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Last Updated: 14/02/2019 by B. Korf

Landesverweis – Polnischer Konsul muss Norwegen verlassen

OSLO (11.2.2019) – Der polnische Diplomat Sławomir Kowalski ist heute in Norwegen zur „Persona non grata“ erklärt worden. Laut Medienberichten (Reuters / N.Y. Times) bleibt dem Konsul nur mehr eine Woche Zeit, um aus Norwegen abzureisen. Dem norwegischen… Read More

Last Updated: 12/02/2019 by B. Korf

„I know both sides“ – Psychologist Einar Salvesen criticizes Norway’s Child Welfare system

The Herland Report TV has released an interview with Einar Salvesen who has worked with Norwegian Child Protective Services’ cases for many years. He is the founder of KIB, an organization with close to 300 experts connected to… Read More

Last Updated: 22/01/2019 by B. Korf

Norway’s next scandal: Polish consul expelled from the country for criticizing Barnevernet

Slawomir Kowalski has served as Poland’s consul in Norway, but he is no longer wanted there. Prime Minister Erna Solberg has now expelled him from the country. Could this be related to the case of Silje Garmo, a… Read More

Last Updated: 21/01/2019 by B. Korf

Abducted by the State – The Case of Amy Jakobsen and her son Tyler

Amy Jakobsen is an American citizen who lives in Norway. In July 2013 her worst nightmare began. Without any warning, the Norwegian Child Welfare Services known as ‚Barnevernet‘ accompanied by police knocked at her door, saying that her… Read More

Posted: 13/12/2018 by S. Bennett

MOTHER FLED NORWAY TO SAVE FOURTH CHILD

This is an open letter to the Norwegian minister for children, Linda Hofstad Helleland, from a Norwegian mother who had to leave Norway to save her fourth child: FRIDAY 7 DECEMBER 2018. Dear Linda Hofstad Helleland, I’m an… Read More

Last Updated: 17/12/2018 by B. Korf

Polen gewährt Norwegerin politisches Asyl

Die norwegische Staatsbürgerin Silje Garmo und ihre Tochter Eira erhalten politisches Asyl in Polen. Dies teilte am Mittwoch Pastor Jan-Aage Torp aus Oslo mit. Die alleinerziehende Mutter war im Mai des vergangenen Jahres mit ihrer damals vier Monate… Read More

Posted: 11/12/2018 by S. Bennett

Strasbourg is facing another application against Norway

The Norwegian authorities refused to return a child to a Slovak family. Prague / Bratislava / Lillehammer, June 22, 2018: The Slovak/Norwegian Ladická family, from whom the Barnevern took away their breastfed baby Maxine three years ago for… Read More

Posted: 07/12/2018 by S. Bennett

IGNORANCE ISN’T BLISS – IT’S TERRIFYING

Margaret Hennum, a Norwegian paediatric nurse at a neonatal intensive care unit writes: “Norwegians are concerned about human rights violations; those that happen far away from here, where those responsible are people we do not know. Amnesty Norway… Read More

Posted: 07/12/2018 by S. Bennett

Norway’s Child Welfare System takes over responsibility of the family

An article titled “Norway’s Child Welfare System takes over responsibility of the family” (“Barnevernet overtar familieansvar”), published two days ago in Norge Idag (a Christian newspaper published in Bergen), observes a harrowing picture unfolding for children and their… Read More

Last Updated: 05/12/2018 by S. Bennett

NORWAY’S DEHUMANISING STRATEGY – PART 11

The majority of child welfare offices in Norway currently use a checklist to determine whether or not they should remove a child from its home. Fifty-eight per cent of the country’s local authority child welfare services use a… Read More