Almost 90 Adoptee-Led Organizations and Allies Support the Request to End Overseas Adoptions from Korea

Adoptee-led and birthparent organizations from Australia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Greece, Guatemala, India, Lebanon, Native Americans, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, UK, US, and Uganda support KoreanAdopteeWorldwide.net’s special request to the Korean government to finally stop overseas adoption 70 years after the war ended.

“We’ve been very fortunate to have the support of almost 90 adult adoptee-led organizations, mothers (of loss), and families separated in the endeavor to help protect families against a self-regulated market,” The Vance Twins said.

Other human rights organizations are also invited to support the request.

“We hope to protect families in the United States and overseas from a multi-billion dollar industry. The biggest challenge is to see beyond bold, beautiful and glorified advertising campaigns that claim to help ‘orphans.’

Throughout history, adoption agencies profited from that one word. There are already 80 supporting adoptee-led organizations, parent groups, and allies who are signatories to this special request. If you want to do the right thing and protect children from what more and more of us call the commodification of children — a network of white-collar transnational crime — you are not alone. It’s beginning to become more and more obvious to a growing number of victims: overseas adoption is NOT child protection but violates innate, God-given, and natural rights–rights that are enshrined in human rights declarations, conventions, and constitutions,” said Janine Vance, one of the researchers of ” Adoption: What You Should Know.”

PDF Press Conference on the Human Rights Violation Investigation Meeting on March 25th, 2025 Korea.

Let’s STOP Commodifying Children! Join the Special Request to the Korean Government to Stop International Adoption.

In response to these articles:

AP Article: South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions, Kim Tong-Hyung  “SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins.”

NY Times: World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Admits to Adoption Fraud.

The Washington Post: South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in Foreign adoptions.

Bastillepost.com: South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions.

CNN: This country was the world’s ‘baby exporter.’ But its government violated human rights to meet demand, probe finds.

Korean Times: South Korean government blamed for human rights abuses in overseas adoption.

News Naver: Foreign media, Overseas adoption human rights violations Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigation results are in the spotlight…”Fraud and deception.” 

BBC News: They Didn’t Lose Their Children, They Were Stolen’…’Missing’ Children Disguised as Orphans and Adopted Overseas.