As a reaction to the alleged torture of
children in
The Nordic Committee for Human Rights -
NCHR - For the protection of Family Rights in the Nordic countries welcomes the
initiative of the Norwegian government and Norwegian Amnesty in this issue.
However, both the Norwegian government and Norwegian Amnesty should devote as
much time and energy to combating the even more serious torture of children
that is being perpetrated in their own country, where children are
unnecessarily being removed forcibly from their loving, caring parents and
placed in public care in foster homes by the national authorities through the
child protection system "barnevernet".
Only now is the voice of people who have
been confined in children's homes gaining force and starting to be taken
seriously. They say: "We have been tortured". But the misguided
forcible removal of children from their loved ones and the placement of them in
children's homes and foster homes continues and is even getting worse. The
official propaganda aims too strengthen the contempt for parents and the
natural family and seeks to suppress information about the plight of several
thousand families destroyed by the agents of the welfare state.
Certain cases that have earned media
attention during recent years are inter alia :
The Adele Johansen case, The Anita Lundli case and The Svanhild Jensen case.
When Adele
Johansen recently tried to go to the European Court of Human Rights again
to have her stolen daughter restored to the family, the national courts once
again started their mud-slinging at her based on the old, totally false
psychological "evidence" which they had used to start the case in the
first place. The Norwegian state then in their pleading to the Court of Human
Rights simply fooled the Court as to every concrete fact of the case.
The Adele Johansen case is in English
because the European Court of Human Rights found
Norway reacts to
torture of children
Torturing
Children
By William Rivers Pitt
Foster
children as lucrative business
The lawyer, Mrs Siv Westerberg's lecture
to The Family Education Trust, London
Siv Westerberg, Attorney-at-law, medical practitioner
Charlott's brev till Norska Amnesty
Norske
Amnesty, barnehjem og annet barnevern
Av Marianne Haslev Skånland