An unusual commission investigation has begun in South Korea.

The South Korean authorities will investigate whether adoptions to the West have taken place on an erroneous or flawed basis.

The commission started in December 2022 by selecting 34 suspicious cases. As many as 20 of them concerned adoptions to Denmark.

At the beginning of January, the commission dealt with a further 130 cases, and the commission will contact the last adoptees during February and March .

Among the first cases is Louise Kwangs from Denmark. DR has previously been able to tell how the Korean adoption agency, Korean Social Service (KSS), falsified her background information to make the adoption process easier.

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Supreme Court President Radovan Dobronic has examined the proceedings by Croatian courts concerning adoptions of children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and found that 16 municipal courts dealt with such cases and none of the applications were denied, Croatia's highest court said on Tuesday.

한성호 Norwegian Korean Rights Group 24 January 2023 at 10:01 · Hvem har mest troverdighet her etter siste dagers hendelser (jfr saken nedenfor med Simon)? Reagerer på telefonsamtale med Adopsjonsforum: − Forsøkt kneblet John Erik Aarsheim sier Adopsj

 Norwegian Korean Rights Group 24 January 2023 at 10:01 · Who has the most credibility here after the events of the last day (cf. the case below with Simon)? Responding to a telephone conversation with Adoption Forum: - Tried to gag John Erik Aarsheim says Adoption

The latest official Sri Lankan data come from 2017. Norway plans to set up an independent inquiry. In the 1970s, baby farms were popular, selling Sri Lankan babies with false papers to European couples. Some Sri Lankans remember younger siblings going missing this way.

Colombo (AsiaNews) – The Norwegian government plans to investigate adoptions from Sri Lanka going as far back as the 1980s after discovering that possibly 11,000 Sri Lankan babies were illegally adopted.

Norway’s Children and Family Minister Kjersti Toppe told the Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper that the government is setting up an independent commission of inquiry to look into the matter.

In the 1970s, Sri Lanka had several "baby farms" that sold minors to European couples providing them with false papers. In 2017, Sri Lankan authorities admitted that 11,000 children may have been adopted illegally.

Sources in Sri Lanka's Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment told AsiaNews that in 2021, Romanticized Immigration, an organisation led by Priyangika Samanthie, a Norwegian adopted as a child from Sri Lanka, had called for an investigation into international adoptions.

Australian Federal Police are searching for women and children who may have been affected by the practice of forced adoption in Northern Ireland.

Northern Irish police are searching for women and children in Australia who may have been affected by institutional abuse between 1922 and 1990.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland launched an investigation in 2021 into allegations of abuse within Mother and Baby Institutions, Work Houses, and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland.

On Sunday, the Australian Federal Police announced it will assisting the investigation in an effort to find victims and witnesses who may now live in Australia.

The Police Service are appealing for mothers who gave birth in, or anyone who was adopted from, institutions in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1990 to come forward.

Tista' taqra bil- Malti.

Social policy minister Michael Falzon said that “the reality is that there are no local adoptions and there are several reasons for this despite the fact that we have changed the law”.

Appearing on Andrew Azzopardi’s talkshow on 103 Malta’s Heart, Falzon was quizzed about the recent case of of a family in Malta that returned three children adopted from India to the State, insisting they did not want to care for them any longer.

Falzon said the “exceptional” case was worrying, especially after the couple claimed that the behaviour of the children was “impossible”.

He added that when officials found out about the case, they did their utmost to find an alternative place for the children but Falzon admitted that there is much to be learnt from the case to ensure it doesn’t repeat itself.

As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignored

On the first day of April, 17-year-old Wassim Hamam* disappeared near the bustling centre of Hove. He was never seen again. Days later another teenager, Burim Markaj, 16, vanished nearby. Within hours, a 15-year-old was also reported missing.

The disappearances continued. Four days later Alban Berisha, a 17-year-old whose portrait suggests a pensive, wary character, suddenly vanished from the streets of the Sussex coastal city. The same day, a 5ft 5in 17-year-old, Khalid Muha, was last seen wearing a black bomber jacket and white trainers.

Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel

Another child went, then another. Detectives investigating the disappearances quickly identified two facts linking the lengthening caseload: all were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. And all disappeared after staying at the same hotel. But this was no ordinary seaside hotel. The children were staying in a residence run by the Home Office, the government department whose mandate is keeping people safe.

Jan. 21—ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP — Ashtabula County Children Services officials are waiting for details, but are excited about potential new resources to help children be adopted.

Houses Bill 45 was passed in early January and provides funds to help famileis adopt children.

The Ohio Adoption Grant Program will provide $10,000 to any family adopting a child; $15,000 to any adopting family who was already providing foster care for the child and $20,000 to a family adopting a child with special needs.

The bill is written to allow the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services to apply for more money if it looks like the original $15 million will not be adequate to pay for the benefits during 2023.

The details are still being worked out so counties know proper procedures to handle the requests for the grants, said Ashtabula County Children Services Executive Director Tania Burnett.

Dorry Lawlor has lived a full and largely happy life. She is 70 years old and loved by her children, wider family and community.

Three years ago, Dorry received bombshell news that shook the foundations of her life. A relative confided in Dorry of their belief that her twin sister, whom she always was told was stillborn, had survived and was believed to have been illegally adopted in Dublin.

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Twenty years ago you could buy a child in Romania for a few thousand euros. In 'Dany's Choice' we see

how a Telefacts reporter goes undercover in 2003 and comes home with shocking images. Child

trafficking and illegal adoption will also remain a problem in Europe in 2023. In a large-scale action

against child trafficking, in which Belgium also participated, more than 130 people were arrested last

summer and 60 people were identified. According to UNICEF, 2 million children are trafficked every year.