The Nordic Committee for Human
Rights - NCHR - For the Protection of Family Rights in the Nordic countries
What is the NCHR?
The Nordic Committee for
Human Rights - NCHR - is an international, non-governmental organisation, free
from politics and religion. It aims to:
* Increase the rights and
freedoms of private individuals and their families.
* Strengthen respect for
basic human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Nordic countries, based
upon:
o
The UN Declaration of Human Rights;
o
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms;
o
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
* Submit yearly reports of
suspected violations of families' rights to the UN organ for Human Rights, to
the European Commission for Human Rights and to the UN Child Committee.
* Act resolutely to ensure
that civil servants who are found guilty of abuse of power or of violating
their fellow citizen's private and family life be brought to justice or before
disciplinary bodies.
* To create public opinion in
order to bring about changes in the present policies whereby residents in the
Nordic countries suffer unnecessary interference in their private and family
life.
Steering Committee
President
Ruby Harrold-Claesson, Lawyer, Sweden
Vice president
Anu Suomela,
Ph.D, Helsinki, Finland
Vice president
Majken Frost, Theologian, Denmark
Vice president
Joar Tranøy, Criminologist, Norway
Treasurer
Rigmor Persson, Master of Laws, Sweden
Secretary
Sverre Eskeland, juss stud, Norway
Substitute
Tryggve Emstedt, Lawyer, Sweden
Special Resources
Siv Westerberg, Lawyer, medical practitioner, Sweden
Madeleine Karlin, Lawyer, Sweden
Accountant
Lennart Hane, Lawyer, Sweden
IN MEMORIAM
Secretary
Harry Ulich,
Lithographer, Norway
Accountant
Monika Widlund, MD, Neuro surgeon, Sweden