The Nordic Committee for Human Rights
NCHR
The Nordic Committee for Human Rights - NKMR
Invitation to the NCHR's Symposium
at Hotel Scandic Crown, Polhemsplatsen 3, 411 11 Gothenburg, Sweden
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 9 AM
Everyone is welcome to attend the Symposium - both members of the NCHR and
non-members. Free admission.
Prior notification is required due to planning for refreshments to:
Rigmor Persson (+) 46
31 - 93 57 95, (rigmor.p@spray.se) or Ruby Harrold-Claesson, (+) 46 31 - 70 20
385, (board@nkmr.org)
This year's theme:
Is forcibly taking children into public care, caring for children?
Speakers:
Nancy Schaefer, former senator in the State of Georgia, USA.
Nancy Schaefer was the founder and CEO of Family Concern, Inc.,
(1985-2005), which is a non-profit organization based in Georgia. Family
Concern was created to strengthen and protect the family institution by local,
regional, national and international policy.
Listen to Nancy Schćfer speech here:
Nancy Schaefer on CPS
For more information see Nancy Schaefer.
Venil Thiis, lawyer, Trondheim,
Norway
Venil Thiis was originally trained as a teacher and she worked for many years
with children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years. She took Law degree in 1989
and worked in the police force until 1992. Since then she was the CEO for
Advokatfirmaet Thiis in Trondheim, collaborating with staff and lawyers. Her
experience is primarily from criminal justice, children's rights and the right
to childcare. She closed her law-firm at the end of 2008/2009 largely due to
the deep despair and frustration she felt over the forced intervention of the
Norwegian child protective services (barnevernet).
See Lawyer slaughters
CPS and Venil
Thiis quits as lawyer: - I have had enough
Bo Edvardsson is associate professor of psychology and social work at the
Örebro University Academy of Law, psychology and social work.
He is also advisor to the Children's Ombudsman. He published his first report
on the investigation techniques in the social services with the title:
"Hot pursuit strategies at the disposal of cases in social and child
psychiatric work" in 1988. Subsequently, Bo Edvardsson, and his thesis
students, have authored more than 100 investigations of the social services'
investigative methodology or lack of such.
Bo Edvard's textbook "Critical
assessment methodology" is compulsory in some training institutions
for social workers. It was published in 1996 and a new edition was published in
2003.
Please read "Social
Service's investigations are a stinking swamp"
Ian Josephs, MA, LLB, lives and works
in Monaco where he owns and runs a language school. He has an Oxford University
law degree but he is not a solicitor or a barrister. So… he asks:
"Who am I really? And why do I do what I do?"
He says he is NOT repeat NOT
another "Mother Teresa" and he rarely gives to charity (in case
he should end up paying for the director's Rolls Royce!), but fighting the
often brutal actions of Social Services is a cause very close to his
heart. Social Services have never hurt him, his family or anyone close to him
so he has no personal axe to grind but "I HATE THE ABUSE OF POWER",
he states, and particularly the way the bullies in social services ruthlessly
destroy the very families they are supposed to protect. As a matter of
principle Ian Josephs never charge a fee and never accept any money whatever
for any expenses.
For more information se:
Forced adoption, family courts, social services, children in care
Madeleine Johansson, Master in Laws, Göteborg, Sweden,
works
both with Commercial law and Family law. Recently she became involved in the
so-called Dalsland case where it appeared that a German company was running a
so-called "treatment-home" for German children and adolescents in the
forest in Dalsland.
Olle Hammarberg, author and
former foster child,
is the author of the recently published books: "Alone in the world a little
toddler on the road to hell" and From hell to heaven
Ejvor Eriksson and Patrik
Dahlqwist, authors and former foster children,
Ejvor Eriksson will tell about her life as a ward of the state and the foster
homes in which she was placed. Patrik Dahlqwist was placed in foster care as a
young child. At 17 years of age, he was placed at Karsudden Psychiatric
Hospital because the society wanted to prevent him from developing a life of
abuse and criminality. He was locked up there without medication for 12 years.
Programme for the NCHR Symposium 2009