Advocate for Adoptee Rights and Justice for Victims Impacted by Predatory Practices. Fight For What's Right and Your World Will Change. More on IG @decsmith50.
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Jun 13
The Albanese Labor Government is delivering on its election commitment to undertake an independent investigation into historic Republic of Korea–Australia intercountry adoptions. #adoption #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #intercountryadoptions
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Jun 12
An Italian court has approved the adoption of a Ukrainian teenager who was evacuated to the country, sparking an international dispute.
#adoption #ukrainianchildren #illegaladoption #forcedadoption #stolenchildren
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Jun 11
Some babies born with disabilities were denied medical help because they were judged unadoptable, as ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker reports. #adoption #forcedadoption #birthmothers #justiceforsurvivors
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Jun 11
UK adult adoptees: share your experience of reunion with a birth parent theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Jun 11
Unwed Canadian women forced to give up their babies in the decades after the Second World War until the early 1980s. They are waiting for an apology. #adoption #forcedadoption #birthmothers #stolenchildren #justiceforsurvivors
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Forced adoption scandal: Evidence sent to Cumbria Police about 61 baby deaths at church-run home
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Jun 10
🇰🇷 🇩🇰 South Korean adoptees sue Danish state over human rights
Eight people adopted by Danish citizens from South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s are suing Denmark for allegedly denying them the right to their identity, origin and family life, their lawyer has said.
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Jun 10
Sick babies – who were considered unsuitable for adoption – were allowed to die at a church-run mother and baby home in Cumbria, according to a new study of documents. #adoption #churchabuse #religiousabuse #abuseofchildren
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Jun 8
This opinion argues that while legal battles and official government apologies are necessary, South Korea must move past viewing overseas adoptees strictly as "victims of history". #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees
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Bit of a let down artical to all those who contrabuted
The article uses a personal story partly to support the case for recognition of the harms of forced adoption and an apology, but it is not really an article about adoptee activism or the wider adoptee-rights movement
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Jun 6
After facing deportation due to a 2000 Child Citizenship Act loophole, the 53-year-old Iranian-born Christian adoptee was granted asylum. #adoption #adopteevoices #deportation #citizenship4adoptees
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NEW: The Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their families for a second time, @AP finds.
My latest, with @lanegrisgt.
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Jun 4
Eight South Korean-born adoptees are suing Denmark for its role in their illegal adoptions decades ago, demanding the state admit responsibility for covering up their origins. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees
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Jun 3
Dozens of Korean adoptees recently gathered to leave their names on a wall at a former U.S. military base, hoping that, after decades, a birth mother might still be looking for them. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees
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Jun 1
Ripped from families for not being ‘Korean enough,’ mixed-race adoptees seek truth and justice. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #justiceforadoptees english.hani.co.kr/arti/engl…
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May 31
Jennifer Arndt-Jones, 52, known by her Korean name Joo Yang-hee, is searching for her birth family in Miryang. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #searchforthetruth
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May 29
State agencies that pay to send kids there have questioned its operations, training and transparency.
STORY >>> kctv5.com/2026/05/29/takeawa…
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May 29
For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother. The 36-year-old Chilean American, who was taken from her at nine months old and adopted by a U.S. family in 1990, is one of thousands who were illegally adopted during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Their reunion was years in the making thanks to DNA tracing and organizations that are helping Chilean adoptees investigate their pasts.
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May 29
Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adopteetrauma apnews.com/article/adopted-c…
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