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On Wednesday 22 January, Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe (Sp) received an interim report from the committee that investigates adoptions abroad.

The investigative committee was appointed by the Støre government on 20 June 2023, and will find out whether Norwegian authorities have had good enough control over foreign adoptions, and whether there have been illegal or unethical conditions in connection with foreign adoptions to Norway. The committee must now deliver an interim report which, among other things, contains preliminary findings on adoptions from Colombia and Ecuador. The committee will deliver its final report in December 2025.

See the committee's mandate.Committee leader Camilla Bernt, professor of jurisprudence at the University of Bergen, will present the interim report.After the presentation, there is an opportunity for an interview with the Minister for Children and Families and the head of the selection committee.Time: Wednesday 22 January at 10:00–11:00. Registration from 09.30. Bring your press card and valid ID.City: The auditorium in R5, Akersgata 59.Registration: Press wishing to cover the meeting can register before 12.00 Tuesday 21 January to media@bfd.dep.no.The event will be filmed by the Danish Security and Service Organization (DSS) and can be followed directly on this page.For questions from the press, contact communications advisor Amalie Knudsen by email: Amalie-fosse.knudsen@bfd.dep.no or phone number: +47 926 66 262.

The 'PD Notebook' sheds light on the overall problem of managing the adoption records of children adopted abroad.

MBC's current affairs program "PD Notebook," which will air at 10:20 p.m. on the 14th, will air the "Disappeared Adoption Record: The Country That Erased Me."

South Korea, which has been labeled a "child exporter" by sending 200,000 children abroad for adoption over the past 70 years. Finding roots is at stake as a comprehensive problem has been revealed in the management of adoption records for those who were recently adopted abroad. It has been revealed that not only adoption institutions but also public institutions that were willing to receive private records and manage them have concealed the problem. The 'PD Notebook' examines the true nature of the adoption record computerization project, which has been carried out for 10 years since 2013.

adoptees who believed in false records

The "PD Notebook" met adoptees who had difficulty finding their biological families due to their adoption records. Park Sang-jo, a Danish adoptee, visited Korea more than 10 times in 35 years to find her biological parents. He gave up looking for his family, believing that the record of adoption of "orphan" by Holt Children's Welfare Association was true. However, this year, I suddenly find out that I have information from my biological father and I am shocked. Although his biological father was already dead, it was impossible to meet him, Holt did not comply with Park's request to provide adoption records to meet many brothers. Park, who overcame various obstacles and met his siblings dramatically, learned that his family had asked the agency to get him back, but was already rejected for leaving far away and had been looking for his whole life.

14 cantons want to work together better in the future to help adopted people find their biological parents. Because not everything always went smoothly. A look back.

Why were there so many international adoptions in the past?

As economic and social conditions improved in Switzerland – especially for single mothers – there were fewer children available for adoption. Some Swiss couples therefore looked for children abroad. From the 1960s onwards there was a wave of adoptions from Asian countries, later from South America and Africa and from 1989 from Eastern Europe.

Unwanted childlessness was not always the reason. Some Swiss couples also saw adoption as a "humanitarian act". For social or religious reasons, they wanted to free children from poverty and offer them a better life with educational opportunities.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old Korean man whose traumatic adoption journey led to an abusive childhood in the United States and ultimately his deportation to South Korea in 2016 after legal troubles.

In exonerating the South Korean government over the case of Adam Crapser, whose U.S. adoptive parents never secured his citizenship, the Seoul High Court overturned a 2023 lower court ruling that ordered his adoption agency, Holt Children’s Services, to pay him 100 million won ($68,600) in damages. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Holt should have informed his adoptive parents that they needed to take additional steps to secure his citizenship after his adoption was finalized in their state court, but didn’t find the government at fault for Crapser’s plight.

The full text of the Seoul High Court’s ruling wasn’t immediately available. Crapser didn’t attend the ruling.

Crapser, a married father of two, says he was abused and abandoned by two different adoptive families who never filed his citizenship papers. He got into trouble with the law — once for breaking into his adoptive parents’ home to retrieve the Bible that came with him from the orphanage — and was deported because he was not a U.S. citizen.

