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 ...

The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. "I was going to the market and asked Kyung-ha, 'Aren't you coming?' But she told me, 'No, I'm going ...

Results of a government probe into Sweden's adoption practices prompted its lead investigator to call for a halt to all international adoptions, domestic media reported. "There have been ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After years of delay, South Korea has ratified the Hague Adoption Convention, an international treaty meant to safeguard international adoptions, highlighting a significant ...

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 ...