HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world ...

South Korea has been winding down the practice of international adoption, but the practice continues there and around the world, even if at a much slower pace than in previous decades. But even if it ...

Since the 1950s, South Korea has been the largest international exporter of adoptees. Those adoptees were primarily sent overseas to Western countries. Now, for the first time, the country ...

"Georgia," a new short film, revisits Greece’s overseas adoption scandal, shedding light on the cost for mothers, families, ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents and sending alternative babies when infants had died ...

SEOUL, Oct. 2 (UPI) --South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday apologized for the country's troubled history of overseas adoptions, acknowledging that "unjust human rights violations" occurred ...

New Zealand has temporarily blocked overseas adoptions of its children after revelations that some convicted sex offenders were able to adopt, prompting swift government action and strong backing from ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations investigators voiced "serious concern" over what they ...

South Korea is set to overhaul its adoption system on Saturday by ending the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies, which has led to widespread allegations of abuse. South ...

A Swedish commission recommended Monday that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. Sweden is the latest country to examine ...

Boon Young Han, co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, stands for a portrait at the offices of KoRoot, an advocacy organization for international adoptees from South Korea, on Thursday, March ...