What Human Right Violations Are Committed by
Norwegian Authorities?
What are Human Rights?
Human rights were written down in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, after the Second World War, to ensure people from abuse, and to point out the States' responsibly to ensure that all residents in the country feel respected and have a good life without having to experience fear and distress .
Human Rights with their conventions and optional protocols, are designed to emphasize people's inherent rights, and their inherent dignity.
These rights were written to strengthen the individual's uniqueness and right to self-determination and self-regulation, without interference, but with the support from each individual state. States shall also strengthen the individual by providing an independent judiciary.
These rights are ment to counteract state atrocities, like intervention in private life, freedom of speech and freedom of opinion and the right to organize with peers.
The states that have signed the rights and their conventions and optional protocols, undertakes to protect all minorities, and to ensure that people with special needs can live a dignified life.
If you feel insulted and treated shamefully, it is likely that your basic rights have been violated.
Human rights violations are serious crimes, that Norway has pledged to prevent in the country. Unfortunately, a large number of people in Norway are demonstrably prone to serious attacks on their inherent dignity, committed by Norwegian authorities today.
How Are the Rights Violated?
Violation of Privacy, Article 12
Torture, Serious Attacks on Human Dignity
Freedom of Expression, Article 19
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Freedom of Movement, Article 13
Independent Judges and Lawyers
Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sums it up:
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
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A number of people in Norway today witness their privacy being violated by child welfare workers and police arriving unannounced without a court order and without any crime being committed, forcing themselves into peoples houses.
Families experience child welfare staff and supervisors peeking in their lockers, going through the contents, counting family under-wear.
Families report that they are told by social service workers and supervisors, where family slippers are supposed to be placed, and how kitchen towels should be folded. All under the threat of losing their children to state custody.
Families state they are critizeced for how they feed their children, and this being used as "evidence" for taking the children from the family.
Authorities are not permitted to violate citizens' privacy, which is a violation on Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The same article points out that no one shall be subjected to having their reputation tarnished, which victims of abuse by Norwegian authorities are increasingly experiencing. They are slandered with unfounded allegations of mental instability, lack of innate ability to care, low mental ability (IQ) and other serious attacks on their dignity. People also witness serious breaches on confidentiality by child welfare staff and health professionals.
The Family is defined as the foundation of society and entitled to protection by the state. This is stated in Article 16 of the Declaration of Human Rights, and in Article 23 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. There are reasons to believe that many who have experienced the ravages of Norwegian child welfare services, that we have seen to threaten children's and other family members' lives and health, will feel sick hearing the wording of the rights that have been denied their family.
The Family is the Foundation of the Society, and entitled to Protection by the State, Article 16
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration ensures us freely to express ourselves and express our opinions, and chose our artistic and political expression. Unfortunately we see a lot of people, adults and children, who try to express their experiences through social media or by participating in organized protests, indicating that they have been threatened not to disclose publicly what has been done to families.
Number of families find that they get visitation time curtailed for standing up publicly about the abuse, or that the children are refused to see their families at all. This results in extensive damage done to the children. The threats come from employees at the social services (Barnevernet), supervisors, county appeal board employees, judges, lawyers, so-called experts, etc.
Statistics show that the death rate is very high in families where the so-called child welfare is involved. NIBR report from 2005 shows that one or two children in state custody die an unnatural death, weekly. http://www.nibr.no/filer/2005-12.pdf Since then there has been a dramatic increase in placements of children into state custody, and it is reasonable to assume the death toll rising accordingly.
Right now -not just one child,but many- are planning how to take their own lives, as a result of damage caused by child welfare workers, police, lawyers, judges, so-called experts, foster employees, emergency employees ...
We must expect a plethora of unlisted figures that apply to placement into emergency-homes, unlisted foster-homes, placement in institutions, unlisted emergency homes, strengthened foster-homes...
Figures from the same report show dramatically high suicide rates in families who have been victims of the processes stages by so-called social services. Several of the suicide victims are children.
Post-traumatic stress is a number of handicapping, unpleasant, sometimes unbearable symptoms, as experienced by many victims of abuse by child welfare staff, police, county appeal board employees, judges, etc. This is major damage that can be compared with war injuries.
