and falsified death certs

Surge in adoption tracing expected

Secondary school pupils to learn about Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home abuses

Concerns raised about Dublin adoption society sending children abroad in the 1970s and '80s

Illegal adoptions: 'I don't have an identity now. It's like a tree falling over and the roots gone'

Questions over illegal birth registration numbers

Less Irish couples adopting foreign children due to complex system

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Mick Clifford

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