An inquiry running for almost 4 years in Sweden has prompted the head of the inquiry, Anna Singer, to accuse the Swedish state of “violations of human rights”.

According to the inquiry, from the 1970s through to the 2002 more than 60,000 children have been adopted by Swedish families even though this often happened without consent or with “false documents.”

In this article The Guardian article, Singer is reported as saying:

“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, and ask for forgiveness,” she said.

A key recommendation of Singer is that “Sweden should stop international adoption.”