In their defense against the accusations of malfeasance raised by Crapser, the government and Holt both cited a 1970s adoption law established under a military dictatorship that was designed to speed up adoptions.

CID also recovered a two-month-old daughter from the couple They adopted that child

Kolkata: CID has arrested a couple on the basis of child trafficking ring The couple was arrested from Lake Town area of ​​Jessore Road on Tuesday The arrested have been identified as Vijay Santhalia and his wife Neha

It is reported that the couple adopted a girl child for about 7 lakh rupees However, the couple fell into the clutches of the child trafficking ring without following the legal rules for adoption

CID also recovered a two-month-old daughter from the couple They adopted that child Howrah court on Tuesday the two arrested or not?

According to sources, the baby girl was probably brought from Bihar and given to the couple After investigating the child trafficker, the police arrested a broker named Manik It was Manik and his wife Mukul who probably handed over the baby to the Lake Town couple Investigators are also looking into whether anyone else has adopted children from this cycle illegally.

His family disrespectfully left him in the forest. The child's body was scarred by ant bites. After the rescue, he was treated in the hospital for a long time. Then settled in government home. This time in distant America

The four-year-old boy named Sangeet got a 'new home'. She went to her foster parents from her home in Medinipur on Monday.

According to administration sources, Joshua Michael Lawrence, a resident of New Jersey, America, and his wife Raven Elizabeth Lawrence have adopted Sangeet.

On this day, the adoption process was completed in a domestic ceremony at the collectorate premises in Medinipur. The American couple is very happy to have a baby boy.

District Magistrate Khurshid Ali Qaderi says, "Adoption of children is a very important step for the overall development of the society." Additional District Magistrate Kempa Honnaiah says, "If accomplished people come forward in this way, many more will get the affection, love and home of the guardian."

Applicable to various branches of civil law, the 'Doctrine of Relation Back' refers to a principle that creates a legal fiction where certain acts or rights are allowed to take effect retroactively from an earlier date than the actual date of occurrence. Because the rights came to be enforceable from an earlier date, thus the doctrine saves the person from the prejudice suffered between...

Sneha, a 21-year-old Spanish woman, has traveled to Bhubaneswar, India, to find her biological mother before returning to Spain. Adopted in 2010 along with her brother from a local orphanage, Sneha is determined to uncover her origins despite minimal information. With police and local help, they are trying to locate her mother, Banalata Das, with a tight deadline ahead.
 

NEW DELHI: A young Spanish woman is on a search for her biological mother in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar before returning to Spain on Monday.

With minimal information about her background, 21-year-old Sneha, who researches children's education, travelled to India to discover her origins. Her adoptive Spanish parents, Gema Vidal and Juan Josh, backed her decision, with Gema joining her journey to her native state. The couple had adopted Sneha and her brother Somu in 2010 from a Bhubaneswar orphanage, where they lived after their mother Banalata Das left them in 2005.

“The purpose of my journey from Spain to Bhubaneswar is to find my biological parents, especially my mother. I want to find her and meet her. I am fully prepared for the journey even if it is difficult,” Sneha told PTI.

When questioned about confronting her biological mother about the abandonment, Sneha remained silent. She was just over one year old, whilst her brother was only months old when it happened.

Sneha and her brother were adopted by Spanish couple in 2010 from an orphanage in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, after their biological mother abandoned them.

A Spanish woman is in India in search of her biological mother who had allegedly abandoned her along with her brother 20 year ago. However, the 21-year old woman only has a day left until she returns to Spain for her educational commitments.
Sneha Enrique Vidal, left, a 21-year-old girl from Spain who was adopted as a child from Odisha by a Spanish couple and has now returned to Bhubaneswar to find her biological parents. (PTI)

Sneha and her brother Somu were adopted by Spanish couple Gema Vidal and Juan Josh in 2010 from an orphanage in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, their home state, according to news agency PTI.

The siblings were sheltered at the orphanage after their mother, Banalata Das, abandoned them in 2005.