https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The head of a committee appointed by the Norwegian government agency to investigate historical child abuse cases says that victims of serious abuse were let down by welfare services. https://www.thelocal.no/20170622/norway-child-abuse-victims-were-let-down-by-authorities-investigation-committee Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:47:44 +0200 norway-child-abuse-victims-were-let-down-by-authorities-investigation-committee The Norwegian Child Welfare Services has again come under fire for failing to protect children under its watch, and has been accused of violating the law in almost 90 percent of the cases investigated in Land, in southern Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20170301/norwegian-county-failed-to-protect-90-percent-of-children-under-its-watch Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:52:15 +0100 norwegian-county-failed-to-protect-90-percent-of-children-under-its-watch Eight Norwegian child welfare cases have been heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg over the past 15 months in what a long-time human rights lawyer has called “an extremely serious warning to Norway”. https://www.thelocal.no/20170215/norway-barnevernet-serious-warning-echr-human-rights Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:09:55 +0100 norway-barnevernet-serious-warning-echr-human-rights India's foreign minister on Tuesday urged Norway to return a five-year-old boy to his Indian-origin parents after authorities took the child into their custody over suspected abuse. https://www.thelocal.no/20161227/india-intervenes-in-norway-child-abuse-row Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:55:39 +0100 india-intervenes-in-norway-child-abuse-row The Norwegian government will not go along with a protocol that allows children to lodge complaints over violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and three other UN conventions. https://www.thelocal.no/20160930/norway-wont-give-children-the-right-to-file-complaints-with-un Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:02:33 +0200 norway-wont-give-children-the-right-to-file-complaints-with-un A Norwegian-Romanian couple in Naustdal whose battle with the Norwegian Child Welfare Services spurred protests around the globe will get all five of their children back. https://www.thelocal.no/20160606/barnevernet-bodnariu-couple-children-back Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:51:27 +0200 barnevernet-bodnariu-couple-children-back "The children are afraid when there's a knock at the door. They fear they'll be taken away again," says Jaquline tearfully in broken Norwegian, recounting her battles with Norway's child welfare services which have been accused of unduly tearing families apart. https://www.thelocal.no/20160503/barnevernet-norway-child-welfare-state-kidnapping-foreign-parents Tue, 03 May 2016 12:05:37 +0200 barnevernet-norway-child-welfare-state-kidnapping-foreign-parents In the face of global protests against the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (Barnevernet), Norway this week announced two changes that could affect the controversial agency’s future operations. https://www.thelocal.no/20160428/norway-vows-to-change-child-welfare-practices Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:01:48 +0200 norway-vows-to-change-child-welfare-practices Activists in nearly 30 countries plan to protest the Norwegian Child Welfare Service on Saturday for what they say is the agency's practice of "kidnapping" children from their families. https://www.thelocal.no/20160415/norway-to-face-world-record-protests-over-child-services Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:38:13 +0200 norway-to-face-world-record-protests-over-child-services In the face of mounting international pressure following a number of controversial cases of children being removed from foreign parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (Barnevernet), the government has moved to clarify its practice. https://www.thelocal.no/20160218/norway-updates-cross-border-child-welfare-guidelines Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:06:53 +0100 norway-updates-cross-border-child-welfare-guidelines A new wave of protests, mostly by Romanian citizens, has confronted Norwegian embassies around the world in response to a controversial case surrounding five children that were taken out of the care of their Norwegian/Romanian parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (Barnevernet). https://www.thelocal.no/20160212/norway-child-protection-agency-faces-further-protests Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:41:56 +0100 norway-child-protection-agency-faces-further-protests The Czech government has withdrawn an invitation to Norway’s Ambassador to attend national day celebrations at Prague Castle in protest at Norwegian authorities’ decision to put a Czech boy up for adoption. https://www.thelocal.no/20151008/czechs-disinvite-norway-envoy-over-forced-adoption Thu, 08 Oct 2015 23:33:24 +0200 czechs-disinvite-norway-envoy-over-forced-adoption The bitter battle of an Indian couple to recover two children forcibly taken into care by Norway's authorities has been made into a stage play that will premier in the Indian city of Chennai on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.no/20150917/norway-foster-care-row-becomes-indian-play Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:21:03 +0200 norway-foster-care-row-becomes-indian-play A Lithuanian mother living in Norway who had her two children taken into care has speculated that social services intervened because of her daughter was dressed too prettily. https://www.thelocal.no/20150828/norway-accused-of-taking-immigrant-children Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:29:39 +0200 norway-accused-of-taking-immigrant-children The president of the Czech republic has asked the King of Norway to act of behalf of a Czech mother who had her two sons taken into foster care over alleged sexual abuse charges. https://www.thelocal.no/20150612/czech-pres-asks-norway-king-to-get-kids-back Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:47:49 +0200 czech-pres-asks-norway-king-to-get-kids-back Five brothers and sisters are suing Norway’s Child Welfare Service for 25m NOK ($3m) for failing to protect them from their psychiatrically ill father despite frequent alerts that he was abusing them and their mother. https://www.thelocal.no/20150529/norway-child-services-sued-for-3m-for-lost-childood Fri, 29 May 2015 17:25:55 +0200 norway-child-services-sued-for-3m-for-lost-childood Norway's controversial Child Welfare Service submitted false evidence in order to keep a child in foster care against the wishes of the mother, a court in Norway has ruled. https://www.thelocal.no/20150528/norways-child-protection-service-fabricated-court-evidence Thu, 28 May 2015 18:36:49 +0200 norways-child-protection-service-fabricated-court-evidence Almost half children born to Roma Norwegians in Oslo are in foster care or risk being taken into it, the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muižnieks has claimed in a highly critical report. https://www.thelocal.no/20150519/a-quarter-of-roma-kids-in-norway-in-foster-care Tue, 19 May 2015 02:00:00 +0200 a-quarter-of-roma-kids-in-norway-in-foster-care Sweden's main newspaper has joined the criticism of Norway's Child Welfare Service, complaining that Swedish parents who have their children taken into care have no legal means to transfer the case to Sweden's authorities. https://www.thelocal.no/20150512/norways-child-welfare-slammed-by-swedish-press Wed, 13 May 2015 00:31:13 +0200 norways-child-welfare-slammed-by-swedish-press A Czech woman whose two sons were forcibly taken into care in Norway has been allowed to see one of her sons for the first time in a year, Czech News Agency CKT has reported. https://www.thelocal.no/20150316/czech-woman-meets-forcibly-fostered-son Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:30:53 +0100 czech-woman-meets-forcibly-fostered-son