Merry Christmas 2009
and
Happy New Year 2010
to all visitors to the NCHR's web site
In
today's world.....What if?
We,
in the NCHR, deeply regret the suffering caused to all the children who have
been taken into care and placed in foster homes on arbitrary grounds. We also
extend our sympathy to their parents and relatives. Christmas time is Family
time. However, during the Christmas season, the social services in the Nordic
countries almost systematically refuse contact between the children in public
care and their families.
In
August 2007, the team appointed by the Swedish government to investigate the
experiences of the former children's home children, after interviewing over 100
of them, presented Part One of their report. They admitted that they were
shocked and dismayed at the way the adults in charge of the foster homes and
institutions treated the children in their care. The final report is yet to
come.
The
Swedish government has however not addressed the conditions for the children
who are at present living in foster homes and institutions.
This
year, like the past 12 years, the NCHR has sent out our Christmas Appeal to the
Heads of State, the prime ministers and the government ministers whose
departments are directly involved in the taking of children into care and
placing them in foster homes or institutions. It is high time that children's
Human Rights to their parents and parents' and relatives' Human Rights to their
children, that are guaranteed in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human
Rights and fundamental freedoms, should be respected by the social and other
authorities in the Nordic countries.
Warmest Christmas and New Year greetings
Ruby Harrold-Claesson
President
Infant
discovered in barn, Child Protective Services launch probe
Nazareth Carpenter being held on charges involving underage mother
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