Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: Truth and reconciliation commission | Rare Historical Photos

Children in need of ‘rescuing’: challenging the myths at the heart of the global adoption industry

Korean adoptees worldwide are grappling with a devastating possibility: they were not truly orphans, but may have been made into orphans.

The Conversation

South Korea, world’s largest ‘baby exporter’, accused of human rights violations to meet adoption demand

Truth and Reconciliation Commission finds decades of illegal overseas adoption enabled by government negligence

The Independent UK

‘Serious violations’ found in South Korean foreign adoptions programme

Multiple violations were unearthed by a commission investigating the adoption of South Korean children by foreigners.

Al Jazeera

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

How one research project is ‘re-neighbouring’ two Indigenous communities

December 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report and its Calls to Action. Other forms of reconciliation are also happening among Indigenous communities that had previously been unconnected but share common experiences of systemic removal at the hands of powerful institutions.

The Conversation

Canada remembers Murray Sinclair, trailblazing Indigenous judge and senator

Relatives, friends and leaders say Sinclair, who died this week aged 73, and his legacy will ‘never be forgotten’.

Al Jazeera

South Korea Commission Uncovers Forced Adoptions In Vagrant Facilities

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Korea exposes coerced adoptions and enslavement in government facilities from the 1960s to 1980s, promptin...

Top News

Justice Kaul moots setting up of Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights violations in J&K since 1980s

Justice Kaul recommends setting up of impartial Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights violations in J&K since 1980s. He suggests time-bound exercise to enable youth to trust again and commission should not be a criminal court

The Hindu

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

SC directs establishment of ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ to address human rights violations in J&K

Justice Kaul said that the Commission should not turn into a criminal court and must offer a platform for dialogue instead

The Hindu

Adriaan Vlok: the case for accepting the late South African politician’s apology for apartheid

The recent death of Adriaan Vlok, the prominent South African apartheid-era law and order minister, brought the issue of political apologies for past wrongs back into the public arena.

The Conversation

More South Korean adoptees who were sent overseas demand probes into their cases

Nearly 400 South Koreans sent as children to families in the West want an inquiry, saying their adoptions were marred by fake documents that changed child identities or falsely declared them orphans.

WEKU

More South Korean adoptees demand probes into their cases

Nearly 400 South Koreans adopted as children by families in the West have requested South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigate their adoptions through Friday’s application deadline, as Seoul faces growing pressure to reckon with a child export frenzy driven by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s

The Independent UK

Survivors sue Liberian government over failure to track down civil war killers

Survivors of a massacre during Liberia’s civil war have sued the government in Monrovia for its failure to address wartime atrocities. The administration of President George Weah is under pressure to implement a report setting guidelines on bringing wartime criminals to justice.

Radio France Internationale

South Korea military gov’ts blamed for abuses, deaths at facility

Thousands, including disabled people and children, were snatched off streets and detained at ‘Brothers Home’.

Al Jazeera

Commission: Seoul government responsible for facility abuse

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found the country’s past military governments responsible for atrocities committed at Brothers Home, a state-funded vagrants’ facility where thousands were enslaved and abused from the 1960s to 1980s

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

Call for South Korea to investigate child adoptions to Denmark

About 200,000 South Korean children were adopted by foreign parents over past six decades, mainly in Europe and the US.

The Conversation

I survived the ’60s Scoop. Here's why the Pope's apology isn't an apology at all

Pope Francis came this week to Maskwasic in central Alberta — where many Indigenous people, including survivors of residential schools and their descendants, had gathered — to deliver an expected apology in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action No. 58:

The Conversation

Pope’s long-awaited apology for Indian Residential Schools in Canada is a ‘first step’

Pope Francis fulfilled the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Call to Action No. 58 by offering an apology, in Canada, to the survivors of Indian Residential Schools, their families and communities. He said, “I am sorry,” and asked forgiveness for the participation of church members in “projects of cultural destruction…

The Conversation

Unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children were found in Kamloops a year ago: What's happened since? — Podcast

Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Survivors of Canada’s residential schools to seek apology from Pope Francis

Indigenous delegation is demanding an apology for the church’s role in the government-funded schools

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Roman Catholic Church

55 stories

Eastern

46 stories

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Assembly of First Nations

10 stories

Indian Residential Schools

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.