A government inquiry in Sweden has concluded that thousands of children were illegally taken from their home countries, including South Korea and Colombia, during international adoptions. The head of the investigation, Anna Singer, revealed the Swedish state's involvement in human rights violations, including child trafficking. Cases of adoptions without proper consent and using false documents were rampant from the 1970s to the 2000s. The report urges Sweden to ban international adoptions and apologize to affected families for its historically unethical actions.
There are confirmed cases of child-trafficking during every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, mainly in individual and private adoptions.
The state needs to acknowledge the violations of human rights that have occurred in the international adoption process and the consequences it has had for adoptees and their families.
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