COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONSIDERS
THIRD PERIODIC REPORT OF SWEDEN
On January 11, 2005, the
Committee on the Rights of the Child considered the third periodic report of Sweden on that country’s efforts to implement the provisions of
the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Introducing the report, Elisabeth Borsiin Bonnier, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said the work of her Government to implement the
provisions of the Convention within Swedish society had been constantly
on-going since the country had ratified the treaty 15 years ago.
Committee Experts raised questions concerning child asylum seekers, the
treatment of children with disabilities, acquisition of citizenship, and
placement of children in foster families, among other things.
Moushira Khattab,
(Egypt), the Committee Expert who also served as country
Rapporteur for the report of Sweden, said Swedish children were fortunate to enjoy their
rights.
The NCHR
finds it surprising that Moushira
Khattab, the person who has served as country Rapporteur for the report of Sweden, could say that "Swedish children were fortunate to
enjoy their rights". Judging from Ms.
Khattab's CV, her working languages are Arabic, English, French and
German, it is quite obvious that she is unfamiliar
with the tens of thousands of cases where the social services and the
administrative court system in Sweden deprive children of their basic Human
Rights to private and family life by forcibly taking them into public care and
placing them in foster homes among total strangers. These child care cases are
completely lacking in fairness, transparency, accountability and the rule of
law. It is also quite obvious that Ms Khattab is not acquainted with the
judgements in public care cases that the European Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg has delivered against Sweden since 1982. It is also quite obvious
that Ms Khattab has never visited the NCHR's web site where there is more than
sufficient information to prove the serious violations of the basic Human
Rights to private and family life of tens of thousands of children and their
families.
COMMITTEE
ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONSIDERS THIRD PERIODIC REPORT OF SWEDEN
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OF ISSUES TO BE TAKEN UP IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSIDERATION OF THE THIRD
PERIODIC REPORT : SWEDEN.
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