Other problems that recur, are weakened immune system, auto-immune diseases, heart problems, anxiety, depression, nightmares, sweats and anhedonia. To live under constant elevated stress levels and intense fear, lowers demonstrably general health considerably and can be associated with serious health conditions such as cancer and heart attacks.
Attorney Sverre Kvilhaug also discusses separation injuries, as severe, in many cases, life-threatening and life-lasting damage to the body and psyche. These occur in young children separated from their parents.
Provably many children are illegally and forcefully separated from their families and placed into emergency "homes". When the legistlation for such severe intervention in family life, is violated, we are talking about kidnapping. Nonetheless, it is documented that the practice is supported by county appeal boards and judges all over the country, to keep the child in state custody during a so-called investigation period. I guess that the practice falls under the concept of torture, since family members, especially children, are being severely hurt while pressed for information, often irrelevent to assessing parenting skills.
The fact that the authorities inflict harm to the population, is serious, unacceptable, and gives a country a questionable status internationally.
Amnesty International defines torture as "a deliberate and premeditated attack on a person's psyche, body and dignity, by a public official or someone acting with governmental approval."
Torture is referred to in Article 5 of the Universal Declaration, the Torture Convention and its additional protocols, also signed by Norway.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child serves as guidelines for what is best for children, and stresses that children have the same rights to live free from fear and want, their dignity safeguarded, as adults.
Article 12 on the Convention ensures children's participation rights and their right to be heard and taken seriously, and the Convention's Articles 8 and 9 emphasize the family being children's main arena from which it should not be separated against their will, except by a decicion by competent authorities and court-order in cases where the child is prone to abuse.
As we regularly witness child welfare staff disrespecting national legislation and human rights, can we call them competent authorities?
To harm children and other family members is unfortunately included in their formal education (See Kari Killén's literature, the basis of Norwegian child welfare education). We also hear about child welfare managers and other employees who lack formal education in general.
Article 9 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have a right to maintain direct personal and regular contact with their parents, if it has been necessary with a re-location away from home. This article, among other parts of the Convention, are violated daily by Norwegian authorities.
"No Exceptional Circumstances for Torture
-Whether War, Political Instability, Public Emergency, or National Security"
~UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
A large number of people testify about collaboration between child welfare workers, county appeal board employees, attorneys and judges. Stacks of evidence show us that victims of authoritative power-abuse, lack independent legal protection.
Norway has undertaken to ensure legal protection by independent judges and lawyers mentioned in Article 10 of the Universal Declaration, and the right to a public hearing. The meetings at the county appeal board as well as court proceedings, violate this article as no evidence other than the judge's own impairments, excist from the prosesses. We see close ties between judges, so-called experts and child welfare workers. The fact that many judges and lawyers belong to so-called secret societies, is also a fact that impair their independence. Nevertheless, nothing has been done about the extensive problem, which unfortunately has resulted in false imprisonments and children arbitrarily taken into state custody, and statistics taken into account, actual deaths, many of them children.
Families wanting to ensure their children's rights and safeguarding outside of Norway's borders, report that they have been denied exit from the country as their passport have been rejected. Others have documents from the county appeal board that their children have been placed against the law in emergency homes to prevent the family from departing the country. Article 13 of the Universal Declaration protects people from such abuses, by pointing out the right to free movement. Authorities are not allowed to keep people in the country against their will -by taking their children.
A democracy is characterized by the government's protection of civil liberties, and by how the state preserves individuals self-worth by legistlation and jurisdicdion. An important democratic principle is that the individual is protected by an independent judiciary, judges and lawyers. In a full democracy, the individual's right to self-determination is protected, and interference or coercion by the state will not occur without consent, except in cases of crime.
However, the state protects democratic principles such as freedom of speech and freedom of opinion, the right to a dignified life, the right not to have to live in fear, the right to individual dignity.
In a democratic country the authorities are not allowed to inflict damage on the citizens, but it is their duty to ensure citizens from harm, as far as possible, by measures as adequate legislation.
Privacy, family, individual, minorities and the right to liberty, the best achievable health, safety and education for all, including people with special needs, are well taken care of when a state follows democratic principles.
