On July 11th, together with Children Rights Solidarity, EARS filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea to investigate the NCRC suspension of services (June 16, 2025 to September 15, 2025) and denial of the right to access.

Press Coverage

• [News 1] “Suspension of Adoption Information Request is a Human Rights Violation”…Adoptee Organizations Complain to Human Rights Commission”
• [Hanguk Ilbo] ““What was done during the two-year moratorium?” Adoptees outraged over suspension of adoption information disclosure”
• [KBS News] “International adoptees file complaint, “Suspension of adoption information disclosure request violates human rights”
• [Newsis] “I can’t give you adoption information” after 50 years of searching for motherland…Appeal to Human Rights Commission”
• [E Daily] “Overseas adoptees file complaint with Human Rights Commission over ‘suspension of disclosure of adoption information’”
• [Yonhap News] “Emergency Action for Records Storage: National Human Rights Commission Petition Press Conference”